New JKR FAQ Poll

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 107017

1. Is Percy Weasley working undercover for any secret organization/boss?

Short answer: No.

Long Answer.  Although I don't think we know everything about Percy's situation or his personal ambition, and I'm not sure where that will lead him in the next two books, I believe the question is pointing to a *conscious* choice to be working *undercover* and I do not think that is the case.  He may well get caught up into something he, in the end, will wish he hadn't, but I don't believe he is making a concious choice to be, perhaps, a double agent.

2.  Where has Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) been since the end of 'Goblet of Fire'?

He's going to be sworn in, this morning, as Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, I think. (Pierre Pettigrew) ;)

Serious answer: he's been in hiding at the DE/LV HQ as there are still lots of people in the wizarding world who would be more than surprised to see a long dead wizard walking around living and breathing.  Also, by this point, I would imagine that LV has figured out that PP has a life debt to HP and would be keeping them far apart to avoid any chance of PP repaying his debt.  LV knows PP is not a particularly powerful or useful wizard.  LV himself says "You returned to me, not out of loyalty, but out of fear of your old friends," and "Worthless and traitorous as you are,"

3. What did Dumbledore's Howler to Aunt Petunia mean? ('Remember my last'?)

Personally, I think the Howler meant, "Remember my last, Petunia."  Simple.  Whether he meant the letter he left with Harry on the doorstep, or another *last* conversation, I don't know.

DD answered this himself in OotP.  'I thought,' said Dumbledore, inclining his head slightly, 'that she might need reminding of the pact she had sealed by taking you.  I suspected the Dementor attack might have awoken her to the dangers of having you as a surrogate son.'

IF it is any more than that, and IF it is important to the rest of the story, JKR isn't going to post it, loud and clear, on the website.


I don't remember what the three previous poll questions were, though in her answer about Mark Evans she stated that she put in the 'if any' phrase as a clue.  Silly me, I presumed she was posting the questions in the same manner they were asked.  Obviously, in this case at least, the question was more along the lines of "what is the significance of Mark Evans" and she put in the 'if any' as a clue that she meant, by wording the question that way, that there is no significance.  

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