Scabbers/Percy AGAIN, AGAIN!!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84957

Jen R. Wrote:
<snip> 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. <snip>

Carol:
I agree with you. Scabbers was basically lazy and slept a lot. Peter
seems to have been the same way, not taking action unless he had no
choice. (Can't back this up with specific examples at the moment but I
know it was mentioned several times.)
> 
> 
> 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 

Percy is book smart like Hermione (twelve O.W.L.S. or something like
that), but also ambitious and headstrong. I agree that he thinks he's
right in respecting authority and following rules (like Hermione in
SS/PS) and the early books treat him as a pathetically comic figure.
(I laughed out loud when Fred addressed him as Weatherby early in
GoF.) Now we see him heading for trouble, first idolizing Barty
Crouch, Sr., then going along with Fudge, almost as if he's defiantly
heading for a fall just to spite his family, even the mother who loves
him and was so proud of him. It's possible that he's under an Imperius
curse, having no doubt encountered our dear friend Lucius Malfoy in
the MoM a number of times, but I think he's just reaping what he
sowed. I like Percy and feel sorry for him, but I'm even sorrier for
Molly. I can't get the scene where he returns his sweater, followed so
closely by Molly's boggart, out of my mind. Willingly or unwillingly,
I think Percy is being manipulated. Maybe there's a chance for him to
come back to his family with Lucius in prison, but probably the damage
is already done. I think Percy is going to die. It would be the
ultimate irony if it was Scabbers/Pettigrew who killed him.

Carol