Defending Percy ( was Percy Weasley )

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 104908

Pam wrote :
> But I'm convinced that since Percy will be needing to "eat crow" on 
> 3 counts (first for abandoning his family, second for slandering 
> Harry and third for the whole Crouch fiasco, which was never 
> addressed, apparently, by the MoM)...

Del replies :

I posted some time ago to defend Percy, saying that he's only a true
Weasley, and not evil or a traitor (post number 97645). I'll be using
bits of that post to defend Percy here, but I invite whoever has a bad
opinion of Percy to go and look at that post, you might be surprised,
at least for a minute ;-)

Percy did not abandon his family. He distanced himself from people who
were accusing him of being a blind, stupid pawn, while not giving him
any proof of it. He was protecting himself, just like I would if
somebody said nasty things to me for no obvious reason.

Percy did not slander Harry, he tried to protect Ron. As far as he
knew, Harry was indeed a liar. 

There was indeed a Crouch fiasco, but definitely not on Percy's side.
Percy was the last person at the MoM to be able to identify that Mr
Crouch was not acting normally, while many of Crouch's colleagues,
starting with Fudge and Bagman, should have seen that. And even if
Percy had a suspicion, he simply couldn't go and blab on his superior,
that wasn't his role as a brand new assistant. And finally, Percy
seems to have done a very good job at taking over Mr Crouch's work,
showing himself to be a very capable young man. The only fiasco came
from the top people at the MoM, who were unable to see, for the second
time in a year, that something was seriously wrong with one of their
people (first Bertha, then Crouch).

Pam wrote :
> and I'm thinking that Percy won't do so very gracefully.  He's 
> disgruntled enough by his dad not being politically or economically 
> powerful, and only seems to understand superficial power (money, 
> influence) vs. real power (imho, compassionate intelligence, wisdom, 
> love, etc.)...which may set him up for a larger betrayal???

Del replies :
Percy only once mentioned money as a problem, and that was after his
own father accused him of, basically, being stupid, and refused to see
his professional accomplishment. Percy was upset, and let some bad
words out. Big deal. It surely isn't enough to conclude that Percy
values money over love.

A betrayal ? Sure, could be. Nobody's perfect. *Everyone* could turn
traitor, given the right incentive, so why not Percy ?

Del