#honestly i didn't even like him before writing him in siat

[shanastoryteller]

Happy Halloween! Can I ask for some more SIAT Percy/Tonks or just some more Percy being awesome?

Ps: Love everything you write

Percy gets his first job out of Hogwarts and realized three things very, very quickly.

Firstly, the Department of International Magical Co-operation deals with incredibly boring, minute details such as ensuring foreign officials that are set to meet share a common language that isn't Latin or that there's a translator present, that internationally traded goods comply with standards of both the country exporting it and the one importing it, and making sure someone doesn't connect the British floo somewhere that will piss off someone off.

Secondly, that these little, boring details are of supreme importance. Their department is the first line of defense against international economic and political disaster. If people can't understand one another, someone will leave offended or confused, and that grudge will be nursed and exploited later. Imported goods that can't be sold are a loss the business selling and buying, and commissioning goods that cant' be sold in their home country will only encourage that country to apply heavy fees to the export, since they're effectively taking those goods out of circulation in their home market. Not honoring other countries borders in small ways like transportation, even in countries they're allowed to pop in and out of, means that those countries won't enforce compliance with their own transportation laws, which is how portkey and floo bans happen which will cause economic and relationship strife for at least a decade.

Thirdly, the department is being run into the ground through neglect and incompetence.

Barty Crouch Senior was an extremely effective head of Magical Law Enforcement and is an utterly abysmal Head of International Magical Co-operation. What works on criminals does not work on foreign dignitaries and bureaucrats.

Percy can either do things as he's told or he can do them correctly.

He got twelve perfect Os on both his Owls and his Newts.

He is not someone who does things incorrectly.

Crouch doesn't pay attention to the small, vital aspects of his position. So he doesn't notice when Percy takes them over.

Other people, however, absolutely do.

#prompt answers #prompts are closed #asks #timetomakeanewwish #harry potter #siat #honestly i didn't even like him before writing him in siat #now he's my very tired boy