Do you think Percy would ever blow up at the twins or his family for their past treatment of him? If my family treated me the way his treat him, I know Iâd blow up before never speaking to them again
I had to think about this ask for a little while, so thank you for the challenge!Â
While I completely understand what youâre saying (and respect your opinion about how you would react), I think itâs a little more complicated with the twins. Donât get me wrong - they were definitely annoying and teased Percy the most, but they also clearly loved him, and I think even Percy knew that (see the quotes below).
Percy Weasley stuck his head through the door, looking disapproving. He had clearly gotten halfway through unwrapping his presents as he, too, carried a lumpy sweater over his arm, which Fred seized.Â
 âP for prefect! Get it on, Percy, come on, weâre all wearing ours, even Harry got one.âÂ
 âI â donât â want ââ said Percy thickly, as the twins forced the sweater over his head, knocking his glasses askew.
âAnd youâre not sitting with the prefects today, either,â said George. âChristmas is a time for family.âÂ
They frog-marched Percy from the room, his arms pinned to his side by his sweater.
âPercyâs been acting very oddly this summer,â said George, frowning. âAnd he has been sending a lot of letters and spending a load of time shut up in his roomâŠ"
Five minutes later they were marching up the hill, broomsticks over their shoulders. They had asked Percy if he wanted to join them, but he had said he was busy. Harry had only seen Percy at mealtimes so far; he stayed shut in his room the rest of the time.Â
 âWish I knew what he was up to,â said Fred, frowning. âHeâs not himself. His exam results came the day before you did; twelve O.W.L.s and he hardly gloated at all.â
They try to include Percy more than any of his other siblings (on Christmas, for a snowball fight, to play quidditch, etc.), they are really the only ones to notice when something is off with him, and they worry about him. I just donât personally believe that Percy holds as much resentment towards them as many people tend to think.Â
Aside from that, I ultimately think that Percy would blow up at his parents, Bill, and Charlie, but not at the twins, Ron, or Ginny.
Percy takes his responsibility as a big brother very seriously.Â
Even though he got annoyed with the twins a lot, the only time he really went off on them is when they scared Ginny during CoS. Even when they made fun of him, he usually just ignored it:
âThe Ministryâs providing a couple of cars,â said Mr. Weasley.
Everyone looked up at him.
âWhy?â said Percy curiously.
âItâs because of you, Perce,â said George seriously. âAnd thereâll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on themââ
ââ for Humongous Bighead,â said Fred.
Everyone except Percy and Mrs. Weasley snorted into their pudding.
âWhy are the Ministry providing cars, Father?â Percy asked again, in a dignified voice.
He didnât take the bait or get angry at them.Â
Then thereâs quotes like this:
Her Pepperup potion worked instantly, though it left the drinker smoking at the ears for several hours afterward. Ginny Weasley, who had been looking pale, was bullied into taking some by Percy.
Percy was clearly a mother hen who gave his pet rat to Ron, paid careful attention to how Ginny was doing when she started Hogwarts, and let the twins get away with far more teasing than most older brothers would.Â
I think he sees his younger siblings as people that he needs to protect and take of. I just can't picture him blowing up at them for their past treatment of him, mostly because I don't think he blames the younger ones (even the twins).
Now his parents and older siblings? He absolutely blames them and is not afraid to tell them so.Â
I tend to believe that Percy blames his father for the twins' behavior more than he blames the twins, because Arthur was the adult, and he never punished them or discouraged them (in fact, he did the opposite and generally laughed at whatever joke the twins put Percy on the wrong end of; see the quote above about the ministry cars).Â
And heâs not wrong. The twins were kids who naturally started pushing boundaries; itâs a parentâs job to teach them when theyâve crossed a line, and Arthur failed at this time and time again (which Percy was well aware of).Â
Itâs clear that Percy held in a lot of anger at his father, which all came out during âthe argument.â
âDad reckons Fudge only wants Percy in his office because he wants to use him to spy on the family â and Dumbledore.âÂ
Harry let out a low whistle.Â
âBet Percy loved that.âÂ
Ron laughed in a hollow sort of way.Â
âHe went completely berserk. He said â well, he said loads of terrible stuff. He said heâs been having to struggle against Dadâs lousy reputation ever since he joined the Ministry and that Dadâs got no ambition and thatâs why weâve always been â you know â not had a lot of money, I mean ââ
This type of blow up usually doesnât come out of nowhere. Percy probably wouldnât have said so much terrible stuff over this one incident (though Arthur was clearly being insensitive); rather, this was stuff that had been festering just below the surface for a while, and that comment was the last straw before it exploded.Â
Percy wasnât as angry with his mother (because he didnât have as much reason to be), but he was clearly upset that she sided with his father in the disagreement:Â
âMumâs been in a right state,â said Ron.
âYou know â crying and stuff. She came up to London to try and talk to Percy but he slammed the door in her face. I dunno what he does if he meets Dad at work â ignores him, I sâpose.â
Then thereâs Bill. For the most part, Percy and Bill donât have a terrible relationship, but we do see instances like this:
âThat womanâs got it in for the Ministry of Magic!â said Percy furiously. âLast week she was saying weâre wasting our time quibbling about cauldron thickness, when we should be stamping out vampires! As if it wasnât specifically stated in paragraph twelve of the Guidelines for the Treatment of Non-Wizard Part-Humans ââ
âDo us a favor, Perce,â said Bill, yawning, âand shut up.â
And Percy did shut up after that, which I donât see as a positive thing. If one of Percyâs other siblings would have said it, then Percy would have ignored them (in fact, heâs done so several times in the books), but when Bill - his older brother - told him to shut up, Percy didnât feel comfortable enough to argue with him or get defensive, which leads me to believe that he didnât necessarily feel like they were equals (which they should have been at that point, since they were both adults).Â
Iâm also willing to bet that Bill didnât even attempt to talk to Percy or reach out to him after the argument happened, because we literally saw Bill ignore Percy (i.e. not talk to him at all) when he visited during Christmas with the Minister of Magic and when he apologized before the final battle.Â
So Iâm not overly surprised that Percy didnât check on Bill after he was attacked by Fenrir or go to Billâs wedding. Granted, there were a lot of other factors going on at the time as well, but it seems to me like Bill was also pretty high up on Percyâs sh*& list.Â
I personally think that this is because Percy feels more comfortable blaming his older siblings, because he doesnât see them as someone he has to protect. If anything, he sees them as people who should have protected him (i.e. they should have been responsible for him the way he was responsible for his younger siblings), and therefore, they are people who failed him, and thus, deserve his ire.Â
Now, itâs possible (and likely) that Charlie avoided Percyâs wrath because we donât ever see any conflict between them in the text, and for the most part, Charlie just kept to himself, but I definitely think Arthur, Molly, and Bill received the brunt of Percyâs anger, because he saw them as the âadultsâ who let him down or hurt him; he looked up to them, and they disappointed him. In my opinion, it was the disillusionment that was the hardest part for Percy.
This ended up being a much longer rant than I intended, but basically I think Percy would blow up at his parents and older siblings but not his younger siblings.Â