[HPforGrownups] Re: Undercover Percy

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 81001


--- Kelly <keltobin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Deirdre wrote:
> > First, doesn't Undercover Percy sound like a FILK
> set to Alan 
> O'Day's
> > "Undercover Angel"?
> > 
> > But I digress.  I think the Percy-is-a-git theme
> has been building 
> since
> > Book One.  He's made out to be a laughing stock
> almost every time 
> he comes
> > into the book.  I was very satisfied with his
> portrayal in OoP 
> because it
> > seemed the next logical step in his development as
> a character.   
> <SNIP>
> 
> I agree.  One thing that I have always been
> impressed by in these 
> books is the diversity of the characters.  Saying
> that Percy has to 
> be good because he is a Weasley is the same as
> saying that Sirius had 
> to be secretly bad because he is a Black.  There are
> "bad eggs" in 
> the best of families (and vice versa).  Percy's
> actions in OoTP were 
> exactly what I expected to happen before the book
> came out.  

You know, the majority of people are not saying Percy
has to be good because he's a Weasley.  We are saying
that the he seems vastly out of character in OOTP and
this is a possible, or probable, reason.


Rebecca

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