Predictions for Order of the Phoenix

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 24995

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., scaryfairymary at h... wrote:
 
> I think this was mentioned in a page of rumours posted previously 
but 
> I completely agree with it, as I myself considered the possibility 
> during my 3rd reading of GoF...PERCY IS EVIL.  JKR has never had 
> Percy do anything chivalrous, he has never once done anything to 
> protect anyone else except himself. He has always been caught up in 
> himself and his power. In CoS his attention is caught by a book 
> named "Prefects who gained Power" ... In PS/SS Prof. Quirrel said 
> something that i think could come to Percy as a very good reason 
for 
> going over to the ever growing Dark Side... "There is no good and 
> evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it..."
> He also seemed very eager in GoF to defend Mr. Crouch Sr. when he 
> dissmissed Winky, which may not seem like much but something Sirius 
> said hit home with me later..."If you want to know what a man's 
like, 
> take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his 
equals."... 
> If you apply this to Percy, he doesnt really seem like a very nice 
> person to me!   I'd love to know what people think of this.
> -mary :-)

Mary, I think Percy is scary, but not that scary.  I don't see him 
going to the Dark side.  I think his ambition will lead him to stick 
with Fudge vs. his Dad and Dumbledore and the rest of the Weasleys.  
Indeed, when Arthur gets fired in OoF (for telling people V has 
returned), Percy will see this as a real career opening and take his 
Dad's old job.  Ouch!  Or maybe he'll move up from cauldron bottoms 
to V spin doctor.

Cindy
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"I'll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I'm not there," 
said Harry tonelessly.  CoS, Ch. 1