OOP Percy is Not Evil

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 65198

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "taylorlynzie" <leperockon at a...> 
wrote:

> It is quite possible that Percy could be under the Imperius curse, 
> however, as much as I love the Weasleys and though I know Percy 
> wouldn't stray far from the Weasley tree I do think that Percy is 
> quite power hungry. Ron says it and the twins say it and you can see 
> it from the books. Sure he might come running home in the end but I 
> think that he is a bit power hungry. You can't really blame him 
> though, the twins are power hungry as well, so is Ron, just in 
> different ways. The twins want money and stability, Ron wants to be 
> noticed and stability and Percy wants raw power and stability. They 
> all want the stability because they really haven't had it except in 
> the form of family, but not finacially which seems kinda yo-yo. I 
> think Percy will come to his senses in the end like he did during 
the second task it will just take something majour....hopefully not 
the death of a Weasley for him to get the point.>

I must agree with you about Percy and power.  If it's not power 
specifically he craves, it is definitely success, which he defines by 
how high he can rise in the ranks of the MoM.  It must have been 
frustrating for him to take his job so seriously and go home every day 
only to be ridiculed by his siblings.  He is a conservative family 
member of a family that is quite liberal.  He kind of reminds me of 
Alex Keaton from "Family Ties" - always wanting to impress those with 
authority, loves to be official, puntual, responsible, bureacratic.  
It is his way of responding to what he doesn't like about his family.

I am not in any way blaming Percy's family for what happened.  I think 
Percy has handled things very badly.  However, I don't think he is 
evil, either.  I don't think he is under Imperius, or secretly 
training to be a DE.  I also don't think he's a spy for Dumbledore.  I 
really just think Percy thinks that he is valued at the MoM and 
because he admires government bureaucrats like Fudge, he'll go to 
great lengths to impress them.  He doesn't have to support what his 
parents do, but he should respect them more instead of behaving so 
badly (really, not visiting his father in the hospital was 
inexcusable).  Maybe they should respect him more, too.

I wouldn't even be surprised if he is reluctant to apologize to his 
family in book 6.  He has a lot of pride, as his brothers and sister 
do; it will hard for him to admit he has done anything wrong, 
especially as Percy may truly believe he has done the right thing.

--jenny from ravenclaw ***********************