Ginny Weasley (littleginny) wrote in attheclose, @ 2011-02-02 21:57:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: ginny weasley, character: percy weasley, date: 1995 - 07, etc: backstory, etc: complete, location: other england - other |
Who: Ginny, Percy
What: Percy's leaving, Ginny doesn't understand.
When: Backdated! The night Percy packed his bags and left the Burrow.
Where: The Burrow.
Rating: Low, I'd imagine.
Ginny couldn't wait for school to start up again. She had more than a few reasons for that, but foremost among them for the moment was a desire to just be away from the Burrow. Ginny loved her family, even if her mum sometimes made her insane, and she loved their home, no matter if things were shabby in places, and crowded when everyone was home (which was rare these days anyway). But lately, things were just tense. Her father was more on edge than Ginny ever remembered seeing him, and her mom alternated nagging and crying, just to try to keep a sense of things being normal, or so it seemed to Ginny.
Still though, even with how things had gotten, Ginny had never thought she'd hear the kind of row her father and Percy had just had. Their mum was the yeller, and to hear Arthur that loud and angry had been. . . actually she wasn't sure what it was. But she knew she hated to hear it.
And she didn't get what Percy was doing. She couldn't help but overhear parts of it, and Ginny knew her dad was right. How Percy couldn't get that, she didn't know.
Ginny and Percy had been close, once, when she was younger and Bill and Charlie were so much older, and the twins were raucous and usually up to their own things with Ron their favorite test subject. She'd loved all her brothers, but Percy had been quieter and looked after her, and when Ginny was little, she'd depended on that. As she got older, Ginny had learned to speak up and started to idolize the twins, and the rat of her brothers more. She grew more like them, and was closer to Ron and Fred and George than to Percy. She grew up going the opposite direction as Percy, who became more and more of an alien being, in Ginny's eyes. She didn't have the twins' brilliance for pranks, but Ginny thought more like they did. Even when they were making her nutters, she could usually see where they were coming from.
Percy though, she just didn't get it. It was like he was turning his back on all of them, and shutting his eyes to everything that had happened. Even when happened to Ginny, her first year.
She heard the argument finishing and Percy coming upstairs, and she couldn't resist going to his room, standing in the doorway with her arms crossed over her chest, leaning in the doorway. Ginny wasn't sure what to say, and she was angry with how Percy talked to their father, and with what he was doing, and it showed in her face. Ginny wasn't a creature of subtlety, most of the time. "So you're just going, then?" she demanded. Part of Ginny would really like it if Percy could explain in a way that made her understand him. Percy was Percy, and she rolled her eyes at him as much as her brothers did, but she didn't WANT to have to be brassed off at him. She just didn't see how she was supposed to not be, after this.