I think it's hard to judge the events/arguments we haven't seen for ourselves, ie the fight between Arthur and Percy and the prank. That said, I'm completely on Percy's side in that fight, because as you say, it seems clear to me that it's about so much more than just the promotion and what exactly Percy said to Arthur and vice versa (neither of which we can know). It wouldn't sdurpise me if Percy did say an awful lot of hurtful stuff to Arthur in that fight, things that he might even have known wasn't fair, and that were bound to hurt him, because he wanted to. This is really about the respect Percy never got from either Arthur or from his siblings, the fight was just his way of rebelling, protesting. And while we haven't seen the fight, we have seen how Percy was treated by everyone in his family save Molly, which makes it really easy for me to pick a side there.
I generally agree with what you're saying, except I would probably have voted Ron in the Ron/Ginny-fight. Not that I don't think Ginny took a cheap shot below the belt and was over the top bitchy (as in the entire HBP) but Ron, much as he may have "just been looking after her," was interfering with something that really was none of his business. It's not even the "almost using the word slut" I'm thinking about, but more that whether or not she was kissing her boyfriend and where wasn't anything he had anything to do with, and growing up in a family with traditional gender-roles may provide an explanation for his attitude, but it's not an excuse.
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Date: 2006-11-15 06:22 pm (UTC)I generally agree with what you're saying, except I would probably have voted Ron in the Ron/Ginny-fight. Not that I don't think Ginny took a cheap shot below the belt and was over the top bitchy (as in the entire HBP) but Ron, much as he may have "just been looking after her," was interfering with something that really was none of his business. It's not even the "almost using the word slut" I'm thinking about, but more that whether or not she was kissing her boyfriend and where wasn't anything he had anything to do with, and growing up in a family with traditional gender-roles may provide an explanation for his attitude, but it's not an excuse.