[HPforGrownups] the twins are two people! and Percy- a little odd?

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48955

In a message dated 29/12/2002 16:53:36 Eastern Standard Time, 
urbana at charter.net writes:


> Okay, so maybe they are the most outstanding pranksters at Hogwarts :-
> ) Percy as a prefect makes sense to me - but Fred and George (singly 
> or together) do not. Just my opinion.
> 

Ron says in PS that his brothers are do really well at school. GRanted, Forge 
and Gred do not get as many OWLs as Mrs Weasley would have liked, but there 
is nothing other than that in the cannon to suggest that  they are not as 
good of students as their brothers. I don't rightly think that either will be 
made a prefect. As Mrs Weasley points out when Percy becomes the humungous 
bighead, I mean Head Boy, Hogwarts "hasn't made them prefects yet." 

It's the "yet" in her statment that makes me think there is a possibility.The 
only reason I say this is that a Prefect is a leader to their house. Now, 
Fred and George may not always be the best student or the best in their 
judgement, however, they are exceptionally well liked by their fellow 
Gryffindors... this makes them each somewhat of a candidate as their peers 
are more likely to listen to and respect someone they "get on with well", 
rather than a pompous person that they dislike.

I don't think either of the twins will be prefects, mind you. But, I must 
say, I adore them in comparison to mister pompous humungous bighead- Percy. 
Percy has always struck me as an oddity in the Weasley family. Mr Weasley is 
somewhat of a rule breaker- just look at the loopholes he writes in the 
Muggle Artefact Laws <wink>. Mrs Weasley, although much more the 
diciplinarian of the family also seems to be a bit fun hearted. Charlie seems 
to have a bit of his father in him as I don't think the prim and proper type 
would do well with dragons. And Bill... well... Bill has long hair and 
earring- bit of a rebel rouser, if you ask me ;). Ron, well, we all know Ron 
is a great strategist, but he is also a rule breaker. 

Percy is the only one in the family, aside from using an empty classroom to 
kiss on Penelope, who doesn't have that fun loving, rule breaking quality. He 
is a line tower and he thinks station is far more important than fun, IMHO. 
Look at the way he handles himself with Mr Crouch. Instead of correcting 
Crouch on his name, instead of standing up for himself at all, he takes 
it.... He also takes cauldrons very seriously, as I yield to his brothers' 
opinions of his behaviour.

So, I suppose what I am asking with this ramble is if anyone else feels that 
Percy is the odd man of the family?

-Snuffles, feeling very nonlinear ;)


"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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