Views on the most dangerous character in HP, Percy

[siriuskase]

No: HPFGUIDX 55234

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eileen <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
>  --- abc10011 <abc10011 at y...> wrote:
> > I beleive that this issue for Percy will be the
> > choice between easy 
> > and right, easy being following the rules and right
> > being loyal to 
> > family because deep down he knows that rules aren't
> > always right.
> 
> Hey! This brings up a very interesting thought. 
> 
> Elkins suggested in her Crouch novenna that to some
> exten JKR cheats with the Crouch sub-plot. She doesn't
> give the tough and Livian and morally upright and
> rules-bound Crouch a fair chance, because it turns out
> in the end that he is none of the above, except tough.
> :-) 
> 
> Will Percy get the chance to stand in for this point
> of view? Or will he be dragged down by hypocricy?
> Somehow, I can actually see Percy being allowed to
> represent the other side without being a hypocrite.
> And then we can have a clash of ideologies without the
> waters being muddied by hypocricy. 
> 
> Not that there's anything wrong with hypocricy, of
> course.
> 
> Eileen
> 
I agree that Percy is going to be a much more important character in a
future book.  Rowling has already made us much more familiar with him
than necessary for what has already happened, so something big is
going to happen with him that relies on us knowing so much about his
personality, how he is loyal to family, law abiding, and ambitious for
his career with the ministry.  We don't know much about how he thinks
when his loyalties conflict, Ron's comment is the only hint. But, he
won't darkside on us, just make wrong choices.

I belive that most of the characters that we know very well to be good
will not intentionally cooperate with the forcers of evil.  Remember
the remark that good people are so easy to use?  We will see a lot of
good people being used and this will include Percy.

However, I don't think Percy is the most dangerous character, that
would be Ron since he is so close to Harry and Hermione.  He won't
darkside, of course, he will think that Harry is evil and he will be
so repulsed that he will overeact and work with Percy and the ministry
against whatever Harry, Dumbledore, etc, are trying to do.  In a way,
he will be worse than evil in that the real baddies can just lie low
and watch the good guys conflict with each other.

If any of the characters that we like should turn truly evil, it would
be Fred, the evil twin.  And I do think a "good guy" will make the
decision at some point to intentionally side with evil

Sirius Kase