TBAY/OoP: Ashes to Ashes

[jillily3g]

No: HPFGUIDX 65071

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at c...> 
wrote:
> George mopped his brow as a chorus of sniffles rose from the 
> crowd.  "No, we must accept it for in the end we have no other 
> choice.  Percy.  *Is.*  Evil.  But we must not grieve.  It is 
better > this way.  Percy is now a threat to the Order.  He must be 
regarded > with great suspicion in the next books.  He breaks the 
pattern of > having each Weasley being just a little too good, a 
little too able > to resist temptation."  
> "All right," George said briskly, closing OoP with a snap.  "Our 
work  here is finished.  But there is always hope, brothers and 
sisters,  there is always hope.  P.I.N.E. exists no more, and we 
must accept  it.  But now we have something better:  'P.I.E. -– 
Percy.  Is.  Evil.  After all, that's the way Percy would have 
wanted it."


Not having the imagination to create what so many in TBAY have, I 
just want to slip in these questions: What if Percy is a little bit 
like Hagrid and his "interesting" creatures? What if he's not ESE, 
but Ever So Stupid in his grasping for power (and is the power so 
far of a jump from Ron's money issues?)? Percy has always seemed to 
me to be one of those people who has tunnel vision for a single 
goal, which makes him unable to take in the Big Picture or even to 
relate to people ("Percy, however, held out his hand solemnly as 
though he and Harry had never met and said, 'Harry. How nice to see 
you.'"  and "'I hope you're well?' said Percy pompously, shaking 
hands. It was rather like being introduced to the mayor." p. 62 PoA 
US ed.)


I do like P.I.E, though. There's so much that could be done with it! 
(non-humble P.I.E, crow P.I.E, or! Goblin P.I.E. to go with Fudge??)

Beth, cautiously toeing the water