The Greek tragedy of the Weasley family plus...

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I don't see Percy as facing the same dilemma as Antigone. Sophocles shows that the choice she faces is the duty of what is owed to one's family compared to the obediene one owes to the State. It is not a religious dramaa (which would have been an alien concept in to them, in the terms we would think of); rather it concerns the tension betwenn what politics dictates as correct versus what one's own conscience demands. When given the opporunity to leave her broher's spiri to eternal restless wandering by not being properly buried (according to their belief system), or to have him enombed but join him there and sacrifie her own life Antigone chooses the latter. Then, when Creon's son AND Antigone's lover pleads fruitlessly on her behalf he breaks into the tomb. Upon finding that she has hanged herself he falls on his sword. 
Creon's inability to allow the small act of clemency for his niece to bury her brother thus costs him his own son. Antigone has chosen filial love over obediance to an unmerciful state and her betrothed joins his beloved in her fate (making the same choice). I don't see this applying to Percy.
Even if he's an overly ambitious git, Percy has no real need to do somehing aa radial as return the sweater his mother made him-I sincerely doubt even Fudge would eexpect nor appreciate such a radically ungracious "gesture". In fact, I'd think he would be nervous concerning  general parental WW public reaction & aout its reflection on himself.
For a differen Greek-myth spin, let's go back to CoS (especially as it's being dicussed at the moment regarding the "clues are all in it" i). Remember Percy's prefect from Ravenclaw GF who was (rather oddly) petrified at the same time Hermione was? They seemed to have been looking in a mirror when it happened-but there's no clear explanation HOW that happened or WHY they were both using it. Using a mirror at all seemed an odd thing to me for Hermione to do (at least in that book, when she was only 12 at most).
Let's go back to Homer and THE ODYSSEY. 

Penelope was the wife of Odysseus?Ulysses, who went off to fight in the Trojan War. She waites faithfully for his return, but in the last few years of her 20-year wait was besieged by suitors who desired her both for her husband's kingdom of Ithica, and for her great beauty. So, she came up with  a plan.

She promised she would finally choose one of them, but first had to finish weaving a burial cloth for Laertes (Odysseus' father) for his tomb-to which they agreed. 
>From then on she wove the cloth faithfully, in their view, every day. What they didn't know was that at night she secretly came back and picked apart just enough of the stitches to make it appear that some little progress was made while in reality almost none was. She appeared to be a dutiful wife and daughter-in-law, but was deceptively clearheaded whose stillness concealed very deep waters indeed. She was completely loyal to her beliefs, and managed to control those around her without appearing to. (Eventually Odysseus comes home to her and kills the unwanted suitors over-running his palace while in disguise as a traveler.)
So, my question-is Percy STILL seeing his Hogwarts girlfriend-Penelope Clearwater? (Think about THAT name!) If so, is SHE concealing anything-like ties/loyalties to the DEs? Is it possible that Percy is influenced by her still-maybe even under Imperious?
Can "clear waters" run as deep as still ones?
KAT/rxk