Thoughts and Predictions-discuss (a bit long)

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48484

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" wrote:

> BBOY_MN: Something big is up with Percy too, not sure what, but
> something really big. I like you idea, and while I know people are
> going to die, I really hope it's not Percy. I want Percy to see that
> his ambition, perfection, and absolute adherence to the rules are
> hurting him. Hurting him both professionally, personally, and
> emotionally. Percy needs to take a lesson from Hermione and lighten 
up.

Percy has always struck me as something of an anomaly in the Weasley 
family. He just seems so insanely ambitious and perfectionistic 
compared to everyone else in the family (especially Gred and Forge, 
who are the WW's version of the Merry Pranksters... let's hope they 
don't put any LSD in that Ton-Tongue Taffy ;-) Percy is wound soooo 
tight, I'm almost surprised he got into Gryffindor (but he probably 
got in because he told the Sorting Hat that's where he wanted to be). 
He doesn't seem to have the instinct to "bend the rules a little when 
necessary" that other Gryffindors -- well, at least, The Trio -- 
have. I, too, hope that Percy lightens up. The whole business of him 
covering for and sucking up to Barty Crouch Sr. in GoF really 
disturbed me. I hope he doesn't side with Cornelius Fudge in Book 5; 
I think that would cause a significant rift between Percy and the 
rest of his family - and possibly many of his Hogwarts friends as 
well.

Anne U
(hoping we don't discover Evil!Percy down the road)