Percy's House

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 78586

Hickengruendler message 78516:
>Also, we have seen that Percy is brave, when he fought the 
>Death Eaters at the Quidditch-World Cup. He didn't seem to hesistate 
>a second, when the older Weasleys went to help the Roberts family. 
>Percy has many faults, but that doesn't mean he is a coward.


*Yaira* message 78571 : 
>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!                         



Me again:

I addressed both of these in message 78499, I realize it was 
nessecary for Percy to be in Gryffindor for the defection in OoP to 
have any surprise (not that it did for me, although I'm *still* upset 
about the sweater).  If that's the only reason he was in Gryffindor, 
I think it's very weak.  I think if it was his 'choice' to be in 
Gryffindor, it was probably because he had heard Dumbledore was in 
Gryffindor.  Wouldn't Percy *love* to be in the same house as the-
only-one-Voldemort-ever-feared Dumbledore?


Why does everyone think that by saying Percy is anything but an ideal 
Gryffindor I'm calling him a coward?  I never said he was a coward, 
although I don't think he is particularly brave.  Other people 
besides Gryffindors are allowed to be brave, if they have other non-
Gryffindor qualities, they get sorted somewhere else.  But they're 
still brave.
Slytherins are not cowards, As Phineas Nigellus said:

"We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given 
the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks". (OoP pg495 
US hardcover)

Fighting the Death Eaters at the QWC can be proof of bravery, or it's 
just more proof that Percy will do anything to get in good with the 
people in power.  At the time he was Crouch Sr.'s assistant, and it 
was well known how much he detested anything to do with the Dark 
Arts. It could be brave, or it could be a calculated political move.  


Even if I can't believe out and out in PIE , PERFECT TARGET has my 
vote


~Margaret