Percy Lovers Unite

[zsenya at sugarquill.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15088

--- Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> I'm a card-carrying member of Percy Lovers Unite & I second all of
> Trina's thoughts!!

Penny - like Kathy usually is - I'm amazed to find that we are in 
total agreement on this point!  I, too, am a big fan of Percy...

Arabella and I are working on a post-Hogwarts fic, and I have really, 
really taken to Percy as I write about him.  I generally agree with 
what seems to be a commonly held suspicion that, if forced to choose 
sides, Percy may choose the Ministry initially, but eventually will 
be reunited with his family.

I also think that JKR has put hints throughout the books to show 
Percy's "human" side, so to speak.  There's a point in PoA I think 
(it's over the Christmas break) where Ron suggests playing with a set 
of Gobstones that Percy left behind.  Now, I ask, can he really be 
all that uptight if he owns a set of Gobstones, which, if I remember 
correctly, explode or something like that?

There are other instances - for example, in PS when Percy tries 
to "help" Harry play chess, where Percy seems to want to join in with 
everyone, but he's already sort of been branded as a "goody-goody"  
And, like Hermione (IMO), he may tend to brag on occasion, because he 
really does do pretty remarkable things, but for school age children, 
more often than not, academic achievements are not praised as much as 
they could be. Percy's a smart kid - we know that.

Also, although this is more in my head than in the books, I tend to 
think that Percy is *very* hurt when his brothers make remarks or say 
things to him that draw him in an unflattering light. I mean, in CoS, 
they all assume that Percy's upset about Penelope's condition because 
she's another prefect. At the time they don't know that she's his 
girlfriend, but I mean, geez, what an awful, cold thing to think 
about your brother.

Fred and George, as much as I love them, are rather hard on poor 
Percy, although, I suppose it's helped his character development to 
have to deal with them...

:)Zsenya