I think the characters of both Percy and Quirrell scream "Abuse me, I love it!"
And I see that your WIP features Snape/Quirrell. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, so I don't know what angle you're working, but it does seem to me that Quirrell would have been intensely interested in Snape, being as Snape is an ex-DE. I can see how that might develop into something more.
Percy does seem to be one for discipline, but I think it's self-discipline more than the desire to be controlled that I see in Quirrell and Peter. At school, Percy revelled in his own authority. And I think that if he did kiss some faculty ass along the way, it was only so that he could gain that authority. After he graduates, he's at the bottom of the ladder again, and goes back to licking his boss's boots to get ahead. But when he deals with his younger siblings, he still takes the position of the authority figure. Can you imagine Quirrell or Peter ever writing the kind of letter Percy wrote to Ron?
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Date: 2003-08-23 08:04 pm (UTC)And I see that your WIP features Snape/Quirrell. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, so I don't know what angle you're working, but it does seem to me that Quirrell would have been intensely interested in Snape, being as Snape is an ex-DE. I can see how that might develop into something more.
Percy does seem to be one for discipline, but I think it's self-discipline more than the desire to be controlled that I see in Quirrell and Peter. At school, Percy revelled in his own authority. And I think that if he did kiss some faculty ass along the way, it was only so that he could gain that authority. After he graduates, he's at the bottom of the ladder again, and goes back to licking his boss's boots to get ahead. But when he deals with his younger siblings, he still takes the position of the authority figure. Can you imagine Quirrell or Peter ever writing the kind of letter Percy wrote to Ron?