Percy - The Good Boy

[emmamariebee]

No: HPFGUIDX 66283

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
<snip from "manawydan" <manawydan at n...
I see Percy as being a huge bundle of pride, resentment, guilt, and 
dignity at the moment, and it's going to be a long time before he
can mend fences with the family again, even though the Ministry now
accept Voldemort's return.
Ffred

<snip from bboy_mn>
Full circle to the beginning.... PERCY IS NOT EVIL, he's just 
misguided, and I have no doubt that Percy will see the error of his 
ways, and the Weasley family will understand that Percy was just
trying to do his best to play the role of Percy, and that they will
reconcile, and that Percy will become a valuable asset to the fight
against Voldemort.

In fact, the conflict between them is already resolved. Percy did 
what he thought was right and stood by the Ministry, and it has been 
proven that the Ministry was wrong; case closed. So the 
Percy/Weasley family war is over, now all they have to do is heal 
the wounds and sign a peace treaty. Don't get me wrong, the full 
return of Percy to the family will be a rough and rocky road, but 
the core reason for the battle has been resolved, so Percy has 
absolutely no reason to go over to the Dark Side. One last time... 
PERCY IS NOT EVIL. 

Me:
This makes sense to me. One major theme JKR is pushing throughout 
the books, but in this one in particular is the complexity of human 
emotion & motivation and the deceptiveness of appearances. As 
Sirius . .  <bows head and pauses as the spasm of grief 
passes> . . . says, "The world is not divided into good guys and 
death eaters." If everyone who behaves badly (Percy, Fudge, 
Umbridge) actually turns out to be in league with LV, this would 
undermine what I believe is one of the key themes of the books.  I 
think JKR is too good a writer to do that.  

Em, who misses him, who misses him