[HPforGrownups] Re: Where Percy got Scabbers

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In a message dated 10/28/2003 3:03:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, Hickengruendler writes:

> Percy was 5 when he got Scabbers. In no way was a five year old child 
> in league with Voldemort. Especially not a Weasley child. I think 
> Pettigrew just realised that Percy was the son of a ministry member 
> and hoped to get some information. So he played the nice 
> pet to 
> Percy, that Percy could take him in.
>

I agree. I don't think Percy was -- or is now -- in league with Voldemort. I think he's seriously misguided and making really bad judegment calls, but that doesn't make him a DE. But I *do* think it's significant that Percy was the one who had Scabbers first. Perhaps that was an early clue that Percy often turned a blind eye to DEs? I don't know what this means about Ron, then, but I like to assume that Ron's not to blame for not noticing Scabbers'... abnormalilty because Scabbers was a hand-me-down, and Ron ought to be able to trust the things his family gives him. Percy, on the other hand, may have found Scabbers on his own (even this is speculation, though) and that would make Percy the weak link who brought Scabbers into the family in the first place.

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