What about Percy?

[scooting2win]

No: HPFGUIDX 73079

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "portrait_of_mrs_black" 
<atalante at p...> wrote:
> Hmm, I generally agree about Percy's character - well siad, 
> indeed "the importance addict" - but as for the plot... 
> 
> I rather think that now that Voldemort is back and that *useless* 
> Fudge knows it's the truth, he (Fudge) will no longer need Percy 
and, 
> well, you can imagine what that would make Percy feel. 
> 
> There can be two possibilities - either he will be kicked out of 
the 
> MoM *or* given a job he'll consider worthless (like his father's) 
and 
> so quit himself. He's not the kind of person who will easily admit 
> that he was wrong, say he's sorry and all... Feeling 
underestimated 
> he won't go back home, instead the next bridge that he'll burn 
will 
> be the Mom bridge and so the only thing left for him will be the 
LV 
> side. Sad but still very possible, I think. Feeling hopeless and 
> alone and not really knowing what to do with himself he will meet 
> some DE - at first probably not knowing who he is - and then he'll 
go 
> deeper into that *swamp* not to ever return. And will probably die 
in 
> the end. 
> 
> It's a bit like the Regulus Black story - Sirius said his brother 
was 
> a DE, but not really knowing at first what he was really getting 
> into. And when he wanted to just back out - "Well, you don't just 
> hand in your resignation to Voldemort. It's a lifetime of service 
or 
> death." as Sirius (::sob:: was my favourite, favourite, 
> favourite ::sob::) said in OoP. Maybe the Regulus story was 
> introduced to give us an idea that not all of the DE were happy 
with 
> what they were doing, some had no idea what they were getting 
into --
> > which will be sort of an intro for what Percy is going to do in 
the 
> next books. 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> portrait_of_mrs_black

me:
I think Percy is very power hungry. It seems to me that he will burn 
his Bridge with his mother and that her fears of him dyeing are not 
unjustified. Mothers seem to know about these things. She fears his 
death along with the whole family. (IMP) Percy is Judus, he's just 
not sure who to betray yet, but he will betray someone!
Lori