Heavily Charmed Response
The roses tumbled to the desk as Penny leaned forward to unravel the parchment from the owls leg. She wasn't sure who it was from, and for a brief moment she wondered if it could be from...
No. As she spotted the writing, she recognised Percys handwriting and mentally steeled herself for what was in it. It took her by surprise and she sat composing the return owl for nearly an hour ; discarded versions littered around her.
Percy,
Oh Percy. You have to understand how it felt - and still feels for me - to know that you're in that place. I'm worried about you, and about yes, part of me is petrified that hanging around those people will influence your way of thinking.
You know what I am and who my parents are ; you've sat round tables and eaten dinner with them when I brought you home to meet them. Try and understand how hard this is for me to understand, that the boy I loved and wanted parental approval on is now on a commitee that think my mother is a thief and my father is no more than a toy to be tortured and killed.
I will never be ashamed of where I come from, and I wonder as you sit around that desk, what would your parents think? Do you know what happens to those who are accused of stealing magic ?
I don't want you to quit you made your choice of the Ministry a loing time ago but part of me has to know if you're doing this through choice to further your own career or if - even in one tiny iota - its possible that you're doing this to help others. Others not involved in the ministry.
We'll always have our friendship Percy, and our shared history but - if you start to think like them, to agree with their views - please tell me now so that its a clean break. This inch by inch heartache is killing me .