Percy and Weasley Family Dynamics

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 9177

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy " <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> > CoS Ch. 16 Amer

> I agree with your assessment that Percy creates a lot of his own 
> problems, but I think the above passage is very sympathetic.  Ron, 
> Fred and George's way of dealing with their shock and grief is to 
sit 
> in the common room; Percy's way is to shut himself in his room.  I 
> didn't at all get the sense that he was any less upset than the 
> others.

I agree with you that they seem to have different ways of dealing with 
their grief, but it is telling that he chooses to deal with it alone, 
while the rest of the family is together.  He chooses to be alone 
quite a lot.  I'm not saying that means he'll be against his family in 
the end, just that his tendency to isolate himself makes him 
vulnerable.  


> It seems painfully likely to me that one of the Weasleys is a goner, 
> if only because there are so many of them and Harry loves them so 
much 
> (as do we).  But what would be far worse is if one of them went over  
> to Voldemort's side.  Whenever I read a post suggesting that Ron 
will 
> do so I feel a little sick to my stomach.  (Now WHO did I say needs 
> therapy?)

Don't worry Amy, when I see that suggestion I get queasy too.  And 
teary-eyed.  But I trust JKR to know her character.  She has not 
painted Ron as a traitor.  She's painted him as a young Sirius, who 
would die for his friends rather than let anything happen to them.  
That said, I'd be flat devastated if he died.  Man, do you have a 
therapist in mind, because maybe we could share a session.  Heck - 
anybody else want in?  Maybe we could get group-rates!

Wiping an odd bit of moisture from my eye,
kimberly


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