Very different :)

Wow, wonderful short story - so much conveyed in so few words. I like how complex you've made Percy. Working within the system is difficult but lacks any aura of heroism; its a quiet, enduring courage that few would recognize. Hopefully the hidden message will encourage Hermione to ponder that. (Glad I didn't have to look far to find more of your work!)

Interesting...certainly...different. I like it.

Wow! This is a truly awesome story. Very real.

Oh, very enjoyable. I'm coming to like the new interpretations of Percy that I'm seeing in a few (a very few) fanfics now. The dialogue here is good. I think you have just enough description to keep the reader grounded without giving too much. Thanks for writing and sharing. Keket

Good, you posted this!

I love sympathetic-Percy fics. It's fashionable to see bureaucrats as visionless ciphers or even as villains, but they're just ordinary people, some good, some less good, who try to work with and within the system to achieve their goals. They are just as likely to have admirable goals as the rest of us - and possibly more likely to achieve them.

I think most people are unjustly ** Percy, JK included. (She's obviously just as much of a bureaucrat-hater as the next person.) Percy has real philosophical differences underpinning his decision to trust the law of the land, ie the Ministry, over a whimsical but powerful private citizen who's fielding a militia (the Order) that thinks itself above the law. With the limited information he had (as he was not privy to most of the trio's secrets) and his experiences of seeing his younger siblings repeatedly endangered by Dumbledore's strange decisions that frequently defied logic, it's hardly surprising that he chose as he did.

(My "Everything: Reunion" fic gives Percy a voice and an opportunity to speak at much greater length than a review can.)