alt_percy | Congratulations to my brother, Bill Weasley

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I just spotted the announcement in the Ministry weekly roundup. Assistant Director of Purity Control! How fine it sounds!

Congratulations, Bill! I'm extremely gratified to see your virtues and merit being rewarded. (Not to mention your devotion to pureblood principles. True blood will out, eh?)

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alt_penelope

Doesn't your father work in Purity Control, too?

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alt_percy

Yes, he does. With Muggleborn Labour Services. (Which is really rather embarrassing; why does he devote his career to working with that ilk?)

I wonder if it will be a problem for Bill. I suppose, technically, he might be Dad's superiour, although I don't know for certain. I'm not entirely clear on the department's structure.

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alt_penelope

Well, Assistant Director certainly indicates seniority. But it's a big department, isn't it. I mean, the way your father talks about the department at supper, it sounds like it's one of the biggest, maybe as big as MLE. So I suppose it depends what Bill's Assistant Director of, and whether Muggleborn Labour reports through him. I think?

Did Mr Malfoy know about it? I mean, has he seen the announcement yet? I wonder if he knew from Mr Rosier and Mr Selwyn before they made the decision.

Oh, don't forget that I'm going to that concert on Sunday? Karo wants to be there at seven so you'll have to apologise to your mum. Okay?

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alt_percy

Yes, true.

Yes, Mr Malfoy knows. He might have learned of it early, he didn't say. He said some exceedingly gracious things about Bill.

What concert? You never said a single word about it.

You're going without me? And on a Sunday night?

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alt_penelope

I most certainly did! I told you about it last week--it's that Pumpkin Juice Jarveys group, and we talked about how you thought they sounded like a pack of screeching baby mandrakes. So I thought you didn't want to go.

I guess I can ask Karo if she and Ptolemy could get another ticket, if you do want to go along. You'd have to tell your mum neither of us will be at supper, though.

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alt_percy

Oh, good grief.

That's--that's not music. Which is probably why I didn't put it together when you mentioned a concert. That's an assault on the eardrums. I can't believe you have the sort of taste that tolerates them.

No, I certainly do NOT want to go. I won't tell Mum that's where you are, don't worry.

I'll be working late tonight. Don't wait up.

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alt_penelope

Well, for Merlin's sake, Percy, were you listening at all that night? It's not that I like it but Karo offered (she's trying to sell them a song) and I think she might be thinking of asking me to be a bridesmaid, so...I'm just going for moral support.

And what are you doing working late on a Friday? I thought--