Undercover Percy

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No: HPFGUIDX 81038

post 81031 Peggy (snipped):  "...my gut reaction to Percy in OOP 
was 'What is wrong here?  Percy is a twit, but I never thought he'd 
be quite *such* a twit.' My hunch is that there is much, much more to 
this than we can see. Undercover!Percy hadn't occurred to me until I 
saw it on the list, but Imperio'd!Percy certainly did.  
 
Ron is almost always wrong, when he's not making a joke.   
GoF, American edition, p.534-- 'Percy would never throw any of his 
family to the dementors,' said Hermione severely.
'I don't know,' said Ron, 'If he thought we were standing in the way 
of his career . . . Percy's really ambitious, you know . . .'

My money (all 2 cents of it) is on Percy being deep undercover or in 
very, very deep trouble."

hg replies:
What I like about this, Peggy, is that it includes the theme of the 
CHOICES we make: how does Percy's family CHOOSE to respond to his 
behavior?  Molly is the only one who tries to reach out to him, at 
least twice, as far as we know.  No one seems worried about him 
except her; the rest are angry and assuming the worst.  I think 
that's dreadful.  I caught a glimmer of concern from Ginny, in the 
scene where the kids are filling Harry in on the Percy story, and it 
was such a vague glimmer I can't attribute any specific feeling to it.
hg.