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  1. marieldraconis Sun 05 Jan 2025 01:58PM UTC

    An important point of understanding Percy from canon shows up in this work: "nineteen years of Molly Weasley’s lessons in manners". Percy's still a teenager in GoF. He's trying to run a very important department, on his own, as a teenager, and no one notices. Someone should have fired half that department for not stepping up to help him or for not notifying someone higher-up that 'hey, our boss hasn't been in for months, and his teenage assistant has had to take over everything.'

    I like seeing a Percy who lets his Slytherin side out, especially in support of his Gryffindor side. Passing along information could go along with reinforcing his cover story - 'accidentally' running into Arthur in the hallway and being stiff and cold while secretly slipping a note in Arthur's pocket. Or a bigger packet of news when he 'returns' his Christmas sweater. Tension in book 6 might be seeing the writing on the wall - the Ministry is going to fall soon but Percy is insisting on staying and doing what he can. [That is, this could be mostly canon.]

    But I'm a bit worried about the title. I love the play Macbeth, but the fate of the characters who say and hear that line... nope. No Percy deserves that.

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