LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY
blood_percy)
WHO: Percy & Charlie Weasley
WHAT: Well. Percy's reading at the moment, so Charlie interrupts?
WHERE: Their room.
WHEN: Saturday.
RATING: Probably no more than G/PG-ish.
STATUS: Pending.
Real life, Percy decided (for probably the tenth time this week), was just utter nonsense during summer hols. Everyone seemed to think that, because there were no proper assignments given out by professors, no Prefects enforcing rules, and no Professor Snape as a daily presence in their lives, then there was no cause for propriety, or generally behaving like human beings, as opposed to hairless apes. That went without saying that, according to that Charles Darwin Muggle, humans
were hairless apes, but, even though Percy found the man's theories and evidence to be quite compelling, Darwin distinctly forgot to mention magic. Not that he could have, being a Muggle and all, but it rather struck Percy as an important evolution for humankind.
But even Percy could make concessions for things like Saturday. For example, during school, he spent some Saturdays going to the Quidditch matches (but only if Gryffindor was playing and, at that, only because Oliver had made Keeper at the beginning of second year), and, generally, Saturday was the day when he did the least homework. Over holidays, Saturday was the day when Percy either did the least homework, or the day when he didn't try to read incredibly challenging books. This particular Saturday, he was opting to reread
A Midsummer's Night's Dream instead of valiantly slogging through
The Brothers Karamazov as he'd been doing since Mum had gotten rid of his summer cold. Or whatever it had been that had gotten him ill. Really, it was a nice day, and he rather wanted to be outside... but Fred, George, Charlie, Ron, and Bill were all likely to be outside, playing Quidditch and generally being nuisances, and the last thing Percy wanted was to go outside to read and end up being turned into a moving target, which, he gathered from experience, was what Quidditch
meant when he played it.