The Greek tragedy of the Weasley family

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 80056

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vecseytj" <vecseytj at t...> wrote:
 and Percy as Antigone is
> a streach, because Antigone was not just concerned about the birds
> picking her brothers bones it was his very soul that she was concerned
> about.  She didn't want him to never rest in peace, so I also took
> Antigone as expressing more of a religous motivation.  She was obeying
> her religous, laws, not the kings law.  

Drat, seems my point didn't come out the way I wanted it to. No, Percy
isn't Antigone by any kind of stretch, rather he'd side with the king.
The dilemma is similar in that both sides in the conflict are
convinced that they are doing The Right Thing.

Percy wants power, yes, but at the same time he's probably smugly and
genuinely convinced that he is doing The Right Thing and that
Dumbledore is wrong in trying to destabilise wizarding society. Why
would JKR otherwise describe him as "fussy about rule-breaking" (GOF,
"Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes")? In OOP he's an opportunist, but he's a
moralist too.

Alshain the Sleepyhead