Percy's letter

[Matt]

No: HPFGUIDX 85256

--- "Eric Oppen" wrote:
> There's been some discussion recently of Percy 
> and his breach with his family in OotP...and I 
> thought of an interesting parallelism.
> 
> At one point in _Phoenix,_ Harry writes a letter 
> to Sirius, but knows that it may well be inter-
> cepted and read by people who do not, to put it 
> mildly, mean him or Sirius well.  So he writes a 
> letter that, if it's intercepted, will seem 
> innocuous, but will be instantly understood by 
> its intended recipient.
> 
> Could Percy have been doing something of the sort 
> with his letter to Ron? If his superiors at the 
> MoM were looking over his shoulder, or he knew
> they might well intercept the letter and read it 
> (do they have censorship of that sort?  I 
> wouldn't put it past Fudge or Umbridge, and Percy 
> knew that Umbridge was clambering into the saddle 
> at Hogwarts, where the letter was going to go) he 
> would have been in a pickle...how to warn Ron that 
> trouble's brewing, without jeopardizing his 
> position at the MoM?

I couldn't tell if this post was a reply to silmariel's post #80213
(Yahoo! has it threaded as if it were) or just your own ideas.  In
either event, #80213 raises a similar hypothesis, that Percy's letter
was phrased in such a way as to be "in character" if read by a
Ministry spy, but to encourage Ron to keep doing much as he already
was.  Silmariel suggested that, rather than a coded message, Percy was
using his knowledge of Ron to, essentially, provoke Ron into digging
in his heels, while getting useful information to H/H.  There was a
discussion around that post, and I think there were a couple of
similar threads around the same time that might be of interest if you
haven't looked at them.