Percy - a little brainwashed? (was Re: Percy- a little odd?)

[lucky_kari <lucky_kari@yahoo.ca>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49110

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "heiditandy <heidit at n...>"
<heidit at n...> wrote:
> In the recent discussion of Percy and his fit into the Weasley 
> family, I haven't noticed any mention of my "pet" theory (and I call 
> it that both because it's one of my pet topics of discussion, and 
> because it involves a pet). '

Oh, Heidi, I didn't have time to reply to your Ron post, but what I
meant to say was I thought that the connection of evil with Scabbers
involved Percy, not Ron. 

<Looks at Elkins and Penny advancing on her.>

No, of course not. Percy Is Not Evil. 

Well, at least not in a Voldemort style, but he idolized Crouch... He
was 19 and, unlike Harry, not in the least apathetic about these
things. He must have known what Crouch had done, and he apparently
approved. 

Oh my poor dear Percy who evidently believes using the Cruciatus curse
on suspects is acceptable. (I won't even go into the Percy/Crouch Jr.
parallel I'm getting here.) 

Percy, though, would be a Livian, don't you think? A real one. He has
the capacity to be everything Crouch pretended to be. Percy could be
evil. Very evil indeed. As well as a tragic hero. 

But I'd always figured the Scabbers parallel was more stylistic than
functional. First of all, your intrepretation of Pettigrew is slightly
less charitable than mine. I've always figured that Pettigrew's
feelings towards the Weasleys, and Harry, all those years were
generally benevolent, and above-board. No canon for this, but my inner
sycophant wants it that way. 

However, secondly, it would bug me if Ron or Percy were to go over to
the Dark Side out of programming. Despite the fact that I don't see
Ron going over at all, and Percy only in a certain way (not to join
Voldemort), I'd actually like to see someone go over among the good guys. 

>But it is possible that the weak link isn't 
> any flaw in Percy - but rather, a flaw caused by the pet his parents 
> let him have when he was sixish. 

Exactly. You see I'd rather that it be a flaw in Percy than something
he isn't responsible for. I'd like it to be character driven, not
spell driven. 

I wonder, though, if Percy and Mr. Pettigrew have a future meeting
ahed of them. 

Eileen, who must jump back into the  Crouch fray