Percy joke / grandparents / life-debt / Florence

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No: HPFGUIDX 36076

Amy Z wrote:

> Elkins again:
> > The pomposity and the puffing and the self-aggrandizement all
> > seem to be how Percy responds to feeling insecure and unhappy.
> I agree, and hereby declare this Be Nice to Percy Week (slogan: A 
> Happy Percy is a Less Pompous Percy).

Well, "Wood's Keeper" has done his part by getting Percy laid. (
Fanfic reference)

Jen Fer wrote:

> Where are the grandparents?

Well, Susan Bones's grandparents are the Bones who were mentioned by 
Hagrid as having been murdered by Voldemort, like the Potters, 
Prewetts, and McKinnons. 

http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/ found the citation: 
http://www.yahooligans.com/content/chat/jkrowlingchat.html 
"Q: asks: There is a girl named Susan Bones who was sorted in the 
first book and there was a family called the Bones that Voldemort 
tried to destroy, is this a coincidence or will Harry meet her in 
future books?
jkrowling_bn: Susan Bones' grandparents were killed by Voldemort!"

Anna St. Bacchus wrote:

> It's rather fascinating that he has been a
> Death Eater, which implies a total lack of morality ala
> Voldemort's own philosophy, yet chooses to honor his
> life-debt to James Potter even though he despised James.

"When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it creates a certain 
bond between them... "
"This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable"

Maybe the life-debt between wizards is a law of nature rather than a 
law of ethics... I mean, it's like magnetism or gravity or a chemical 
reaction... I'm not explaining this at all well, but if an unpaid 
wizarding life-debt acts automatically on the debtor, then 
self-interest might well motivate the debtor to try to get it paid as 
soon as possible. There was some speculation recently that Crouch Jr 
owed life-debt to his father for rescuing him from Azkaban and, far 
from paying the debt, he *killed* the creditor, and the abused 
life-debt compelled him to make conventional Evil Overlord mistakes, 
such as being so entranced by the sound of his own voice speechifying 
at Harry that he didn't notice Dumbledore, et alia coming to catch 
him and rescue Harry.

Jedi Knight Jo wrote:

> Who is Florence?

When Harry sees Dumbledore looking into his Pensieve and seeing 
Bertha Jorkins, the image of Bertha as a teen-ager rises from the 
Pensieve and says something about: "He hexed me, sir! And all I did 
was tell him I'd seen him kissing Florence behind the greenhouses!"
and something indicating that Bertha had deliberately followed 'him' 
and Florence to spy on them behind the greenhouse. Dumbledore mourns: 
"But why, Bertha, did you have to follow him?" It looks like just 
Dumbledore remembering a past example of Bertha getting herself into 
trouble by snooping, as parallel to her getting herself killed by 
snooping into Pettigrew when she ran into him in Albania. But people 
who theorize that *nothing* JKR says is just a throw-away line are 
speculating on what the great revelation about Florence will be.