Percy and the MoM in Book 6

[ellejir]

No: HPFGUIDX 74258

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
><big snip>
> In this scenario, I think Percy will become the new Barty Crouch, 
Sr.,
> bent on imposing an oppresive regime on the WW, and counteracting
> "Dumbledore's Army" with "Fudge's Gestapo".  And I think Percy
> *will* throw at least one of his family into Azkaban -- Possibly
> Arthur, in a cruelly ironic reversal of the Crouches (son turns in
> father).


Me:
I don't know.
When I first read all the posts about Percy being a deep-cover mole 
for the Order, I was rolling my eyes and thinking "Give it up...will 
you guys, pleeeease!  Percy is *obviously* a first class prat and a 
total loser.  Just face the facts!"   But, as I go through the book 
more and more, it seems as if Percy's character has changed radically 
in OoP, more even than Sirius or Harry's did.  Yes, he was always a 
pompous jerk, but remember when he forgot all his dignity and ran 
into the lake to help pull out Harry and Ron after the second task?  
How does that jibe with a guy who sends back his mother's Christmas 
gift unopened and does not even visit his father in the hospital 
after a near-fatal attack?  Something seems wrong here.  
Elle (who is softening a little to the Percy-As-Mole-For-Order Theory)