[HPforGrownups] Percy

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 53914

Iwishiwerehermione wrote:

>I've also been thinking about this and I agree Percy seems a likely
>choice. The Weasleys are all "fans" of Harry's. A possible storyline
>in my mind is that order-and-rule loving Percy blindly follows Fudge
>on his assumption that the Minister for Magic couldn't possibly be
>wrong about the rise of Voldemort. I am viewing Fudge's blindness

Percy is a loyal and naive young civil servant who has only just joined the
Ministry and whose first year has seen his boss (whom he deeply respected)
knocked off by the DEs. In turn, Voldemort, having re-arisen, is likely to
move quickly to reactivate his network within the Ministry. The question for
me is whether Percy has woken up to the fact that he is in a very devious
political world filled with intrigue at a time when the MoM's internal
politics could get quite nasty. It depends whether

- he remains an underling who doesn't question what's going on at the TOTO
(in which case he might survive
- he develops the Weasley savvy which has kept his dad ahead of the game
through his career (once again he might survive), or
- he tries to play with the big boys without knowing what he is getting into
(in which case he is a very good candidate for the boneyard)

I wonder out loud exactly how Voldemort will try to take over the Ministry
and who he will try to advance. I know there's already a theory that Fudge
is a DE agent but in a way he is rather more vulnerable now that Voldemort
has declared himself again. Now that Voldemort is back in the public domain,
if Fudge doesn't do anything and carries on trying to deny it, there would
be no reason why that couldn't be brought to the attention of the Daily
Prophet (who _do_ frequently criticise the MoM) and enough of a furore
raised to bring Fudge down.

My suggested DE candidates for Minister would be either Bagman (advantages -
already near the top, popular, and _very_ easily controlled. All you'd have
to do would be lend him some money and then when he couldn't pay it back,
blackmail him) or MacNair - one of the DE's inner council (though with some
disadvantages, particularly that he seems to be older and in a less
prestigious post).

Cheers

Ffred

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