Percy question

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No: HPFGUIDX 79131

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> Susan:"[Will Percy apologize to his family?]This is a very interesting
> question.  ~snip~
> My money says Percy will come back.  
> 
> I actually think this was Percy's rebellion.  Like Ron, he was
> embarrassed at being poor and wanted to do better.  Percy looked at
> his eccentric father and saw Arhur holding back the whole family
> because Arthur is his own man; so Percy decided he was going to go
> along to get along – and it seemed to work, for a while.
> 
> Now Percy's having the wrongness of it stuffed down his throat. 
> Dumbledore and Harry, who he repudiated, and his own brother and
> sister, from the family he rejected, have won a victory over the Dark
> Side and disgraced the man he was sucking up to.  They're heroes and
> Percy's a lacky.  Percy's not stupid, and he doesn't need a weatherman
> to know which way the wind is blowing.  But more important, I don't
> think Percy's evil.
> 
> What Percy also is is the unredeemed Hermione.  She was like him in
> many ways when she arrived at Hogwarts, and she could have gone the
> same way as him, but her friendship with Harry and Ron transformed her
> more wonderfully than any of the other characters.  Among the great
> she is, and Percy must look at her and see in her the moral center and
> courage that he lacks.  All his life he depended on higher authority
> and all the rules he could find to guide his life, and it's stopped
> working.  It's got to be a really bleak feeling.
> 
> But again, he's a Weasley, and I think that's what will save him in
> the end.  It's also likely to be his death.  It wouldn't surprise me
> to see Percy give himself up as part of his redemption.  It might be
> too conventional for JKR, but I think we will see Redeemed!Percy.
> 
> Jim Ferer

Well, I tried to snip... but, I've left most of your post Jim (good
post by the way) I think that Percy *doesn't* like his family.  I
think that Percy, would have *Loved* to be an only child.  I think
that Percy has been looking for an excuce to drop his family for
years. *And* I think Percy feels this way because *none* (except
Molly) of his family respect him, listen to him, or even *like* him...
and I don't think he likes them either.  As soon as Percy had an
excuse he bolted, and I don't think he is coming back.  No one found
cauldrin thickness interesting (gasp, those idiots! hisses Percy). <g>
And when Percy's father *DARED* to tell Percy the *truth*. Percy
*exploded*!  Why?  Because here was Percy's *BIG* chance he was going
to be higher up than his *own* father! His family *had* to respect him
*NOW*... but nope Dad tells him the truth (lies hisses Percy!)<g> and
what happens? Percy runs away.

Percy made his choices, just like Hermione made hers to be friends
with Harry and Ron.  The choice Harry made to be in Gryfondor and not
slythern.  The choice Sirius made to go to The MoM and help Harry...
and to die, fighting evil.  Our choices are what make us.  And Percy
made a *very* BIG choice in OOP.  His father was at deaths door, and
he never even sent a note.  And I don't think that Molly is going to
forget that one real quick.  I think the one who is not going to
accept Percy back *is* Molly.  She loved him the most.  The others
just toloriated him becasue he was there brother... when and IF Percy
ever came back... the rest of the family will shrug and say.. "Hi
Percy, how ya been". And go on with their lives... but, I think that
Molly is going to give him the cold sholder.  And I think that *that*
is what is going to *shock* Percy.

But, I don't think that Percy is EVIL... he has just put himself
somewhere that can never be the *same* again... even if he is a
Weasly.  Some things ya can never say "I'm sorry" enough to make
relationships close again.
Ta ta .. Tj