Connection between books 2 and 6

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 113292

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kim McGibony <empooress at y...> 
wrote:
> Rebecca:
> 
> > Did we ever come to a consensus on what the
> important bit from book 
> > 2 was?
> 
> 
> Having read on JKR's web site that the connection
> involves something that Harry "discovers" in COS is
> important in HBP, I reread COS the one thing that
> Harry discovers is Percy roaming the dungeons. And
> considering that Scabbers was Percy's pet, well I'm
> thinking that Percy is gonna turn out to be a bad seed
> even more so than in OotP.
> Empooress

I think the implication in Percy roaming the dungeons was that he 
was off on an illicit tryst with his Ravenclaw girlfriend Penelope 
Clearwater. I could be wrong. 
Meri