Yup--he took a huge risk and it will probably come back to haunt him. But I definitely don't see Percy being "evil" here as many people seem to see him.
*shakes head* I have never seen Percy as "Evil" for doing this; in fact, I was glad when JKR confirmed in her chat that Percy was actually acting of his own accord, and wasn't under some kind of brainwashing spell. All those people who switched sides had many different motives, granted, and still took huge risks, but deep down it all seems to come down to a basic need to stay afloat in this society of the WW. It is really creepy. And I definitely agree that Percy's choice is very likely to come back to haunt him, especially now that the new alliance Fudge tried to establish in OotP is practically destined to reassimilate back into Dumbledore's order. Now that Fudge knows Voldie is back, there's little doubt he'll be racing back to DD; or else, when considering JKR's words of a new Minister of Magic in book six, coupled with Ron's "prediction" in OotP ...naturally, Arthur Weasley is one of DD's subpatrons, so it'll come down to the same thing. I expect out of necessity, DD is obviously going to welcome them back, but it's not going to be that easy by a long shot with Percy and his family.
I wouldn't be surprised if Millicent assumed Hermione's smile was a plot to catch her off guard to begin with. She may not trust other girls, assuming they're all making fun of her.
Oh, I definitely saw it that way; it comes down to what shusu said further down, the Slytherins are all about survival. They have the most obvious survival instinct out of all the other Houses, and with damn good reason too; with the anti-Slytherin sentiments running rampant through Hogwarts, it's only natural. It's interesting that Hufflepuff operates in a similar stick-together method as I picture the Slytherins doing, and they are the second-most-discriminated-against House at Hogwarts (seen by at least three-quarters of the school as better than Slytherin, but not by much). Yet they are the ones who get recognized for this loyalty (because Slytherins are eeeeviill, they can't be loyal)...but I think that if Hufflepuff stick together to deal with the discrimination against them, then it's practically canonical that Slytherin do the same, since they get a lot more prejudice. I see Millicent as one of the prime examples of how Slytherin works; she knows her place in it, and where she would elsewhere be pushed down and made to seem weak and quiet because of her looks, she obviously has her firm place within Slytherin; and she also does not trust outsiders, another survival tactic. I remember one of the responses made in your last post about how each Slytherin has their specific social place in the house, without making it seem as though the "stronger" Slytherins oppress the "weaker" ones; I totally agree. I can't imagine a weak Slytherin, nor can I imagine one that would willingly take shite from another (or anyone else, really). I expect they learn at a young age not to trust many in the school (Especially when you have other students hissing at you for making it into your House). Gryffindor lacks this order that Slytherin possesses; they have closeness, they stay up in the common room together in times of crisis, but they have their own seperate cliques and therefore it has the ability to become so disordered (Housemates turning against one another, which we have no example of in either Slytherin or Hufflepuff). I think this is because they don't seem to need it; they don't need a survival instinct, they don't need to stick together against prejudice, they are the most respected and revered-to House at Hogwarts. But it's funny that due to this trait, they are actually the House which is likely to have the highest rate of backstabbing, yet it's the Slytherins which are seen as the "untrustworthy" ones. (Definitely not saying in the least that Gryffindors are untrustworthy, because loyalty to what they believe in seems to be highly prized on the general nobility/courage code, it just seems that what they feel to be worthy of trustworthiness changes an awful lot.)
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Date: 2004-03-21 08:19 pm (UTC)*shakes head* I have never seen Percy as "Evil" for doing this; in fact, I was glad when JKR confirmed in her chat that Percy was actually acting of his own accord, and wasn't under some kind of brainwashing spell. All those people who switched sides had many different motives, granted, and still took huge risks, but deep down it all seems to come down to a basic need to stay afloat in this society of the WW. It is really creepy. And I definitely agree that Percy's choice is very likely to come back to haunt him, especially now that the new alliance Fudge tried to establish in OotP is practically destined to reassimilate back into Dumbledore's order. Now that Fudge knows Voldie is back, there's little doubt he'll be racing back to DD; or else, when considering JKR's words of a new Minister of Magic in book six, coupled with Ron's "prediction" in OotP ...naturally, Arthur Weasley is one of DD's subpatrons, so it'll come down to the same thing. I expect out of necessity, DD is obviously going to welcome them back, but it's not going to be that easy by a long shot with Percy and his family.
I wouldn't be surprised if Millicent assumed Hermione's smile was a plot to catch her off guard to begin with. She may not trust other girls, assuming they're all making fun of her.
Oh, I definitely saw it that way; it comes down to what shusu said further down, the Slytherins are all about survival. They have the most obvious survival instinct out of all the other Houses, and with damn good reason too; with the anti-Slytherin sentiments running rampant through Hogwarts, it's only natural. It's interesting that Hufflepuff operates in a similar stick-together method as I picture the Slytherins doing, and they are the second-most-discriminated-against House at Hogwarts (seen by at least three-quarters of the school as better than Slytherin, but not by much). Yet they are the ones who get recognized for this loyalty (because Slytherins are eeeeviill, they can't be loyal)...but I think that if Hufflepuff stick together to deal with the discrimination against them, then it's practically canonical that Slytherin do the same, since they get a lot more prejudice. I see Millicent as one of the prime examples of how Slytherin works; she knows her place in it, and where she would elsewhere be pushed down and made to seem weak and quiet because of her looks, she obviously has her firm place within Slytherin; and she also does not trust outsiders, another survival tactic. I remember one of the responses made in your last post about how each Slytherin has their specific social place in the house, without making it seem as though the "stronger" Slytherins oppress the "weaker" ones; I totally agree. I can't imagine a weak Slytherin, nor can I imagine one that would willingly take shite from another (or anyone else, really). I expect they learn at a young age not to trust many in the school (Especially when you have other students hissing at you for making it into your House). Gryffindor lacks this order that Slytherin possesses; they have closeness, they stay up in the common room together in times of crisis, but they have their own seperate cliques and therefore it has the ability to become so disordered (Housemates turning against one another, which we have no example of in either Slytherin or Hufflepuff). I think this is because they don't seem to need it; they don't need a survival instinct, they don't need to stick together against prejudice, they are the most respected and revered-to House at Hogwarts. But it's funny that due to this trait, they are actually the House which is likely to have the highest rate of backstabbing, yet it's the Slytherins which are seen as the "untrustworthy" ones. (Definitely not saying in the least that Gryffindors are untrustworthy, because loyalty to what they believe in seems to be highly prized on the general nobility/courage code, it just seems that what they feel to be worthy of trustworthiness changes an awful lot.)