#but he recognises that molly and aurthur aren't the best parents in the world

[department-of-landing-strategies]

Hear me out, the potential angst of an au where Percy and Sirius have a positive relationship (potentially positive enough that some part of Percy wants to impress Sirius) and Sirius lives but Percy dies instead of Fred (or at least tries to or maybe even saves Fred while seriously injuring himself). I say this as someone whose favourite Weasley is Percy.

I'm always stuck between wanting Sirius to kind of like Percy as a proxy of Reg and him hating him by default for the same reason

Like in that later promotion scenario I mentioned before

Sirius just wakes up late into the night and loses his sense of reality for a moment because he's suddenly in the past looking at Reg reading something in the same place he always does in the same position he tends to take before he shakes himself out of it and realizes that no

that's not who he's looking at.

[elisedonut]

#do percy and regulus get characterised differently by the fandom? probably

#do i love the comparison between percy and regulus anyway? yes

#I've leaned towards the idea of percy being a reincarnation of regulus but percy was born before regulus died

#its fun to think about for the stories where percy ends up in Harry's year for his time at Hogwarts instead for whatever reason

#i feel like sirius hates the fact the fact that he kinda likes percy because percy's and regulus's similarities

#because sirius knows what its like to have himself seen as his family so why should he see someone elses child as his dead brother

#however after his time in azkaban i don't think Sirius can bring himself to stop because its a bit of pre azkaban familiarity

#as for percy i think he catches on pretty quickly that at least something is going on that affects sirius treatment of him

#im pretty sure he's bothered by it but i think him bringing it up depends on how Sirius treats him as a result of seeing Percy as Regulus

#if Sirius treats him more positively then i think percy might be able to justify to himself a reason to not bring it up

#because here's an adult that likes the twins stuff that by all means should openly hate him but treats him somewhat positively

#i think percy would keep his mouth shut on certain stuff about sirius to try and keep that for as long as possible

#bonus points if Sirius becomes someone Percy wants to impress as much as molly and aurthur

#it'd end up probably being a situation of Sirius not liking that percy went into the ministry as a career but still being proud of percy

#if Sirius treats him negatively however then he has no reason to not argue with Sirius is he feels like it calls for it

#they're relationship in that situation would never be as bad as Sirius and Molly because of Regulus

#but i don't think it would good either

#in a situation where the fight happens in Grimmauld Place then no matter what i think sirius would always side with percy

#even in a world where sirius and percy have a negative relation im certain Sirius would always dislike molly more

#sure he doesn't like the ministry

#but he recognises that molly and Arthur aren't the best parents in the world

#if the fight happened like it did in canon then percy would have to have tried to seriously injure Sirius for Sirius to not to back him up

#if Sirius doesn't supporting percy in the fight it sure as anything isn't because he's supporting arthur

#I'm not a fan of death as a means of redemption to i do think percy would think that was necessary to redeem himself in his family's eyes

#part of that would probably be partly how bad the ministry was during the war

#im pretty sure he forgets that he was the only Weasley to see the ministry to the end of the war while mostly not under the imperius curse

#i do think there were times that he was under the imperius curse but i don't think it was most of the time

I'm always stuck between wanting Sirius to kind of like Percy as a proxy of Reg and him hating him by default for the same reason

Like in that later promotion scenario I mentioned before

Sirius just wakes up late into the night and loses his sense of reality for a moment because he's suddenly in the past looking at Reg reading something in the same place he always does in the same position he tends to take before he shakes himself out of it and realizes that no

that's not who he's looking at.