[HPforGrownups] Percy

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 79288

Susan wrote:
>Arthur did not accuse Percy of being a spy.  He was concerned that
>Percy got his promotion because Fudge wanted to USE Percy as a spy. I
>did not get the impression that Arthur felt Percy would knowingly spy
>on them.

Then why have a go at him? After all, Percy had just been the subject of an
investigation into his role in Crouch's kidnapping and death. Percy could
_very_ easily have come out of it much worse off. He _could_ have ended up
in Azkaban. Or playing tonsil tennis with a Dementor. Instead he got a
second chance and took it. Personally, I think he deserved a hug and some
support off his folks, and when he got attacked instead, I can quite well
understand why he _really_ lost his temper with them, all the frustrations
of his years as No. 3 son coming out as poison.

>I have also been wondering what will happen if, as a lot of posters
>feel, Arthur is made the new Minister of Magic.  Since Percy was
>Fudge's assistant will Arthur keep him if there are no appologies or
>will he fire him or demote him?

I think if there are no apologies, then Arthur and Percy couldn't work
together in the same office, not with the degree of closeness and trust
that's needed between Minister and assistant. Before he got the top job,
Fudge was a Junior Minister, of course. I wonder who the Junior Ministers
are now, and whether Percy would move sideways to work for one of them? Or
even get promotion to _be_ a Junior Minister (unlikely given his lack of
experience, but who knows? Maybe he's got on the right side of the Right
People while he was working for Fudge.)

Alternatively we could see a Redeemed!Percy (which I think a lot of us would
like), coming back to the family after learning his lesson.

But we could also end up (and it's a powerful and convincing argument) with
a Barty!Percy, playing the same role this time that Crouch played in the
last Voldemort outbreak. In _that_ role, he would still be hostile to the
Order, arguing that anyone who isn't working directly for the MoM is
effectively working to undermine it.

Cheers

Ffred

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