Percy and the Twins (was: Weasley Types (was Molly an...

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 125673


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
 
> --------------------------------------
> Sherrie again:
>  
> Given that prejudice against Muggleborns seems to reach rather high 
into  
> Wizarding society - and into the upper reaches of the Ministry - 
I'd taken the  
> lack of mention to indicate that Percy had dumped her to keep their 
> relationship  from hindering his upward molbility within the 
Ministry.
>  
> Just my 2 Knuts - as ever, YMMV.

Hickengruendler:

Why? Isn't it possible, that they just broke up, like most school 
times do at some time? Granted, it's a bit different in the Potter 
world, with Lily/James and Arthur/Molly being married, but still it's 
nothing unusual to break with your teenage girlfriend.

IMO, Percy has a worse reputation than he deserves. Granted, he has 
some grave faults, for example a complete lack of of humor. But when 
reading some scenes of the books, I frequently get more annoyed by 
the twins, because they always teased him. My opinion is, that if you 
know someone who lacks the ability to laugh at himself, then you 
should let him in peace and seek some victims, who share your sense 
of humor. And at least by book 4 the twins should have been old 
enough to realize this. Or maybe it is because the twins are 
generally liked in fandom, because they are nice and charming people, 
and I tend to feel sorry for the outsider, but if I were Percy, I 
would have run away from these brothers, too. And I think, just like 
book 5 made clear, how cruel and heartless James Potter and Sirius 
(yes, I know, they were teenagers) could be, we will learn in later 
books that the twins can be similarly awful, if we see it through the 
eyes of the victim.

And we shouldn't forget, that Percy very probably didn't know how 
gravely wounded Arthur was. The morning after Harry's dream it was 
already clear, that Arthur would survive. And I don't think that 
Percy knew about the incident at this time, since the Weasleys had 
other things to worry about at this point. Therefore when Percy 
learned about it, he probably only heard that ARthur was wounded on 
the leg. Still it wasn't nice to ignore his family and not to visit 
Arthur, but it's not that Mr Weasley was still on his deathbed when 
Percy learned, what happened.

Hickengruendler