Percy as Traitor?

[milztoday]

No: HPFGUIDX 43000

--- 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

Couple of things....

I think Percy will be in Azkaban in Book 5. Fudge needs a scapegoat 
for Barty Crouch Sr's death/disappearance and Percy looks like the 
logical choice.

Second, I have a theory that the Weasley's are loosely based upon the 
Mitford family, a political and literary family during the mid-20th 
century. Rowling is familiar with the Mitfords to the point that she 
named her daughter, Jessica, after one of them. So far, there are 
numerous parallels between the Mitfords and the Weasley's; too 
numerous to be dismissed as simple coincidence. To make a long story 
short. One of the Mitfords was married to Sir Oswald Mosley, the 
leader of the British Fascist Party during WW II. She spent two years 
in prison as a political prisoner. One of the people who turned her 
in was her own sister. So I do think there will be a Weasley family 
betrayal. But I don't know who will be the betrayor and who will be 
the betrayed.

Milz