Another (2) Flint(s)!-- Percy kissing Penelope in CoS

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Thanks Amy for looking this up! (I'm at work and do not have my books 
with me!)

Of course one explanation we could give for this is... uhmmmm.... 
gee, should I say this? *blush* Errr.... Maybe Percy is a bit kinkier 
than any of us suspect. Stealing into the infirmary to kiss his 
beloved who lies petrified.... Yaagh, Percy, how Gothic of you!

Sheesh. Sorry, maybe I should never have watched the movie "Quills". 
I think this is in fact a Flint. He did say it was in a classroom, 
right?

--Suzanne, putting on her goth boots



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Suzanne wrote:
> 
> > Okay, okay, I just have to dive in with this one. Do you remember 
> > near the end of CoS when Ginny attempts to speak to Harry, but is 
> > interrupted by Percy?
> > 
> > Later we learn that Percy believes she was going to tell them 
about 
> > what she saw in one of the classrooms (quoting from memory 
here!!)"A 
> > few days ago"-- he was apparently getting romantic with Penelope, 
> and 
> > Ginny walked in. I seem to remember thyat he was clear that this 
> > happened very recently.
> > 
> > A few days ago??? Percy??? Wasn't Penelope PETRIFIED and in the 
> > infirmary at that time (and for quite some time)? 
> 
> Good catch--his exact words are "the other day."  People do use 
that 
> expression loosely, but according to the Lexicon timeline, it's a 
full 
> three weeks between Penelope's petrification and that breakfast 
> conversation.
> 
> Here's another Flint, or maybe it's a weakly-written red herring, 
from 
> the same incident.  Percy sits down, Ginny flees, and this 
> conversation ensues:
> 
>   "Percy!" said Ron angrily.  "She was just about to tell us 
something 
> important!"
>   Halfway through a gulp of tea, Percy choked.
>   "What sort of thing?" he said, coughing.
>   "I just asked her if she'd seen anything odd, and she started to 
say 
> --"
>   "Oh--that--that's nothing to do with the Chamber of Secrets," 
said 
> Percy at once.
> 
> In most mysteries, a statement like that would set off alarm bells 
as 
> a revelation of guilty knowledge.  How did Percy know that Ron was 
> asking her about the Chamber of Secrets?  He was, but all he told 
> Percy was that he'd asked her if she'd seen anything odd--why did 
> Percy's mind go instantly to the Chamber if Percy himself weren't 
> concealing something about the Chamber?  Hmmmmmmm?
> 
> It would make a good clue if Percy were indeed in on the Chamber of 
> Secrets, but since he isn't, it's just a lapse on JKR's part.  IMO.
> 
> Amy Z
> 
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