Prefects Who Gained Power

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 55731

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca Stephens 
> <rsteph1981 at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Um, I thought that it was Crouch Sr. handwriting. 
> > That he was writing the letters, under the imperious
> > curse.  But don't hold me to it.>
> 
> That makes sense.  Crouch certainly could have been the one 
continuing 
> all MOM correspondences while under Imperius.  Here is what Percy 
> wrote in a letter to Ron, though, in GoF, Ch. 28: "I think I can be 
> trusted to know my own superior's handwriting".  
> 
> Even if it was Crouch's own handwriting on memos and such to Percy, 
I guess I still find it odd that he never thinks to question Crouch's 
> long absence from work, other than to accept that Crouch (who 
seemed 
> to be a workaholic by all standards) was "taking a well-deserved 
> break".  Again, Percy doesn't even call Crouch on his mis-naming 
> Percy; he simply accepts everything Crouch does and says.  
> 
> Every once in a while I see someone wearing the pin that says 
> "Question Authority".  Percy would benefit from that pin's advice.
> 

The only thing I can think of is that Percy was so flabbergasted to 
be put in charge -- I mean, surely there were others at the ministry 
that could have taken over instead of an 18-year-old kid fresh out of 
school -- that he decided not to question anything. 

When Crouch wrote to say, "Weatherby is in charge," what must the 
Deputy Minister or whatever the second-in-charge over there is called 
have thought?

I would bet that V-Mort told Crouch to put Percy in charge, figuring 
that an 18-year-old would be too bogged down to question much of 
anything.

I don't believe in Evil!Percy, but I do believe, that like Fudge, 
Bagman and even Hagrid, he has weaknesses that can be exploited.

Darrin
-- This is my brother Darrell, this is my other brother Darrell