Arthur Weasley, With Imperius Curse (WAS: What's In A Name?)

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 37383

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ssk7882" <skelkins at a...> wrote:

> Aw, come on.  Just a nibble?  Can't I get anyone to swallow one of 
> these?  They may be only half-baked, but I did make them myself, 
and 
> with real canon!

I bought into Arthur Weasley with Imperius a long time ago, fyi, last 
time you brought it up. 

> Here.  I'll show you.
> 
> 
> Okay.  Presumably, there were indeed at least a *few* wizards who 
> really were placed under the Imperius Curse against their will 
during
> Voldemort's first rise, rather than just claiming that they had been
> to escape punishment for their crimes.  

Yes, and we NEED to see them. Just like we need to see that bunch who 
just cracked. And just as Bagman needs to be not totally evil (glares 
at tough-yet-soft Cindy) because we need someone who was actually 
tricked. Of course, JKR doesn't seem to agree that this is necessary, 
but who is she to interfere with my whimsies?

> Further speculations about missing Weasley children, Arthur's 
> particular demeanor when telling the children about the 
significance 
> of the Dark Mark at the end of Chapter 9 of GoF, Bill's 
contributions 
> to that particular conversation, literary parallels between Percy 
> Weasley and Barty Crouch, and how any of that might intersect with 
> the series' thematic emphasis on damaged families, secrets, the 
> effects of the past upon the present, and father-son relationships, 
I 
> will leave to the cruel and ruthlessly bloody minds of my fellow 
> FEATHERBOAS.

Percy-Crouch Jr.? I'm not that cruel. But it is interesting that 
Percy choose Crouch Sr. to look up to as almost a father figure, 
something Crouch Jr. never dreamed of doing. 

Now, Chapter 9. 

"Did you get them, Dad?" said Bill sharply. "The person who conjured 
the Mark?"

which indicates that Bill knows what the Mark is. It's Ron who asks 
all the questions in the net bit, and I think it's correct to assume 
that Percy and Charlie aren't in the dark.

Bill, though, is a fountain of information on the subject. After all, 
he was at Hogwarts back in those days.

Now, how about this line.

"The terror it inspired ... you have no idea, you're too young. Just 
picture coming home, and finding the Dark Mark hovering over your 
house, and knowing what you're about to find inside ..." Mr. Weasley 
winced. 'Everyone's worst fear ... the very worst ..."

"There was silence for a moment."

Missing Weasley children anyone? 

And, if they do exist, I don't think the younger children know. It's 
not a healthy response to death but people do it. I remember reading 
a biography of G.K. Chesterton's... When he and his brother Cecil 
were very young, their sister died of some childhood sickness, and in 
grieving their father took down all her pictures, refused to have her 
name mentioned in the house, and wouldn't tolerate any mention of 
sickness or death. Chesterton said that he remembered her only 
slightly, and as a child had a vague idea that she fell off a horse 
and was killed. 

Now, how if Percy has a vague idea, and the others are in the 
darkness?

Eileen