Digest Number 3044 OOP spoiler

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No: HPFGUIDX 63898

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca Stephens 
<rsteph1981 at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- zenchela <zenchela at y...> wrote:
> 
> > I'd really love to have Percy come out a hero in all
> > this -- 
> > pretending to disavow his family to be a spy for
> > Dumbledore in the 
> > MOM -- but he was a brown-noser from the start, long
> > before Fudge 
> > turned up as a bought-off coward.  It'll take a very
> > devious story 
> > from JKR to prove him a good guy (and she's good at
> > that, so I look 
> > forward to being wrong!)
> > 
> > And just a niggle -- the Weasleys didn't cut Percy
> > off, he cut *them* 
> > off.  Molly went to visit him in London and he shut
> > the door in her 
> > face, he returned the Christmas sweater she sent
> > him, he never spoke 
> > to Arthur at work, and then that horrendous letter
> > to Ron.
> > 
> > Zen
> >
> \
> 
> But if Percy was trying to gain/keep rank by doing
> what the ministry wanted, why didn't he do what the
> Ministry wanted?  He did *not* spy on his family.
> 
> And, presuming that was what the ministry wanted, why
> didn't they encourange him to make amends so that they
> might get more info?  Why didn't they transfer him
> somewhere else since they didn't get the payoff?
> 
> For me, there are just too many unaswered questions in
> respect to Percy.  I'm not ready to draw any
> conclusions yet, but I can't take things at face
> value.
> 
> He just seemed way too out of character here.
> 
> 
> Rebecca
> 
I think there's something going on that we don't know about.  Like 
Rebecca said, if Percy was willing to turn traitor on his family for 
ambition then why did he break with them instead of spying on them?

And Percy was out of character.  He showed way too much emotion.  
Even in GoF, he was trying to look professional.  Pompous, but 
professional.  He wasn't remotely professional in OotP.

There has to be more going on than it appears at first glance.

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