Ron's jealousy, Lucius the villain again, Percy&Fudge (no SHIP!!)

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Melanie wrote:
"In defense of Molly, who is one of my favorite
characters, she does think of Harry as a second
son...so the reaction to Hermione was because she was
upset with her for hurting her child."

Good point, I agree with you that Molly is some kind of a mother- 
archetype, who just can't resist giving love- especially to Harry 
whom she knows to have been deprived of love until he was 11. She 
would defend him, as she would do with all her children, like a 
lioness, if anybody tried to hurt him.
This is one more thing for Ron to accept: Not only does he always 
have to compete with his brothers, but there is one more to share his 
mother's love with.
Considering this and the way he copes with it, I'd judge him very 
mature for his age.

Caius Marcius wrote:
"Next to Voldy himself, Lucius strikes me as the most evil individual 
in the narrative to date. Like Voldemort, he acts with a supreme 
consciousness of his personal evil, and rejoices in it."

Yep, certainly right, Caius Marcius! I'm sure you've read your 
Shakespeare as well as I did my canonic authors of german language, 
so I won't certainly compete with you in that field. It was just that 
Lucius reminded me so much of him, being evil not without, but beyond 
reason. There's a reason for Jago's hating Cassio and Othello, but 
revenge could have stopped at a certain point. No need to cross the 
border between revenge and evil for evil's sake. Problem is, it will 
be difficult to find any motivation or explanation for *that* kind of 
character which IMO is the most purely fictional- you hardly come 
across such persons in real life. (And please nobody quote Hitler to 
me- he's just a case of insane parvenu, whereas Lucius, IMHO, is 
everything but insane)And he has to be one of Voldy's closest DEs, 
otherwise how could we explain V. barely mentions that Lucius has not 
been searching for him more intensely? Could Lucius be Voldie's 
(illegitimate) son, result of a short affair Lucius' mother had with 
him?? He's fair-haired and Riddle/Voldie was dark, but both of them 
are very often described as *pale*. Hmmmm, I have to meditate on 
that! But wouldn't refuse everybody's help.

Melanie wrote:
"I think that Percy might end up throwing one of the main men in jail 
(perhaps Sirius). And that Penny will be some sort of device to lure 
him. And another thing about Percy many people have said that he will 
not go to the dark side but he might side with Fudge at first at 
least. Which would mean that he is believing the lies over the 
truth..while I don't think that Fudge is with Voldemort..yet!"

Personally, I think that Percy is of average intelligence which, 
combined with hyper- obedience may lead to devastating results (I 
hate to bring up the nazi topic, but I'll just say that there are a 
lot of parallels). Percy will never (or won't for a very long time) 
break rules, for he doesn't believe in anything but rules and would 
go bonkers if there weren't any. IMHO, he's the most immature of all, 
equaled only by my own darling Gilderoy Lockhart. And maybe by Fudge, 
who is less in love with rules than with power and titles and being 
MoM. Fudge is (and believe me, I'm working for a ministry and it 
consists mostly of Fudges) loyal as long as it suits him; if his 
loyalty might get him into trouble, he lets people down- that's 
certainly what he will do with Dumbledore. I think, he'll be with V. 
before long.

Susanna