who's going to die; Weatherby

[Amy Z]

Yael wrote:

> As for Percy - I just had an absurd idea. What if Crouch called him 
"Weatherby" not because he was confused, but because Percy was really 
using that name for some reason. The name "Weasley" is too well 
associated with Muggles. What is (despite his red head) Percy was 
doing some under-cover job in the ministry? He is the perfect spy 
type. A good spy is not like "James Bond" or "Patrick Kim". A good spy 
looks and acts like an accountant.
> 

Ooh, I like this because the "Weatherby" joke always strikes me as 
farfetched.  Crouch works with Arthur--how can he get his son's name 
wrong?  If he called him Peter instead of Percy, now, that I could 
understand.

What bothers me is that kids want to see Percy die because they don't 
like him.  It's enough to make me want her to kill Ron, just to teach 
kids that in war, the people you like die, not just the ones you 
don't.  That's kind of the catch, though it might not occur to readers 
in a country whose last war ended with fewer than 50 U.S. dead and 
millions of Iraqi dead.  Maybe they think war is always that weighted 
towards the "good guys."

BTW, to back up the thread a ways, Peeves isn't the same as a ghost.  
No one's quite sure how poltergeists are different, but he's not 
transparent, isn't a proper ghost according to Nick, and as far as we 
know was not formerly a living human.  

There might also be a way for ghosts as well as poltergeists to "die" 
(be dispersed?).

Amy Z
who wants to know more about the Bloody Baron