On the perfection of moral virtues/Snape and some Ron as well

[hickengruendler]

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> Betsy Hp:
> Okay, so I'm ignoring the rest of your post to zero in on this one 
> aspect. And sadly, it's not really that I think you're wrong plot-
> wise.  I think it a high probability that as per JKR Percy is the 
one 
> in the wrong here.
> 
> But, IMO, Arthur is the one who should be apologizing.  His son 
comes 
> home with news of a promotion.  A promotion that occurs after his 
son 
> has been the main focus of the MoM witch hunt (hmm, I think I'll 
say 
> I intended that pun <eg>) and Arthur has the audacity to suggest 
> Percy didn't *earn* that promotion?  To suggest that it's all a 
> wicked plot for the MoM to spy on the Weasley family?  Too right 
> Percy felt offended!  Did Arthur ever do anything to help Percy out 
> at the MoM?  Did Arthur offer any support when Percy was being 
> grilled about Crouch?  Not as far as canon shows.
> 
> And *of course* Percy left his home and family.  He's just been 
told 
> he only has his job because the MoM are using him as a patsy to 
bring 
> his family down.  The only way to prove his father wrong is to make 
> that accusation impossible.
> 
> So yeah, unless Percy's apology is along the lines of, "Sorry Dad 
> that you're so damn paranoid and possibly even jealous you couldn't 
> be happy for me and instead had to make ugly accusations," I hope 
he 
> doesn't make one.  But, I'm doubting JKR feels the same way. <g>
> 
> Betsy Hp (still hoping for spy!Percy in the end)
>

Hickengruendler:

I agree with you up to a certain point. I know, that during my first 
reading of this scene I definitely felt sorry for Percy and wondered 
what happened to Arthur's usually pretty diplomatic self. But 
(ignoring the spy possibility for a moment, which while rereading the 
books I found more unlikely since I once did, mostly because Percy to 
me seems like the most honest person in the entire books. I can't see 
him being a spy for anybody, sinc ethis varrants a level of 
sneakiness and an ability to act, which I don't see in Percy at all), 
what about his later behaviour? I know that you don't like Molly 
much, but what happened between Arthur and Percy was not her fault 
and she tried to keep contact with her son. Whatever her flaws are, 
she does not deserve to have a door slammed in her face by Percy. 
Same is true for not visiting Arthur after the snake bite, though I 
see the possibility of him hearing from the bite inly after Arthur's 
life wasn't in danger anymore.

Hickengruendler, who likes Percy and can somewhat understand him 
leaving the other Weasleys, but still thinks that his later actions 
varrant some apology as well