[HPforGrownups] Re: Why is Percy in Gryffindor?

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 144663

sistermagpie wrote:
> I think Percy's leaving his family is about something other than 
> simple lust for power and ambition, as is his love of Crouch.  In 
> fact, reading GoF it's sort of interesting to parallel Percy and 
> Barty, especially given that Percy also had a troubled relationship 
> with his own father and wound up "on the other side" from him, just 
> not a DE.  

Bart:
	I think that Percy has been portrayed as having an almost fetishistic 
(is that a word?) regard for following the rules, ignoring the fact that 
rules are methods of solving problems, and not independent entities. His 
love of the rules is greater than his love of his family; when he sees 
his family operating outside of "proper channels", to him, his famly has 
abandoned him, rather than vice versa.

	Bart