OOP: Percy

[iana_abadi]

No: HPFGUIDX 66199

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jennifer.r.junker at w... wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jennifer.r.junker at w... wrote:
> Snip "Secondly, I was also not pleased with Percy's behavior in 
OOP, but I 
> understood where he was coming from.  He's always been ambitious 
and 
> proud of his accomplishments.  Why would he give that up?  
Especially 
> when he was achieving success where his father never has." nip
> 
> Well, there its one thing to not agree with your family- and another
> Thing to disown them.  Percy knows his mother- and knows how much 
distress
> His actions would cause her.  And if I'm remembering correctly he 
didn't
> Even show up when his dad was in the hospital after V's attack. To 
me this
> Is more then pride and ambition- it a serious flaw in Percy's 
character that
> will
> Have to be addressed, I think, before he can be fully reconciled 
with the
> Weasleys.
> 
> Jennifer

One question I've had when reading all of the P.I.N.E. and P.I.E. 
posts, is how did Percy get this way?  I understand his not having a 
lot of money and power making him want some, but his father and 
brothers show a complete lack of ambition, his mother and sister seem 
happy with what they have.  Fred and George are the only Weasley 
brothers who have ambition (although it's not the right kind, 
according to Mrs. Weasley) other than him.  What gives?  How can 
Percy be so different from the rest of his family?  Is there 
something afoot here?

Jordan