Percy's letter

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 80244

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermionegallo" 
<hermionegallo at y...> wrote:
  
> Del wondered if Percy might be a really good actor.  Which leads me 
> to wonder if Molly and Arthur aren't really good actors, too; if 
> Percy were "undercover" in some way, shape or form, they could 
likely 
> be in on it.

Undercover! Percy is a possibility. I thought about it, too. If he 
really is a spy for the Order, than at least Arthur knows this. There 
is no doubt about it, because it was Arthur who started the fight, 
not Percy (of course Arthur was mostly right, but nonetheless it 
wasn't Percy who started the discussion). But if Arthur and Percy 
just pretended to fight, and didn't tell Molly the truth (and I have 
a hard time thinking that Molly is able to play all these emotions), 
they both deserve to be slapped silly. But maybe Molly knows the 
truth, and is really sad, because she isn't able to speak to her son 
for a long time.

> I've felt all along since reading OoP that Percy wasn't acting like 
> himself.  

During the first read through, I thought the same. But on the other 
hand, there wasn't much Percy in canon. And when he was there, he 
remained mostly silent. The only time I remember him saying anything 
was, when he laughed about Fudges stupid jokes. So because he didn't 
appear as much as in the other books, it is somehow logical, that he 
was more one-dimensional.

>I've wondered if he had been replaced, which seems like an 
> unpopular theory around here.  

I don't think he was replaced. But I wouldn't rule out the Imperius 
curse.

<snip>
 
> My only problem with assuming that Percy and his parents are good 
> actors (or even that Percy himself is) and that there's an 
undercover 
> Percy here, is that: if he's so deep undercover, why try to reveal 
it 
> to H/R/H in a coded message?  

If he really is a spy, I don't think he tried to reveal anything. He 
just wanted to make sure Ron hates him enough, to do exactly the 
opposite, that he is saying.
 
Hickengruendler