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📙Percy Weasley📕

Talk about pompous swots, the studious, rule-following, over-achieving type 👓That’s Percy. He will tell the teacher they forgot to assign homework, he will rat you out if you’re breaking rules and then not regret it, because it was the right thing to do. He will also stand up to a bully, protect a younger student. Maybe because the raucous was distracting him from his reading, but does that really matter? He takes action, but mostly because he finds a reason to care 🧐

I think Percy is a great character, he’s well-written. It’s also realistic that he had trouble with his family, from whom he is so different. Percy is the black sheep of the Weasley family. He was bullied by his brothers. Granted, they never meant to truly harm him, but being on the receiving end of pranks and jokes does tire eventually.

I think Percy is very strong. And I think he had a great character arc :) 🌈

uhh Ginny obviously

"that's such a basic answer!"

Like all the batfam, especially Jason and the batsiblings, like Tim and Damian are always treated with a mixture of protection and respect, but borderline smothering them with safety.

Like if they’re going on a mission with the justice league, the league would take their time to try and talk about the dangers of the mission and how to avoid getting hurt, and in battle the members are always anxiously hovering over them from a distance.

When the OG Titans take Tim for a mission and it goes south there’s atleast two members trying to help him, even if it’s very evident he doesn’t need it, and they’re all trying to keep him safe. Or when Damian was supposed to go on a stakeout with Superman and the guy was fucking sweating.

Jason hears all his siblings complain about this, blaming everyone’s fear of Batman’s wrath if one of his family members got injured and he is so conflicted if he should tell them the truth.

Because the reason is actually Dick.

Since none of the batfam was around during Boy Wonders original days, no one knows how truly unhinged Dick was.

Dick is very protective of family and people he loves. He may be smiling and happy, but the older superheroes know just how much shit he’s blown up. And as the years went by, they know he just got better at getting away with stuff. Hands down he is chaos incarnate, and his anger issues are a thing no one talks about because those who have witnessed it are no longer with us.

He fussed over Ron and tried to guide him throughout his school years and was genuinely worried over Rons adventures with Harry in Ron’s earlier years and this is also applicable to Ginny who Percy fusses over the most.

And honestly as someone who is the eldest sibling it just really shows how much responsibility was pushed onto Percy as a kid, since throughout the series if you ignore Harry making it seem Percy’s evil or bad towards his siblings- Percy fills in the parental role for literally all of his younger siblings. Like especially the twins? Percy and the twins were so close but it’s never even explored in the actual storyline its just acknowledged or hinted at.

Their whole entire relationship is Fred and George trying to get Percy’s attention and approval constantly and Percy leaving his friends behind to give his younger siblings attention. Also Fred and George were literally the first two out of the Weasley family to accept Percy’s apology and give him forgiveness, like Percy didn’t want that but Fred and George gave it to him anyways.

Conclusion: Percy is the older sibling whos had to fill in for his parents and it really shows with the Twins

Ok, but growing up and rereading the books I had always the same question: Where the fuck we actually ''see'' Percy being a bighead, egomaniac, pompous git?

Like seriously most of the times the guy said something and they, just, were agressive to him for no reason. I have some quotes from the books and I'm like, they tried way to hard to convince us that Percy was that bad.

“Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" "Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea." "Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-" "Or twice-" "A minute-" "All summer-" "Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.”

Here we have the twins say that he is showing of and making fun of him for literaly nothing. But lets say he goes five wagons down without explenation, Molly whould be like where the hell is he going, we have to go over there, i want to say bye to all of you, your stuff is here, why didn't you say something before we come all this way with the stuff. Like how is this 'OmG hE Is sUcH a ShOw oF' ???

“How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him. "Why?" said Percy curiously. "It's because of you, Perce," said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-" "-for Humongous Bighead," said Fred.” Everyone except Percy and Mrs Weasley snorted into their pudding.”

Here, he made a valid question, why the fuck the ministry care about Arthur and they are sending cars? But no, lets make fun of Percy,it's okeven dad is laughing look.

“Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.”

“Percy's enjoying work, then? said Harry, sitting down on one of the beds and watching the Chudley Cannons zooming in and out of the posters on the ceiling. 'Enjoying it?' said Ron darkly. 'I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. "According to Mr Crouch" ... "as I was saying to Mr Crouch" ... "Mr Crouch is of the opinion" ... "Mr Crouch was telling" ... They'll announcing their engagement any day now.”

So, he is all the time at work and he is working at home too, but he is talking abut himself and his work to everyone in the house 24/7. Yeah, the numbers are not making sence mister Ronald. This is classic Ron making something bigger than it was, because JKR really wanted us to dislike Percy, because "hE WiLl bEtrAy thEm". Yeah,not that his head of a department dad and the whole ministry, doesn't get that they are throwing a TEEN under the bus and they give him every single task that nobody cares to finish, NOOOO it's because he wants to show how amazing he is.

The only, instancies that HE said he is a prefect was when he wanted to be followed by the first years so he can put them to the dorm. Or when he was on patrol and people were out, when they knew there was a troll/killer snake/dementors/sirial killers. HOW THE FUCK IS THIS SUCH A BIG DEAL?

"BuT, hE sAiD iT HiMsElF, tHat hE is A prat". Yes, because he was a decent guy and he knew that if he or someone else dies in battle, they would go sad and angry. Nobody else had the same ideas though did they? They didn't give two fucks, because they didn't care even before the fight.

"BuT hE wAs tAlKinG LikE THat, To sOuNd InTeLiGeNt". So did Hermione, but you didn't have a problem.

"He LeFt HiS fAmiLy". His family was sure that, he would give the imformation if someone ask, so he solve the problem, if he was not there and didn't know about them, he could not say a thing.

Percy was the only weasley at his school time with a gf, a serious one at that, and he was in love with her and they were having fan together (letters, snogging in classrooms, bets), so i don't think he was that bad.

Percy, cared about his siblings publicly, without being embarassed as the others were.

Percy, had friends that informed when Ron won the chess and he was sitting with them, when they stayed at school for xmas.

Percy fought the DE at the cup and came back with a bloody nose.

Percy, knew about the battle and had a coin, pretty sure he was doing stuff while at the ministry ALONE with DE.

Percy jocked once, but pretty sure he had a scence of humor, but for Fred, Ron and George humor was being an ass more often than not, so to them he was not funny.

His only wrongs were the letter (dick move tbh) and the Molly situation after the fight (even though we dont know what Molly said in the letter or at his house, because knowing Molly, easily, she said come back, dont be a stupid stuborn kid, say sorry and all good).

Soooo,yeah I see a kidult middle child, that followed the rules and was too fair, naive, and a goody two shoes for his own good sometimes, that was proud of what he achieved (like the others didn't parade their pranks and achievments, only percy).

ALSO HE WAS A FUCKING TEEN. YOU WERE NO BETTER AT 15-19 LINDA.

The clock: *strikes midnight*

Me: okie dokie gimme

Netflix, apparently: it's coming Friday