Scabbers/Percy AGAIN, AGAIN!!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85122

Arcum wrote:
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...

Carol (edited by Nineve):
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.


Nineve responded:
Sorry, but I don't think we should justify Percy's behavior at all. 
As DD says himself, every family has a "bad one", including his.
Percy is not evil, but highly misguided. I had doubts about him and 
his relationship with Scabbers before, and I actually started this 
discussion, but I got a beautiful insight reply by someone (sorry, I 
don't remember the name, but follow thread by searching the 
word "Nineve") about Percy's childhood, the time he got Scabby and 
his life, and after that I am convinced that he is not in allyance 
with the Dark side, but is only a fool, as Barty Crouch Father was. 
<snip>

Carol again:
Actually I wasn't justifying Percy's behavior, which I discussed at
length in another post comparing him to Quirrell and stating that in
my view he's not evil but deluded. My point in the post you
partially quoted was that IF someone cast an Imperius curse on him, it
was most unlikely to be Scabbers and was more probably Lucius Malfoy.
(I don't necessarily think that's what happened but I don't discount
the  possibility.) I also suggested a way in which Percy might have
acquired Scabbbers as a little boy and argued that Scabbers was
probably looking for someone to take care of him, not someone he 
could turn into a servant of Voldemort.

Carol