Bill Weasley...

[alt_ginny]

I need someone to talk seriously too. If you can help, I would be very, very... Please just respond to me.

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[alt_bill]

What's on your mind?

Private Message to Bill Weasley

[alt_ginny]

Do you ever feel left out?

I mean now that you are on your own?

I feel that way all the time, I don't think the boys understand. I guess you wouldn't understand either what its like to not be a boy.

I understand Percy is having a hard time. Im not stupid, I understand more than anyone thinks I do. But he let that twit say anything she wanted to me and he never backs me up. I only had a question about my academic career. Was I wrong?

Sorry I suppose you have read Ron's latest entry. Of course you wouldn see the private part. But he took her side.

Re: Private Message to Bill Weasley

[alt_bill]

I think that sooner or later everyone who lives in a large family must feel left out at times. It's inevitable. Maybe the only exception at the Burrow is the twins, because they've always had each other. I know you've said you feel like you should have been placed in Slytherin, which is maybe another reason you feel out of place in an entire family of rabid Gryffindors.

You asked, so I'll take you at your word that you really want to know and so I'll be blunt.

Yes. You were wrong.

Although in all fairness, though, you may not entirely realise why.

Witnessing a murder can be very traumatic, Ginny. I had a mate in school who went on to join the aurors. He was a couple months done with his training when they got called out for a camp breakout, and he got caught in a cross-fire where his partner was killed right in front of him. Wasn't a hex, but a muggle gun. A right bloody mess.

He absolutely fell apart, Gin. His nerves were shot to hell, and he couldn't sleep for weeks. I talked with his wife about it, who told me he couldn't keep his concentration in a simple conversation, and he would hit the floor whenever he heard a sudden noise. He couldn't interact normally with anyone. He had to quit the aurors. It took him six months before he'd recovered enough that he was able to get a job as a clerk in a quiet potions shop on Diagon Alley.

Now, I don't know for sure how Percy's doing. But from something Dad told me about a private message conversation he had with Percy, I gather that he's showing some symptoms of shock. We have to only hope that he doesn't have as bad a time of it as Mac did. Lacey, Mac's wife, said that Mac had a harder time of it whenever he was under stress. That 'twit,' as you call her, is trying to lower Percy's stress. Maybe you don't like her tone toward you or her methods, but please credit her with the fact that she doing it out of caring for him. You, on the other hand, are perhaps raising his stress by being abrasive with the person who's trying to protect him.

(You did ask.)

So where does that leave you? I'd let Percy be for the time being. If you want to make him happier, apologise to Penny in front of him (and if you don't feel like it, suck it up and do it anyway and tell yourself that it's a mark of a true Slytherin if you can convincingly tell someone something that you don't really mean.)

I'd be happy to talk with you about any of the electives you're considering. I can speak a bit more than even Percy can about the real world outcome for each of the courses you're considering.

Re: Private Message to Bill Weasley

[alt_ginny]

Thanks Bill,

It's not at all what I expected, but thank you anyway. I suppose I can understand. And I will take your advice as well. Thanks for being there.