Percy's House

[yairadubin]

No: HPFGUIDX 78571

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "princesspeaette" 
<princesspeaette at y...> wrote:
> Forgive me if this has been discussed, I searched and always came 
up 
> with either 1500 messages or 0 (darn the Yahoo powers that be!)
> 
> 
> 
> Why isn't Percy in Slytherin?  
> 
> If the defining charcteristic of Slytherins is "use any means to 
> achieve their ends" (Percy sending back his mum's sweater, that's 
> just wrong!) "Power hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition" 
> (definitly sounds like Percy) and the Weasleys are pureblood 
wizards 
> as far back as anyone can remember, shouldn't he be?  
> 
> He seems like the type who's always wanted to be in the MoM, even 
> before Hogwarts.  
> 
> I think JKR may have missed her chance for 'the good slytherin' 
here 
> (assuming he shows some major redeeming qualities, including an 
> apology for the sweater, in the last two books, until then, I'm 
> counting him as evil-by-lack-of-goodness)
> 
> 
> ~Margaret 
> who hopes Percy comes back and if not, hopes he's the Weasley who 
> dies (if one really has to)

Um, don't you think having Percy in Slytherin while all the rest of 
the Weasleys were in Gryffindor would have looked a little suspicious 
in the first books when we didn't know he would turn traitor?  It 
would have ruined the plot twist in OOTP!  Also, a major subplot of 
the HP books has been Ron's overwhemling need to live up to his 
brothers.  If one of them had been in Slytherin already, it wouldn't 
have been such a big deal.  Just a few points I wanted to bring up.
                                Luv, 
                                  *Yaira*