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Name: Percy Ignatius Weasley
Nominal Significance: Percy comes from “Percival,” which comes from French, meaning, “to pierce the valley.” In Arthurian legend, Percival was a knight pure and chivalrous enough to be given a glimpse of the Holy Grail. Ignatius comes from a distant uncle on Molly’s side, as well as the Latin word ignis, meaning “fire”; the name also belonged to several saints, including Ignatius of Antioch, who was martyred by the Roman emperor Trajan, and Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. And Weasley is his family name, derived from the weasel, members of the family Mustelidae.
Nicknames: Perce from certain people with whom he no longer speaks on any regular basis, and Weasley around the office. Other lovely monikers include: Bighead Boy, Weatherby, and likely more that Percy just doesn’t acknowledge. The first was from Fred and George, ergo is worthy of being ignored; the second was from a misnomer by Barty Crouch, Sr., and the other ones may as well not exist in Percy’s mind. An exception to this is that, in his occasional flights of fancy, he goes by the name, “Minister Weasley,” which he one day hopes to answer to in real life.

Birthday: August 22nd, 1976
Age: 23, though you’ll never see him act like it.
Sign: Leo/Virgo cusp, but far more Virgo than Leo: This is not a natural sign for Gryffindor, but some Gryffindors do end up born under the influence of Virgo. They are hard workers and usually very bright; they tend to be more ethically obsessed than most. Some Virgo wizards are also sorted into House Gryffindor because of their amazing imaginations; on the surface they may appear straight-laced and almost nervous, but inside is a wealth of romantic yearning and fantastic excitement. They quietly build dream castles in their minds; and the practical influence of the Earth element means that they, unlike more flighty signs, may have some chance of building those dream castles on solid foundations.
Former House: Gryffindor, though Slytherin was too close a second for comfort.
Wand: Twelve and a half inches of elm, cored with a phoenix tail feather; equally proficient all around, save a special talent for transfiguration.
Bloodline: Pure, albeit not as Pure as others. Take, for instance, a Muggle cousin of Percy’s mum, Molly, who exists, even though he isn’t spoken of. Additionally, despite purity extending far enough to have ties to the Black family (from Molly and Arthur), the family is incredibly accepting of non-Purebloods and Muggles, doesn’t encourage the traditional Pureblood mindset at all, and is generally regarded as a rag-tag group of blood traitors. Percy doesn’t so much mind the blood traitor bit, as he thinks the whole concept of blood purity is rubbish, but he does mind being lumped together into a group with his family.

Patronus: After much struggling, which didn’t sit well with him at all, Percy managed to conjure a corporeal Patronus just a year and a half ago, and it happens to take the form of a large turtle. He was rather put off by this, having expected to get a more impressive Patronus after trying to hard to conjure one, but the turtle really fits him best of any animal. First, the turtle is a symbol of self-containment, relating to Percy’s desire to be the one protecting himself. The turtle is also related to maternal symbolism through a relation to Mother Earth – in some cultures, the Earth is said to be supported on the back of a turtle, or the turtle is said to have given the Creator the mud to make the Earth. This is apparently counterintuitive, given Percy’s now five-year estrangement from his family, but, deep down, Percy still wants to be protected by the infamous Weasley family unity, and he’s definitely a mum’s boy. Perhaps not in terms of politics, but in terms of most other things; a constant thought in the back of his mind is, “What would mum think?” Finally, the turtle’s shell is a symbol of heaven, which relates to Percy’s desire to be protected by striving for and achieving higher, better things.

Boggart: Percy’s biggest fear of all is failure, and for the longest time, his Boggart took the shape of his father shouting at him about bad grades and behavior. Then it was McGonagall basically doing the same thing. Recently, though, as he’s discovered against his will, his Boggart has taken the shape of his mother, screaming at him about everything from a late report to leaving his family. Encompassed in his mother’s presence are both his fear of failure and his fear of confronting his family – especially his mother. After all, she was always the one who doted on him for his top marks, Prefect’s badge, Head Boy’s badge, and Ministry ambitions (and loved the sound of the name, “Minister Weasley”), and (he hopes) took his leaving the worst.

Mirror of Erised: Looking into the Mirror, Percy would see himself as Minister, with his family, Penny, and Mister Crouch applauding him.

OWLs: Astronomy: O
Charms: O
Herbology: E
History of Magic: O
Potions: O
Transfiguration: O
Defense Against the Dark Arts: O
Muggle Studies: E
Arithmancy: O
Ancient Runes: O
Divination: A
Care of Magical Creatures: E

NEWTs: Astronomy: O
Charms: O
Herbology: E
History of Magic: O
Potions: O
Transfiguration: O
Defense Against the Dark Arts: O
Muggle Studies: E
Arithmancy: O
Ancient Runes: O

Political View: As a firm believer in Rules, Protocol, and the Established Order, Percy stands staunchly behind the Ministry of Magic on absolutely everything. He isn’t above questioning authority, contrary to popular belief, but it takes quite a lot to make him do so. And, at present, he’s quite of the opinion that the Ministry is ALWAYS Right, the Ministry Can Do No Wrong, the Potter and Voldemort Camps Are Both Wrong (and extremes to be avoided, at that), and the Ministry is ALWAYS Right. …Yes, he really needed to say so twice.

And now he's working with the Order of the Phoenix. Watching Antonin Dolohov kill your father will do that to a bloke.
Sexuality: If you must know, Percy is of the heterosexual persuasion, thank you very much. Now mind your own business, please. He did have a passing fancy for Oliver Wood when they were in school together, but considers it to be a fluke and utterly over with. It should be noted that he hasn’t had a serious girlfriend since he and Penelope Clearwater broke up in 1995, but he also claims to be not actively looking at the moment. After all, work is more important than getting married and settling down. It should also be noted that he mostly says this to cover up how no one, to his knowledge, is interested in him, but mention that to him and you die. In an entirely metaphorical sense.

Appearance: As much as he doesn’t like it, Percy has all the very distinct marks that label him as One Of Those Weasleys. For one thing, there’s his bright, vibrant red hair, which just screams Weasley; his particular brand is more his mum’s shade, meaning fiery, but with very distinct tones of russet and orange. Although Percy tries to stay clean-cut and manages to shave every day, he doesn’t get his hair cut nearly as often as he’d like and, thus, has to live with what Molly called his “mop-top” in his youth. His eyes are dark brown and normally rather squinted; he wears horn-rimmed glasses that don’t particularly help with this. In terms of build, Percy is one of the tall, thin Weasleys, like Bill, Ron, and Arthur; he stands at a full 6’3” and has a build that, were he to encounter his mother anywhere, would most certainly result in a shriek of, “Percy Ignatius Weasley!” and a forced escorting to the nearest food. Similarly, his face is long and pointy, his skin pale and freckled, and his style businesslike and efficient. Long story short, he really doesn’t look like someone you’d have a lot of fun with, unless your definition of fun includes paperwork and intellectual conversation.
PB: Erlend Oye
Photos: one, two, three, four, and five.

Personality: Were Percy Weasley to describe himself in one word, it would be “efficient,” and he’s not entirely far off. He’s neglecting several other things about his personality, but he’s still not entirely wrong. Percy loves efficiency and being efficient: he always gets things done on time (or early), he always does his job thoroughly, he multitasks but doesn’t often suffer for it, and he expects the same thing from everyone else. This expectation usually leads to disappointment for him, though, since there are very few people who are as efficiently efficient as Percy. And, unfortunately for him, people have just come to expect this sort of efficiency from him. Of course, he claims to not mind the lack of recognition he gets without his mum patting his back and teachers commending him for everything, but if there’s anything Percy wants more than anything else, it’s attention for doing a good job. He’d rather kill himself trying to go past his limits for that commendation than just do something to the set standards.

One of the first things people tend to notice about Percy is that he is a complete and utter snob. Going against everything that everyone else in his family stands for, Percy is of the opinion that just because he’s a Weasley doesn’t mean he has to run around with trash like Harry Potter and tolerate being kept down, as Cornelius Fudge had them. He yearns for and thrives on advancement because, as far as he’s concerned, he’s damn well entitled to it. He works damn hard, thank you very much, and he spent his early life suffering the foolish antics of his father and the twins, and his entire family is known because Fred and George have their stupid joke shop, Ron runs around with Harry Potter, and Arthur is a Muggle-loving fool. Hardly a Pureblood supremacist, Percy is still incredibly judgmental of the people he deals with and has a tendency to, for better or for worse, judge someone by his or her family, if he knows anyone in the family. For example, the Malfoys are all Dark-supporting scum (even if he’s sympathetic to Draco’s public attempt to get away from the social stigma, and even though he has no actual quarrel with Narcissa), the Blacks are either nutters like Bellatrix or nutters like Sirius (despite the fact that Sirius was cleared postmortem), and hopefully the Tonkses aren’t all as mad as Nymphadora. Whom he will not condescend to just call, “Tonks.” Yes, he knows, somewhere, that this is rather immature of him, but he Does Not Care.

It should be noted, for fairness, that a lot of Percy’s haughtiness and snobbery is derived from other, longer-standing neuroses. At the heart of it all, Percy really just wants to be acknowledged as Special and Important, which he thinks he can hardly be blamed for. After all, Charlie and Bill were directly ahead of him, with the former being a star Quidditch player and the latter being a top-notch student, Prefect, Head Boy, and popular to boot, and The Twins were directly after him – and they needed extra attention, being younger, and got themselves into all kinds of trouble. Between the four others, then the additions of Ron and Ginny, Percy considers that he kind of got lost in the crowd as, “Just another one of those Weasleys.” As such, he’s rather come to resent his family name, but more on that later. From the desire to be Special comes Percy’s desire to be Perfect, since if anything is Special, it’s being Perfect in a sprawling mess of flawed humanity; from that comes his fear of failure. If he fails, he not only isn’t perfect, but his entire show of pompousness and authority is threatened and impugned – pretty much like it always was with the twins.

He will never, ever admit it (unless he really trusts someone, meaning that they have to be his mum, Penelope, or someone similar), but Percy is unbelievably insecure; his entire concept of himself is based on what other people think and, if he isn’t privy to what people think, he bases his concept of himself on his position and how well he does his work. Left alone, he frequently wonders if he’s making the right choices and what’s going to happen to him because of where he’s cast his lots. Instead of actually dealing with these feelings, he just falls back on his old friends, Denial and Acting Like A Total Prat. As far as he’s concerned, they haven’t steered him too wrong just yet. And, yes, he lost his family over the latter friend, but he can just ignore their existence, which he will try to do whenever confronted with them. His usual method of denial is to fall into his pattern of his efficiency and lose sight of things like personal maintenance, interpersonal relationships, and The Big Picture. And, in all fairness, it would be hard for him to pick between advancement at work and letting his personal life collapse, but he would probably pick the promotion.

He’s not all bad, though… entirely. He lacks interpersonal relationship skills, he lacks sight of the truly important things, and he has ambition that really would’ve done well in Slytherin, but he’s not completely horrible. He’s loyal, for one thing, just ask his bullheaded alliance with the Ministry. It does take a lot for him to break off relationships, and, if you ask him, the two biggest break-ups of his recent years (between him and Penelope, and between him and his family) were initiated by the other parties involved. He’s organized and good at managing things. He has a natural enthusiasm for things, even though he gets carried away with it far too often. He’s highly intelligent, even though he won’t sodding shut up about it. And… really, he’s not all bad. He’s just a pompous, self-righteous prat who won’t listen to reason when it directly contradicts what he wants to believe.

Likes: Order, cleanliness, tidiness, numbers, things that make sense, the Ministry, Minister Scrimgeour, the Wizengamot, laws, rules, hierarchy, logic, math, power, mum’s sweaters (it absolutely killed him to send his back at Christmas ’95), books, well-kept records, details, Mister Crouch (yes, even after everything that happened, he still loves his first boss), mum’s Shepherd’s Pie, a good historical novel
Dislikes: Fred and George, chaos, panic, disorder, being ignored, loud noises, watching anyone else succeed, rock music, the row with his family, being picked on for being himself when everyone else gets to be him- or herself, bad grammar, spelling errors, punctuation errors, cute things (especially kittens), stupid people, when people make up words, rule-breakers, troublemakers, Dementors, how he very well could have flourished in Slytherin, conflicts that can’t be made into black and white divisions, having to see someone else’s point of view when he doesn’t agree with it, failure
Hobbies: …Not a lot, really. Writing reports, working, tidying his office or apartment, working, taking notes, trying to get a promotion, working… that’s about it, really. He doesn’t get out much, ever.
Random Facts: Percy never slept with a blanket as a child; he slept with a stuffed lion he called Mister Kitty. Molly made it for him and, even after he started working, Mister Kitty remained his companion, confidante, and bed-buddy. He even took Mister Kitty with him when he moved out of The Burrow, and still turns to the aged, faded, several-times-repaired, and very nearly hugged to death animal. Oh, and, contrary to what he assumes is popular belief, Percy isn’t a virgin, thank you very much. Just ask Penny.

Parents: Molly and Arthur Weasley, both former Gryffindors.
Siblings: Bill Weasley (29, former Gryffindor), Charlie Weasley (27, former Gryffindor), Fred & George Weasley (twins, 22, former Gryffindors; Fred is deceased), Ron Weasley (20, former Gryffindor), Ginny Weasley (18, former Gryffindor)
Pets: An owl, Hermes.
Relationship with Parents: It’s complicated. Percy’s always been a Mum’s boy when it comes to Molly and he always wanted Dad’s approval. He never got that approval often enough for his liking and, when Arthur tried to tell him that he was only getting promoted so the Ministry could spy on his parents, Percy didn’t take well to it at all. He started a fight and then left home, and then didn’t talk to anyone for a long while. These days, he wants to make up for that to Molly as much as possible. …And he’s still a mum’s boy.
Relationship with Siblings: In Percy’s mind, the Weasley siblings were, for a while, split in two factions: himself, and everyone else. While he won’t accept all the blame for this, he’s come to accept that it was, partly, his fault, and he wants to make up as much as he can to his family. Whether or not they necessarily take this well remains to be seen.
Relationship with Pets: Hermes understands him, despite being only an owl. Additionally, Hermes seems to understand when Percy needs to have some sense knocked into him.

History: These days, Percy firmly holds that his life was utterly uninteresting until he started working and, to some extent, that’s true. He was the third son of Molly and Arthur Weasley, born on a rainy, muggy day in late August, and, by the age of two, was trapped between the expectations set by Charlie and Bill and the trouble caused by the Twins. The end result of this was envy. Complete, unadulterated envy. Everything Percy wanted to do, Bill and Charlie had already done first, and the Twins got more attention for their antics than Percy did for everything he did right. Without meaning to, Percy became the son that Molly and Arthur could rely on most: whatever happened he was always there, doing exactly what needed to be done, and making life easier by doing so.

There was another side to everything, though. Even though Percy didn’t require much attention, he managed to get it from his mum, Molly, and, as such, grew closer to her than anyone else in their incredibly large family. After all, Bill and Charlie were at school before Percy was, and so had circles of friends that he didn’t quite fit into when he showed up, the Twins were not people Percy enjoyed spending time with, Arthur was at work or tinkering with Muggle gadgets too frequently for Percy’s liking, and Ron and Ginny were too young to really get to know. Molly, on the other hand, appreciated that Percy was the sane, reliable one in the family, and Percy appreciated her appreciation; without really intending to, he got to be quite a mum’s boy and, for several years, only concerned himself with making Molly happy, in the forms of getting very good marks, taking all twelve OWL-level classes, helping out around the house, making Prefect and Head Boy, and attempting to police the Twins. This often had the side effect of making Arthur happy, but Percy didn’t much care. He loved his father dearly, but his mother truly appreciated him and, thus, deserved to be happy more than Arthur did.

At school, Percy tried very hard to make people notice that he wasn’t Just Another One Of Those Weasleys. Sure, Bill and Charlie had done everything first, but Percy was Different and everyone was going to see that. He was consistently at the top of his year, even beating out the Ravenclaws, and had a firm devotion to The Rules and Procedures, which led to a habit of ratting other students out to teachers. Even though he was frankly obnoxious, this earned him a Prefect’s badge in his fifth year, the Head Boy badge in his seventh, and the attentions of one, Penelope Clearwater. Penelope was a Ravenclaw in Percy’s year, very pretty and very intelligent, and she had the patience to get to know Percy past his exterior. He was so taken aback by this that he didn’t have time to be obnoxiously unappreciative; Percy and Penny started dating in the end of their fifth year and his inarguably worst time at Hogwarts was when she was petrified by the Basilisk in their sixth year.

After leaving school, Percy followed his ambitions right to the Ministry, getting a job as the personal assistant to Bartemius Crouch, Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation. Although anyone else might have seen this as a way in which the Ministry higher-up were working on shunting another Weasley into an unimportant position, just as Arthur had been shunted into the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, Percy took to his new position with gusto and enthusiasm. He quickly gained a reputation as being efficient and worth having, but he remained fervently loyal to Mister Crouch. After all, Mister Crouch was respectable. He was upstanding, he was responsible, he always did everything by the book and insisted on the same from his underlings, he was powerful – essentially, short of being Minister for Magic, he was everything Percy aspired to be. Despite the fact that they’d gone separate ways for work, Percy and Penny stayed boyfriend and girlfriend, and he even managed to squeeze seeing her in when he didn’t have work to do. Never mind that he always had work to do; he occasionally violated his personal ethics to go see Penny, and doesn’t regret doing so.

And then Everything Went To Hell. First, Mister Crouch began getting very mysteriously ill, taking several days off work (and even whole weeks), and simply sending his instructions by owl. Being diligent, Percy did everything as he was told to do it, without even considering the possibility of what was actually happening with Mister Crouch. Even when he had to fill in as a judge for the Triwizard Tournament, Percy didn’t once think that maybe Mister Crouch’s deranged, Death Eater son, who was supposed to be dead, was actually subduing his father with the Imperius Curse while posing as Mad-Eye Moody and teaching Defense Against The Dark Arts in some mad plot to return Lord Voldemort to his physical being. Because, even in a world where there are Basilisks, mad escaped mass-murderers who turn out to be innocent, werewolves, dragons, vampires, and things like that, there are simple rules of physical existence, one of them being that the dead stay dead, and, since the various incidents involving Barty Crouch, Junior’s not being dead happened outside of Percy’s awareness, he was just as surprised as everyone else when the opposite turned out to be true.

Naturally, this whole shenanigan got him into quite a bit of hot water at work, especially when it was considered that he was Mister Crouch’s personal assistant and should have been able to tell that something was wrong. It only got worse when Mister Crouch was declared legally dead. But Penny, Molly, and Arthur saw Percy through the long process of inquiries and defending himself to various councils… until Cornelius Fudge started pulling the strings. Still Minister at this point, and trying to seem like a strong, efficient leader while Harry Potter and Dumbledore were busy spreading their story that Voldemort had returned and was going to get Things Started Again, Fudge and his staff came to the conclusion that getting a Weasley to side more with the Ministry than with Dumbledore could be beneficial. Percy was offered the position of Junior Personal Assistant to the Minister and accepted it readily.

This was where things got shaky and, eventually, explosive at home. Unlike Molly and Arthur, Percy didn’t suspect a thing when he was offered a better position; Molly and Arthur suspected that Fudge wanted a spy in the Weasley home. After several smaller quarrels on the matter, discussions finally escalated to the point of Arthur and Percy screaming at each other and, rather than listen or try to smooth things over, Percy just left. He got himself a flat in London and severed all ties and communication with the family (save sending Ron a fairly obnoxious letter, telling him to avoid anymore contact with Harry), Penny broke up with him shortly afterward (not surprising, given that he was being an utter prat to pretty much everyone at that point, especially if they had anything to say that was even vaguely anti-Ministry) and that year went on. In June of 1996, when Voldemort’s return could no longer be denied, Percy began to reconsider his ties with his family; he even tried bringing Minister Scrimgeour over to the Burrow that Christmas, with the intention of rebuilding ties, but, due to various Fred and George-shaped circumstances, he left again. He’s made no other attempts to patch things up and thinks that they’re doomed to fail anyway. Dumbledore’s death didn’t soften him any, though he thought (incorrectly) that it might have made his family “come around.”

For a good, long while in there, Percy was a very lonely person. He didn’t have many friends, most of his interpersonal contact was with people at work, and he went out of his way to avoid his family, especially after Fred’s death. As far as that goes, he skipped the funeral and went to work instead, something he feels incredibly guilty for doing now. Until the Battle of the Ministry, Percy mainly kept on as he had since leaving home: dodging contact with his family, being a pompous prat, working himself crazy and hoping to earn a promotion; even intervention on the parts of Hermes (in the form of biting him) and ex-girlfriend Penelope Clearwater (in the form of trying to talk to Percy) didn’t get through to him. The Battle got through to him, though.

It started like any normal day, and, for Percy, it probably would have been any normal day had Arthur not sent him a paper airplane reading, “Death Eaters. Get out NOW.” Panicking, Percy ran for his father’s office, thinking that the two of them could get out together; this didn’t happen and, as a consequence of trying to save his father, Percy got to watch Antonin Dolohov kill Arthur. At Remus Lupin’s orders, Percy ran for his life and went back to his flat, where he began having a bit of a guilty conscience-induced nervous breakdown. Despite being told otherwise, Percy genuinely believed that Arthur had died thinking that Percy hated him, when, really, Percy was just upset, bitter, and stubborn. Visits to Remus’s father didn’t do much to help, and officially joining the Order mostly just made him feel awkward, but Percy forced himself to return to work as though nothing had happened, partly for Order business and partly to protect his sanity, which he was rather afraid for. In late September, his desire to make amends for his long list of mistakes bubbled over in a spur-of-the-moment proposal to Penny, which she accepted; the wedding took place in her safe house in Constantine, with Ginny performing the ceremony and an ecstatic Molly in attendance.

Presently, Percy is playing the role of the Order’s double agent within the Ministry, and, as far as the public is concerned, he’s the Ministry’s boy through and through, even when the Dark side is running the Ministry. Under the Blood Traitor Act, he publicly recanted from his family’s “deviant beliefs” and he professes to have no contact whatsoever with the rest of the Weasleys or the rest of their friends; the only symbol of his marriage to Penny that he ever has on him is the ring she gave him, which he wears on a chain, which, in turn, is concealed underneath his robes. He keeps up the face of being hard-working and unassuming, and gets by on a mix of professing to believe the current popular beliefs and the professional relationship he developed with Headmistress Umbridge. Unbeknownst to the Ministry, though, he’s taking notes on every development he finds, and then he passes the notes on to Remus and the other senior Order members. The most interesting thing, to him, is that, for once, he’s in a very dangerous position, since, if he’s discovered, he’s in for a world of hurt, but he’s not afraid. The things he should fear just serve as motivation for him – motivation to help the Good Fight and make the world better for the children he wants to have with Penny.


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