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Percy Weasley: Becomes Prefect.

Percy Weasley: Becomes Head Boy!

Percy Weasley: Gets a government job right out of school!!!

Weasley Family (Save for Molly, Bill, and Charlie): Constantly teases Percy.

Weasley Family: Constantly calls Percy names.

Weasley Family: Constantly belittles Percy’s position.

Weasley Family: Constantly complains about Percy.

𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆, 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗱

For fuck sake how did an 18 year old boy be held responsible for not noticing his boss was acting strange( who he didn’t know as well as other employees) while Dumbledore for the last 3 years has been regularly been putting his students in danger.

1st year-

DADA teacher turns out to be a vessel for the Dark Lord.

Troll escaped in the dungeon almost fatally injuring a 12 yr old girl until 2 young children somehow manage to defeat it.

Detention includes going to a forest( where students aren’t supposed to go) in the night.

3 students almost die due to negligence of school staff and 1 of them faces off the Dark Lord.

Apparently no reason to do so since the stone was fake. Harry, Ron and Hermione would have appreciated that information thank you Dumbledore.

Gryffindor wins due to the headmaster being biased and hence there is no interhouse friendship formed and Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw is forgotten during these years.

2nd year

Don’t notice that 2 students are missing and students crash into the tree.

Ah yes students get petrified which is equivalent to coma.

Inefficient DADA Professor again.

Arm gets broken due to professor being a show-off

Not closing school down when the problem starts.

Dueling club which goes wrong.

11 yr old girl is left to die because the staff can’t do anything but Harry and Ron can

Let the older brother write a letter to his parents about his youngest sibling’s apparent death.

Harry and Ron almost die just like last year.

Pretty sure there’s more but I can’t remember

3rd year

Serial killer on the run. Yes keep the gates open

DADA Professor is a werewolf ( and yes I love Remus but come on)

Oh yes we also have soul sucking beings on the grounds you know just in case.

Divination Professor is hopeless but her prophesies come true but lets treat her like shit cause she’s not important.

Let’s give a 13 yr old girl a time turner! A time travelling device.

Let the gameskeeper be a teacher of care of magical creatures but he doesn’t have magic and has not been given guidelines on how to treat students so a student gets hurt on his watch.

A serial killer in the school! Don’t be serious we can’t evacuate the school. It’s just a serial killer.

Ron has a broken leg and Harry and Hermione are backed in a corner.

Turns out a beloved pet of the family is an animagus Death Eater. ( Literally how did noone notice him???)

That Death Eater gets away of course.

2 young children are given a time turner to save Buckbeak and Sirius because Dumbledore is toooo old.

And noone is much the wiser. Family is not even told that their pet was a death eater in disguise.

Please comment if yall remember more.

Lets also keep a three headed dog, who is locked in a tiny room unable to run around or go for walks (and other things, this is animal abuse), in a castle of teenagers, who again will take ‘third floor corridor is out of bounds to anyone who does not wish to die a very painful death’ as a challenge. And then lets only keep it behind a first year spell!!!!

Oh! we can add having literal teenagers face their deepest darkest fears on the spot in front of their classmates. “oh they’re just children it cant be that bad!” you say! Disregarding that children can also have trauma. Harry was abused (which no one knew) his fear could’ve revealed that to the whole class!!! And Lupin was expecting Voldemort to show up, WHY WOULD HE HAVE THEM FACE THE BOGGART IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS WHEN HE WAS EXPECTING THE PERSON WHO KILLED THESE CHILDRENS FAMILY MEMBERS AND FAMILY FRIENDS TO SHOW UP IN A CLASSROOM. This was the war generation!!! They grew up on horror stories and nightmare fuel by just hearing what happened to relatives and friends!!! It would have made perfect sense for Bellatrix Lestrange to show up for Neville, and he knew what happened to his parents!!!! Common sense oh my god!!!! Don’t have teenagers possibly face serial killers, genocidal maniacs, abusive relatives, monsters, and warlords!!!! 

Yes, we also give no counseling to students who were petrified, or the students whos friends and classmates were basically dying.

Ginny was possessed, forced to kill roosters and try to murder her classmates, mind controlled, violated on the deepest level, and had her soul drained??? Let’s warm her up and send her on her merry way, of course there’s no aftereffects!! She’s fine.

Harry: Bitten by as Basilisk and literally feels his life force draining away before being healed by Fawkes Harry: *on his way to the hospital wing because he just had the most deadly venom in the world coursing through his veins* Dumbledore: Harry stay behind will you? Harry: NEVER ENDS UP GOING TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER BEING BITTEN BY THE MOST DEADLY CREATURE IN THE WORLD WHICH NO ONE HAS SURVIVED BEFORE

No one tells the parents their children are Petrified and students are almost dying because of something that has KILLED A STUDENT BEFORE

Lets also keep a mirror with obsessive powers so strong its had ‘grown men waste away before it’ in an empty classroom with no protection in a school of students!!!!

We also keep murder magic, and mind control magic in our library that is easy to break into!!!! And we teach students how to make date rape drugs in our potions classes!!!! And its very easy to get books on illegal identity theft potions and steal the ingredients and brew it in secret!!! And we completely condone drugging your classmates and locking them in a broom cupboard after stealing some of their hair and clothes!!!

We also give powerful magical artifacts of invisibility to 11 year olds in a school full of terrifying dangers!!!

The mediwitch will never report you for things, not to the teachers or authorities!!! Weather that be an obvious venomous dragon bite, or the obvious effects of an illegal identity theft potion gone wrong, or if you (a teacher) vanished a students bones!!!

ALSO THERE WAS A DRAGON IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! How did Dumbledore not know???!!!! He had to’ve.

Did anyone report Lockhart to the Aurors and have all those poor peoples memories fixed??? He had to have wiped/altered the memories of whole cities and villages!!!!

On top of the who Werewolf thing, Lupin was completely negligent with his potion just saying

And i don’t think this is Dumbledore’s fault (and i’m trying to keep this list to things him and the staff did in the first 3 books) but Hagrid got take to Azkaban without a trial or so much as a by you leave

And also!!!! Once exonerated he was never given his wand and education back!!!!

Also McGonnagal didn’t even check on the students concerns with the stone, they may be children but they’re not stupid

Serial killer slashed a portrait?? its fine!!! Serial killer hovers over a student with a knife??? Its fine!!! Also McGonnagal says he’s being ridiculous for claiming such.

Does the whole school/whole house shun select students because: a) you took a ridiculous amount of points for a minor infraction and thus targeted them and did nothing about it? b) they displayed an ability with a lot of stigma and you did nothing about it?

A student was constantly harassed by a teacher (lockhart) and used for demonstrations and manhandled and slammed/dragged around and no one did anything!!!

He released creatures that hung a student from a chandelier and he fled!!!!

Filch choke-slammed Harry into a wall, feet not touching the ground. in front of the whole school!!! And no one did anything!!!!

Students constantly use slurs without punishment and bullying is ignored!!!!

DEMENTORS!!!! DEMENTORS AT A SCHOOL!!! A SCHOOL WITH CHILDREN WHO COME FROM THE WAR GENERATIONS!!! A SCHOOL WITH CHILDREN WHO HAVE THEIR OWN MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES!!! A SCHOOL THAT DEFINITELY HAS CHILDREN WHO WER ABUSED OR OTHERWISE HURT!!!! AND ONLY HARRY GETS TAUGHT THE DEFENSIVE SPELL AGAINST THEM!!!! worst reaction my ass he isnt the only one with trauma, nor is he probably not the only one who saw his parents die, there was a war and older students probably watched their parents die or get torture too and probably remember it better as well. That just plain favoritism.

The hogwarts staff is inefficient like really inefficient and then that Buckbeak and Draco part. I mean I don’t like Draco but come on.

And the whole Percy should have known about his boss like how?????

A PROFFESSOR WAS POSSESSED BY THE DARK LORD HIMSELF.

AND NOONE FREAKING NOTICED?????

It just sounds so stupid when you write it all down and just doesn’t make sense. These people are adults?

Also I’m sure that Peeves has traumatized some students and the tournament thing?

Harry is allowed to participate in a deadly competition even though he is underage? And Cedric. Rowling introduces him for what? House diversity, the one Hufflepuff who we have some info on and she ends up killing him.

And the Myrtle and seeing boys naked??? What even was that? Ghosts are allowed everywhere, and when I say everywhere you know what I’m implying here.

And then the Weasleys are shocked that Percy got a promotion and immediately conclude that he’s a spy.

I mean what????

Have you seen the Hogwarts staff????????

The twins get away with anything, Voldermort possessed a Proffessor , a young girl was possessed and was controlling a dangerous creature WHO PUT PEOPLE IN A COMA and a werewolf is hired and soul sucking beings are allowed on the ground.

And Dumbledore is still the headmaster.

And McGonagall, she’s as biased as Snape. Shw breaks rules for her benefit. You know she does.

The quidditch one and then not believing people when they come to her for help. She hates Trelawny for absolute no reason except she’s weird.

And we all know about Snape.

And Flitwick and Sprout, we don’t know anything.

And Filch is iften out of line.

McGonnagal is very very biased and consistently takes more points and gives more detentions than Snape. Dumbledore is also biased and shows Harry so. much. favoritism.

I’m going to rehash this because there needs to be more emphasis on the fact that THEY LEFT A 16 YEAR OLD TO WRITE HIS PARENTS ABOUT THE FACT THAT HIS SISTER WAS MOST LIKELY DEAD AND THAT THE SCHOOL HAD BEEN HIDING THE FACT THAT STUDENTS WERE BEING PETRIFIED!!!!! and all this after he had been worrying about her all year and his girlfriend was attacked!!! Do you know how much guilt that boy must’ve felt? how do you even write a letter like that? The teachers weren’t even going to floo call???

Remus Lupin, the man who never told the authorities that Sirius was an Animagus bc he didn’t want to face his mistakes. Remus Lupin, the man who brushed off his and his friends consistent bullying, torture, sexual assault, and almost murder of a fellow student as “a joke gone a bit too far” Remus Lupin, a man who forgets his medicine for a condition he hates and has dealt with his whole life and thus puts a castle full of unaware students are risk How is this man an authority figure?

Lets also reinstate a tournament that was disbanded for its high death toll!!!! And lets also let the entire student body shun and hex a CHILD for getting entered in against his will and do nothing to stop it!!!! And lets reinstate this tournament after obvious death eater attacks and an (alleged) serial killer breaks out of Azkaban and tries to (allegedly) kill a student residing at said school!!!! The ministry doesn’t know that Sirius wont come for Harry again, they don’t know that those death eaters wont attack again!!! But no! Lets host it here instead of going to France or Scandinavia!

Also, lets appoint a man to DADA teacher who is borderline insane and recently attacked his trashcans because he though they were Dark Wizards!!! let this man of all men teach students!!! Don’t really reprimand him when he transfigures a student who he then shoves down another students pants!!! Like that isn’t traumatizing!!! Lets give this man permission you use the unforgivable curses in front of students!!! Again, War Generation Students!!! The Longbottoms were in the order, you know what happened!!! “Lets show Neville exactly what happened to his parents and broke their minds so much how own mother doesn’t recognize him! That’ll be great for his mental health.” “Lets also show Harry how his parents died for him in great detail and then immediately afterward draw the whole class’ attention to him!” Yes the man was a death eater but Dumbledore gave special dispensation for the curses to be demonstrated!!!!

Yes, once a younger student gets put in the tournament we aren’t going to make the challenges easier!!! That wouldn’t be fair!!! We are going to have a 14 YEAR OLD face a dragon and chain his friend to the bottom of the lake!!!

ALSO THEY CHAINED AN 8 YEAR OLD GIRL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BLACK LAKE SURROUNDD BY MERPEOPLE AND GRINDYLOWS!!!! ANYTHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED!!!

Hagrid: *breeds a new creature for COMC class even though breeding new creatures is illegal* Hagrid: *has 14 year olds take care of said creature with unknown powers who cannibalized the other creatures* Amos Diggory: *works for the department of regulation and control of magical creatures and definitely heard about them from his son* Amos Diggory: *does nothing about said creatures* Hogwarts Staff: *does not report Hagrid for illegal breeding or stop the dangerous lessons that gave children burns and stings even though Hagrid definitely didn’t know the effects the stinger venom could have had on students*

Lets give the most dangerous dragon to a 14 year old and not have him switch or assign the dragons in the first place.

Lets give the champions a difficult clue and not tell them what they need to do to prepare even though said 14 year old probably does not have the knowledge needed to decipher said clue.

Lets have no protection against falling in the broom sport where iron balls are enchanted to knock people off their brooms and grievously injure them often breaking bones and causing concussions!

Lets fill a maze with dangerous spells and creatures and have no way of seeing the competitors. How is one to send off red sparks when incapacitated because of an Acromantula, Blast-Ended Skrewt, Sphinx, or deadly spell??? Lets also not spell the cup against tampering!

Its totally normal for reporters known for slander to drag a teenager into a broom closet with that blasted quill. And then do nothing about the article. Why are they letting the worst reporter into the school at all!!!!

Lets do nothing about the crowds of students harassing and stalking the foreign celebrity! Or the students harassing and stalking the girl(s?) with veela blood!

Yes we teacher gladly ignore the slanderous bullying buttons that most of the student body is wearing.

We also ignore that Rita Skeeter is harassing minors is the gossip columns with unfounded romantic insinuations and making them appear in a horrid light.

No counseling once again after a dead student appears on school grounds, no Harry is totally fine after witnessing that, lets just ship him home! And the other students are totally not traumatized by seeing a dead schoolmate!! it’s fine.

Lets immediately give the death eater with information the kiss! Lets also not look for what happened to Barty Crouch Sr.’s body and blame everything on the new hire because he is poor and new and easy to blame!!! And then lets have a full inquiry for said 18 year old and then give him a high end job at your (Fudge’s) side so he feels indebted to you for this chance of redemption so that you and your associates can manipulate him further!!!

Lets ignore the bullying and students calling Harry crazy for saying he witnessed the rise of the dark lord.

Lets also punish said boy for getting punished by the manipulative ministry official (McGonnagal took points) and ignore him trying to tell you that hes being tortured.

STUDENTS ARE BEING TORTURED AND NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING, SOME OF THE TEACHERS HAD TO’VE FOUND OUT!!!! ESP POPPY POMPHREY WHEN FIRST YEARS WHEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR THE PAIN!!! DO SOMETHING YOU USELESS AUTHORITY FIGURES!!!

Bertha Jorkins goes missing? Oh its normal she’s fine! They say as she was tortured and killed

Fred and George never get punished for basically running human experiments in the common rooms!!!!! And for making money off of it!!!

Also Harry gets ignored by his mentor and basically abandoned and treated like a child bc Dumbles wants to ‘preserve his innocence’ or ‘let him be a child for as long as possible’. That boy was never a child! He had no childhood! He was locked up and starved and forced to do everyone’s chores and cook as soon as he could reach the stove. He was thrown into hallways and had his head swung at by a frying pan and was beat up by his cousin and humiliated all his life. He was never innocent, was never a child, i wouldn’t be surprised if he had to potty train himself. Dumbledore avoiding him and keeping his from the order and the prophecy was the worst thig he could’ve done.

Harry never gets counseling for seeing the local warlord murder people and attack arthur weasley with a snake

FRED AND GEORGE SHOVED GRAHAM MONTAGUE INTO THE BROKEN VANISHING CABINET! BEING IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE ALMOST DROVE HIM INSANE BEFORE HE APPARATED (without a license or much practice) AND LODGED HIMSELF IN A TOILET ON THE FOURTH FLOOR. THEY ALMOST MURDERED HIM AND HE WAS IN A FUGE STATE FOR MONTHS. HERMIONE SUGGESTED THEY TELL POMPHREY WHAT HAPPENED BUT HARRY AND RON SAID NO. HE WAS NEVER THE SAME AND JUST BARELY SURVIVED!!! FUCK YOU FRED AND GEORGE, YOU NEVER TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALMOST KILLING SOMEONE!!!

Oh! Percy left this year! The year where the Weasley families horrible treatment of him came to a head and they disregarded his achievements and how amazing it was that at 19 years old he had such a high position after years of being ridiculed and Arthur became the worst father on the planet!!! Percy is my favorite character and he deserved better.

Also Dementors. he had a full criminal hearing like those for genocidal maniacs like Bellatrix Lestrange. Yup that’s normal.

I would list everything the ministry did this year but i’m trying to keep this shorter than it already is so i’m just going to say that they slandered a minor in the largest wizarding newspaper in Britain for a whole summer, taught nothing and focused their energy on taking over Hogwarts rather than the war effort or finding out what really happened. Put the education of the magical children of Britain into the hands of said children because of their incompetency, and had the most dangerous artifacts in wizarding Britain (time sand, evil brains, de-aging bubble, prophecies) and the ministry itself behind such shoddy protections that 6 teenagers could break in easily. All this led to more people dying than necessary in the war.

Harry never gets counseling for watching his godfather get murdered right in front of him they once again ship him off with his grief bc he’s so fine and then wonder why he doesn’t trust adults.

Year 6: AKA the year where a grown man collects teenagers for their connections and teaches them to brew a date rape/obsession drug and then no one ever punishes Romilda Vane for using it on a fellow student. Its almost worse than mind control.

Katie Bell almost gets murdered and there is no investigation of who did it but thank god finally someone goes to St Mungo’s when they need it.

Ron gets poisoned, again no investigation, again no St Mungo’s. This is a school!!!! They deal with spells gone wrong and bumps and bruised and broken bones!!! Not Petrification, attempted murders, soul stealing possession, near death from a broken vanishing cabinet, and the deadliest poison in the world!!!

Also they never closed the school after death eaters broke in and they had to fight for their lives, and bill weasley was permanently disfigured.

Lets give teenagers liquid luck!!! That a great idea even though its illegal in certain circumstances!!!

And then Dumbledore says its a great idea to take Harry on a deadly mission, the same one that has killed in the past!!! Oh jolly itll be an adventure he says as Harry has to watch him be mentally tortured with the Draught of Despair and then almost killed by inferi.

Then he dies.

Only one thing to say about year 7: No one appreciated Regulus Black enough, we get one chapter and that is? Come on his is my second fav character and we only get a short section devoted to his tragedy?

The biggest mystery is why do people love them???????

I was re-reading the Goblet of Fire the other days and found one little episode which i didn’t remember from the previous times

After the second task of the three wizard tournament Harry swam to the bank with Ron and Gabrielle who he saved from the bottom of the lake

Fleur, as an older sister was hysterically running around because she failed the task and was afraid that Gabrielle was still captured by those water beasts

But she stayed on the shore

And there was Percy

Who had less good reasons for worrying

But he was terrified as much as Fleur and rushed right into the ice cold water towards his little brother

Percy Weasley, who was in the line of duty, wearing his uptight ministry worker robes

Percy Wesley who was described as a meticulous snob many mane times, showed us such a great amount of care and kindness that i just couldn’t help but drawn it

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

But like the only one really relevant to Percy is this one fic I could find. It doesn’t even have Arthur in it, but it just says, ‘yeah, good for Percy, leaving like that’.

https://www.archiveofourown.org/works/26182351

Yup I went throught that tag on ao3 but most of them were either Dramione or Harmione with all Weasleys bashing.

Look I'm not on Team Arthur hits his children bashing because that's not his character but I'm not on Team Arthur is the best either.

I just want someone to call him out on his parenting because it sucks.

It's really ironic.

Letting Bill be a cursebreaker. That's fine

Letting Charlie become a dragon tamer and go to Romania which is really far with no prior experience. Thats fine

Being fine with the twins dropping out of Hogwarts without giving their NEWTS- which is essential ( Also money was spent buying their wands, potions, books etc) without any repercussions. That's fine

Being fine and not asking the twins where they got the money from because they're so trusting. That's fine.

I’m literally any other fandom Percy would be the fan favorite and everyone would be cheering him on.

But because of how she wrote the books we see what Harry thinks. And he has his opinion based on what Ron thinks who’s Percy’s little brother.

They see this older teen who’s basically an adult to them that can be over bearing and follows the rules too much in their opinion. (Which I don’t think should really count since when they break the rules it’s to literally save everyone)

yes, yes, yes

if Ron thinks Percy is stuffy and boring

The thing is people always love the odd one out, the black sheep, the different from others person.

They always do.

But the fact that Ron continuously calls Percy stuffy and a brat. The fact that the twins are always around to prank Percy and call his names and warn Harry about Percy.

Harry sees it from their perspective. He never gets to form his own opinion because people keep telling him that he is like this. And he believes then because he has absolutely no idea how siblings work.

Yes yes yes.

Middle child syndrome

Its always that.

Five characters? In one post? Well, alright, here we go.

The Weasleys as a Whole

I’ve mentioned this before but JKR writes the Weasleys to clearly be a believable but ideal family. They’re all fiercely loyal, progressive per wizarding world standards, love each other and Harry deeply, and have this wonderful off-kilter joyous house where there’s always some rambunctious thing going on. 

Harry comes to associate the Weasleys with family and, personally, I believe a large part of him marrying Ginny boils down to it will make him a Weasley for real. 

That said, they’ve got some major issues. They’re very righteous people who, as a whole, will ice you out the moment they even suspect you do something that disagrees with them. You don’t even have to do it, what you did or didn’t do doesn’t even have to be something terrible or something bad, but god help you if the family decides they’re done with you. 

They’re very resentful of people like the Malfoys. This isn’t just because Lucius is a smarmy, pompous, ass (he is) or that he indirectly almost murdered Ginny but seems to mostly be because Lucius has so much money. All of their interactions seem to boil down to the money. More than this though, the Weasleys seem fully supportive of laws that... well, used against themselves would be a travesty but used against the likes of the Malfoys it’s about damn time.

They’re unquestioningly loyal to Dumbledore. Granted, most people we see in canon are, Dumbledore’s very very very good at convincing people he’s a saint. However, these guys are practically his cult member to the point where they do things like refuse to have Harry over the summer, even before Voldemort returned, because Dumbledore told them not to. 

They also never really adopt Harry into the family. Oh they give him a nice sweater, he comes over every once in a while to the house, he’s very good friends with Ron but he’s mostly treated just like that, a good friend. Now, there’s nothing wrong with this, except the way JKR sets it up we’re supposed to believe this is the family Harry found. It’s just that the family Harry’s found let’s him stay in a house with bars on his window where twelve-year-old Ron tells them, “Harry’s muggle family is really really awful” in a way that should have been raising red flags. Hermione practically lives at the Weasleys, Harry never does.

Now, are the Weasleys evil? No, far from it, they’re ordinary people who act in ways I’d expect ordinary people too. Technically they didn’t have to do anything more for Harry than they did, they didn’t have to hate Lucius Malfoy for better reasons, and they don’t have to be even slightly less worshipful of Dumbledore. They’re people, and they’re fine characters, but the overwhelming worship and love of the Weasleys we see across fandom does get on my nerves.

But you asked for individuals, so here we go.

 Arthur Weasley

Arthur is the epitome of “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” in the worst of ways and is, frankly, a giant awful joke to me. He’s the white kid you see going around with dread locks, a beanie the color of the Jamaican flag, smoking weed, and attempting to speak like Bob Marley 

Only, because he does it with muggle things, we’re supposed to find him funny and progressive.

Arthur is absolutely, albeit unwittingly, condescending in his love of muggle knickknacks. He has no idea how any of it actually works, not limited to how muggles could possible survive without the gold standard, but ardently believes he does because he can enchant the car to fly. Seriously, that he believes he’s an expert on muggle culture, as a pureblood wizard who heads an office in the ministry on it, is the worst part. His love of toasters comes across as, “Wow, look how cool it is that these poor little muggles made all this neat stuff. We should absolutely love the muggles because of it!” And that he heads an office in the ministry called “The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts” which is all about catching down Jackass style pranksters who think it would be hilarious of they enchanted toasters to bludgeon muggles to death...

Goddammit Arthur, why do you exist?

Right, otherwise, he’s got some pride issues going on. Part of the reason Percy is excommunicated is not so much that Percy doesn’t believe Harry, but because Percy dared to do better than Arthur in his own career. Arthur is stuck in his position as head of a joke of a department, he is an underling at its finest, and frankly likely only has that position because he’s a pureblood and the idea of putting a halfblood or even muggleborn at the head of a department dealing with muggles just made the higher ups shudder. (Don’t tell Arthur that though, he likes to think he’s not benefitting from nepotism). 

Arthur goes so far to accuse Percy as Fudge’s secretary as spying on him. Arthur, the guy who heads “Misuse of Muggle Artifacts”. Yeah, Arthur, I’m sure Fudge is really wasting his time using his straight laced secretary to find out all your dirty secrets. 

He also tends to see the world as very black and white. When Skeeter in book 4 writes an article after the Quidditch World Cup disaster complaining about the ministry’s lax security in enabling domestic terrorists to enter (something completely valid and true by the way) Arthur is so personally offended that both he and Percy go straight to the ministry to complain about Rita Skeeter and her daring to assume freedom of speech! HOW DARE SHE CALL THE MINISTRY’S NON-EXISTENT SECURITY AT THE WORLD CUP LAX! (To be fair, she also cited Arthur as having been in attendance at the event, a ministry employee, and having done nothing but, well, this is also true Arthur. You’re in a guerilla, underground, resistance movement. If I didn’t already think the Order was a joke this would kind of highlight it for me).

He’s also very resentful of Lucius Malfoy, and it seems to mostly be about the money. Arthur and Molly have a severe spending problem and actively resent that Lucius is swimming in money. That Arthur is ardently pleased about a law being passed in which the ministry without warrant can ransack Lucius Malfoy’s home... 

Well, Arthur, imagine the slippery slope if the government decides that it would like to search the Weasley home without warrant? In fact, he doesn’t even have to imagine it, as the beloved government in a few short years turns against him and then it’s all about how corrupt the ministry is. 

Arthur’s delightfully narrowminded, basically, and reminds us at nearly every opportunity.

Percy Weasley

Mostly, I just feel bad for Percy. Percy’s the son/brother that nobody likes and he’s painfully aware of that fact. He doesn’t fit in with the others, he has far too much ambition for the Gryffindor family and they resent him for it, and then he dares to say things like “I don’t know guys, Voldemort resurrecting from the dead after decades doesn’t sound plausible, we know Harry’s a little off kilter, and Dumbledore’s one shady dude”. Percy happens to be wrong about Voldemort resurrecting (and admits as much when the evidence is plainly visible), but he’s pretty on the money with the rest of it.

Regardless, growing up we see Ron constantly hating on Percy along with the rest of the siblings. I’m sure Percy is obnoxious, and certainly full of himself after making prefect and head boy, but he’s very clearly even before Order of the Phoenix the Least Favorite Brother (TM).

Then the Weasley family completely ices him out for a) getting a very high ranking position very quickly as Fudge’s secretary and b) not being gung ho about Dumbledore saying crazy things in the paper. Remember that to Percy Harry is Ron’s weird friend who seems to get into highly illegal activities every other week. From Percy’s point of view, it’s probably a matter of time before Harry becomes a crack head in Knockturn Alley (or given how behind the times wizards tend to be, an opium den). 

He’s constantly getting Ron into not only trouble but life threatening situations, is erratic and apparently a parseltongue of all things, and now Harry’s flipped his lid and saying that Voldemort has been resurrected after having gone through a very traumatic experience of watching a classmate somehow die. 

While we see Percy kind of (sort of)  make up with the family it’s clear that for Percy to have any relation with these people he’s the one who will always, ALWAYS, have to come crawling back on his knees and begging for forgiveness. It’s the Weasley way or the highway and I imagine, at some point probably a little after/during that epilogue, Percy will just slowly drift away because it’s just not worth it anymore.

Percy’s very much the black sheep of the family.

Fred and George Weasley

You all are going to kill me, but I actually don’t care in the slightest about Fred and George Weasley. This is because they basically have no personality aside from “funny”. 

They just have their weird, tandem, twin act and are either playing jokes on the school or else serving as Deus ex Machina in giving Harry magical items such as the Marauder’s Map for no apparent reason. The plot told them it was time, I guess. 

Their jokes, while not as bad as Sirius and James’ “Let’s sexually harrass Severus Snape by pantsing and beating him at the edge of Hogwarts lake” or Sirius’ “Let’s get Snape eaten by a werewolf!” are still often needlessly cruel and... kind of pointless. They harass Slytherin house constantly just because they happen to be Slytherins, they’re acceptable victims (which of course makes house tension that much worse). Harry gets sent a toilet seat in the hospital because... that’s funny? Har de har? 

They’re so indistinguishable from one another I routinely see people mistake which one got his ear chopped off and which one died. Because the point is, that we can’t tell the difference! It doesn’t matter who lived and who died because all we know is that Freorge is dead! 

Similarly, you see tons of fics around where character of the day ends up in this weird twincestuous relationship with Fred and George and it’s not only for a) that delightful twincest but b) because they’re such a singular unit that any attempt to pair one with somebody else feels weird. So you just get these porn fics about Fred and George being weird rapey teenagers who seem like they’d be more interested dating each other. 

Charlie Weasley

I really have no thoughts on Charlie. He raises dragons in Romania, the family loves him. Now, dragon raising feels like one of the most dangerous jobs in the Harry Potter universe, like Charlie had just gone and signed up to be a lumberjack but he seems to like it?

We really don’t see much of Charlie, he’s just the obligatory older Weasley son so that the Weasleys can be this ridiculously large family.

Bill Weasley

We see slightly more of Bill, but again, not enough to really leave an impression. We know that his marrying Fleur sent Molly into a complete state, and that they’re going to have awkward Christmas dinners forever because of it where Fleur just sits there and pretends not to loathe every second of Molly’s presence while Molly notes how bad it is that Victoire got stuck with that ugly pink hair instead of the Weasley red. 

Bill doesn’t seem to really do anything about this. He still marries Fleur, but we don’t really see a major confrontation where he tells the family “Look, I’m marrying her, so grow up.” So, I imagine he just tries to smile pleasantly and tells Fleur to just endure it for another few hours. He loves his family, his family’s great, but they only have to see Fleur once a year at Christmas.

Ginny Weasley

Ginny is weird. She’s this weird, frankly, almost personality-less void whose sole obsession in life seems to be marrying Harry. She and Harry end up in the world’s weirdest relationship and I honestly have no idea how people ship it other than canon told them to.

Ginny’s... well, first off, she’s very much in love with an idea. She had always worshipped Harry Potter but then he personally saves her life in what was a horrifically traumatic year and so that feeling just grows even more. Despite being Ron’s sister, she barely seems to know Harry, and everything she seems to like about it are just things she made up.

I imagine her and Harry’s marriage will be littered with affairs on her end. Not divorce though, because Harry would never admit his wife is having affairs on him all the time even if someone directly confronted him. Harry also won’t admit he’s gay. 

More than though we get hints of a personality. Ginny’s a fiery red-head tomboy with a temper. But... Well, it’s only ever hints. She never felt like a real person to me. She has I think one throwaway line about the Chamber of Secrets incident and how it personally affected her. We’re told she’s great at the bat boogey hex so we know she’s a fiery independent woman.

She feels more like a character sheet than an actual person. 

Whenever she’s around I always had this nagging question in my head where I ask why Ginny’s here. She has a lot of potential but nothing’s ever done with her. And when something is, it’s to get her into this bizarre relationship with Harry where he imagines there’s a green rage monster in his chest that loves her skin.

Okay Harry, if you say so. 

Sometimes I read the Percy hate and think 'What if they're right? What if I'm wrong?'

Sometime I let that Percy hate get to me and I overthink eventhough I know he is a fictional character.

Sometimes I wish I loved the popular characters of HP as much as I loved Percy so I could see less hate.

Then, I realized I could split my feelings in two. On one hand, I love Percy Weasley and I know, in my heart, that he is good and he was treated terribly by the characters in the book.

On the other hand, I live in the mainstream world, where I pretend the twins weren’t bullies and Percy just didn’t get on with his family (I don’t pretend he was evil or agree with the Percy haters, but I learned to be indifferent to the hate).

For me this mostly applies to my fav ship: Harmione. Nobody who walks into the fandom without already having a strong opinion will ship Harmione. Because everyone (except for the shippers) hates on it daily and tries to put it down so naturally everyone else will start thinking the same things. It's basic psychology. People want to fit in so they get influenced strongly by the people they want to fit in with. There are also thousands of people who used to ship Harmione but started hated it when they joined the fandom and they called it growth. I honestly can't believe some of us still ship Harmione.

And I come across the same problem in the Harmione fandom. When I'm in the Harmione fandom there's always Ron and Ginny bashing in there. Always. You'll find that one person who hates them to death or that person who hates Romione/Hinny.

Wherever you go there's always an issue. We're never getting over the hate.