[HPforGrownups] Re: Percy question

[Fred Uloth]

No: HPFGUIDX 79286

At 12:17 PM 8/29/2003 +0000, hermionegallo wrote:
>Potterfanme has started a thread wondering if Percy will apologize.
>I have long thought, as all of you must have, that Percy's behavior
>in OoP is reprehensible.  But because his behavior was so extreme,
>I've been forced to wonder if Percy is indeed Percy, when he
>certainly isn't acting "himself."  The main thing that would
>contradict this notion is the prevalence of the the importance of
>choice in the series.
>Any thoughts?

Fred Uloth spewed forth these absurd observations:
Let me guess...the ever popular switching spell was used on Wormtail and 
Percy. Wormtail of course was the perfect person to do this since he lived 
with the Weasleys for 12 years and spent much of that time with Percy. Poor 
Percy is being used as the wizarding equivalent of a tackling dummy for new 
DEs to practice crucio and imerious curses.

Hmm...no...I don't buy it. I also don't think Fudge is a DE...don't get me 
wrong, I can buy the idea of Evil!Fudge, but I don't think he is a DE. I 
look at it more along the lines of me believing that Josef Stalin was an 
evil man...but he was not a Nazi. I think Sirius gave us quite the nugget 
of truth when he said that the world is not divided into good people and 
death eaters. Fudge and Percy both let personal aspirations cloud their 
judgement...they are both themselves and neither one is under an imperious 
curse.

That's my