Write about your father
My father is Arthur Weasley. He is the best father in the world. He is a complete pussycat, unlike my mother who probably invented the howler. What a nag she is! But my dad is just the opposite. He's funny! He almost never yells or gets mad. My mom nags and nags about rules and such, but my dad doesn't care about that sort of thing. I mean honestly: this is the man who wrote the law on the misuse of Muggle artifacts but then snuck a loophole in the law so that he could keep his enchanted Ford Anglia! You should have seen his face the day that he found out that my brothers flew around in the car! Dad thought it was the most brilliant thing ever... until my Mum started in on her usual annoying screeching about rules and laws and all that. Then Dad pretended to be stern but we all could tell that he wished he'd been out flying around in that car.
It makes me really angry when I hear people accuse my dad of being an ineffectual, bumbling Muggle-lover who'd rather use what little money he has to buy pointless Muggle junk instead of buying his kids new clothes and school supplies. Okay, so it's true that my dad has an entire shed full of completely useless Muggle batteries and spark plugs and the like. At least he's trying to sell them now. And everyone is allowed to have a hobby. I have no idea why my dad is so fascinated by that stuff, but if collecting Muggle trash makes him happy then no one else has the right to sneer at him about it. It is true that my brothers and I had to make do with secondhand clothes and books, but we always had food and a roof over our heads, and we always knew that my Dad loved us. Anyway, growing up and having people point at you and whisper stuff like, "Oh, there goes one of those unfortunate Weasley children," is rather character building, in my opinion.
The other thing that makes me completely furious is when people imply that my dad is corrupt, just because he breaks the very laws that he wrote, and because he does little favors now and then for people like Ludo Bagman. Look. Ludo Bagman was cleared of being a Death Eater so there is nothing wrong with my father getting him out of scrapes with the Muggle law now and then, is there? He did the same for Mad Eye Moody, and no one ever accuses Moody of being a Death Eater or says that my dad is corrupt because he helps him. My dad is not corrupt and he is not useless. Lot's of people admire him. The new Minister of Magic even gave him a promotion recently and made my Dad the new head of the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects. Plus, my dad is in the Order of the Phoenix, and Headmaster Dumbledore trusted him. That should be enough to shut up anyone who says that my dad is an embarrassment to purebloods.
Yeah, he's a great guy and I love him. In my entire life, probably the only time he ever did something that hurt my feelings was when he screamed at me after Harry rescued me from the Chamber of Secrets. He told me that being possessed by Lord Voldemort was my own fault. I've never quite forgot that and the older I get and the more I think about it, the worse it makes me feel, so I pretty much try to just not think about it at all. After all, he's a great dad but even great dads can be scary at times, I guess.
It makes me really angry when I hear people accuse my dad of being an ineffectual, bumbling Muggle-lover who'd rather use what little money he has to buy pointless Muggle junk instead of buying his kids new clothes and school supplies. Okay, so it's true that my dad has an entire shed full of completely useless Muggle batteries and spark plugs and the like. At least he's trying to sell them now. And everyone is allowed to have a hobby. I have no idea why my dad is so fascinated by that stuff, but if collecting Muggle trash makes him happy then no one else has the right to sneer at him about it. It is true that my brothers and I had to make do with secondhand clothes and books, but we always had food and a roof over our heads, and we always knew that my Dad loved us. Anyway, growing up and having people point at you and whisper stuff like, "Oh, there goes one of those unfortunate Weasley children," is rather character building, in my opinion.
The other thing that makes me completely furious is when people imply that my dad is corrupt, just because he breaks the very laws that he wrote, and because he does little favors now and then for people like Ludo Bagman. Look. Ludo Bagman was cleared of being a Death Eater so there is nothing wrong with my father getting him out of scrapes with the Muggle law now and then, is there? He did the same for Mad Eye Moody, and no one ever accuses Moody of being a Death Eater or says that my dad is corrupt because he helps him. My dad is not corrupt and he is not useless. Lot's of people admire him. The new Minister of Magic even gave him a promotion recently and made my Dad the new head of the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects. Plus, my dad is in the Order of the Phoenix, and Headmaster Dumbledore trusted him. That should be enough to shut up anyone who says that my dad is an embarrassment to purebloods.
Yeah, he's a great guy and I love him. In my entire life, probably the only time he ever did something that hurt my feelings was when he screamed at me after Harry rescued me from the Chamber of Secrets. He told me that being possessed by Lord Voldemort was my own fault. I've never quite forgot that and the older I get and the more I think about it, the worse it makes me feel, so I pretty much try to just not think about it at all. After all, he's a great dad but even great dads can be scary at times, I guess.