Percy and Weasley Family Dynamics

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 8728

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Demelza " <muggle-reader at a...> 
wrote:

> PERCY and MOLLY
> Molly realizes that the Twins are delivering an accurate portrayal
> and she admonishes them. Molly knows that Percy is pretentious but
> defends him because she knows that no one else will. (snip) There's
> a reason why she makes her other children share amongst themselves,
> but doesn't force Percy to share. She understands that Percy wants
> to isolate himself and forcing him to "join in on the Weasley fun"
> would only drive him further away.
> 
That is not how it appears to me. It seems to me that Molly approves 
highly of Percy. "How come Percy got new robes?" "Because he's a 
PREFECT," Molly said fondly. (Probably getting him an owl as reward 
for becoming a prefect was at least partly her idea.) She's proud of 
his twelve OWLs (and yells her head off at the twins for not getting 
enough OWLs), being a prefect, and being Head Boy, and and getting a 
job at the Ministry is what she wants all her sons to do. It seems to 
me that she favors him and is attempting to spoil him.