____________________________________________________ Welcome to my office. I'm Percy Weasley and am working at the Ministry of Magic as the right hand of the current Minister, Kingsley Shacklebolt. I've two beautiful daughters named Molly (6) and Lucy (4) who visit me every now and then when they're not with their mother. I generally answer questions about the ministry and the minister, but you can ask me about most things. Since I'm a busy man I may not be here every day but I'll do my best to keep you informed about what's happening on the ministry! (: ~Percy Weasley 11/2011 The sign was hexed by Fred back in 1994, I wasn't able to un-hex it back then and now I can't bring myself to. It's a good reminder to myself not to become like that again.
if you follow the paintbrush with your eyes while not moving your head, it forces you to use emdr which is a therapeutic technique to calm anxiety/panic. watching fish swim causes the same effect.
Hello, Percy! I was just wondering. How did you and Audrey meet? It must be a lovely story. :)
Good day! I am sorry I could not answer this in a separate owl but things have been busy. Also I cannot owl someone who is anonymous!
About how we met; Actually, it’s not very heartwarming at all!
I met Audrey through her sister Jennifer, who was a good friend to a colleague (who I sadly no longer have contact with). This girl thought that I and Jennifer would go great together, and thus made sure we met each other. (This was in 1996 and I would do pretty much anything to get my mind off things.)Thing was first time I met Jennifer she had brought her younger sister along.
Jennifer is a wonderful girl, but she is rather shy, and also of what one would consider a more traditional upper class girl. Intelligent and well mannered but rather quiet and overly polite, along with a (let’s be honest) rather stuck up attitude. Audrey however has a high temper and a sharp tongue and we connected rather quickly as we came into a debate about recent news.
We quickly became quite angry with each other, but as we had a daily contact (turned out she worked in the Ministry cafeteria and you can’t really just ignore someone when you need to buy your boss' coffee from them each day) we established a friendship. As time went we grew closer and closer until people actually assumed we were more or less engaged, something that was certainly not true at the time. But that was also something that changed while we barely registered it did.
Audrey and I are in basic principles rather different, but she was also one of few people to ever pull me out of my comfort zone. We never got married and as time went we concluded we are not cut out to live together, but I am very happy to have spent the time I spent with her, if for no other reasons because of Molly and Lucy.
Ok well I'm not going to draw out on this but I'm terribly sorry I haven't done ANYTHING lately. I DO have a ask and a thing or two planned but due to some personal problems I've had little to no energy to do anything lately.
Just realized I don't even notice any more when people assume me and Oliver are together. Maybe it's time for the lazy bastard to move out, but on the other hand he's a great babysitter so I don't know.
So this was something that happened today and I thought it could be of interest to you!
To understand I might have to say this first: most wizards and witches are what you would by muggle standards call rather liberal. Not necessarily in what you consider politics (healthcare, taxes etc.) as the ministry is not ruled by what the people want but what is best for the wizarding world. As we know there are not much that cannot be done with magic and as we know it is a gift and not a natural ability we aren't usually very hard on people who muggles would consider "unnatural".
We may give a witch who dedicate her life to learn a gang of swamp frogs to sing Bohemian Rhapsody a few laughs. We may find a man whose passion in life is to learn trolls dance the swan lake a bit strange. But we are all aware of the fact that we already are outcasts. Thus we are usually very accepting of strange whereabouts, fascinations or preferences. Charlie would eat salmon with gingerbread cookies and coleslaw and no one would look twice.
Either way, one of my colleagues has a daughter. She was home schooled as her father found that Hogwarts had gone way too liberal and didn't want his daughter to study outside the British isles. I know this girl a bit as she (especially when she was younger) follows her mother to work quite a lot. I can't say I like her mother but she is a very polite woman and easy to chitchat with, we have lunch together now and then.
So today this girl is at the ministry, waiting for her mother so they can have lunch. She is around fifteen, sixteen. And when I decide to go for my lunch her mother ask me if I can bring her daughter along as she won't be able to leave very soon. As I know the girl a bit since earlier I say of course, and bring her along. What is interesting is what happened when we had gotten our food and she starts to talk to me.
At first she ask me the rather casual questions, about family and such. And when I say I'm currently sharing my flat with an old friend she goes quiet, looking at me for a few seconds before she realises something.
"You're Oliver Woods Boyfriend?" is what she asks. I'm not surprised as the Gossip Magazines love to write about "Handsome Wood and his secret lover" and similar. But it's the way she asks. I explain the situation to her, and she goes from looking slightly enthusiastic, maybe hopeful even to absolutely destroyed. "Oh. So he isn't gay."
She looks nothing like one of Oliver's ordinary fangirls, so I tell her no, but he is Bi, and ask her if something's wrong. We talk for a while and apparently this girl is a Lesbian herself. She has known for quite some time but haven't ever told anyone, as her parents can't even walk by someone with pink robes without calling them freak. This makes me feel mainly two things. Honoured that I was important enough to know something she has kept secret, and very, very sad that I'm not her mother. I'm not the one who should be the first to know. And if a child rather talks to someone they barely know instead of their own mother, as a father I can say it would make me heartbroken if any of my daughters ever felt like that for me.
This has been a very long post, mostly a collection of thoughts really. Hope it wasn't too long. Have a good week if I forget to sign in again!
//Percy
P.S. Oliver tried to make me watch this eurovision... Humperdinck sounded like something my grandmother would call good music! But I liked Spain, France and Italy. Sweden was also really good. Lucy wanted to vote for the boat-song, it was kind of hard to explain to her that we doesn't have a phone and that you can't vote with owls. I think I fell asleep somewhere there.
But to be honest, I have no idea! I'm pretty sure he is, well, undercover on it. Seeing as he has had trouble in the past with a few crazed teenage witches (and a wizard or two...?) he likes to keep it anonymous. But if there's something you want to say to him I suppose you could go through this blog. Unless you want to send a real life Owl, that is!
I'm really the worst blogger, not really my thing to be honest...!
We visited the memorial site today, it was impressive how many of you showed up. I think I may have repressed how many actually was affected by the war. For those of you who couldn't be there, it was very beautiful. The cherry trees planted a few years ago are finally blooming with all their might. Beautiful to see that even the forest wanted to honour those who fought.
Next year it has been fifteen years. It's crazy, really. I didn't realize how much we've all grown. Just look at Teddy, he doesn't have many years left in school and I still can't get over that I've left it myself. But he's starting to grow up and despite not being very close to him I'm rather fond of the boy. He has managed to stay curious and I love that. He have of course herd about his parents, however I don't think he has ever really understood what it meant until now.
I don't really know what to say, we were many who lost a loved one but I feel that how cheesy it may sound the wounds will still heal with time. We'll see when I'll log on again but until then...!
Voldemort rose to power in 1997. He destroyed all records of muggle borns. Therefore, all muggle borns that would have been younger than 11 at the time of his takeover would never have gotten their letters because he's an evil wizard and destroyed our records. The Ministry is still in the process of finding all muggle borns.
A run through of what have been happening this last week.
So a lot of things happened and to be honest I forgot you guys...!
So here is what happened:
During the February full moon a girl aged 17 is bitten by a werewolf, she gets a bit of trauma but she and her family just tell themselves it was a very big dog. The ministry never gets to know about the incident and we still don't know who the original werewolf was.
A month later (8/3) she therefore turns into a werewolf. She attacks her family, the first victim is her sister who dies on the spot. The second victim was the mother who got wounded badly and later dies from bursting internal organs. Since werewolf teeth and claws are not very like actual wolf teeth and claws the girl is accused of murder. She admits to have done it but due to lack of evidence and the courts belief that she is mentally ill she doesn't go to prison. From there on the ministry takes the case.
We've been giving her a "mental illness", as well as informed her about what happened. She have been asking for attendance, something we will give her, as well as more knowledge on the subject. It is a tragedy indeed and to the muggles we can't give them anything else but the story about a mentally ill girl who under the influence of alcohol killed her mum and sister. I don't know what will be happening now but I really hope she will get better. She's currently at St. Mungo's.
And that is about it, I've been ridiculously busy thanks to this so I haven't really had a private life until yesterday. Sigh. Oh well, good night, and remember that if there's anything you want just send an owl!
#wait this one’s not a redhead, this one’s not mine, why is this kid putting jam on our toast
#I feel like arthur lost track somewhere around maybe percy #and then the twins happened and he stopped trying #jesus fucking christ molly #Twins? #TWINS? #I can hardly tell one buttock from the other #let alone two identical children. #blimey #just fuck it #damn it all #i’ll start referring to them as you boy and that one there
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