[HPforGrownups] Re: Scabbers/Percy AGAIN, AGAIN!!

[Tonya Minton]

No: HPFGUIDX 84945

Jen R.: 

I don't know if it's been theorized before, but since I'm a Spy!
Percy theorist, I have to defend his honor ;).

Two problems. One is that Percy couldn't know that Ron and Harry 
would be friends, or that Harry would be a Gryffindor, so that part 
of the equation isn't *certain* to work.  

The other is just my opinion re: Pettigrew. I still don't believe 
that he was "keeping an ear out for news...Just in case {Voldemort} 
regained strength and it was safe to rejoin him..." as Sirius 
explains in POA (chap. 19, p. 370). I think he was content to live 
as Wormtail, knowing he had no other option, until he is "outed" by 
Sirius/Remus in the Shrieking Shack. After that, he only has one 
option--rejoin Voldemort. I suppose he could continue living as 
Wormtail, but he'd no longer be safe as he was with the Weasleys, 
specifically Ron.

I think his motive when he 'killed' himself was for protection. Why 
else would he choose the Weasleys to live with, the consummate 
Gryffindor family? If he was truly waiting around for Voldemort to 
re-appear, wouldn't he be more likely to choose a family of DE's, so 
he would get news? He has no way of knowing Ron and Harry would hook 
up later, that both would be in Gryffindor. He's saving his own 
skin, not waiting to deliver the "last Potter" to LV. 
 
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Now Tonya:
 
These are very good points!!  I wonder if Percy is just thick.  In POA
he doesn't believe Ron when he says that Black was standing over him
with a knife, then in OOP he is such a sleaze bag to his parents.  Then
he writes that horrible letter to Ron.  I am stumped on him!!
 
Tonya 




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