Percey Weasley under Lucius' Imperius Curse?

[dj_bagshaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 85270

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> 
wrote:
>  I'm replying to my own post in complete embarrassment as it 
> occurred to me today that Percy doesn't not in fact work for the 
> Minister of Magic but the head of the department of International 
> Magical Cooperation; Barty Crouch Sr.  Or at least he did until 
> Crouch died.  
> 
> But even though I made this huge error which weakens my theory 
> considerably I do still stand the idea that Percy is under the 
> Imperius Curse.  It would still behoove Voldemort, or even just 
> Lucius himself, to have a source at the ministry.  Even if that 
> source is working for a man who is himself under the Imperius.  
> Crouch was away from his job an awful lot struggling to fight the 
> curse and gave Percy free reign of his office, which must have 
> included a lot of personal and confidential Ministry information.  
> I'm sure Percy has access to many areas's of the Ministry even 
> Lucius Malfoy can't get to, at least not legitimately anyway.


Would it not be more useful to Lucius and, by extension, Voldemort if 
Percy, under the Imperius Curse, gave information about strategies 
the good guys were using to combat Voldie et al?  It seems strange to 
me that someone so close to Harry (as Percy undoubtably is) would be 
put under the Imperius Curse only to have him relay information about 
the Ministry when much more useful information could be gained from 
him, information about Harry himself.

Any Ministry worker (and most likely a more important Ministry 
worker) could be put under the Imperius Curse to gain information 
from inside the MoM...there are very few people that are as close to 
Harry as Percy is (yes, I know Percy and Harry aren't best of 
friends, but the Weasleys are still a very important part of Harry's 
life, and thus Percy is as well).

Just a thought.

~Kate