[HPforGrownups] Re: Percy...

Magda Grantwich mgrantwich at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 19 13:28:59 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 106904

Do people really see Percy as ambitious?  I don't.  He doesn't crave
power - he craves recognition.  To paraphrase Ron (I think), Percy
wouldn't recognize power if it danced in front of him wearing Dobby's
tea cozy.  For what it's worth, neither does Fudge, who is usually
very uncomfortable when he actually has to exercise power as opposed
to simply looking powerful.  (During OOTP, this changes, but only
because Umbridge and Lucius Malfoy are busy stiffening his spine by
telling him Dumbleodre is plotting against him; there are few things
more rigid than an easy going person who feels that he's being taken
advantage of by others.)

Lucius Malfoy is ambitious.  He understands that power is getting
what you want out of other people and organizations, even if you
sometimes have to go the roundabout way to do it.  He could care less
about getting his face on the front page of the Daily Prophet on a
weekly basis.  

Fudge and Percy love recognition - the front page photos, the
speech-making opportunities, the busy work that comes from really
getting into a particular area of government administration (and yes,
cauldron bottoms ARE important - just ask Mungdungus Fletcher how
much money he'd make off illicit thin-bottomed cauldrons!).  

What Percy is looking for is recognition for his wonderfulness.  He's
climbed the establishment, approved-good-son ladder rung by rung and
reaped the benefits of Molly approval every step of the way.  And now
that he has this wonderful new job his parents have changed the rules
on him and implied that he didn't deserve it!  After all his efforts
to be the Good Son!  That's not fair!

So Percy leaves in a huge huff and spends the year sulking and
soaking up the approval of people in the MoM who are now his
replacement family.  If Percy does help the Dark Side it will be
inadvertantly and without realizing it.  Percy is not evil, not even
close to turning evil.  He's just....Percy the Prefect in the real
world.

Poor Percy.  Even prats have feelings.

Magda


		
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