Percy n' the "Dark side"

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 8733

Hmmm. 

I personally doubt that Percy will fall in that manner. He shows no 
signs of adopting the ideology of Voldster (you know, anti-
Muggleness, opposition to the wizard government and Dumbledore). 
Based on the way he acts towards Hermione and other Muggles, his not 
being against the established order (unlike Malfoy and the other 
DE's, who seem also in it so they can gain more power under a new 
regime), I don't think we'll see him becoming a cheerleader for 
Voldemort anytime soon. (Now what would the outfits for that look 
like?) If anything, he shows signs of becoming like Fudge and 
possibly like Crouch Sr. 

Crouch Sr., whatever his other flaws were, was not a Death Eater. Not 
all bad or unpleasant characters are on Voldemort's side. Voldemort, 
after all, is only an exceptionally powerful evil wizard, not Evil 
Incarnate. That's why as a readers we tend to think more of the 
characters who call Voldemort by his name, rather than giving him god-
like status by using circumlocutions. 

Fudge is obstructionist and willfully blind, but I doubt he was at 
the DE meeting. As Dumbledore says, signficantly, (paraphrasing here) 
that as long as Fudge is against what Voldemort stands for, they're 
still on the same side. He doesn't operate on the idea that "all who 
are not with me are against me." 

Charmian