random thoughts on Percy Weasley
Apr. 10th, 2005 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfalling"Secrets" is progressing again, and Tom and Ginny have finally quit mucking around with ancient Egyptian legends and let me transition to Christmas. With any luck I can get scene 1 finished tonight, at which point chapter 9 will be... about 1/3 done. Because scene 3 is going to be a doozy.
Dramatic confrontation scenes usually are.
(Yes, that does mean that Ginny finally realizes that Tom is Up To No Good.)
And then, in scene 4, I get to have more fun with Ginny and Percy. :-D One of the things I particularly like about writing "Secrets" is that I get to play around with Weasley family dynamics and show them being a real family with various undercurrents that Harry still isn't noticing back in CoS. Besides, I've always thought that Percy would be a much better-adjusted person if he'd only had the good luck to be born into a different family. His parents really don't understand or deal well with him, the twins' decision of how to treat him automatically hauls Ron and Ginny along with them, and Bill and Charlie are away too often to be supportive older brothers.
This is not to say that Percy doesn't cause a lot of his own problems.
But his family certainly doesn't help him deal with them.
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Today I was scheduled to teach Sunday school, which starts at 10:45am (15 minutes after the church service, since the kids are with the adults at the beginning).
I forgot to turn on my alarm. I woke up at 10:20.
Astonishingly, I was only 5 minutes late, though I was eating breakfast as I ran down the hill to church.
That'll teach me to pre-set my alarm clock in the afternoon instead of waiting until I go to sleep!
Dramatic confrontation scenes usually are.
(Yes, that does mean that Ginny finally realizes that Tom is Up To No Good.)
And then, in scene 4, I get to have more fun with Ginny and Percy. :-D One of the things I particularly like about writing "Secrets" is that I get to play around with Weasley family dynamics and show them being a real family with various undercurrents that Harry still isn't noticing back in CoS. Besides, I've always thought that Percy would be a much better-adjusted person if he'd only had the good luck to be born into a different family. His parents really don't understand or deal well with him, the twins' decision of how to treat him automatically hauls Ron and Ginny along with them, and Bill and Charlie are away too often to be supportive older brothers.
This is not to say that Percy doesn't cause a lot of his own problems.
But his family certainly doesn't help him deal with them.
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Today I was scheduled to teach Sunday school, which starts at 10:45am (15 minutes after the church service, since the kids are with the adults at the beginning).
I forgot to turn on my alarm. I woke up at 10:20.
Astonishingly, I was only 5 minutes late, though I was eating breakfast as I ran down the hill to church.
That'll teach me to pre-set my alarm clock in the afternoon instead of waiting until I go to sleep!
