Predicting the future, Trelawney style

[eligro2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 78900

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 8/23/2003 3:33:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> hickengruendler at y... writes:
> 
> > >5. Percy: A double agent. 
> > >EVIDENCE: Noted to be lurking in the COS Slytherin halls. Didn't 
> > >visit his dad in hospital (who does that, I ask you?!).
> > 
> > He lurked in the Slytherin halls, because he was meeting 
Penelope. She was the person Harry and Ron met before Percy. Also, if 
Percy would indeed go evil, it will probably be, because he is power 
hungry. But during COS, Voldemort was completely powerless, so why 
would Percy work for him against the powerful Dumbledore? The fact, 
that he didn't visit Arthur is bad, but that doesn't make him a 
double agent.
> 
> Why would Percy lurk in the SLYTHERIN halls to meet Penelope - a 
Ravenclaw & > a muggleborn?  

To clarify ... I was predicting that Percy would be good (my use of 
the phrase "double agent" was misleading, sorry). I think he was 
lurking around Slytherin to spy on Slytherin (and not to meet 
Penelope ... of note, and per an earlier post, the scene was left in 
the movie minus overt mentions of Penelope ... I think this fact is a 
hint of his good tendencies). I think the fact that he didn't visit 
his father was motivated by a desire to appear more estranged than he 
is; I just don't buy that Percy would become so disconnected from his 
family so quickly ... In most circumstances, he would visit his 
potentially dying father in the hospital.

Eli