Weatherby

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 37728

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lupinesque" <lupinesque at y...> wrote:
> David wrote:
> 
> > There is an alternative explanation for the fact that Crouch calls 
> > Percy 'Weatherby'.
> 
> <impressively paranoid theory snipped>
> 
> > No, I don't believe it either.
> 
> Come on, I was right there with you!  And it explains why Percy is 
so 
> flustered when Crouch calls him that.  His cover is blown.
> 
> OK, here's a L.O.O.N.ier but more boring explanation, of sorts:  
> Percy is not yet Crouch's personal assistant (he announces his 
> promotion to that position at the Yule Ball).  He's just a very new 
> member of Crouch's department--so Crouch should know his name 
> (especially with Arthur WEASLEY, with whom he's worked probably for 
> decades, standing right there, duh), but it isn't quite so bad as 
not 
> knowing your own assistant's name.
> 
> Amy Z

Is David a Flying Hedgehog person? 

I've always thought it strange that Crouch can be talking so easily 
with Arthur, as if they've known each other for years, and then mess 
up his son's last name. If it was "Percy" that he stumbled on, calling 
him "Peter" like Draco did in CoS, I could understand. But "Weasley" 
should be a well-known name to him. 

Unless, of course, Crouch has been calling the Weasleys Weatherbys 
ever since Hogwarts, and just can't kick the habit. I know people like 
that, who get entrenched in their version of a name despite their 
will. It's not that Crouch doesn't know Percy is a Weasley, it's just 
that all Weasleys are Weatherbys, what?

Eileen