Percy (Was: "What's Arthur been up to")

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 80971

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermionegallo" 
<hermionegallo at y...> wrote:
> {snipping throughout--sorry, good thoughts here}

These are excellent points that can certainly point to Percy being 
> undercover.  I also had wondered about who told Dumbledore the 
trial 
> time had changed; although we already have another operative in the 
> Ministry, Shacklebolt, it couldn't have been him, because he was 
> speaking with Arthur before the trial and didn't mention anything.  
> He didn't know.  Therefore this really lends credence to Percy 
being undercover.
> 
> As much as I'd like to jump onto a TBAY Percy craft -- heck, even 
> take the helm of one -- I don't know if I could jump on PINESAP 
{Percy Is Not Evil--Simulated Alternate Peter}
> before ruling out Percy as Spy. I wonder if those of us who 
> are especially interested in this could continue to pick at it 
until we reach some consensus, on board or on email.  I'm open to 
both.


Jen Reese: HG--Thanks for laying out all the possible options for 
Percy's behavior in post 80931. I didn't get back to that one and now 
see there are two threads going on old Percy--he would be thrilled by 
all the attention, I'm sure!

Count me in for picking this apart. I'm leaning toward the option of 
Percy as undercover spy, mainly because of the letter. Carolina 
Silmariel in post 80213 gave some interesting ideas about why Percy 
wrote the letter the way he did, and what his "code talk" might be 
trying to get at with H/R/H.

The thought also occurred to me that Percy's letter just *happens* to 
be in the same chapter as the clever letter Harry writes to Sirius, 
trying to obscure his true meaning in "code talk."  So is JKR trying 
to show the similarities of these letters, or the differences? 

Re: the polyjuiced Percy.  It really would fit together so well and 
explain so much, that I'm betting against it. It's more of a gut 
feeling than anything specific.

I think the Imperius could work but once again, been there, done 
that. Of course, you could argue against the Spy theory for the same 
reason b/c so many people already suspect Snape of that. Wouldn't 
that be interesting, though, if we're all focused on Snape and Percy 
is really the spy?!?  Now that seems like something surprising that 
JKR might have fun with.

Re: Penelope Clearwater--good point from Sandy, but where can we go 
with it? There's absolutely zero mention of Penelope which seems 
suspicious, but there's absolutely zero mention so we don't have 
anything to go on but pure speculation.

So, if you take the helm of a new TBAY re: Percy as Spy, count me in. 
You can use anything I've written if it's useful.  Another post on 
the "undercover Percy" thread had an acronym for this idea, but I 
can't look it up at the moment without losing my post. 

All hands on deck! Jen