OoP: Percy as a Slytherin? (Long) (Was: Re: OOP Percy is Not Evil)

[lee_lhs]

No: HPFGUIDX 65332

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M. J. Pascual" <renimar at y...> 
wrote:
> Those who don't care for long rambling posts can skip ahead. :)
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups, "spedlegs4169" <rjpuntoni at a...> wrote:
> > Percy isn't evil, I agree he's just power hungry.  He acted like 
he 
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Well, I don't know if you ever have worked in the treadmil of a huge 
company or in a gov department. There is an enormous... how to put 
it? group pressure going on there, a "you are with us or against us" 
attitude. Now, a young man like Percy, who freshly comes from school 
and apparently does have a "doing the right thing" agenda, gets 
sucked up pretty fast into that group, getting positive feedback and 
recognition where his father apparently failed. He gets fed 
the "official" [aka Fudge's] version of things, the "behind the 
scenes" informations that he has to evaluate. Should he believe his 
family (who apparently doesn't have all the information that he 
(thinks he) has) or should he try to correct their views?
Percy's young, he's impressible, and he didn't have enough 
experience to see the minister and authorities for what they are: 
fallible and partially corrupted, brought down by good intentions 
and incompentence (there's a saying that you'll get promoted until 
you reach your ultimate level of incompentence - people who have the 
people skills but don't listen to the ones with experience and 
knowledge)... 
So, Percy has to re-evaluate his position. 
Fudge will probably go down because of his association with Malfoy, 
the stunt he pulled at Hogwarts and his failure to see the signs 
about Voldie's return. OTOH, chances are pretty big that he will 
keep a lid on things or have other people fired for his mistakes - 
Umbridge, or maybe Percy himself? It depends on how big Fudge's 
influence really is. The obvious item here is that the MOM will lose 
its face after all the discrediting to DD and HP. They most likely 
won't let this happen...

What will Percy do? He made a serious mistake and believed the wrong 
people. If he is able to admit that he made a mistake, he might come 
back into the fold. If he's too proud, he'll get himself stuck in 
the swamp, start to make even worse mistakes and end up as a sorry 
excuse for a Weasley.

Lee