OOP: Re: Percy

[Melissa Worcester]

No: HPFGUIDX 65593

I'm of two minds when it comes to Percy. Or maybe even three.

The two most likely, are:

We find out that over the summer before Harry's year 6, Percy was told by Fudge that V. had come back and we're told by Ron that Percy made up with his parents and all is now well.

OR

It turns out that Percy is under the imperious curse and is following the orders of some a ministry employee that we find out at the end of book 6 is truly a death eater whose identity wasn't previously discovered.

The third one is the nasty idea that Percy actually chooses the dark side, and I hope that's not true.

But, I was re-reading SS tonight, aloud to my younger son who has seen the movie but never heard the book. Two things jumped out at me from the chapter involving the train to Hogwarts.

First, while Ron, Fred and George all called Mrs. Weasley "Mom" (I wondered if the British editon says "Mum" since that's definitely what they call her in OoP, but that's getting away from my point...), Percy called her "Mother." He sounds pompous even then, coming to say good-bye but "I can't stay long, the prefects have reserved 2 cars toward the front of the train." or something to that effect. But it was the difference between Mom and Mother that I wanted to highlight.

Then, it is revealed, as you probably all know full well, but which I had forgotten, that Scabbers was Percy's rat before he was Ron's. I wonder if somehow, he had some influence on Percy. I also wonder when exactly he came to be part of the Weasley household. It's assumed he was there since right after he disappeared and was assumed dead. One of the other posts said that Percy would have been about 4 years old when Voldemort lost power, so maybe he had the rat as a pet well before he was at Hogwarts, and was in a more impressionable age than Ron was when he became Ron's pet.

I'm sure this has already been beaten to death, but I thought I'd bring it up anyway.

Melissa