Are we to assume that a picture taken when Percy was happy with his family has been changed by his estrangement? (One wonders why nothing odd happened to that Potter wedding photo.) Or did Percy merely "appear" to have walked out and really Arthur blasted him or something?
Probably we're meant to think the former, and never mind the logic. But in fact I wouldn't put it past Arthur to have done something to the picture. Like the wonderful father he is, he's worked himself into a fine lather of offended vanity – I mean righteous wrath. Note that his reaction to something he doesn't want to hear is almost identical to Fudge's, ie mulish denial and anger, but in Arthur it's a sign of virtue. Because it's really about Percy being disloyal. Really.
Do wizards routinely care enough about muggles to prank them?
The evil ones, maybe. The good ones have advanced morally to the point where they think of Muggles as a species of insect, hence beneath their notice.
* The Ministry changes the time of Harry's hearing to add to the beaurocracy-nightmarish world of OotP, though again it's kind of hard to feel that much affront at the methods knowing that our guys would do the exact same thing if it suited their purposes and it would be presented as very clever and satisfying.
JKR keeps setting up her heroes as victims and then reneges on actually victimizing them. Any potential for Harry being in jeopardy got squashed by Ludo Bagman's trial, which confirmed that wizards are such desperately shallow starfuckers you couldn't pay them to convict a celebrity. (Oh Harry! Show me your big Patronus again!)
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Date: 2007-12-10 12:04 am (UTC)Probably we're meant to think the former, and never mind the logic. But in fact I wouldn't put it past Arthur to have done something to the picture. Like the wonderful father he is, he's worked himself into a fine lather of offended vanity – I mean righteous wrath. Note that his reaction to something he doesn't want to hear is almost identical to Fudge's, ie mulish denial and anger, but in Arthur it's a sign of virtue. Because it's really about Percy being disloyal. Really.
Do wizards routinely care enough about muggles to prank them?
The evil ones, maybe. The good ones have advanced morally to the point where they think of Muggles as a species of insect, hence beneath their notice.
* The Ministry changes the time of Harry's hearing to add to the beaurocracy-nightmarish world of OotP, though again it's kind of hard to feel that much affront at the methods knowing that our guys would do the exact same thing if it suited their purposes and it would be presented as very clever and satisfying.
JKR keeps setting up her heroes as victims and then reneges on actually victimizing them. Any potential for Harry being in jeopardy got squashed by Ludo Bagman's trial, which confirmed that wizards are such desperately shallow starfuckers you couldn't pay them to convict a celebrity. (Oh Harry! Show me your big Patronus again!)
-L