"It helps that I have a general preference for staid and respectable, otherwise my family would suspect I were under Imperius."
He wrinkled his nose at the mention of interbreeding. Many a pureblood family tree was positively incestuous and he was quite thankful that was an aspect of being a pureblood that his family had not abided. "You're incorrigible," he replied with a huffed laugh.
Percy tilted his head, his eyes slightly widened at both pieces of news. "Congratulations on the former. It is a great honour and one I trust you'll conduct with aplomb and fairness. And if I should ever find myself before the wizengamot yet again, at least I will know a friendly face there." He had spent far too much time before them for his own liking, first after the death of Mr. Crouch and then after the war when he'd been a primary and secondary witness in several trials for Death Eaters who had worked inside the Ministry. To this day, his heart raced in anxiety simply passing by those rooms, but he had thankfully not had reason to do so in a long time.
"As for the latter, how did it go? Reconnecting with estranged siblings is something I have a bit of experience with. Please tell me you did not come out of it with mashed parsnips on your face," he joked.