You know what would shake things up nicely? Re-sorting the kids every year based on random lottery. Then kids could get exposed to different styles, being variously encouraged in different areas (ambition, hard work, studiousness, courage), and it would give the kids a chance to socialize with new people and possibly help break up those cliques. But then they might learn that they're all just people or actually change after the age of eleven, and we can't have that.
Poor Percy. He doesn't 100% approve of Dumbledore when he praises his intellect but notes he's also a bit mad, which foreshadows his future as a toady who mindlessly obeys authority figures and betrays Team Dumbledore instead of deciding what's right for himself. Somehow. Honest. It does not at all show that maybe he was thinking all along and decided Team Dumbledore was way dodgier than the Ministry on average, or that he might have been right, or that at the very least Dumbledore gave no good reason to believe his outrageous version of events. (A dead Dark Lord and
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Especially a year after an escaped DE who had threatened his brother with a knife and broke same brother's leg disappeared out the window of a locked room immediately after talking to Dumbledore.
Who then did not explain anything, but expected everyone to drop the issue.
And since there was never any investigation, how do they know that Harry didn't kill Cedric? Because Dumbledore says so? Plus, so far he's seen a) Ron almost get killed in the mysterious school-saving adventure in his first year because he followed Harry, b) Ginny kidnapped and Ron again endangered because of the Heir of Slytherin/Chamber of Secrets incident which once again seemed to revolve around Harry, now revealed as a Parselmouth, and c) that escaped DE threatening Ron with a knife because he thought it was Harry and breaking his leg to lure Harry somewhere. I'd be worried about my siblings hanging around Harry too.
This so much reminds me of Catcher in the Rye and other stories where the protagonist doesn't report fully or correctly - what if what we've been shown is nothing like what happened: Harry's insane, he killed Cedric but imagined at the time that it was Voldemort (a portion of whom is living in his head, remember), nearly kills Ron but it isn't really Ron, it's a giant, living chess set and so on.
Darn, I'm trying to think of the story's name and author but the main character's mother is being dragged around the countryside in a wagon for burial, then there's Christie's Roger Ackroyd (sp?).
Or Buffy being in the asylum swearing that she's the Chosen One and has to fight demons in that one episode.
The Voldebit in Harry's head sent him false visions once, so it would have been totally within reason for it to lead him astray other times! That could have been a nice progression, actually. First he inadvertently lures people to the MoM because of the false vision, then he ends up directly injuring or killing someone when he thinks he's fighting DEs or Dementors. Then he starts questioning everything he remembers from the previous adventures, and starts freaking out. Then he would miss that someone really is trouble because he doesn't trust his senses (that would be a more plausible way to miss that Bathilda is dead and has a snake in her)...
Poor Percy. He doesn't 100% approve of Dumbledore when he praises his intellect but notes he's also a bit mad, which foreshadows his future as a toady who mindlessly obeys authority figures and betrays Team Dumbledore instead of deciding what's right for himself. Somehow. Honest. It does not at all show that maybe he was thinking all along and decided Team Dumbledore was way dodgier than the Ministry on average, or that he might have been right, or that at the very least Dumbledore gave no good reason to believe his outrageous version of events. (A dead Dark Lord and ( ... )
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And since there was never any investigation, how do they know that Harry didn't kill Cedric? Because Dumbledore says so? Plus, so far he's seen a) Ron almost get killed in the mysterious school-saving adventure in his first year because he followed Harry, b) Ginny kidnapped and Ron again endangered because of the Heir of Slytherin/Chamber of Secrets incident which once again seemed to revolve around Harry, now revealed as a Parselmouth, and c) that escaped DE threatening Ron with a knife because he thought it was Harry and breaking his leg to lure Harry somewhere. I'd be worried about my siblings hanging around Harry too.
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Darn, I'm trying to think of the story's name and author but the main character's mother is being dragged around the countryside in a wagon for burial, then there's Christie's Roger Ackroyd (sp?).
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The Voldebit in Harry's head sent him false visions once, so it would have been totally within reason for it to lead him astray other times! That could have been a nice progression, actually. First he inadvertently lures people to the MoM because of the false vision, then he ends up directly injuring or killing someone when he thinks he's fighting DEs or Dementors. Then he starts questioning everything he remembers from the previous adventures, and starts freaking out. Then he would miss that someone really is trouble because he doesn't trust his senses (that would be a more plausible way to miss that Bathilda is dead and has a snake in her)...
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