Percy

[meboriqua at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 16638


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> Percy is just a kid growing up who's not as adult as he thinks he 
is.
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Thanks for responding, Magda!  Those are really good points.  Percy 
definitely needs to grow up a bit and he definitely thinks he is the 
epitome of maturity (which is often played out hilariously).  

I still worry about Percy making a poor judgment related to his 
responsibilities - after all, he is only 18 years old or so and 
already working full time in the 'government' offices of the wizard 
world.  That may be too much for him.

I also read (Catherine, I think) that Percy may rethink things at the 
Ministry anyway, after having been falsely led to believe that he was 
recieving orders from his boss Crouch when in reality he was not.  I'd 
like to think that Percy will not continue to be as eager to please 
those at the MOM, but then again, I really worry that he will be even 
more eager to prove himself worthy of rising up in the ranks.

As for him being obsessed, I still think he is, even though he does 
have time to mature.  Remember in CoS when Harry and Ron found Percy 
sitting in the back of a store reading some dusty old book about 
Prefects Who Gained Power or something like that?  Or that he talked 
nonstop about first being a prefect and then Head Boy?  Ron warned 
Harry not to ask Percy about his new at the MOM or Harry'd be bored to 
death - Percy doesn't quite understand that others don't have the 
ambitions and interests that he does (kind of like the way we all are 
about HP in general).  That's obsession.

--j