So, this pertains to a suggestion by a guest reviewer in the Chapter 79 reviews on July 29th, 2023. The suggestion was about doing a chapter about why Penelope Clearwater broke up with Percy. The last time I read Prisoner of Azkaban, I noticed a Percy/Penelope situation that caught my attention so here it is. In this chapter, Harry tells Penelope something he thinks she has the right to know about Percy and it leads to the end of Percope. After this chapter, I'm going to go back through this thread and my upcoming focus here will be knocking out anything that I've said I'd do a part 2 or 3 for but haven't done so yet.

Something was bothering Harry Potter.

He wasn't one to get involved in other people's love lives, but he was thinking about something that had happened between Percy Wesley and Penelope Clearwater that simply didn't sit right with him.

Before the Quidditch Match between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, Percy, who was a Gryffindor, and Penelope, who was a Ravenclaw, made a ten galleon bet on the outcome of the match.

Harry was now distinctly remembering Percy telling him before the match, "Be sure you win, Harry, I haven't got ten galleons."

Harry also remembered an eager Percy exclaiming, "Excellent, ten galleons to me, must find Penny," after he'd beaten Cho to the snitch to win the match for Gryffindor.

It didn't sit right with Harry that Penelope didn't know the full truth about the situation.

So, after breakfast on the morning after the match, Harry stayed behind in the Great Hall and waited for the students to file out. As he saw Penelope get up from the Ravenclaw table, he made his way over to her and asked her, "Penelope, may I have a word? There is something I think you should know about."

"We can talk in Classroom Eleven, that's always unused," shrugged Penelope.

Harry followed Penelope to Classroom Eleven and they sat down side by side at two desks.

"Penelope," said Harry seriously, getting down to business immediately, "There is something that you do not know that I really think you have a right to know."

"What might that be?" piped up Penny.

"You know that bet you lost to Percy on the Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw Quidditch match yesterday?"

"There's no way I could forget about that. After I paid off Percy the ten galleons I owed him yesterday, he rubbed it in my face all the way until dinnertime, waving the galleons in my face and boasting about how he had been right," sighed Penelope.

"So," said Harry in a crystal clear voice, "You're not going to be happy about this. In fact, you are going to be pissed off about this, but I think you have a right to know that Percy told me before the match yesterday to "Make sure you win, Harry. I haven't got ten galleons."

"Percy was the one who suggested the bet in the first place," said Penelope coldly, "Bear in mind, I didn't really want to make the bet in the first place. I honestly didn't expect Ravenclaw to win despite my house affiliation and my hopes for a Ravenclaw win. Ravenclaw is a good team, but the Seeker is such an important position in Quidditch, and I know perfectly well that you're a better Seeker than Cho. But Percy kept pressuring me and pestering me to make the bet to the point where I agreed to it just to get Percy to shut the fuck up."

"Percy has the most overbearing personality of any Gryffindor I know," said Harry bluntly, "I didn't suspect him of this, but it's been bothering me that you don't know the full truth."

"Percy took advantage of me," said Penelope bitterly, "He pressured me into a bet I didn't want to make in the first place knowing full well he didn't have the funds to pay up if he lost knowing full well, he was likely to win to get himself some extra money. If I had won the bet., he'd have probably given me a tale of fake remorse and begged me for forgiveness."

"I don't blame you for being upset, " Harry told Penelope matter of factly, "But you need to know. If someone takes advantage of you and/or isn't straight with you and you are unaware of it, he or she will continue to take advantage of you and/or not be straight with you and will know you can do nothing about it. "

"Do you think I should break up with Percy?" Penelope asked Harry uncertainly.

"That's something you have to decide for yourself," replied Harry, "I will acknowledge that my overall opinion of Percy is negative but that's mostly because I can't stand his overbearingness. The fact is that he lied to you by making this bet with you and allowing you to believe you were going to get ten galleons if you won when in fact, he literally didn't have the money to pay. If trust is important to you, I don't think Percope makes a good couple. It's ultimately your choice though."

"Thank you for telling me about this, Harry," said Penelope appreciatively.

"I think I'm the only one Percy told about this," said Harry slowly, "So it was up to me to come tell you the truth. You may leave now."

"Thank you, Harry," repeated Penelope and she left.

Penelope went to find Percy, who happened to be sitting by the Black Lake.

"Percy," said Penny sharply when she got near enough for him to hear her, "What's this about you not actually having the ten galleons to pay me off if you had lost our bet?"

"Harry wasn't supposed to tell you that," said Percy furiously.

"Did you request Harry not tell anyone?" wondered Penny.

"No," admitted Percy, "But Harry's telling you this when it's none of his business is a serious breach of trust!"

"You fifthly hypocrite!" snarled Penelope angrily, "You say Harry shouldn't have told me because it's none of his business, but you were the one who told him about it in the first place!"

"I thought he would keep his trap shut," retorted Percy, "And I thought telling him about the bet and my stakes would give him extra motivation to win."

"If anything, that put unfair pressure on him," replied Penelope frostily, "Not that I think he'd care about who won or lost a bet between us. "

"Let's forget this and move on," suggested Percy.

"Oh, we are going to move on," said Penelope sharply, "We are going to move on without each other."

"You're ditching me?" mumbled a shocked sounding Percy.

"I just can't trust you anymore," said Penelope decisively, "You don't have proper respect for me so why should I be dating you? I don't know if I'll seek another boyfriend or be single but either way Percope will NOT be ship anymore, period."

And Penelope walked away from Percy feeling a sense of relief.

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