Springfic: "Home is What the Heart Wants" for paradise_loved

[springmod]

Title: Home is What the Heart Wants
Author: Phil_Urich
Recipient: Paradise_Loved
Character(s): Percy Weasley
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 3,990
Warnings (highlight to view): None
Summary: Percy pays a visit to the family after the war and sets about making things right.
Betas: oddnari

Comments

[vegablack62]

I liked this. You captured the good humour behind George's (and previously Fred's) pranks that kept them from being horrible. Just as Fred's giving Neville a canary cream lightened the moment, George's tweaking Percy about his interest in Padma lightened this moment and allowed Percy to do what Charlie tried to talk him into -- open up a little about himself to his family

[phil_urich]

Thank you. I really tried hard to make sure that each brother had a personality of their own and I didn't want to solve all of Percy's problems at once. Thanks also for putting this story in your top ten. Its quite an honor :)

[slam_girl]

Aw, I really liked this. A good Percy fic is always appreciated. Your Percy with his attempts to find his place in his family and build new relationships with his his brothers felt very real and still true to Percy's mannerisms. And I really liked the conversations between him and Charlie and George. I haven't read a lot of fics with him interacting with those two in particular. Well done :)

[phil_urich]

I'm in the same boat as you. I see very few stories with Percy interacting with his brothers, and by interacting I mean having a conversation, not just yelling at them or getting into an argument. Thanks for your kind words.

[werewolfsfan]

I adore missing moment fics and this one is so well handled. You really seem to have a handle on each of the Weasley's characters and how it might have gone after the war. Just enough time has passed here for things to be a bit less raw but still not settled. You've captured the time period that I really wanted to read in the epilogue very well.

[phil_urich]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the way I wrote the various Weasley's. I thought it was an issue that needed dealing with and I'm grateful that the mods saw fit to give me paradise's prompts as I had a lot of fun writing this.

[shiiki]

I found this comforting, too. I liked how you slowly integrated Percy back with his family - still with awkwardness that won't go away for a long time, but with some members willing to extend olive branches and Percy making the effort to grasp them. Ron's continued fury makes sense, too, and makes a nice contrast with George - the twins being fast to fly off the hook but quick to forgive as well, but Ron's anger being slower to simmer and longer to heal.

[phil_urich]

Thank you. I always like reading post-war fics with Percy and writing this was very enjoyable for me. I had originally intended George to hold a grudge against Percy as well, but I just couldn't do it. It seemed so against his character. Your explanation on that makes a lot of sense.

[secretsolitaire]

Enjoyed this -- I'm endlessly fascinated by Percy's relationship with the rest of his family, and this was a nice take on the scenario. Each sibling's reaction felt accurate to me.

[phil_urich]

Thank you for the kind words. I'm always interested in reading a good story about Percy and his family, so it was fun to actually get to write one.