GoF CH 4-6 post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 181738

"A report for the Department of International Magical Cooperation," 
said Percy smugly. "We're trying to standardize cauldron thickness. 
Some of these foreign imports are just a shade too thin - leakages 
have been increasing at a rate of almost three percent a year" - p.56


Alla:

Okay, I could have just as easily quote something else characterizing 
Percy's activities in this chapter, but I think this one nails 
something I felt but could not express well some time ago.

Everybody knows about Arthur and Percy's fight in OOP, right? And of 
course some people feel that Arthur is the most at fault for 
criticising Percy and making insinuations that he is being made a spy 
on his family and some people feel that Percy is at fault and some 
people think that they both are.

I think this quote to me explains the best why I felt that Arthur was 
absolutely, positively 100% right and Percy is absolutely positively 
100% wrong.

No, I do not mean that Percy was wrong in trying to prepare for his 
job. Although I surely dislike his attitude about his family, that is 
a choice he IMO has a right to make, if he does not want to socialise 
with anybody else, and just wants to work.

I am saying that Percy was wrong in not seeing that Ministry IMO is 
indeed using him.

I think the topic of that report shows clearly that he was given an 
absolute nonsense to work with, nothing important, that he is not 
being valued at all. Cauldron thickness? What does it matter at all?

IMO of course.



"Harry could hear the gnome giggling madly as Crookshanks inserted a 
paw into the boot, trying to reach it" - p.60


Alla:

Nothing new, just find Crookshanks chasing Gnomes to be a hilarious 
picture, which would make amazing cartoon I think.


"And your hair is getting silly, dear," said Mrs. Weasley, fingering 
her wand lovingly. "I wish you'd let me give it a trim..."
"I like it," said Ginny, who was sitting beside Bill. "You're so old-
fashioned Mum. Anyway, it's nowhere near as long as Professor 
Dumbledore" - p.62


Alla:

Yeah, my irritation with Ginny becoming a new Ginny in OOP is pretty 
much non-existant by now.

Let's see by now we hear Ron telling Harry that Ginny usually never 
shuts up, but that famous remark was already well quoted as rebuttal 
against new Ginny, but hints and glimpses IMO just keep adding.

Ginny, little as she is, stands up to Malfoy against all people, 
scared first year to be that one NOT.

Ginny does that card in PoA that nobody can make to shut up.

Ginny stands up to MOLLY of all people and goes as far as calls her 
old fashioned.

You go girl :) I think JKR did a wonderful job foreshadowing 
allegedly new Ginny. IMO of course.


Alla