[HPforGrownups] Percy Weasley: Ministry Scape-Goat

[tara scarbro]

No: HPFGUIDX 20048

Hey everyone!

I am a new member and this is my first response to a
message so here goes!

Milz, I feel that Percy was relied on by Crouch Sr.
because he was a new employee and would not ask any
questions about responsibilities given to him by
Crouch Sr. due to his admiration of Crouch Sr. and
simply doing as he is told .  Others such as Barty or
Mr. Weasley would have likely began questioning Crouch
Sr.'s absences.

sneakoscope2001

 
--- Milz <absinthe at mad.scientist.com> wrote:
> The last Percy-Ron-Ginny discussion forced me to
> re-read (yet again!) 
> and re-consider my thoughts about them. Percy does
> have annoying 
> characteristics like arrogance, pretentiousness and
> self-importance. 
> His unquestioning loyality to Crouch Sr wasn't a
> very helpful 
> characteristic either. But the end of GoF, left
> Percy's fate 
> unanswered. All we know is that he was being
> questioned by the 
> Ministry concerning Crouch's disappearance.
> Depending on how much 
> influence Fudge has, I can see Percy being framed
> for Crouch's 
> disappearance and even possible Azkaban time for
> him. 
> 
> From what's in the books, I figure Voldemort and
> Peter showed up at 
> the Crouch home in the week before Harry starts
> school. (Percy makes 
> a remark that Mr. Crouch is relying more.) I can see
> where it would 
> seem suspicious that Crouch barely knows Percy's
> name one week, then 
> begins to rely more and more on him. Percy is a
> relatively new 
> employee. Usually, you give the brunt of the
> responsibility to the 
> more senior people due to familiarity with the
> work/procedures. Percy 
> probably is known by his colleagues at the Ministry
> to be very 
> ambitious. When Crouch finally disappears due to an
> illness, Percy is 
> the only one with whom he stays in contact through
> letters of 
> instruction. So it can appear that Percy was so
> power-hungry and 
> ambitious that he gained Crouch's confidence, began
> to control him 
> and eliminated him.
> 
> Percy knew that Crouch Sr. lived alone since the
> dismissal of Winky. 
> Being Crouch's personal assistant, Percy had the
> opportunity to curse 
> Crouch and to kill him.
> 
> Also there's the bone in Hagrid's yard. Crouch Jr
> told Dumbledore 
> that he turned Crouch Sr. into a bone and buried him
> in the Hagrid's 
> yard. So technically, they have a body: they just
> need to transform 
> it back into Crouch Sr. (This is kind of gross, so
> skip it if you 
> want) With forensic pathology, you can tell
> approximately the time of 
> death by the amount of decomposition. If Crouch
> Sr.'s body does not 
> decompose because it was turned into a bone, then it
> would be nearly 
> impossible to determine the time of death. We know
> that by the time 
> of the Yule Ball, Crouch was "ill" and Percy was
> filling in for him. 
> So basically, Percy could have had the opportunity
> to dump the bone 
> on Hogwarts ground or he could have gone there one
> evening and 
> secretly slipped it into Hagrid's yard.
> 
> The only person who could unequivocally exonerate
> Percy is Barty 
> Crouch Jr., who was demented and can't give any
> evidence. 
> Dumbledore's, Harry's, and anyone else's could be
> easily discounted 
> as lunacy or even as a conspiracy against Fudge.
> Molly alludes to the 
> fact that Fudge doesn't like Muggles and Arthur's
> fondness for 
> Muggles has held him back in the Fudge
> Administration.
> Dumbledore doesn't share Fudge's dislike for Muggles
> and he basically 
> told Fudge to get stuffed. McGonagall works for
> Dumbledore so her 
> testimony would be questionable. Snape, well, poor
> Snape wouldn't be 
> credible because he was a Death Eater. Harry's own
> description of 
> Crouch Sr that night could be damning to Percy too.
> Crouch never 
> mentions anyone by name. All Harry knows is that
> Crouch was trying to 
> contact Dumbledore and that he lapsed in and out of
> coherence.
> 
> Compounded by the fact that Fudge seemed very
> hesistant to believe 
> Dumbledore and Harry about Voldemort's return. I
> think he will do 
> just about anything to pacify the wizarding world
> concerning Crouch 
> Sr's disappearance. 
> 
> Ginny, I don't think will betray Harry. She's
> already been a pawn and 
> I think that she's learned from that experience. Ron
> has his problems 
> too. But I think Cedric's death (and Percy's
> potential problems)will 
> force him to get over the petty squabbling.
> 
> Milz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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