Percy as Traitor?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "supermouse35" <supermouse35 at y...> wrote:
> There's been some talk on-list recently about the idea of either 
> Neville or Seamus being a traitor in the later books.  I'm 
> currently re-reading GoF and the following passage from the end of 
> Chapter 27 caught my eye (p. 534 in the hardback US edition):
> 
> "Percy would never throw any of his family to the dementors," said 
> Hermione severely.
> 
> "I don't know," said Ron.  "If he thought we were standing in the 
way 
> of his career... Percy's really ambitious, you know..."
> 
> JKR isn't the type of writer to just throw a passage like this in 
for 
> no reason.  So what do you think, is this foreshadowing?  Or is she 
> tossing us another of her famous red herrings?
> 
> Gina

If there's friction between the MoM and Dumbledore's crew (and given 
the closing chapters of GoF, I'd say the probability of it is very 
high), then I can easily see Percy being at odds with his family.  He 
does have a certain level of ambition and self-absorbtion which would 
lead him to side with the Ministry over his own kin.  Although, like 
Fudge, I think he'd firmly believe it was "all for the best."

~Christi