Percy- a little odd?

[beccafran <rbroeker@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48977

I agree with the bboy_mn's (long) post about Percy and his role 
within the Weasley family, but I wanted to add something as well. We 
see in the books how much trouble Ron has living up to his older 
brothers. Percy does not have *as many* brothers to live up to, but 
he does have to deal with a much more recent memory of Bill (good 
looking, charming Head Boy) and Charlie (Quidditch star), the two 
most "perfect" of the Weasley children. To me, it is likely that in 
trying to find his own identity and role within the family, Percy 
tried to differentiate himself from his older brothers as much as 
possible. This is how he wound up with the "good boy" role.

BeccaFran


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> bboy_mn:
> 
> We all have roles we play in our family dynamic. Percy plays the 
role
> of 'The Good Boy'.  And he does rebel, when you are in a family of
> rebels, you rebel by being a conformist. 
> 
> The Good Boy Syndrome-
> Percy is determined to be a 'good boy'; to do everything right, to
> make his mother proud, to not be a burden on her, to not cause her 
any
> trouble or grief, to show his brothers how a decent person acts.
> 
> But at the same time he is desperately seeking approval. He wants
> people to notice him, to see that he is being good, that he is doing
> everything right. When he doesn't get that approval especially from
> his brothers whom he desperately wants to acknowledge him, he
> redoubles his efforts and tries even harder to be perfect and to be
> acknowledge for doing things good and right. But the harder he tries
> to get acknowledgement, the more obnoxious he becomes, and the more
> obnoxious he becomes, the more his brothers tease him, and the more
> his mother mothers him, and the farther away he drives the very 
people
> whose approval he wants.
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