Percy a DD Spy in the Ministry / S.U.P.I.N.E

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 70269

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lliannanshe" <lliannanshe_ensueno at v.=
..> 
wrote:
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> Doriane (69029) says
> I read a magazine about coding secret messages the other day. And 
> yesterday, while I was re-reading Percy's letter to Ron, it struck 
> me hard : this letter feels fake. It feels to me like Percy is 
> desperately trying to say something to Ron. <snip>

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> ME
> Could he mean
. I am very sorry I have to criticize our parents in 
> public.  I am afraid I can no longer live under there roof because 
> the Ministry knows they are involved with Dumbledore.  I have been 
> lucky that they do not suspect I am involved.  I hope that you will 
> understand this letter and not be blinded by what people are saying 
> about him.  He hopes in the future he will be able to tell everyone 
> it is not true and the family will be together again.   "Please 
> think over what I have said most carefully"

<snip>

> Ffred (post 69147) says
> I don't think his role in the story is over - I think he's going to 
> have to redeem himself, and may well end up dying in the process.

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Lliannanshe
> Who sees Percy in a new heroic light and must reread books 1-5 
> with "Lily's Eyes"

I'm not going to completely dismiss this POV, but I still think that Percy =
has genuinely 
decided that his parents are wrong and the MoM is right. First of all it's =
because I feel 
like a big part of OoP was about broken families; look at what we find out =
about Sirius's 
and Snape's family backgrounds for instance, and there's even the aspect of=
 Harry 
changing his views of his father. Second, I think it's a logical consequenc=
e of the WW 
situation, that not only groups of people but also members of one family ar=
e divided due 
to the conflicts, in this case between Dumbledore and Fudge. I read a book =
on Sophie 
Scholl (member of a resistance group, the White Rose, against the nazis dur=
ing WWII, in 
case someone never heard of her) and I specifically remember that her broth=
er Hans was 
arguing with his father about Hitler; Hans, at the time, spoke for him, and=
 his father was 
against and pleaded for caution. If I'm not mistaken it was Hans who later =
founded the 
White Rose. So, something similar could happen with Percy.
Sorry I had to completely kill this post with snipping to extract what was =
needed for my 
comment, by the way...
evangelina (who has never enjoyed history lessons more than when reading ab=
out Sophie 
Scholl)