Connection between books 2 and 6

[Rob]

No: HPFGUIDX 113315

Empooress writes:

> >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.

If my memory is correct, that was shortly after Ron and Harry had 
run into Percy's girlfriend Penelope Clearwater.  As was pointed out 
earlier, and explained by Ginny (I think?) near the end of CoS, they 
had been meeting dowen there for a bit of lovers' privacy, and I 
don't think there is any ecidence extant to suggest anything else.

Kim writes:

> I also think that the fact Harry discovers that Lucius Malfoy is 
> hanging on to a bunch of Voldemort's old stuff will resurface and 
> become quite important.  Sure, it marks Lucius as a prime 
supporter 
> of Voldemort and is highly important to CoS in the end, but I 
would 
> be surprised if it didn't also turn out to be one of those "clues" 
> that ends up more important in later books.

I think Kim is begging the question here.  That Malfoy has a bunch 
of LV's stuff wasn't just "highly important to CoS," it was 
fundamental to the plot.  Given that we now know Malfoy is a DE and 
Voldemort is alive,  I see no clue here.  At best JKR can use this 
as a stash of DA gizmos for future colour.  For example:

 RW:  I can't believe we made it out of there alive!

 HG:  What I wan't to know is where Malfoy could have got that thing.

 HP:  I bet you he got it from his Dad's stash of... [Darn, the 
scene practically writes itself!]

Anyway, I'm sure you'll get the gist of what I'm saying here!

Rob