OoP: Percy as a Slytherin? (Long) (Was: Re: OOP Percy is Not Evil)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 65339

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jenserai Bariman" 
<jenserai at h...> wrote:
> M. J. Pascual wrote:
> > > Percy's behaviour makes me think he should have been in 
Slytherin.
> 
Valky:
> >Mark, I am sold on this.
> >I have recently been thinking about the comment made by the sorting
> >hat about Ron "...another Weasley..I Know where to put you...."
> >Automatic sorting for a family hmmmmmmm.
> 

Jens:
 When does the sorting hat say that about Ron? I thought it 
> was only in TCTTMNBN or whatever the anagram is supposed to be. 
That thing with moving pictures.
>
Oops sorry you are quite right, I was quite mistaken. For a long time 
I have allowed myself to believe this was something that the movie 
had gotten right. Glad you brought it to my attention.

> >Why do the Weasleys belong in Gryffindor House? Is there something
> >more to the Weasley family we are not being told.
> >Sirius says they are "blood traitors"
> >Sirius mother screams three particular inferences in her distaste,
> >they are: "Halfbreeds,  mutants .... freaks...."
> >I want to know, is she referring directly to the people before her?
> >Because, if she is, then Harry fits the Halfbreed slur and Lupin 
the one that is Mutants, and Molly is called a *freak*.
> >I know this is very very speculative but I am wondering what makes
> >one a "freak" in the WW?
>  Then there is Rons reaction to the word "weasel". What does it all
> >mean?
> >
> >Sorting that makes no sense, purebloods who aren't like other
> >purebloods, curious references to obscure subjects that we know
> >little about????
> >
Jens:
> Some very good questions, and thank you for raising them. I had 
been a bit preoccupied with other events in the book and hadn't given 
it much thought. 
> I shall have to go over that part again and see if I can find 
anything more. 
> 
> "Percy should have been a Slytherin" theory... it makes sense. He 
> certainly fits the bill.
>I really want to get to know some more of the Slyths. They seem to 
be composed of stupid ugly people, pretty evil people, and Snape, but 
I would hope that they have a bit more variety than that. I wonder if 
it's a very common occurence within a house to have several people 
who seem like they would be better off in another. 

I mean Percy isn't the only one who seems a 
> bit out of place.
> 
Valky:
Quite right, Jens. Trying to second guess the sorting hat is almost 
as hard as going after JK herself. The thing about the sorting hat is 
that it sees more in a second than we can read in so long.
There may be more to Percy than ambition. Perhaps its just an unusual 
trait among Weasleys and thus stands outlooking to Ron etc like, for 
all the world, his strongest. When instead it is only, that it is the 
most idiosyncratic of his traits ,in comparison to his family, making 
it a stand out.
And it could be That the Weasley family is a very unusual breed.

 
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