The longer you put it off, the more they'll tease you.
And it's their fucked up way of showing they care. You don't want to know how many times I had to hear Bill and Charlie tell me they're glad I'm not going to die a virgin.
I look at my paperwork and with a single thought, it's done. It's damn useful, especially right now. Evan and Oliver are going through a lot right now, so the campaign is more or less just Draco and I for the time being.
Evan's American, so if they move it'll be to the States. Evan's older nephew is in his second year at the school in Salem. The younger one is going to start somewhere in the fall.
She had files of potential blackmail material for every person from another country's Ministry she's ever had professional dealings with. She also seemed to have a particular hatred for me.
The file's quite hilarious - they let me read it before it was destroyed.
She knew that I suspected she was up to no good and wanted me ruined. Just couldn't prove it until she started digging around in my private life. Bitch was going to try to use Alec is discredit me, but she couldn't find anything she could either use or misconstrue. "He's a muggle" isn't going to damage my reputation because everyone already knows about the Weasleys and their fascination with muggles.
I used to hate that I had that working against me, but I also used to be a complete and utter prat.
I used to hate the way people looked down on us for it. Our grandmother got disowned for marrying a Weasley. Merlin forbid the Black family associate with blood traitors like us.
My first year at the Ministry, when I was working for Crouch Sr, every comment on my performance was qualified with "for a Weasley." I wanted to be judged for my own merits and not for my last name. That's why I flew off the handle when Dad suggested Fudge was just using me because our family is close to Harry. I wasn't right, but fuck I was only 18. I thought for the first time in my life, someone had seen me for me and not as "another one of those Weasleys - which one are you again?"
*pauses* Sorry. I don't talk about that often because it's hard for me to shut up when I start.
~Percy
((Percy also needs therapy but he hasn't admitted that to himself yet.))
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 03:52 am (UTC)Why don't you want anyone to know?
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 04:05 am (UTC)-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 04:08 am (UTC)And it's their fucked up way of showing they care. You don't want to know how many times I had to hear Bill and Charlie tell me they're glad I'm not going to die a virgin.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 04:18 am (UTC)*chuckles softly, shaking his head*
Tell me this wasn't recently?
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 04:41 am (UTC)~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 04:54 am (UTC)Well, I agree...that is some fucked up way to say they care.
How are you two, by the way? Enjoying the married life, I take it?
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 10:47 am (UTC)*smiles* We're just brilliant. I actually look forward to leaving work so I can go home to him.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 11:19 am (UTC)*smiles and nods*
Yeah, me too. Not to see Alec, of course...but Hermione. I never got to meet Alec, by the way. Feel like a right prat.
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 11:46 am (UTC)You can drop by our flat whenever you know. We'll even feed you - Alec is brilliant in the kitchen. Even more brilliant after the whole storm thing.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 11:54 am (UTC)Prolly should have noticed that before you started dating her.
Ahh...well you've just convinced me, then. I take it he decided to keep those daft powers?
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 12:02 pm (UTC)*bites his lip*
He's not the only one.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 12:11 pm (UTC)-Ron
((Did Hermione keep hers?))
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 12:15 pm (UTC)~Percy
((No, she did not. She found it annoying.))
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 12:24 pm (UTC)What is going on with them?
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 12:34 pm (UTC)They're still working out what's best for the boys, but they might be moving.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 12:43 pm (UTC)-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 12:47 pm (UTC)Evan's American, so if they move it'll be to the States. Evan's older nephew is in his second year at the school in Salem. The younger one is going to start somewhere in the fall.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 12:56 pm (UTC)-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 01:08 pm (UTC)They haven't decided what they're doing yet though - they might decide to bring the boys back here and send them to Hogwarts.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 01:24 pm (UTC)-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 01:38 pm (UTC)She had files of potential blackmail material for every person from another country's Ministry she's ever had professional dealings with. She also seemed to have a particular hatred for me.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 03:08 pm (UTC)-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 03:33 pm (UTC)She knew that I suspected she was up to no good and wanted me ruined. Just couldn't prove it until she started digging around in my private life. Bitch was going to try to use Alec is discredit me, but she couldn't find anything she could either use or misconstrue. "He's a muggle" isn't going to damage my reputation because everyone already knows about the Weasleys and their fascination with muggles.
I used to hate that I had that working against me, but I also used to be a complete and utter prat.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 03:46 pm (UTC)Wow. In a relationship with a muggle was the best she could do? You must be really boring, then.
You used to hate how much we like muggles? That is a little prattish, hate to say.
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 04:10 pm (UTC)I used to hate the way people looked down on us for it. Our grandmother got disowned for marrying a Weasley. Merlin forbid the Black family associate with blood traitors like us.
My first year at the Ministry, when I was working for Crouch Sr, every comment on my performance was qualified with "for a Weasley." I wanted to be judged for my own merits and not for my last name. That's why I flew off the handle when Dad suggested Fudge was just using me because our family is close to Harry. I wasn't right, but fuck I was only 18. I thought for the first time in my life, someone had seen me for me and not as "another one of those Weasleys - which one are you again?"
*pauses* Sorry. I don't talk about that often because it's hard for me to shut up when I start.
~Percy
((Percy also needs therapy but he hasn't admitted that to himself yet.))
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