OOP(kinda): Houses and Percy (Was, Re: replies: OOP Posts since Release Day...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 66251

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>> Calimora wrote:
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> << Slytherin house doesn't seem to gather all of ambitious people 
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> I've always felt that Slytherin House accumulates not so much the 
> ambitious as the unscrupulous, those who aren't picky about what
> means they use to achieve their ends, even if their ends are 
> un-ambitious things like "obey Draco".


I always wondered why Percy was not sorted into Slytherin.  He 
certainly has the ambition and the will to do pretty much anything 
for power.  I never liked Percy (as my many posts on the 'Percy is 
evil' issue many moons ago can verify :) ) and I see his behaviour 
towards his family in OOP as vinidication of my position.  I am not 
seeking to reopen the Percy debate, merely trying to ascertain why 
he was put in Gryffindor.  He is not brave in the slightest, he only 
seems to want to be the favour of whoever is seen to have the most 
authority at any given time, McGonnagal and Dumbledore, then Crouch 
sr, now Fudge.  It will be interesting to see if he changes colours 
again in the next book when it seems DD will once again be the 'main 
man'.  In many ways he reminds me of Pettigrew 
(Again why Gryfindor??).  Anyway, the point here is that Percy's 
personality seems to fit more with the Slytherin ethos than that of 
Gryffindor.  
It could be that it was simply a matter that he is a Weasley who are 
all through and through Gryff's.  I know the issue of family and 
houses has arisen before, but the commonly used example of the 
Patil's in different houses is flawed.  The Hat might have simply 
been trying to avoid twin rivalry which is so common (I know of a 
few occassions when twins have been sent to different schools to 
avoid this)


-Mary 
(sorry about the long windedness!! also apologies if this has come 
up previously, I've lost touch with what was said over the last year 
or so :( )