OOP Percy is Not Evil

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 65375

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> 
wrote:
 
> I don't hold Jenny's confidence that Percy won't be turned to V- 
Mort's side. He has turned his back on his family and now found the  
reason he did -- he thought Fudge was right -- was wrong.

and:

> And Fred and George changing his badge from Head Boy to Bighead Boy 
won't be the reason he does it if he goes to the evil side. It'll be  
because he chose to go.>

So because Percy had a falling out with his parents and said some 
nasty things in anger, he might decide to join a group of witches and 
wizards who actively torture and murder?  Can't say I see that.  I 
have a very hard time seeing Percy with the Dark Mark on his arm, 
calling Voldemort the Dark Lord and using Crucio on people who don't 
agree with him.  Not even Percy has that much hatred in him.  All he 
wants is to be the very best Minister of Magic the WW has ever seen, 
not rid the world of Muggles and Mudbloods.  Turning his back on his 
family was a selfish and stupid thing to do, but it doesn't make him 
an evil person. 

Unless Percy is tricked (which is possible), I just don't think this 
DE will happen with him.  Haven't we all argued here that one can be 
an asshole without being truly evil?  Can't Percy just be one of those 
assholes?  Personally, I think he'd do a fantastic job at the NYC Dept 
of Education, where bureaucracy has reached new heights of horror. 

--jenny from ravenclaw, who thinks there are far more assholes out 
there than there are truly evil people 
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