Neville vs. the DEs, Percy challenge, the brave, FIRE, Snape, puns, sermon

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 35837

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> Seriously, if the Crouch Junior Gang had tortured Neville, wouldn't 
we have 
> heard about it?  There's Crouch Sr., ranting about how this is the 
most 
> heinous crime they've seen, and dying to send them all to Azkaban to 
rot, 
> and he neglects to mention the most heinous thing they've done?

A hit, a hit. I do confess it. Neville was not tortured, it seems. All 
right, I'll retreat to fourth man Avery with remorse interfering and 
protecting Neville. :-)


> Here's a challenge to Percy-lovers (like Penny doesn't have enough 
to do): 
> compile a list of *positive* Percy moments.  I like Percy against 
all 
> reason, but the more I reread, the more evident it is that JKR 
doesn't like 
> him and doesn't intend her readers to.  The thing I like least about 
Percy 
> is, in fact, that he's very cartoonishly written.  Not as bad as 
Lockhart, 
> but up there.  He bustles, he says things pompously, he looks 
smug--almost 
> every time we see him he's given a negative valuation.

I had made a large list, then the computer crashed. So, then I 
wandered about the web to see if anyone agreed with me, and spent the 
next half hour reading excerpts from Percy angst fan-fics that had me 
laughing so hard I began to cry. And then once you've started crying 
you start really to cry. And then you start laughing at yourself. But, 
heaven help us, these fanfic writers really want to load Percy with 
problems, don't they?

A few positive Percy moments.

1. "A genius, but mad yes." A certified joke.
2. The bet with Penny. More a Fred and George thing, if you think 
about it.
3. Rushing off to fight that mob in GoF and coming back with the 
bloodied nose.
4. Concern for Ginny in CoS.
5. His reaction after Penny is petrified.
6. His boasting of Ron at the end of SS/PS.
7. Rushing out to Ron at the end of the Second Task.

These are the ones that spring to mind, but as I mentioned, I lost my 
complete list with commentary, and all this Percy angst has befuddled 
me. 

Eileen, off to find a non-angsty Percy fanfic