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hp_femme and copperbadge. I was forewarned, but still. What on earth is a "person of intrique"?
*Betas test with some asperity.*
hp_femme and copperbadge. I was forewarned, but still. What on earth is a "person of intrique"? You scored as Severus Snape. Your alter ego is Severus Snape. Well your a tricky one aren't you? Nobody quite has you figured out and you'd more than likely prefer it to stay that way. That said you are a formidable force on anybodies books, but there is certaintly more to you than a frosty exterior and a bitter temper.
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*Betas test with some asperity.*
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Icarus
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And I was beta-ing the test all the way through, as well. Ick.
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Or, if one sticks with the conventions established in the test: Im not either.
Icarus
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I answered 'no' to this one...because I've found out it's best to deny everything when you get a question you don't understand. ;)
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*bursts out laughing!* How true! So are you a dondrup?
Icarus
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Oh no, ma'am! *is shocked* I only drink water! =/
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I also scored 85% for Black. So did half my flist; it is suspiciously common result for this quiz. And not one person who's take the test seems to agree with the result.
Of course, I'm happy with any hp quiz that doesn't peg me as Percy. But still, Black? Trust me: none of my nearest and dearest would agree with that assessment.
*deep sigh* I had to attend a training workshop for administrators this week. The people running it and the "coach" assigned to work with me were delighted with the work I turned in, and told me that I had a real talent for this, and why didn't I want to apply for a higher level position in the Dean's office? *shudders and shivers simultaneously*
Sirius Black, my ass. I only wish.
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Harry Potter.
And I hate it.
Lightning rod for trouble? *raises hand*
Creative (if well-meaning) interpretation of rules? *raises hand*
Somehow gets away with murder (probably due to self-same good intentions)? *raises hand*
Sticks up for the underdog? *raises hand*
Crusader? *raises hand*
People love'em or loathe'em, but nothing in between? *raises hand*
Hates power and leadership but somehow ends up there anyway? *tiredly raises hand*
Prone to sudden extreme reversals of fortune? *hand's up again*
Sob story a mile long but it really just pisses him off? *oh, I might as well just leave my hand up and save us all some time*
The destructive capacity of an atom bomb, that is somehow forgiven by all? *sighs*
I'd love to be Percy.
Percy's great.
Percy would never be neck-deep in the kind of trouble I manage to find. Percy has a shot at stability and happiness and doesn't bring the house down on his head whilst changing the world (not necessarily for the better).
Drop-kicks Harry Potter.
Icarus
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But you'd love to be Percy? Well, he would instinctively just know how to avoid trouble. And yes, of course he'll automatically choose the course of action that leads to stability. And no, he won't try to change the world (although he might use his bureaucratic skills to improve some small things, on the margins). But he'll never try to challenge or overturn the system, as a whole. He is too skilled at working within it, to do that; we rarely challenge the rules of a game that we can win.
I haven't yet quite decided how driven Percy is by an internal ethical system, to be honest (and the answer to that would dictate how much he uses his powers for good---bureaucrats who are also moral people act differently than those who are motivated only by self-interest). You only see him through Harry, and of course schoolage Harry is going to see him as an overbearing, self-important twit.
*sighs* This does not necessarily amount to finding happiness, however, although it probably leads to finding security and contentment.
Finding happiness usually requires the ability to embrace (or accept) irrational behavior, occasionally. You have to make a leap of faith at some point, or act on an intuitive feeling. Percy won't be good at making a leap of faith, like that. He won't be able to give up control, or accept random chaos.
I've been reading the Percy fics you recommended (and am quite horrified by how much I like them---but that's another story). And the scene in "The Tao of Job" where Harry was doing something to Percy (rimming, I assumed) and he wanted Percy to ask for it, and Percy just could not . . . well, that was vintage Percy. And does that lead to happiness? There's an unyielding quality there that is hard to live with, for other people.
I've also decided, reading these stories, that Percy being gay is canon. He may be the only hp character that I can't envision as being straight, at all. And how he handles this problem (since the wizarding world probably would be a bit retro on this) is such vintage Percy, in these stories. How he handled the necessity to be discreet and ambiguous in Shiny New Thing's "Chance,"----oh, it was so very in-character, so perfectly Percy, that I simply melted and quivered, and had a road-to-Damascus insight that yes, of course, Percy is gay. And yes, of course, he'd handle it that way.
But does that lead to happiness? Your call.
*is struggling with awful desire to write a Percy essay. No. No. I have to finish my last assignment for my administrative training workshop: revising my 20 page memo on "my administrative philosophy, the strategies I use to implement this philosophy, and how I will assess the effectiveness of those strategies, and measure outcomes within my academic unit." (actually, that's a translation into actual English of the assignment topic)*
/screed. *is deeply sorry for verbose comment*
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Or something...