-waves furiously- 
Hi everyone, new here! I thought I'd be forever lurking, but recent Percy Posts have me itching to ramble on with my own take on things (and a lot more, I never meant for this to be such a colossal start!). I hope I'm not rehashing too badly, as the digest I'm replying to is a week old. First, tho:

> Bravo, Luke, but the L.O.O.N. in you must protest . . . with . . . you 
> . . . Gee, that sounds kind of mentally imblanced, doesn't it.

Had to LOL at that :) Now, bravely onwards.

dittany/custodienne wrote:
>    Percy absolutely will not go over to the Voldemort 
> camp...knowingly.
>    "Knowingly" is the key word.  I do believe that his strict 
> adherence to...OK, obsession with...following rules can be utilised 
> in such a way as to maneuver him into serving V's ends, but he will 
> have to be hoodwinked into it. <snipped>

Agreed. It seems very unlikely to me that Percy will drift to the 'dark side' in order to further his career and gain the power he seeks. However, being so caught up with Rules, Guidelines, Laws and the like he's very blinded to the fact that those above him aren't necessarily made of goodness and light. Without wanting to sound remotely like Professor Trelawney, I forsee trials and tribulations in store for the poor boy because of this. He wont question the law or the superiors he looks up to, which opens him right up to unknowingly hurting his friends and/or helping the enemy with whatever nasty agendas they have in store. Because he idolizes authority figures and unconciously makes excuses for their actions, he won't see anything they do as wrong. Something devastating is likely to happen because of this, but hopefully it'll open his eyes to the possibility that the Wizarding World isn't as black and white as he thinks it is.
Aah, reading the next digest (promise to get through them all before sending this out) I see everything Cindy and a few others wrote already says this, albeit much more elegantly. Agree wholeheartedly.

>Christina Davis:
> >
> >Percy: [...] If he gets fustrated 
> >enough with Dumbledore's rule breaking and is approached by the right 
> >person in the right way then I can see the possibility of him being lured into Voldemort's camp

Don't think he'll be lured to the wrong side, but the possibility of him dobbing Dumbledore in seems very high. Could cause a horrible chain reaction for which he's directly responsible - think of the angst! ;) Poor Percy, so much to learn, so little time.

On to Werewolves (I do love Loony Loopy Lupin so)

<snipped> if he only transforms when he SEES (or is touched) by the moonlight, such 
> that cloudiness is enough to block it, he wouldn't need to take 
> Wolfsbane Potion [...] as he stayed indoors and hung blackout curtains on the 
> windows. 

Weeell, there's the possibility (how many times have I used that word now? Must find a thesaurus) that he transforms whether he sees the moon or no, but having it in his sight/it's light touching him greatly escalates the emergence of the wolf. Somewhat like a catalyst...but I'm probably just making excuses :)

Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch wrote:
> <snip> likely that these anamolies are
> the direct result of regular use of the wolfsbane
> potion. [...] regular imbibbing confers and certain
> resistance to the transforming effects of the moon -
> it is possible this side effect has not yet been recognized.

I was considering the same thing as well. Lol, JR needent worry, we can smoothe out any wrinkle.

> --- In HPforGrownups@y..., pigwidgeon37@y... wrote:
> 
> > Is the eagle owl an owl species that really exists or has JKR made
> > it up?
> 
> http://www.owlpages.com/species/bubo/bubo/Default.htm

Thanks for the link. I love owls, I remember scouring the internet for pictures and info a while back after my second reading of the books :) I found a perfect little Pigwidgeon somewhere but I've lost it, must have another look for him. 

> Eagle Owls are the biggest and probably the strongest owls, so they 
> are probably the best (can carry bigger packages, can fly farther, 
> maybe can fly faster) and most expensive. I expect that owning one 
> or more Eagle Owls is more connected with being rich than with being 
> evil.

I never thought of this before, but you're probably right. After all, nothing but the best for those that look down on others as a rule...

Jon wrote:
> can I just say that I think that the 
> first chapter of GOF was the worst in the book

I thought so too, infact I gave up and put the book down twice before getting through that part. I'm not sure what it was about the chapter that turned me off so...

Phew. I have a few comments to make on more recent digests (it took me the better part of a day to catch up!) but I'll send this out before the computer crashes on me.

Liz 
-[a Kiwi, wondering where our Wizarding School is. Tucked away somewhere amidst the chaos of the Fjordlands, perhaps?]-



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