Well, my goodness
Jul. 25th, 2012 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_mollyPercy announced at dinner that he's moving out of the Burrow. He's found a flat in New London. With a roommate. He's really quite excited about it, says the flat is quite lovely.
Well. I must admit, I didn't expect--well.
Children must grow up, after all. They must, or Arthur and I aren't doing our job properly. Still, I must admit this particular announcement caught me quite by surprise.
I--I suppose I'll have to see if I can round up some extra sauce pans and linens to help stock his new home.
Well. I must admit, I didn't expect--well.
Children must grow up, after all. They must, or Arthur and I aren't doing our job properly. Still, I must admit this particular announcement caught me quite by surprise.
I--I suppose I'll have to see if I can round up some extra sauce pans and linens to help stock his new home.
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:30 am (UTC)At least he's sensible enough to go in with a flatmate to save his Galleons.
And aren't you and Arthur always saying how much you worry about him seeing something that could land you in a hot cauldron?
This way you can have him over for Sunday suppers and continue to gently counteract whatever nonsense Malfoy's shovelling into him.
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:35 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2012-07-26 12:37 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2012-07-26 12:38 am (UTC)I suspect that Mum's problem is partly his flat-mate.
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:40 am (UTC)Not that Baddock or any of the other Death Eaters' sons?
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:42 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2012-07-26 12:44 am (UTC)The young lady.
Mum, I thought you liked Penny.
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:46 am (UTC)But, oh, I admit I don't quite like it. It just seems to me that they're doing things in the wrong order.
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:50 am (UTC)But I will admit that while they seem content together for now, I almost wish that Percy might choose someone differently if he's thinking of settling down permanently.
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:51 am (UTC)Re: Order Only: Private Message to Bill
Date: 2012-07-26 12:53 am (UTC)(Not that it's impossible. Just...unlikely?)
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:55 am (UTC)Somehow, I think they manage to bring out in each other some of their worst personal tendencies.
Well, no. To be fair, I really can't say that for sure about Penny; I don't know her as well, of course. But Percy, now: I overheard a snatch of something he was saying to her once about 'when they get their own mudblood.'
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:57 am (UTC)Re: Order Only: Private Message to Bill
Date: 2012-07-26 12:58 am (UTC)That leaves Mum free to imagine that I'm chaste as a monk, I suppose. (As a matter of fact, I am as chaste as a monk, annoyingly. But I have more than a hunch that Percy isn't.)
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:58 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2012-07-26 12:59 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2012-07-26 01:01 am (UTC)But Percy's an adult now, and if he's intentionally choosing to use it, that means it's more of a risk for your Mum and I if we make it clear we're challenging that point of view.
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Date: 2012-07-26 01:03 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2012-07-26 01:05 am (UTC)Re: Order Only: Private Message to Bill
Date: 2012-07-26 01:06 am (UTC)Though I was, as it happened, absolutely and depressingly unattached all through school. And much more chaste than either of my parents assumed, at that - right up until the summer after I moved out on my own. Not the education I'd recommend for a young man, but in those days it was the fashion to, er, indulge in all sorts of amusements in Muggle London.
But I can understand that it's awkward, even in a normal family like yours, when the kids are old enough to be starting their own households.
I suppose it just never occurred to me that anyone his age, with a steady girlfriend for that long, wouldn't have taken advantage of the opportunity.
And let's face it: Your mum's not a prude, exactly. Nor is she an idiot.
But I'll give you that she can be willingly blind, if she wants to be.
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Date: 2012-07-26 01:07 am (UTC)But the wretched man has done everything he can to coax them to the surface.
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Date: 2012-07-26 01:08 am (UTC)Can't guarantee you'll meet anyone interesting but at least you shan't be lonely, either.
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Date: 2012-07-26 01:08 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2012-07-26 01:10 am (UTC)Which is in itself blood-curdling, and that's the grim truth, to coin the phrase.
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Date: 2012-07-26 01:15 am (UTC)But we'll all be able to see the teethmarks.
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Date: 2012-07-26 01:15 am (UTC)