CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 14, Percy and Padfoot

[hermionekitten9]

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6. We know now that Percy's letter wasn't written under a
curse, nor was it a matter of him trying to keep under
cover as a double-agent. Why would it have mattered if
the letter arrived during breakfast? Students don't read
one another's mail. Does he think one letter from the
estranged family member can turn Ron against all his
friends and family?


Kitten.
I would like to think that percy is a spy for the order. For no 
other reason than to throw it in the twin's face's in the next 
book "Yes, I was a spy Feorge and Gred... what did you two do? Put a 
whoopee-cushion on someone's chair?" and I don't know why you
don't think it could happen. Call me crazy but, I love percy in all 
his pompous glory, a lot more then I liked the twins. In all the 
books never once did I think he was an ungrateful little snot, full 
of hot air... yes, snot... no. I always felt very sorry for him. He 
was always working hard, and doing what he was suppose to do just to 
be shot down. first by the twins, Ron, Ginny, who never took him 
seriously, then the ministry (I could never figure out how Percy was 
suppose to know that crouch was under the imperious curse) and 
finally his own father. I just can't see how people can hate a 
person who had to write a letter to his parents after his little 
sister was taken in a secret chamber, or who ran out to meet his 
little brother and friend after a triwizard task, I think we should 
give Percy a little more faith.


Jo S
>Er...."crap all over him just like they always do"? Where exactly
>is the support for this statement; ie (apart from Fred & George)
>when has Percy's family ever treated him badly? Was it when he got
>the new owl for being a prefect, or perhaps when he was the only one
>to have his own room? My impression of Percy's place in the family
>is that he got more privileges and parental support than all the
>rest put together. I very much blame him for being mad, the
>ungrateful little snot <g>!

kitten,
He *never* was more privileged or had more parental support then the 
rest put together, didn't Ron get a new broom for becoming prefect? 
Wasen't Molly and Arthur just as proud of that as when Percy was 
made headboy?  

Ron also has *his* own room, with a big plaque on his door that 
say's "Ronald's Room" and everything. I'm just assuming but I'm sure 
that ginny, being the only girl, has her own room also. In the 
fourth book, Ron and Ginny had to share because they had more people 
staying at the burrow Bill, Charley, Hermione, and Harry. Percy 
*did* have to work, granted his work may have seemed stupid (like 
his own family thought)and percy did puff up like a peacock because 
of it, but it was work, he wasn't on vacation, or home from school, 
with abundant leisure time to goof off, I would have let percy have 
his own room too.

Kitten 
who thinks that if Molly wanted to reconcile with her son, she could 
have done more then send a sweater.