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nooooooooooooooooooo

Ao3 is having techinkal dificulties noooooooooooooo qwq

I was in the middle of a fic qwq

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Crying what is this??

I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

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If people can empathize with Ginny whi was stuck in an equally bad situation in Hogwarts fighting to stay alive, they should also be willing to empathise with Percy who was stuck in the Ministry where people were getting killed almost everyday.

Percy Weasley is legit such a bamf??? Man lived on his own and survived the corrupt ministry all by himself. Like he was legit only 19 when the huge fight and shit took place. Bro left right then and there and went to live in his apartment all alone like. You gotta give him credit for being able to pull that lonely shit off. Mean people always act as if Percy had it easy during the war like im tired of them saying that man he's my favourite. Are they forgetting that Percy worked at the ministry for the whole 2 and a half (something) years that it slowly went to shit for??? Are we forgetting that brother in christ legitimately fully committed himself to the ministry the minute shit started to get real!!!!! Like the fact that Percy's whole argument situation was caused by a manipulative maneuver by Fudge is a testament to that. Percy was right there at the very beginning of the ministry fucker-upping and was there to witness and EXPERIENCE all of it!!!!!!!!!! Safe to say he did not have it easy. Percy is the best and if i ever see anyone being mean about him again i'll. Write a long rant.

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A truly important question

Why is Fred x Hermione a more popular ship than George x Hermione?

What are the difference in personality? Why do you think Fred is more compatible with Hermione than George? In fanfics do you often see George die to pair Fred up with Hermione?

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You're crying cause Luna and Cedric while I'm laughing because Percy won

Preliminary Poll #3

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@chaoticneutralsblog I HATE YOU, YOU INTRODUCED ME TO SUCH A WONDERFUL FIC IN THE NOTES WHICH HAS EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WISH FOR IN A PERCY FIC ONLY FOR ME TO FIND OUT THAT IT'S UNFINISHED???? THE FAMILY DYNAMICS???

IM SOBBBBBING, LIKE WEEPING MY GOD

everyone stop what you're doing and read it rn, the feels god.

Also @elisedonut I literally jumped for 2 minutes after seeing the notification. I need to bingeread the entire thing!

I tell you, reading fanfiction is just something else

ITS BEEN UPDATED OMG OMG OMG OMG FINALLLY PERCY TAKES THE WHEEELLL ORJFIEHGEHGW9ER8GHREHGUERG SO HAPPPPPY

GUYS GUYS THIS FIC IS IT. IT IS THE FIC. THE FIC

MAGIC SYSTEM, BADASS PERCY, MOTHER PERCY- MYSTERY - IT HAS EVERYTHINGGGGGGG

im genuinely crying, I've never been so happy to see it back

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sorry you guys not Percy related but YOU HAVE TO WATCH NIMONA BEST MOVIE EVER. FOUND FAMILY VIBES FVIENEINFIEUFNIENF

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EXCUSE ME WHO ATTACKED PERCY LIKE THAT I WANNA KNOW

I don't even want to keep reading their fic anymore this is so sad pls 😭 you think you know an author and then they hit u with the "this family is good to the protagonist therefore they are good to everyone including their own" when it is like. disproven in canon. babe what r u doing. the Weasleys ARE a loving family and they care for one another so much but they're PEOPLE they FUMBLE THE BAG sometimes and we see it so often throughout the series! it's why they're interesting!!! they fumbled it w Percy and Percy fumbled it right back!! leaving places where you feel like you're not welcome is not a crime, can y'all get this through ur skulls. being mean to ur parents at 17 isn't a crime. not trusting Harry isn't a crime. He was wrong but he wasn't a "traitor". Like. Ppl literally equate Peter, who sold out his friends to a maniacal blood purist mass murderer, to a 17yo kid who chose what he thought was right after his entire family sh#t on his largest accomplishment to date. Babes. I can't wrap my head around this.

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ITS BEEN UPDATED OMG OMG OMG OMG FINALLLY PERCY TAKES THE WHEEELLL ORJFIEHGEHGW9ER8GHREHGUERG SO HAPPPPPY

GUYS GUYS THIS FIC IS IT. IT IS THE FIC. THE FIC

MAGIC SYSTEM, BADASS PERCY, MOTHER PERCY- MYSTERY - IT HAS EVERYTHINGGGGGGG

im genuinely crying, I've never been so happy to see it back

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no because the narrative really paints all smart characters bad except for Hermione, who is the only exception and even SHE was criticised in the beginning for being a KNow it all

The talk about the apparent misogyny present in Harry Potter is another discussion entirely about how many female characters are only introduced or relevant to the plot because of a man ( eg. Lavendar Brown, Cho Chang)

And if, if the story had more characters be smart and let them be smart, I really believe the story would be incredible because you have so much to offer! IN A MAGICAL SYSTEM! WHERE ACTING SMART WITH MAGIC > FIGHTING UNNECESSARY BATTLES !

Polyjuice potions- use an updated version which let's the user use disguises for a longer period of time ( Truly believe that Percy's research on cauldron bottoms could impact the lasting effects of potions and revolutionise the potion industry but what do I know)

Forging documents - easy in a Ministry setting where everyone is busy to forge signatures and have spy cams and bugs ( the magical version) to learn about information.

Invisibility Charm - self explanatory no? become invisible and follow and foil enemy plans

Cloning- if its legal then why not, use clones to fool people

ACTUALLY USE TIME TURNERS?????????????

Hypnotise Deatheaters?

Break the system from inside? secret ministry organisation? where a few ppl work together to make lists and spy and forge and destroy the system frim the inside?

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You know one thing I wanted to touch upon is how among all Weasleys and yes ALL of them, Percy Weasley is the academic kid and him speicifically being singled out hurts.

Oh you can argue Bill is smart and bla blah whatever, he's cool sooo.

But Percy?

He likes writing reports and being in charge. He likes to talk and is passionate about stuff other ppl find boring. He's stubborn and prideful and has a desk job and is unathletic.

AND I CAN RELATE TO THAT.

Like yes maybe not all, I'm still anxious and hate public speaking and socialising but I am similar to Percy in a way.

So when JK decided to make him the 'Bad Weasley' it hurts me because I saw me in him. I really did.

And also the lost potential?

Having someone be intelligent is treated as a damn sin in the HP books! Hermione is excluded because of it and is also the only exception because everyone else who is smart is treated like f*cking shit in the books!

(AND NO dumbledore is not smart, screw him)

Percy, Cho, Cedric, Padma all these characters, one thing I can say they have in common is their intelligence and book smart ( doubtful ab Cedric but whatever)

And Percy had so much potential to be someone in the war who did the "actual" saving, no maybe not fight physically with Deatheaters but instead save the Muggleborns from being unjustly killed for existing.

Fight Deatheaters or Save Innocents? Which is more important- you decide.

AND IT'S NOT DIFFICULT TO INCORPORATE PERCY DOING THIS! There's already this scene of the trio in the Ministry in the 7th book, just add something like Percy giving one of the disguised 3 some document of Muggleborns, it would make Ron re-think what he thought of his brother, HELL it would make book 7 so much more memorable and suprise the audience

BUTTTT NOOOOOOO, Hp books just want to drill the same point -

Academia bad, Sport and stupid fighting good

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I need to confess something-

I barely remember the last 2 books atleast book 1 to 5 I remember some details at the very least, the main summary of what happens

But book 6 and 7? Totally lost no clue wtf is happening

I just know there's hocruxes and they're finding them bla bla and the funniest thing is that that's the most imp part , the hocruxes information and Idr shit ab it at all, says that

I just lost interest by book 6 plus with all that sappy romance drama in book 6 uggh and

book 7 i just dont know truly I have no idea wtf was happening like hocruxes okay and war okay?

Sooo whatever book characters were there in book 6 n 7 whatever their personality is i dont know ab it. SOO what im saying is the characters i recollect are PROB VERY diff from the canon characters

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My Pride and Joy

Chapter 2: Arthur

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye You were bigger than the whole sky

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Molly slams the door in his face. The other kids are holed up in the twins room, murmuring among themselves, saying what, he doesn’t know. All he knows is that he made a big mistake.

He hadn’t meant to drive Percy away, all he wanted was to caution his son against becoming a pawn. However, Arthur had lost himself when Percy decided to accuse him of being an ‘ambitionless fool who had led his children to poverty’

All he had seen was red at that moment and blurted out all the things he shouldn’t have said to his son. When arguing with Percy, it hadn’t felt like a fight with his son, rather a fight with one of his brothers’ or peers’. That had shocked Arthur.

He didn’t treat Percy as a son. He treated him as he would treat one of his co-workers.

He makes his way to the couch, readying himself mentally for the uncomfortable night ahead and hoping his back doesn’t hurt him in the morning.

Arthur wishes he felt guilt for what he had done but he didn’t. He did regret saying what he said to Percy but not enough to owl Percy and beg him back.

Arthur would not beg .

He sinks his body into the couch, the sensation of uncomfort crawls over him making his body hurt. He can’t. He cannot lie here, instead he sits up and stares blankly outside the window. 

A son. Arthur did treat Percy as his son, hadn’t he? He’d done his best with Percy, didn’t he? With Bill and Charlie it was easier, they were childish and immature in the sense that had mellowed over the years, yet they still could get up to mischief and require their dad scolding them to bring them back to their senses.

But Percy was just so mature, for his age! At any age really, bloody hell sometimes he made Arthur feel like a child! Him, a 40 year old man for Merlin’s sake!

It was..it was different .

During the war, the first one that is (because Arthur knows, he knows there is going to be another one, Dumbledore is right there has to be) Arthur was fighting, fighting for his family, for Molly and for his kids and his brothers and then he was grieving, grieving for his friends and for his brothers.

So many people died, so many innocents, so so many.

Arthur wasn’t the same after the war. Not the same person he was when he was with Bill and Charlie. The same with Molly because she too had been changed by the war, orphaned but not familyless, never familyless.

He didn’t have a chance with Percy. By the time Percy had seen him for the first time, he had learnt to walk, learnt to talk and Merlin he could talk! Arthur had never heard a toddler speak so fluently and that too with such a large vocabulary. He wanted to know Percy but then there were the twins and Ron and Ginny..

And that’s not an excuse. Arthur reprimands himself. It wasn’t fair to Percy, he wasn’t fair and it hurt him that he wasn’t as close to his third son like the others. It burns him from the inside.

He slowly gets up from the couch, adamant on not making any noise. Ginny’s a light sleeper, (especially after the diary incident), once she’s awake, she refuses to go back to sleep, the dark circles under her eyes keep increasing day by day.

He climbs up the stairs as softly as he can, skipping the step that creaks ( he had intended on getting that fixed, must have slipped his mind) and on the landing, all doors are shut except for one.

He must have forgotten to shut his door.

Arthur steps inside, the window overlooking the backyard where the hen coops are placed. It’s not a very large room. Suddenly, the house that had seemed so huge feels very very small in this space.

He sits on the bed, staring at the bookshelf that now seems half empty, 2 rows empty and the third row with half of the books filling it. Of course, he took his books, what would he do without them? Why did Percy hole himself up here all the time? It’s a ridiculous question to ask. Arthur knows why or he can make a decent guess - escape.

To a boy who grew up shielded from the terror, hiding from the world, maybe escape is all he can yearn for.

Arthur cracks a smile, he doesn’t reflect on the fight or words he’s spewed about. He had a fight! With Percy! In a roundabout wrong sense of the word (“Arthur have you gone mad?!” Molly scolds in his head) it feels good to fight with Percy. 

He has never fought with Percy, Percy never made a mistake that he had to punish him for. Never. Percy was bloody perfect, the pinnacle of ‘the perfect diligent child’. Even Bill had caused trouble before that had Arthur fuming! As he fought with Percy, it had made him feel like Percy was his child because whatever the kids may believe about Molly being the one with the temper, they got it from Arthur, the red flaming taste of anger, yes that was all Arthur.

It had made him feel so excited and pumped up because he was fighting with Percy, Percy of all people!

And it shouldn’t.

It definitely should not make him feel alive and feel like he’s energised and wants another go at someone. It should not and in the morning, he’ll regret thinking that. He’ll regret it when he’s thinking straight, he’s driven his son out of his home. 

Exiled him. That’s too big of a word to use but it fits the situation.

He lies down on the bed, it’s comfortable and warm. It’s Percys’.

Suddenly all that about feeling good vanishes as he hugs Percy’s pillow close to his chest and cries as softly as he could. Clutching the pillow, just so he could have something of Percy’s in his hands, he’s not sure how long before he could hug his son like this.

What had he done?

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Something that will never fail to piss me off is the fact that ppl can find it in themselves to forgive the most horrible, awful , cruel characters from HP

AND NEVER FORGIVE OR UNDERSTAND PERCY??? LIKE HELLLLO?? HE WASN'T A DEATHEATER OR AN ABUSER?? HOW DARE YOU PUT HIM IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS UMBRIDGE???

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do you ever think about how percy and scabbers were in a room together for 9 years? How Percy might have bathed with Scabbers nearby? How Percy might have slept next to Scabber? Do you ever think..

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I hate this game so f*king much seriously Percy's lived with six of his siblings plus his parents and then with Oliver in Hogwarts for 7 yrs wtf does this mean????

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My Pride and Joy

Chapter 1 : Percy

 It was the end of a decade / But the start of an age

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He’s glad he has an apartment to go to at this moment in time. That somehow he foresaw that something would happen, the event that would drive him out of the Burrow, in need of another shelter.

He didn’t realise that the event would be an argument with his father.

He had expected an argument with his Mum or the twins or Ron but never in a million years would he imagined that it would be Dad, Dad who never raised his voice, who left Mum to deal out the punishments, who never had a problem with him.

Percy was flabbergasted.

He let himself inside the apartment, the walls not white, but blue, dark blue and a comfortable couch he could sink into. Of course he hadn't selected a plain white apartment, something he was sure his siblings thought boring Percy would do - select an apartment that lack color and be as boring as he was. No, he had selected an apartment with is favorite color and had decorated it as such, a bookshelf full of Muggle and magic books and a great deal of furniture from chairs to tables to lamps and whatnot. He had even put up photographs!

He charmed the door shut and fell onto the couch, drained and miserable.

The words stung.

Every word that came out of his father’s mouth seemed to taunt him starting from the implied accusation of Percy being a spy to Percy being arrogant and proud. He had not entertained the possibility that his father would be anything but happy that he had secured a position in the volatile Ministry of Magic. After that previous mishap...

Percy will be the first person to admit that he was prideful, that yes he had a bit of pride in his work, he delivered what was required and more, he did what he could to improve and worked towards a goal that wasn’t impossible. 

But being proud was not a bad thing, wanting better for yourself is not a bad thing.

All his life, all he wanted was respect, a decent life with no monetary problems, no more clothes with holes in them, no more murmurs of the Weasleys being poor and pitiful looks his way. 

He wanted to live, just live a good life.

He hadn’t wanted to be famous or rich, he just wanted a bit of respect and admiration. Was that too much to ask for?

How could he have that, someone else’s respect when his own family didn’t respect him? When even they think that he’s some monster or a fool or a prat. Someone who didn't belong to their home? 

Percy drags himself out of the couch, striding towards the kitchen. He needed a drink, a strong one. Percy wasn’t a drinker (that was Charlie) but the occasion of calling his father a “good for nothing pauper” deserved a stiff glass of his best Firewhiskey.

With his wand, he summoned a glass. Looked at it and then returned it back to its place grabbing the entire bottle. Forget a glass, this occassion required the entire bloody bottle.

He wants to forget everything, he wants to go back home, he wants to keep his pride, he wants his Mum, he wants to apologise, he wants to giht even more, he wants everything and nothing.

He knows there’s a bit of truth in his words - no, not the insults he hurled - but about the money situation and if only his father had dared to do better, earn more to feed a family of nine. If only he had thought - “Hmm I have seven children to feed and they require supplies, maybe I should ask for a raise or promotion?”

Percy’s still bitter about it, he’s allowed to be. He couldn’t even work in the Ministry without someone remarking about him being one of Arthur’s sons and the state of their family. The taunts, the insults about the red hair and the freckles.

Which is why he had ensured that he wore the best quality Ministry robes, money could buy - at least they couldn’t comment about their clothes being hand-me-downs.

(Not that it mattered, he's already earned a reputation by not noticing that his boss wasn't really his boss)

He doesn’t know if the fight was about Harry and Dumbledore or the fact that they were poor or that no one in the family respected Percy. Maybe a mixture of them all.

His parents believing Dumbledore was something he should have known, after all the horror Ron and Ginny had gone through, they still believed he would protect them. That wizard would sacrifice them if it assisted his agenda. He couldn’t care less about them, about his students and Cedric died, under his watch!

He had known Cedric, a nice kind boy who could go places but he couldn’t because he was dead.

Percy takes a gulp of the drink, letting the bitter taste overwhelm him as his thoughts of Cedric fade away. Cedric wasn’t his friend, but he was someone Percy knew, someone Percy respected and it doesn’t get better than that. 

He had attended the funeral, something Harry oh our saviour Potter hadn’t managed to do. Cedric’s parents were grief-stricken and it struck Percy how uncanny it was that they were burying their son who hadn’t even graduated.

For some reason, he had thought about Ron, if he would even graduate or even be alive to graduate because if he kept being best mates with Harry...it's bound to get him killed. He hated the fact that he had such a thought.

He had offered his condolences to Amos Diggory, Cedric’s father who had looked him in the eye with such defeat, it had moved Percy.

"You don't deserve this, he didn't deserve this", Percy had stated, he doesn't know why because the words are worthless.

"No he didn't", Amos replied looking at his son's coffin, " he really didn't".

Percy took a deep breath as he drank again.

His fight with his family was unavoidable, he knew it was going to happen. The way they treated him.. it hurt. He didn’t deserve it, he knew his self-worth, even after years of tearing him down, he knew he deserved better than this, than whatever this toxic relationship with his family was.

Maybe that’s why Bill and Charlie ran away. 

He still remembers the way Mum looked, when Charlie said he was shifting to Romania, to work with dragons (the scariest creatures). Mum's face had turned red as she argued with him about the cost, the danger of it all, the risk and the farness of it all.

Charlie had left anyway, leaving Mum crying and disappointed, instead weaponising that anger into caring for her other children still with her.

A naive Percy had promised that he would never hurt her the way Bill and Charlie had done. And he hadn't.

He had hurt Dad instead. 

They've hurt him too, he doesn't know how oblivious they are and can be to his situation. Did they really not realise that their words have consequences on his mental health? Do they think calling him prat daily, was simply a nuisance to him and not one more reason to add to the list that his family hates him with a burning passion? It's almost laughable how they believe him to be the fool when they're the ones who fool themselves into thinking that it's Percy, he doesn't care, we can say hurtful stuff about him to anyone and everyone! 

They made fun of him polishing his badge fifty times. 

They didn’t know he had scrubbed the blood from the safehouse a hundred times and it still shone red.

They made fun of his large vocabulary and proper speaking skills.

They didn’t know Aunt Muriel had slapped him every time he wrote or pronounced a word wrong.

They made fun of him being an ardent follower of rules.

They don’t know that breaking one of the safehouse’s rules had almost led to his demise.

They didn’t know and he hoped they never would. It’s not something he’s willing to share because the way they think of him, they’d probably say he deserved it.

People would look at him, aghast that he would say something like that about his family, that he’s overreacting and they’re his family and they love him.

But if Ron can call him a Slytherin traitor in front of his friends and the twins can lock him in a pyramid in a foreign country and Ginny can betray his secret to her brothers letting them tease him about Penelope and Father could laugh along with everyone at his expense, then saying that he deserved awful things is the least harmful thing they’ve said to him, his whole life.

He still can’t believe it was his father who verbally abused him. His Dad and him were cordial, he would say, it wasn't as if Percy didn't love his dad, of course he did! But with Mum, Percy was different more closer to her and that's to be expected, his father isn't even home half of the time and by the time Percy had met his father, he was six and a Mummy's boy as they say. 

It's not his fault that he was fighting in the war and before he was born, his father had spent time bonding with Bill and Charlie so they had a close bond and by the time the war ended, there were the twins and Ron who had required fatherly love.

Really, Percy was perfectly fine with his relationship with his father, it wasn't close but it wasn't far enough to make him a stranger.. although today's event might just really make them strangers who had known each other for some time.

Percy shakes his head, he stops drinking and throws the empty bottle in the wastebasket as he makes his way to the bedroom.

All he’s ever wanted was to feel safe and ensure his family was safe. Being raised during a war does that to you, that a normal life without fear is a gift and it is.

It’s dark. He hadn't realised how late it was at night, everything and everyone silent and peaceful. He pulls the curtains together, making the room even darker as he charms his door shut letting his wand rest on the table beside him as he lies down on the bed.

Somehow he’s failed at everything, his family, his friends and himself but not his career, not yet. He’s not planning to. 

He thinks about today and he realises he’s not felt this good in years, letting all that anger out of his system (though a bit unfair to his father) had done him good. 

He feels free.

And in a long time, Percy doesn’t have nightmares, doesn’t keep awake wondering when it will be dawn, instead Percy sleeps peacefully, in this new home.