Someday, I will be mature enough to make chocolate chip cookies without in the process eating enough raw cookie dough to make me sick to my stomach.
Someday, but apparently not this day. Urgh, that was a mistake. A delicious, chocolatey mistake.
I've been reading
Mark Reads Harry Potter for ages (and if you haven't read it GO DO THAT NOW because he is both insightful and funny as fuck and his Twilight reviews are made of snarky win), and all of a sudden it has made me really want to read Harry Potter fic. Particularly Percy/Oliver fic. I guess because the last few chapters he's mentioned a lot how much he hates Percy and...I get that, I do! Percy is an arrogant, short-sighted, stubborn, stick-up-his-arse little git who needed a good dose of sense knocked into him.
Buuuuut at the same time, I've never been quite happy with how the books treated Percy. I don't see what's so bad about having personal and professional ambitions, or in being uncomfortable being poor and having other people perceive you in a certain way, or being quiet and bookish and not inclined to push the rules. That doesn't make him a very exciting person, maybe, but it doesn't make him a bad person either. He made some bad choices, undoubtedly, but I do wonder how the Big Weasley Family Rift would have gone down if the rest of the family didn't denigrate his accomplishments (telling your son with self-value issues that he only got the promotion he's so proud of because his boss wants to use him as a spy and so now he's a traitor? that will end well) and the twins didn't bully him so badly (I love the Weasley twins dearly, but that doesn't change that a lot of their jokes cross the line into mean-spiritedness, especially when Percy is involved). Like I said, it's not like Percy isn't a jerk. But I don't think it's as clear-cut as the books maybe want it to be. And I still love Percy, like, a lot.
Anyway, it really makes me want there to be fic set during the War, in that weird place in-between place where Percy's realized he screwed up but isn't ready to face his family and apologize. So instead he gets drunk and randomly shows up on Oliver's doorstep because he doesn't have anywhere else to go and his boss would curse him as soon as look at him but if he leaves the Death Eaters will definitely kill him and he hasn't talked to his parents in months and no one knows where the twins are and everything is a terrifying mess and he just...can't. And he ends up sleeping on Oliver's couch for, like, weeks at a time. Which Oliver doesn't really mind because Percy's cute and a good cook, but it does involve a lot of hugging him and reassuring him that people will eventually forgive him for being a prat.
...trust me to take a fairly straight-forward pairing and fill it with emotional trauma. I may have to actually sit down and write this one. As soon as I figure out how to reconcile a couple different pieces of canon and head-canon.
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