Is Percey A Spy

[caspenzoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 111186

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "doddiemoemoe" 
<doddiemoemoe at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "caspenzoe" <cruthw at e...> 
> wrote:
> > --- 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.
> > > 
> >> 
> 
> caspen wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Doddiemoe here:
> 
> I think that Percy was under the imperious curse..Wormtail's one 
> coniving bit of nastiness(well, probably more than a bit).  It 
> simply makes sense....Percy's strange behavior since cs is more 
than 
> just having a girl friend IMHO, he also "mother hens"-or 
> mollycoddles Ginny" (he never was quite so concerned about Ron's 
> health and well being that I remember).
> 
> Percy's quest to be the best and gain power (remember him reading 
> about prefects who gained power).sounds a great deal like a set of 
> values from Wormtail more than Mr. or Mrs. Weasley.  For all we 
know 
> Percy may well have known Wormtail was an animagus--but never know 
> his "history"..
> 
> Percy may not be a spy..but he may well be influenced by Wormtail 
> who had a great deal of access to both a wand and Percy when percy 
> was sleeping.  Wormtail may have had him under the imperious curse 
> from time to time or ALL the time. This may well be why Percy gave 
> Ron his "rat"..We're talking about a person who will not even let 
> his family use the owl they bought him here!
> Doddie

I have to agree that Percy's behavior since COS is very suspiscious -
 but it's been subtle. As I said, I didn't see it myself until I 
reread COS (and I've been following this up by re-reading the entire 
series in sequence). This is why I'm so puzzled by those who think 
Percy may be spying for the ministry - just doesn't make sense to me.

I do have one question though regarding the possibility that Percy 
has been imperioused by Wormtail: isn't there record of an interview 
in which JKR responds to the question whether Percy is acting on his 
own with a point blank "I'm afraid so"? Perhaps you are right 
though, in that she is referring to his present actions and not to 
the distant past when Wormtail was his pet.

In any case, Percy, by character, as exhibited since the very first 
book, seems to me to be a ripe target for recruitment into the kind 
of inane, day-to-day cruelty that constitutes most of the real evil 
most of us posting to this board are likely to encounter first-hand. 
This kind of common every-day badness ranging from indifference to 
petty, niggling abuse doesn't appear to be related to the more 
spectacular - big green flashes of light, mayhem & genocide - type 
of evil that we rarely see up close and are always truly shocked to 
hear about, but ultimately the really shocking evils are supported 
and made possible by the more mundane type.

Caspen