Percy question

[serious_schwartz]

No: HPFGUIDX 79182

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Potterfanme" 
<fc26det at a...> wrote:
> Mugglenet.com currently has a poll asking if Percy will 
appologize to 
> his family.  This is a very interesting question.  I have very 
mixed 
> feelings about this.  Part of me says that he will offer it up and 
> admit that he was being power hungry and stupid.  The other 
part of 
> me says that he will have every excuse in the world and feel 
that he 
> did nothing wrong and maybe even turn the events around to 
where he 
> insists that he was right all along and his family should 
appologize 
> to him.  Any thoughts?
> Susan=Potterfanme

The jury is still out on Percy as far as I'm concerned. I agree with 
the poster who said that Percy is looking to bail on his family. 
Percy 
loves power and he loves the bureaucracy and all its arcane 
rules.  I'm not so sure he'll reconcile with the family. He probably 
thinks the Ministry should handle the Voldemort issue and feels 
the Order of Phoenix is some sort of illegal vigilante group. I 
really think he is Fudge's heir (there's that word again!) apparent.

I am also reminded of what I posted in the "Fudge is a DE!" 
thread. (post #79006, but I'll cut and paste it here):
> 
> This ties into thoughts of Percy's future. I reread GoF recently 
and  smirked while reading the part where Harry, Ron, and 
Hermione are leaving the cave after meeting with Sirius. 
Hermione chastises Ron when he says that Crouch reminds 
him of Percy.  (I think that's what he says... don't have the book 
handy.) She says that Percy would never throw his family to the 
dementors. And Ron reacts skeptically, saying that he wasn't so 
sure of  that... esp. if Percy thought his family was standing in the 
way of his career plans. More proof of Percy as the future Fudge? 
(In  CoS, one of the Weasleys boys says that Percy's goal is to 
be Minister of Magic.)

So, I think JKR has some plans for Percy, and they ain't all good.

serious_schwartz