Percy and Weasley Family Dynamics

[pennylin at swbell.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 9048

Hi everyone --

I'm back & going to try & work through some of the messages.  I don't 
have the time to read through & see what's already been said about 
the topics I'll respond to .... apologies in advance.  I'm leaving 
town again on Sat morning for a few days & want to "catch up" to some 
extent before then. 

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


> In fact, Percy seems to distance himself from his siblings and only 
joins them to share in their accomplishments and not to support them 
during their failures. For example, Percy was bursting with pride that 
Ron beat McGonagall's chessmen. But did he try to cheer up Ginny 
during CoS? No. Fred and George saw Ginny was upset. Their remedy of 
jumping from behind corners was not helpful but they at least 
recognized their sister was troubled and they did try (in their 
twisted way) to cheer her up. In fact, Percy ascribes Ginny's mental 
state as being upset with him and therefore it was nothing to worry 
about. 

Don't have my books in front of me at the moment (and am too lazy at 
the moment to retrieve them), but wasn't Percy described as "apopletic 
with rage" at the twins' antics regarding Ginny?  Wasn't he the one 
who was very worried about her and got her to drink some sort of 
potion?  My remembrance is that Percy was quite protective of Ginny in 
CoS in particular.  
> 
> In SS/PS, the Twins tell Percy that he must not sit with the other 
> Prefects during Christmas Dinner because Christmas was family time. 
> Why would the Twins go out of their way to tell Percy that? They 
> didn't tell Ron to sit with them during Christmas Dinner; they
> assumed he would. Obviously, Fred and George feel the distance 
between Percy and the rest. 

Yeah, but they obviously *wanted* him to sit with them.  If they 
didn't care, they would have just let him sit with the prefects if he 
was so inclined.  

 
> 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.

Hmm .... I don't know that she defends him "because no one else will." 
I think it's more that she sees alot of herself in Percy, and they 
have a special bond as a result.  I don't think she sees him as 
pretentious or bossy though .... not unless she recognizes that she 
herself has those very same traits to some extent.  She's bossy & a 
stickler for rules.  

Have to step in & defend Percy somewhat.  <g>  I maintain that Percy 
will come through in the end.  We've had clues of that in each book.  
I don't think Ron or the twins give Percy enough credit -- they all 
sell him a bit short IMO.

Penny