A/N: Hey all- hail the mighty updater!!! Sorry, I'm just so happy to be updating my baby so fast- my Percy muse was just calling out to be tortured?

Disclaimer: Do you really reckon that the real author has a Percy muse?

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ZagZig722: Thanks for the review, I know it was but I couldn't think of a good ending for this chapter, so I just ended it there.

Adele Sparks: Well, we're on chapter three now, so I hope your liking it.

Voldie on Varsity Track: Yay! Thanks for the fabulous review- I hope I will be!

Nightwing 509: Thanks for the review- I think I've already told you who Harry marries- look in the first chapter, and Ron I don't think I've mentioned yet.

KrAzY kAy: Look how fast I updated! Thanks for the review. See what encouragement will do? I'm a poet and, actually, I did know it.

KeepersHeir: Thanks for the review. I like this story- it's my favorite one that I've posted on ff.net.

Percy is, I will admit, not my favourite son. But, he left us all for a year, then waltzed back in without so much as an apology, he still won't look Harry in the face, has, twice, referred to Hermione as a 'Mudblood' and three times called Ginny's marriage 'mixed'. He's no one's favourite person and he and Penelope are clearly headed for divorce- she's a very ambitious woman and he's a horridly ambitious man. I think Katie was a reconciliation baby more than anything else, and Ellie was more of an attempt to save their marriage than anything else. Not that I'd ever tell Percy I know that- he enjoys playing family man too much. I see divorce within two years and Penelope beginning her work in law enforcement within six months of it. It's not that I don't love Percy, or like Penelope- it's just that they were too busy considering imagery to get busy with having the life they are pretending to have.

I must say, though, no one but Arthur and I were particularly eager to take him back into the family, he and Ginny didn't speak until she graduated from Hogwarts, and he wasn't invited to her wedding, though the Ministry sent a delegation and he got onto that until Ginny absolutely forbade him, because he'd already made on of his 'mixed' comments. I think, however, when she had her first child, she suddenly felt a need for family and went to Percy to 'sort out their issues', needless to say all we saw of her for a year after that at family occasions was the flurry of words that I am quite certain I never taught her directed at Percy.

Ellie, Percy's oldest daughter is just like Percy was as a child, smart, proper, not horribly cheerful, and a bit like a cat in the way that she hardly ever moves anything but her eyes and when she does it's quick and sudden. Much to Percy's disappointment, Ron is her favourite uncle and she's developed some rather passionate feelings about the Chudley Cannons. Katherine hasn't got much of a personality yet, but she's a rather quiet baby, and, I've noted, not at all daunted by the prospect of the thirty-two cousins swarming around her. I think that I would be terrified being such a small person in such a large crowd.

Percy and Penelope are sitting about three feet apart on the couch, Ellie's carrying on a conversation with her mother, and Penelope looks happy not to be talking to Percy for once. I don't think she's ever quite adjusted to the family- and I think she believed all that nonsense in the Prophet about Harry, because I keep noticing little sideways glances at him as he plays tag around my living room with Ron's daughter Valora, Charlie's Faris, and his twins, James and Faith. Percy has stubbornly not spoken to Harry since he was seventeen and Percy made a very flowery thank you from the ministry for defeating He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and Harry threatened to curse him before storming off. I have never even seen them in the same room when we're not all here, Percy won't come for our Saturday night family dinners either, because Harry's always there. Harry is, however part of the problem, he refuses to introduce his children to Percy.

Percy is a total workaholic, he's my son and I love him, but were I his wife- I'd be talking divorce too