My Most Annoying Character

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 180059

dazz_arlonsy wrote:
> <snip> I hate Percy also. He's the cause of Fred's death. Percy
shouldn't come to Hogwarts, or he could do something constructive,
such as die protecting Fred.
 
>
Carol responds:

Percy caused the wall to fall down on Fred? I was sure that the breach
was caused by DEs. Percy had just made a joke and Fred
(characteristically) died laughing, but I don't see how that's Percy's
fault. Percy helps Harry to carry Fred's body to a place where it
won't be desecrated by DEs, and he has just hit Thicknesse with a
highly creative spell that leaves him with spines sticking out of his
body when the wall falls on Fred. I thought his surprise and grief
made Fred's death one of the most poignant moments in the book,
especially since Percy had made a sincere and humble apology,
admitting to being all the things Fred called him, and been forgiven
by Fred (and George) just hours before. 

Carol, wondering irrelevantly whether today is the first or second day
of Christmas (the Christmas season)