A carefull knock followed by a polite voice heared.
"Percy? Am I distrub you?"
"No, come in."
A soft click heared and the door swung open. Hermione slowly entering Percy's room.
He is leaning in his chair, his glasses folded in a hand, and the bright sunshine from the window fall on his face make it almost like a photographic art. He looks better without his glasses, softer, not so pompous. When he is in their school uniform, he surely looks coeval with Ron, even look younger than the twins. But maybe its the more matured cloth style choice, or the work enviroment's charm, now he surely look like a descent older brother. His pale skin make him a little bit distinc from his brothers, but surely he is a Weasley, with their various charms. Hermione blushing and snapping her self righly when she realized she had checkin on Percy.
His other hand palm opened in front of Hermes's cage. Hermes and Erol peck the owl treats on his palm.
His room is really neat, even Hermione's room not such's neat. The only commonity is just Percy also have his personal books, a lot, all well arranged, stacked just like in a library, with the labels.
His table placed right in front of the window, the owl cage in the corner, between the table and the bed. Under the cage, another closed corner drawers with some countries (or language?) name as the labels. His cupboard across the table, and the shelves lining across the bed.
"What's up, Hermione?"
"Ah, Ron said you have a lot of games, so, we want to play. May I borrow?"
"Yes. Over there. Choose your own self."
He pointing the shelf near the door. All over the self from top to bottom full of various boxes. Each box has a label writen the contain, and all shelf arranged by themme. A lot of kind of games, the familiar to the games Hermione never hear. He even has muggles game like Monopoly and Ludo. Also some traditional games like Igo and mahyong. Percy had finished feed the owls, and now he sit facing Hermione with folding arms.
"What do you want to play?"
"I dont know, they said to pick anything to play for many peoples. Wait, what is this, Jumanji?" Hermione tip toing read the highest self.
"No, that one may not be borrowed. Choose another."
"Why?"
"I buy it out of curiosity, but apparantly its dangerous, not even Bill could tricking the curses and turn it into a regular game. I put a spell so no one could take it."
"Ah, see."
"Pick some. And let them choose."
"All right..." So Hermione just pick some familiar games.
"Bring the cards, that one in the blue box. They always love to play cards, and it could be played by many peoples."
"Ah, yes. Arent you bussy?"
"Actually yes."
"Oh, sorry."
"Its ok, i just take a break."
"May I borrow some books too?"
"Yes. close the door when you come out."
And Percy turn his chair to his table again. After wearing his glassess, he pull some files from the drawer and put it atop the table.
His table too very neat. Not even ink and quils seen.
But then Hermione see it, he stores them in another closed drawer. A clever way to arrange them, that way the owls will not scatered them.
A family picture, pinned in a board in the wall beside the window, surround with another each family member pictures, each neatly framed.
"Are you gonna watch me working or you gonna choose the book? If you fallen to me, Ron migh kill me."
"What?" Hermione know Percy could joking and laughing, she saw it oftenly when he was with Penny. But she never know that he could do such of cringey jokes. She almost burst out of laugh.
"Nothing. Forget it. Almost all the book available in the school library. We buy them before I attending Hogward."
"You learn magics before entering Hogward?"
"Yes. How do you think I managed the 12 NEWTs? My brain will over heated to learn all of that in the same time. And also that is impossible because some subject classes overlapped, right?"
"Ah, yes. So that is how you managed it. I was wondering because you take a lot of extracuriculiar lessons too, while i almost blown up just with the main OWLs."
"I almost thinking you use time machine. Ten OWLs at a time must really though. You are great, Herm."
"How do you praise me, you got 12 OWLs while I cant finished 10 OWLs classes!"
"I've told you, I had already starting far before entering Hogward. I finished History OWL lessons before attending school. I took its OWL class in the second year, and the NEWT in the fourth grade. I took divination and muggle study in the first class."
"Oh... Ah, you also take the Divination NEWT then, and its O too... Do you like the lessons?"
"No."
"How do you get O, then?"
"Imagination, Herm. Just memorize all the aspect, and mix them here and there in a horror stories, there you got O on Divination NEWT."
"Really?" Hermione never realize Percy could fooling arround like that too.
"All just scores, Herm. What important is your real ability, Divination surely not for everyone. Its so silly to make it a mandatory lesson. You still could be a Minister without a perfect Divination NEWTs."
"So why do you do that?"
"Because... i like it."
"What?"
"Arent the guys wait for you?"
"Ah, yes."
"The shelf beside the games, is muggle books, surely we dont have it at school. May be you could find some you havent read."
"Oh, right... Wonderfull..." Hermione choose some old books that she havent read yet.
"Oh, while I remember. Will you watch my siblings at school? Specially Ginny. I know Fred and George will keep their eyes to Ron and Ginny, but you know them, their judgement of fun and dangerous is different from what is norm. And Ron now must really bussy for his OWLs. He is not really good with sit still lessons, he always distracted, what is muggles say, he is a kinestetic learner, he could understand better with practices. Too bad Hogward not give any care on each student's need. So, i think you will watch Ginny better."
"Oh, yes, of course, Percy."
"Ask Anna, her room mate, if she still got night mares. Owl me, i will send you some tonics for her. I think she will take it as long as you dont tell her you get it from me."
"All right, Percy."
"Thanks."
"No worry. By the way, is this really need such that much files to make a report about the cauldron bottom standart thickness?" Hermione pointing the table with a high pilled up files.
"I think I really need to work now."
Its possibly he use a magic store tray as the pile keep grow higher. Bill ask her may be she could bring Percy down to join them to play, but its seems he really bussy, so she hold her self.
"Oh, yes. Molly tell me to remind you, lunch almost ready."
"Yes, yes."
The door swung closed and the key clicking in the second Hermione step out the room. Hermione bring the games down after put the books in Ginny's room, where she sleep over.