Undercover Percy: who notified Dumbledore?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 81040

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermionegallo" 
<hermionegallo at y...> wrote:
 
> 
> EXCELLENT points, all of them.  I never considered anyone but Percy 
> or Shacklebolt, and I had a hard time crediting Shacklebolt because 
> he wouldn't have known beforehand (but he was in the office that 
> morning; we saw him speaking w/ Harry and Arthur, so he could have 
> seen them, got Dumbledore right away etc.)
> Hickengruendler adds there is a portrait of a former headmaster 
near 
> the DoM, right by where the trial takes place.
> I actually like the idea of Arthur doing it but wonder if he sat 
> right outside the courtroom the whole time.  The portrait makes a 
lot 
> of sense, as does Grey Wolf's idea that it could have been 
Marchbanks 
> or Ogden (although I don't agree that the time and place change was 
> a "minor" matter at all).

There is another possibility. I got the idea, while I was reading 
Grey Wolfs post about Marchbanks and Odgen. Amelia Bones could have 
notified Dumbledore. She seems to be a pretty fair and reasonable 
woman (as far as we can tell from her short page time). Maybe she was 
shocked, that Harry was made a process in front of the whole 
Wizengamot, as if he was a Death Eater or murderer. So she could have 
sent a message to Dumbledore, to make sure, that Harry at least gets 
some proper defense.

>   Which brings 
> me to another point: it seems Dumbledore has eyes and ears all over 
> the Ministry already.  If Percy was doing something undercover, 
what 
> else could it be?   

None of the other ears of Dumbledore at the Ministry isn't that close 
to Fudge, as Percy is. That means none of them knows as much about 
Fudge's plans as Percy. Even the portraits can't hear everything. 
Having a spy that close to Fudge would be very important from 
Dumbledore, and because is that close to Fudge, Percy is more likely 
to get fired than any other member of the mistry, if Fudge doesn't 
trust him completely. That's the main reason, why I, too, think, that 
undercover Percy is at least possible. But I have big problems with 
his behaviour at Christmas. That's why I think Git!Percy or Imperio'd!
Percy is more likely. Someone kidnapped and replaced was already 
done, as a much more important part of the plot than putting the 
Imperio curse on Krum. I don't think JKR will use another Polyjuiced 
Storyline.

Hickengruendler