[HPforGrownups] Re: Pureblood attitudes and the word "racism" (Was: James...

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 106840

In a message dated 7/18/04 8:12:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
delwynmarch at yahoo.com writes:
>Del replies :
Percy was *always* presented as being wrong for being so ambitious. It
was wrong for him to be so proud to be a Prefect and then Head Boy. It
was wrong that he studied so much and pushed others to do the same. It
was wrong that he was so strict about enforcing the rules. And so on.
It was *always* wrong for Percy to be so ambitious. And pompous, let's
not forget pompous, or rather let's not *forgive* pompous, should I
say ;-)

I mean, *honestly*, who *ever* thought that the Twins should leave
Percy alone ? Who ever disagreed with their opinion of him ? Hum ?
Which comes as rather ironic now, considering that we've discovered
that they are just as ambitious as he is, just not in the same way.

Del<

I agree that Percy is pompous and that we see this through Ron and the Twins. 
I have two brothers, one older, one younger. Both tried to tell me what to 
do, and as much as we loved one another, we also got on each others nerves and 
bickered. Both Ron and the Twins have heard Percy on and on about how important 
he is, and being in the same family they liked it when he was brought down a 
notch. We have several pages of canon in which Harry sees how Percy acts, In 
PS/SS, Percy had Harry sit next to him after the sorting. In COS, it was 
telling, bordering on bullying Ginny to take the cold remedy, the book he was 
reading in the Junk shop, Hogwarts Prefects who Gained Power, and taking points from 
Ron. In POA, I am Head Boy, enough said. GOF, at the Quidditch match he stood 
for all the ministry people who came by their tents, thinking that a report 
on the thickness of cauldron bottoms was the most important thing, and in OOTP 
when he can't even visit his father in St Mungos, and his letter to Ron that 
certain people mean more than others, that to me is not an ambitious person, it 
is someone who has no morals and no loyalty towards others. That is where I 
find Percy at this point, and he is dangerously close to being manipulated into 
a source for Voldemort. 

Batchevra


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