Percy

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 14963

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Sofie 'Melle' Werkers" <minerva at f...> 
wrote:
> <snip>
> <<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.>>
> <snip>
> 
> 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

I believe it's a moot point now, given that he's seen what result 
putting career over family first and then trying to reverse can come 
to.

Percy would, to my mind, want in no way, shape or form to turn out 
like Barty Crouch Senior.

I think he'd then work with family to make sure the person was 
reahabilitated.

Though that brings up an interesting question:

Azkaban exists, we know that.

Is there a rehabilitation procedure for wizards who have strayed and 
are not beyond redemption? 

Or is Azkaban IT?  BAd wizard, no cookie, no happy memories.