[HPforGrownups] Percy

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 66485

bboy_mn:

>The more you post here, the more I like you. You always seem to have
>very intelligent well thought out posts, and you even occassionally
>agree with me, which is alway a bonus from my point of view.

[blush]

Just to return the compliment and say that I in turn read your posts with
interest. Although we don't put the same interpretation on everything, we
seem to have the same take on the WW on most things...

>Percy has decided that it is his role in the family to 'do the right
>thing' because according to the rules that's what your suppose to do.
>He is determeine, subconsciously, to prove that he is as good as his
>older brothers, and equally determine to show his younger brother how
>a proper Weasley should act. He is determine, not to give his parents
>any grief or make any excess demands on them (somewhat of a martyr),
>and to make them proud of him. And the more it doesn't work, the
>harder he tried to be perfect which in turn makes it work even less
>which in turn makes him more determine to do everything absolutely
>right until like all disfunctional family roles, it starts to become
>distructive.

Which in turn means that the Barty Crouch business would leave Percy not
only feeling that he'd failed Crouch and the Ministry but also failed the
"family expectations". And that would easily turn to anger at there being
"family expectations" in the first place, another reason to go off the
handle at his father when Arthur accused him of being a spy.

>In fact, the conflict between them is already resolved. Percy did what
>he thought was right and stood by the Ministry, and it has been proven
>that the Ministry was wrong; case closed. So the Percy/Weasley family
>war is over, now all they have to do is heal the wounds and sign a
>peace treaty. Don't get me wrong, the full return of Percy to the
>family will be a rough and rocky road, but the core reason for the
>battle has been resolved, so Percy has absolutely no reason to go over
>to the Dark Side.

Just one final point - the fact that Arthur was the subject of a whispering
campaign in the MoM would be another thing which would have made Percy's
life more difficult (if that was possible). Think about all those "I _hear_
that Arthur Weasley does _technology_ in his back garden. Tell me, Percy, is
it true that they dance naked round fellytones at the full moon? Ha, Ha, Ha"
and so on...

Cheers

Ffred

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