It's alright. I sometimes felt pretty sorry for myself as well. I always worshiped all of you. Bill, Charlie...even wanted to be funny like Fred and George. I knew I could never be smart like you, though.
Sometimes being smart is overrated. And five years of using a time turner to take 12 classes - it's a miracle I didn't die of exhaustion.
~Percy
((The way the act like Hermione is the first person to have ever needed a time turner has always annoyed me - Percy and Bill both got 12 OWLs and therefore both would have also needed one to attend all their classes.))
You can do anything if you're smart. You're going to be the Minister, Hermione could do whatever she wanted...which I guess is numbers, go figure. And that was your thing. You're smart...and, of course, you knew it too. Still do, obviously.
I'd like to think I'm not as obnoxious about my academic performance at Hogwarts as I used to be. Nine years out, it doesn't matter at all what your grades were.
Oh, that's not what I mean. I love my job. Couldn't see me doing anything else. But the only reason I got it was because of the war. Barely passed any OWLs. Didn't pass any NEWTs. Some days it feels kind of like I cheated a bit, that I don't know enough.
*shrug, teasing*
But you still like reminding me that you indeed are the smart one.
I know, that's what I mean. Almost everyone else there had that knowledge, was smart enough to pass all those NEWTs...but not me. Cause I didn't take them.
You have to say that because you're my brother. S'okay, I know I wouldn't have passed...don't think I wrote an essay on my own the entire time I was there.
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 07:59 pm (UTC)~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 08:15 pm (UTC)It's alright. I sometimes felt pretty sorry for myself as well. I always worshiped all of you. Bill, Charlie...even wanted to be funny like Fred and George. I knew I could never be smart like you, though.
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 09:02 pm (UTC)~Percy
((The way the act like Hermione is the first person to have ever needed a time turner has always annoyed me - Percy and Bill both got 12 OWLs and therefore both would have also needed one to attend all their classes.))
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 09:22 pm (UTC)-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 09:30 pm (UTC)I'd like to think I'm not as obnoxious about my academic performance at Hogwarts as I used to be. Nine years out, it doesn't matter at all what your grades were.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-15 09:46 pm (UTC)Oh, that's not what I mean. I love my job. Couldn't see me doing anything else. But the only reason I got it was because of the war. Barely passed any OWLs. Didn't pass any NEWTs. Some days it feels kind of like I cheated a bit, that I don't know enough.
*shrug, teasing*
But you still like reminding me that you indeed are the smart one.
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-16 12:26 am (UTC)It's kind of hard to pass NEWTs if you never took any, you know.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-16 01:03 am (UTC)-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-16 03:42 am (UTC)~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-16 03:59 am (UTC)You have to say that because you're my brother. S'okay, I know I wouldn't have passed...don't think I wrote an essay on my own the entire time I was there.
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-16 08:54 am (UTC)At the risk of sounding like Mum - you had the ability to had you really applied yourself.
And if I ever say shit like that to my own children, please smack me.
~Percy
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-16 05:09 pm (UTC)Oh, how the times have changed. And you're not telling me how writing essays is the most important skill and I'll be lost without it.
*grins cheekily*
But what if your children are just like me? Then I bet you'd sound just like Mum.
-Ron
Re: Cafe in London
Date: 2013-03-19 03:22 am (UTC)*groans* I don't want to be an asshole dad. I want to be a fun dad.
~Percy