W00t! WIAN is getting updated! That is, of course, after I finish my Gargantuan Java Homework of Hellfire-Like Doom.

But....

Echo: Was Percy acting entirely of his own accord in Order of the Phoenix?
JK Rowling: I'm afraid so.

*lower lip trembles*

WHAT?!?!!!?

First Bush tries to cut down all the sequoias, and now JKR wants to cut down all the PINE theorists. I mean, it's one thing to reply affirmatively, which would just squash the Imperius rumors, but it's a whole 'nother thing entirely to be "afraid so." Okay, so he was acting of his own will, and from the negativity of her statement, it seems very unlikely that Percy could be cunningly fooling them all and going the way of the Secret Agent Demon Hunter theory. So we're back to the "Percy was just pushed too far and is going through misplaced belated teenage rebellion because his dad is unbelieveably cruel etc." But everything just seems so OOC for Percy, then...

Percy girls, the Rationalization Wagon has been launched. (Would it be wrong to call those of us that still believe in his goodness "the PINE nuts"?)

*reads more*

MY THEORIES!!! MY BEAUTIFUL THEORIES! *breaks down and dies of the woe*
(P.S. There is no way Charlie is only two years older than Percy. This would violate canon at least five times over.)

*reads more*

NOT IMPRESSED with these new name revelations, Ms. Rowling. Not impressed at all.

Oh well. Better than nothing.