Thicknesse: Question on Pronunciation

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>

> Speaking of dear Pius, did anyone find it troubling that he's treated
> as a bad guy during the battle even though he was Imperiused?
> Essentially, he's Yaxley's puppet from the first chapter, not a DE.

I think I was somehow spoiled about that, in which case I don't know
how I would have felt if not spoiled.

Two possiblities sprang to mind. First, that he was a bad guy because
he had been so very gullible about trusting Yaxley. Second, that the
Imperius simply freed him to do what he really wanted to do, ally with
LV and the Death Eaters.

I reject -- it is NOT POSSIBLE that that JKR could *approve* of Percy
getting revenge for how much he's suffered in the Ministry by taking
vengeance on someone who is basically 'innocent by reason of insanity:
if Thicknesse was no more aware of what he was doing to Percy than if
he'd been asleep at the time, that counts as innocent by reason of
insanity.