Percy Ignatius Weasley

[Ilo Gica]

No: HPFGUIDX 83592

Mary Jo:
 
> 2.  Could St. Ignatius of Loyola be somehow a model for Percy?  I 
know that St. Ignatius of Loyola was originally a soldier, and when 
he was an invalid from wounds received during battle, he read a book 
about the life of a saint, and decided to try to be a saint himself.  
Does this part of his life represent ambitious Percy?  St. Ignatius 
later said that the biggest and most important thing he had to learn 
was humility.  Are we going to see Percy humbled?  Or is he in 
reality already an undercover spy? The order St. Ignatius did 
institute became famous for its excellent education and teaching of 
logic.  Perhaps this is an indication that Percy will end up as the 
teacher at Hogwarts.
> 
> I am not fully satisfied with any of these ideas.  Does anyone else 
think that his middle name is somehow a clue?

I know i´m just a lowly newbie with very poor English skills but I 
think I have to speak my mind on this subject:

St. Ignatius lived in a time of revolutions. A time of espiritual 
crisis. The Church was splitted into many other churches and so on. 
Apart from the Protestant Reform, the Catholic church went into a 
Reform as well. And St. Ignatius played an important part there when 
he founded the Jesuits. The Pope wasn't as important as he used to 
be. He lost a lot of his power and credibility. One of the traits of 
the Jesuits is their almost fanatical obbedience to the Pope. As I 
see it, the name Ignatius means that in a period of great crisis 
(Voldemort´s return to be exact), Percy would stick up fanatically 
for the Minister of Magic, to the point of leaving everything behind, 
rejecting his own family.

I doubt there are deeper meanings regarding Wizarding religions. 
JKR´s point was something less complicated.

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