[HPforGrownups] My Most Annoying Character

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 180040

eggplant107 wrote:
> Without a doubt my most annoying character is Percy, nobody else even
> comes close. I just dont understand his purpose in life. If the man
> had never existed how would the series be poorer?
> 
> After 6 books JKR set things up perfectly to make a very very good
> subplot where he betrays Harry and his entire family; but instead
> Percy turns out to be yet another good Weasley, as if we didnt
> already have enough of them. If I could ask JKR one question it would
> be, did you ever consider doing the right thing and make Percy evil? I
> think Percy is the biggest lost opportunity in the entire series, he
> could have been one of the highlights of the last book, but now he is
> just a fifth wheel.
> 
> Eggplant       
> 

Not to mention that if she'd played by her own rules, Percy should have 
been in Slytherin with all that ambition.

But one of JKR's problems is she just could not bring herself to have a 
bad Weasley. Same as Harry could never lose a quidditch game through his 
own mistake.

Irene