A different look at Percy.

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 73300

Tifaheart:"Harry finds out at the start of the book at where ever the 
Orders home is(Grimmauld Place or otherwize.) that Percy hasnt' 
spoken to the family since he found out that Harry, Dumbledore and 
his family were all in the right, he was in the wrong.

At Christmas, Harry again returns to the Orders home for some reason 
possibly for him to be in the meetings) and he finds Mrs. Weasley 
crying again over another present that Percy sent back to them.
Now Harry thinks of the Weasleys as family right, he will get Percys 
Address and go (alone or with Lupin) to Percy's home and confront 
him, Harry will be the one who brings him back and unites the family, 
again."

It could be so, but don't you think that Percy will come back begging 
for forgiveness anyway now that Fudge is humbled and Dumbledore and 
Harry are publicly vindicated? Nobody can accuse Percy of not knowing 
which way the wind is blowing (he was probably the guy who briefed 
Fudge each day on his poll numbers).  Besides, he's a Weasley, and I 
have a hard time thinking a Weasley irredeemable, even if he's 
started adulthood as a disgusting sycophant.  

Sometimes  I wonder if he looks at Hermione, who's also an 
overacheiver but has  loyalty and a moral center Percy hasn't found.  
I hope he does find it, or he'll be nothing but an apparatchik who 
goes along to get along, and both our world and the magical one has 
enough of those.