Scabbers/Percy AGAIN, AGAIN!!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85009

> Or possibly, since he found Scabbers. Wormtail could have placed Percy
> under Imperio at any time from when he was 5 to PoA, as well as in
> GoF...
> 
> --Arcum


I don't think that Scabbers/Pettigrew could do magic in his rat form,
with or without a wand. (Note that PP uses Voldemort's wand to kill
Cedric; he appears to have lost his own.) Scabbers does little except
sleep until Crookshanks senses his disguise.

It seems to me much more likely that Scabbers chose the five-year-old
Percy as the child of a rather poor wizard family who would be happy
to have a pet that his parents didn't have to pay for. Basically,
Scabbers needed a way to live as a rat without staying in the streets
and sewers. It's extremely unlikely that he wanted to put little Percy
under any kind of spell, and as others have pointed out, he was in
hiding from LV and the Death Eaters for twelve years. He had no motive
for putting an Imperius curse on Percy (or Ron), for that matter. And
note that Percy starts acting strangely after he leaves Hogwarts and
Scabbers is still with Ron.

A more likely candidate for putting an Imperius curse on Percy is
Lucius Malfoy, who frequently visited the MoM and could have put a
spell on Percy at any time after Percy started working there in GoF.

Carol