[HPforGrownups] Re: Percy

[Sofie 'Melle' Werkers]

No: HPFGUIDX 14949

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<<Percy may be pompous & ambitious.  He may pay slavish attention to rules, 
but when push comes to shove, my bet is that Percy will put personal 
ambitions aside in favor of family loyalties.>>
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Oh, undoubtably.  If it came down to the simple, straightforward choice 
between his career and his family, he would choose his family. But I don't 
think he'll ever have to make that choice, not that clearly, anyway.

The most distinct impression I get from Percy is of someone who is very 
strict about rules. He's not really hard to fool, as we see in GoF, where he 
simply executes what he believes to be his superior's instructions. He seems 
to me the kind of person who obeys the rules because they are the rules, not 
because he agrees with them. He doesn't seem to be very critical or 
questioning about authority.

Of course Percy wouldn't knowingly and willingly hurt *anyone*, least of all 
his own family, but he also wouldn't disobey his superiors unless they were 
so blatantly 'evil' [or so much in denial about Voldie's return] it would 
endanger people.

I do agree with Ron's remark that Percy is not the kind of person to use his 
influence/authority to get someone out from under what he would seeas their 
'just desserts'. [Apologies if that sentence is really screwed 
up/misspelled; I seem to have lost all ability to speak/write proper English 
today.]

I'm not saying Percy is 'evil', or even just 'bad'. I'm just saying that he 
is [or at least strikes me as] a 'wir haben es nicht gewusst' type of 
person. [And I don't speak German, so that spelling is probably waaaay off 
as well.]

Sofie

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