[HPforGrownups] Re: Percy Weasley under Lucius' Imperius Curse?

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 85439


--- erinellii <erinellii at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Rebecca Stephens <rsteph1981 at y...> wrote:
>   I'm not saying that
> > what he believes is inconsistant (though it is)
> but
> > that his behavior is inconsistent.  In GOF, he
> > believed "Crouch."  But he was very cool and
> unruffled
> > and dignified.  In OOTP he is excited and
> emotional
> > and frankly very weird.  That's the incosistant
> part
> > to me.
> 
> Erin:
> Cool, unruffled, and dignified?  What about during
> the Quidditch 
> World Cup?  Here, I'll quote some lines:
> 
> "Mr. Crouch?" said Percy, suddenly abandoning his
> look of poker-stiff 
> disapproval and positively writhing with excitement.
> 
> and
> 
> "Mr. Crouch!" said Percy breathlessly, sunk into a
> kind of half-bow 
> that made him look like a hunchback. "Would you like
> a cup of tea?"
> 
> and
> 
> Percy jumped to his feet so often that he looked as
> though he were 
> trying to sit on a hedgehog.  When Cornelius Fudge,
> the Minister of 
> Magic himself, arrived, Percy bowed so low that his
> glasses fell off 
> and shattered. Highly embarrassed, he repaired them
> with his wand and 
> thereafter remained in his seat, throwing jealous
> looks at Harry, 
> whom Cornelius Fudge had greeted like an old friend.
> 
> 
> Erin:
> Don't get me wrong, I like Percy, but his behavior
> is consistant.  It 
> has progressed to new heights in OoP, but you can't
> say the 
> groundwork wasn't laid.
> 
> Erin
> 

Yes, but he was *trying* to act professional.  He's
offering tea and trying to impress the boss. But he
isn't scanning the news that'll send his old
headmaster to jail "joyfully."  He's just trying to
impress the boss.  

It doesn't seem the same to me.  


Rebecca

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