[HPforGrownups] Re: Percy...

[Shannon]

No: HPFGUIDX 106974




>Magda said:
>Do people really see Percy as ambitious?  I don't.  He doesn't crave
>power - he craves recognition.

I think Percy is ambitious, yes. It's a different kind of ambition that 
Lucius Malfoy has, granted.  He does want power, but I don't think he 
understands what that means.  I agree, Percy is about being important.  We 
see it from the first moment we meet him, the new Puffed Up Prefect.  He 
lords his knowledge and status over everyone else, and is *very* put out 
when it isn't acknowledged.  He wants power and he wants recognition and 
praise for it.  They come hand in hand as far as he's concerned, I think.

>Magda said:
>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.

I do feel badly for him, actually, even though I don't like him.  He's a 
mess, really.  Even though I wanted to smack him around a lot in OotP (and 
elsewhere for that matter), I do understand why he feels the way he 
does.  I'll be very interested to see what happens to him in the last two 
books.

Shannon

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