Is Percy A Spy? Who for?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 111258

Carol: "Whatever Percy may be up to now (and I think he's simply been
led astray by ambition, the desire to be appreciated, and a too-rigid
belief in authority and rules), he can't possibly have been corrupted
by a rat who remained a rat for the entire time that Percy owned him."

You're right.  Scabbers wouldn't make a good salesman, would he? "Help
us, and you could earn rich rewards, like I have! May have another scrap?"

I always thought that Percy stood for a couple of things: 1) the get
along to go along apparatchik who turns his sense of right and wrong
over to an authority figure like Crouch Sr. or Fudge, and maybe 2) the
unredeemed Hermione.  By that I mean the kind of person that Hermione
avoided becoming by discovering higher purpose, courage, and  loyalty
with her friends.

But we could all be wrong.  There's no evidence, but Percy could be a
spy - for Dumbledore.  A spy under such deep cover that he alienates
his family and friends to maintain his legend as having given his
complete loyalty over to Fudge.  As I said, there's not a shred of
real evidence, only two little things: it's just the kind of thing
Dumbledore would think of, and that Percy is a Weasley, Arthur and
Molly's son; I have a hard time thinking ill of any of them. It's the
explanation I'd like to believe, but that's certainly not good enough.
OTOH, we haven't seen anything that rules it out.

Jim Ferer