PERCY: DD's Personal Spy or Ministry's Puppet? (Long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 111327

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brenda M." 
<Agent_Maxine_is at h...> wrote: (Msg 111313)

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> (6) So *everyone* in Potterverse is either Spy or Death Eater?
> -- I like the idea of Percy, the immature and stubborn youngster,
> being totally misguided by propaganda. Fooled by the Ministry and
> used as the political manipulation victim, right under his nose. It
> is more realistic that way: that some people are genuinely misled 
and
> fooled, others fight in war or cause the war. Just because we 
*want*
> certain characters to behave the way we want (be good or evil but
> really just in disguise) it doesn't mean they are, or should be. I
> personally don't want everyone to be either spies, or the Order
> members, or the Death Eaters, or the former DEs. That's too boring,
> no?
> <snip>

I've always felt there something odd/fishy about Percy's development 
on OotP (begun in GoF) and, as many have pointed out, that he was 
Pettigrew as Scabbers' 'owner' (for an unknown/unspecified number of 
years). Just too creepy to be a Weasley. But then he always has 
been. 

Maybe you're right Brenda M in your point above that JKR is simply 
(intelligently as usual) mirroring the English Civil War (perhaps 
read any other incl. US) in which 'brother was set against brother' 
and families were sundered by irreconcilable allegiances to 
parliament/roundheads or king/cavaliers. I prefer to think Percy is 
DD's doule agent and have even, given the DD=Ron theory thought that 
maybe DD=Percy is as viable a theory if he is making amends (as DD 
sent back in time) for disastrously stupid and wrong-headed 
behaviour when he was Percy.

hmmmmmmmmmm we tie ourselves in knots. Hopefuly JKR will answer the 
FAQ on her website some time soon.