What about Percy?

[maneelyfh]

No: HPFGUIDX 73909

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> Fran, commenting on bibphile, who 'actually subscribes to the
> Percy-as-a-mole theory for the  moment': "I have been rereading the
> COS, and found some interesting things on Percy.  Remember when they
> find the Tom Riddles Diary, and ron comments that he has heard the
> name before.....Ron had to polish the a medal of merit that Tom had
> earned.  HRH go to the trophy romm to check the medal out, and find
> that he was headboy as well. Ron comments then and a couple of other
> times in the book that Percy is just like Tom Riddle....  when I 
read
> this I thought Percy really is evil, and he will not redeem 
himself. 
> I have been thinking all along that Percy would go back to his 
family,
> but now I am not so sure."
> 
> I think JKR has a theme going here: Those who do not resist evil 
serve
> evil's ends.  Fudge is the prime example: some believed him to be an
> active agent of Voldemort, but now he is revealed as a
> don't-rock-the-boat self-serving moral coward blind to evil, the
> Neville Chamberlain of his world.  Percy, who spends the OOP year 
as a
> disgusting sycophant who goes along to get along,  is going the same
> way.  Can he be redeemed?  I hope so, because I can't think ill of a
> Weasley, not for long.  Nobody can accuse Percy of not knowing which
> way the wind is blowing, at least.  I wonder if he looks at 
Hermione,
> who has his achievement but the character he lacks, and wonders 
about
> what he's done with his life so far.
> 
> Clearly JKR does not approve of those who stand idly by while evil 
is
> in the word.
> 
> Jim F.

Me again:
I love the Wesleys as well, and really do hope we see a redeemed 
Percy.  The thing that bothers me as to why this may not happen is 
the series is, how do I put this, real world? Molly's boggart is one 
of her loved ones dying, possibly another clue.  I could see Percy 
getting mixed up with LV, then trying to get out and getting killed.

As for Fudge, still feel he is a LV supporter, that no one knows 
about.  I would comment more on this but have just returned from a 
trip, and my mind is numb from driving. It does have to do with Fudge 
tin the prisoner of Azkaban, how he did not punish Harry for doing 
underage magic, and the dementors almost giving HRH the kiss.....They 
were supposedly under Fudges rule....

I hope I do not come down with some incurable disease, and die before 
the the last book comes out!