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alt_percyAnd I thought last week's embarrassment was bad enough, when Mr Malfoy informed me (in total disgust) of Fred and George's application to Magical Commerce to start their ridiculous joke shop. Luring his goddaughter into this foolishness, no less! As I informed Fred and George that night, he was extremely sharp with me because I had failed to give him any kind of warning before the meeting.
But oh, no, because I was called to the carpet again today to be confronted by another ugly surprise: this time Mr Malfoy ordered me to explain how my own mother managed to get herself wrapped up in this idiotic scheme!
Honestly, Mum, have you gone completely mental? If I understand Mr Malfoy correctly, you are not only purchasing the entire building, you're planning to turn it into, what, some sort of--of way station for wastrels and layabouts?! Do you intend to let the very dregs of society batten upon you?
And for what? So that you can call yourself a shopkeeper?
But oh, no, because I was called to the carpet again today to be confronted by another ugly surprise: this time Mr Malfoy ordered me to explain how my own mother managed to get herself wrapped up in this idiotic scheme!
Honestly, Mum, have you gone completely mental? If I understand Mr Malfoy correctly, you are not only purchasing the entire building, you're planning to turn it into, what, some sort of--of way station for wastrels and layabouts?! Do you intend to let the very dregs of society batten upon you?
And for what? So that you can call yourself a shopkeeper?
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Date: 2013-09-24 11:28 pm (UTC)And more to the point, how is it his business what I do with my money?
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Date: 2013-09-24 11:47 pm (UTC)And is it indeed your intention to do the same bloody thing for any sort of riff-raff with whatever crackpot scheme they can float, as long as they call it 'starting a business'?
You're absolutely delusional if you think you could possibly manage something like this. It will never work in a million years!
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Date: 2013-09-24 11:51 pm (UTC)People in the Protectorate are struggling, Percy. Sometimes they simply need a hand up, or a mentor, just to give them a start, and then they can amaze you with what they can do.
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Date: 2013-09-24 11:54 pm (UTC)And what's more, you'll turn our entire family into a laughingstock.
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Date: 2013-09-25 12:11 am (UTC)But no, my children gathered around me, and they put their arms around me, and they told me that I could go on. That I hadn't lost everything, that I would always have a home, that I would always have them.
Except for you, Percy. Bill moved out of his flat and turned it over to you so that he could move home and share his income to help support me. The twins are starting a business to try to help support me, too. And you? You have me a galleon here and a galleon there--and suggested that I use them to buy clothes, apparently so that I wouldn't embarrass you so much! As if it made a bloody bit of difference if I fed the chickens or milked the goats dressed like Narcissa Malfoy! Even Dominic Selwyn the traitor gave me more help than that!
Is that your problem Percy? Do I embarrass you?
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Date: 2013-09-25 12:16 am (UTC)Why are you siding with Lucius Sodding Malfoy against your own family?
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Date: 2013-09-25 12:19 am (UTC)He's just not worth it.
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Date: 2013-09-24 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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