The Scarlet Weasley

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 55734

Suzanne asks me;

> Can you cite a reference to this fact? I know that Percy was used by 
> Voldemort in that he recieved notes that were presumably from Crouch Sr., 
> but I know of no canon that suggests Voldemort engineered Percy getting 
> that job in the first place.
> 
The timing. 
We were told of Percy's promotion when he showed up in Crouch's place for the 
Yule Ball.

Given that Crouch Sr. was under Imperius by the time fake!Moody showed up at 
Hogwarts, anything that Crouch did after the QWC (in August) can be assumed 
to have been at Voldemort's direction. 

Percy was in Crouch's Department, but was not Crouch's personal assistant at 
the time of the QWC. Finding Percy already in Crouch's Department must have 
looked like a gift from the gods to Voldemort and Wormtail -- who knew 
exactly how to word any communication to Percy in the way it would raise the 
fewest suspicions. They were abe to engineer "Weatherby"'s promotion and 
remove Crouch from the public eye much sooner than they might have otherwise.

-JOdel


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