Is Percey A Spy

[caspenzoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 111113

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pouncevil at A... wrote:
> Here's a Thought???
> 
> Lets all remember that the "Rat" Scabbers came from Percy. 
> 
> We also know that Peter P. the rat was a DE and had been passing 
them information for years. Did Peter pass on information while in 
the "care" of Percy.
> 
> Could Percy have been a DE all along with the promise of fame & 
fortune by LV followers when he returned to power.... 

> Living with the Weasley's also gave Peter P. an in-site into the 
MOM goings on, as stated in GOF with Arthur describing the different 
members of the MOM and what jobs they had. What a wealth of 
information. "LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS" I wonder if Arthur will 
continue to comment on who's doing what and where in the MOM, or 
worse the OOTP.
  
> --
> Ronald D. Reid

Having re-read COS recently, I was struck by the number of times 
mysterious behavior on the part of Percy is mentioned - it's not 
just once or twice, but several times. In COS Percy seems to have 
some hold over Ginny, or at the very least to be monitoring her. In 
addition, he appears inexplicably in the dungeon.

I know the canon explanation (offered by Percy) at the end of COS is 
that Ginny has caught him in an assignation with Penelope 
Clearwater, but, if so, why insist that she conceal it, and why 
behave deceptively, (again!) not once, but several times, given his 
later openess about the relationship? Why, for that matter, would 
Percy (a Gryffyndor, a Slytherin rival, residing in the upper floors 
of the castle) and Penelope (a Ravenclaw, also residing in the upper 
floors of the castle) meet in a dungeon, close to the Slytherins' 
quaters of all places? 

Why does PP become Percy's pet and why does Percy bequeath PP, in 
the form of Scabbers, to to Ron? Why does PP choose the Weasely 
family to reside with, and why is another Weasily, Ginny, targeted 
by LM in COS?

If Percy is a spy, it's inconcieveable to me that he is spying for 
Dumbledore. Rather, if anything, his suspiscious behavior indicates 
an allegiance, conscious or not, to the other side. Added to which 
(sorry to any Percy fans) Percy is really a rather weak character 
(from a human, not a literary point of view): he cares too much what 
others think of him and for praise and power; he cares for the 
letter of the law (the rules) and not the spirit the law is  
intended to serve - very human, very common weakneses that, as 
proven by history time and again, can be twisted to serve very evil, 
one might even say ESE ends. 

Regardless whether Percy is intentionally serving VM (is a spy for 
VM) or not, his actions have never really served the good (i.e: DD) 
yet in canon have they? Quite the opposite: of late, they have 
certainly opposed it.

Caspen