The MoM & Hogwarts

[jodel at aol.com]

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The discussion goes;

>> rinceceol <rinceceol at netzero.net> wrote:

SNIP<<But also, when Crouch Sr, went missing, instead of handing over his 
duties to a more senior official, Percy (a VERY junior staffer) took them 
over...indicating to me that there weren't many people in that office 
either.>>

Angela replies;


Yes, but it was Voldemort-Imperio-ed-Crouch who hand selected Percey for a 
"promotion".  It seems to me that under normal circumstances someone further 
up in the hierarchy of Crouch's department would have taken over his affairs. 
 But LV probably wanted someone young, impressionable, and inexperienced, so 
they would not become suspicious (as I believe a more experienced MoM wizard 
would), and so LV had Crouch give this young kid a HUGE promotion and put him 
in charge.<<

Don't forget that LV's advisor Peter Petigrew also knew Percy Weasley very 
well. He'd been living with the boy's family for the past 12 years. Finding 
him in Crouch's office must have made it seem as though Christmas had come 
early that year. 

-JOdel