Undercover Percy: who notified Dumbledore?

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No: HPFGUIDX 81041

hickengruendler post 81040:

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.

hg replying:
Yet another excellent point.  And might I add one more that just 
occurs to me?  Dumbledore got to the Ministry, finds he's missed the 
trial, and whips out the trusty ol' time turner.  It would also 
explain how he was able to scramble Arabella up there in time, 
wouldn't it?

hickengruendler:
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, and because [he] is that close to Fudge, 
Percy is more likely to get fired than any other member of the 
ministry, if Fudge doesn't trust him completely. 

hg:
Makes a LOT of sense.  But -- one thing bugs me:
So how would that have come about?  Why would Fudge be offering Percy 
that job after the Inquiry?  Would Dumbledore have prompted Percy on 
how to behave through it all?  I did get the impression that Percy 
was extremely rattled by the whole thing (Molly and Bill talking w/ 
Harry before third TW task).  Could it have been that Fudge saw an 
opportunity to drive a wedge between the Weasleys?  Or that Malfoy 
saw that opportunity and "advised" Fudge to act on it?  And that it 
could have been improved upon by putting the Imperious on Percy?  
Could it have been that Percy was allowed to believe he was in worse 
trouble than he was, but was given an opportunity to "redeem" 
himself?  Could it have been that Percy was Wormtail at that point 
and silkily talked himself out of the Inquiry and into the right-hand-
man spot?
Point being: as much as I love spy/Percy, how would Dumbledore get 
him into that job?  More generally, how did it come about that he got 
it at all?

hg.