The Podmore Connection--Percy as DD's Spy
justcarol67
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Sat Mar 20 02:40:56 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 93466
Carol:
<snipped> <<But Fudge is heading for a fall and Percy will almost
certainly go down with him. Let's hope that being disgraced is all it
takes to make him to see the error of his ways. If not, we may really
see an evil Percy. I hope not, for the Weasley family's sake.
Carol, who still has sympathy for Percy and thinks he will die
redeemed in Book 7--or maybe Book 6 as the war intensifies and the
deaths start to multiply>>
>
Jenjar replied:
>
>Carol, I agree with your take on Percy's motivation and
>misguidedness. Maybe as you suggest, he will die redeemed in Book 7
>but, I think before that happens, his blindness and MOM ambition will
>lead to the death of one of his family members ( I think it will be
>Arthur) and then he will finally see the truth for what it is,
>recognize his awful miscalculations and join Dumbledore and Harry in
>all out war against V and anyone (like the MOM) who dares stand in
>there way. I've suggested this before but never got a response. I'm
>curious if anyone else agrees or thinks this idea is flawed...
Carol:
I know how you feel about not getting a response to your ideas, so
I'll react. With so many Weasleys, it's almost certain there will be
more than one Weasley death, but I hope it's not Arthur or Ron. I
don't think it will be Molly because of her boggart; it will surely be
one or more of the people Harry saw lying on the floor in OoP. (It's
likely that Harry didn't see all of the "dead" Weasleys--some of them
probably appeared before he entered the room--but I think the ones
that were shown are the ones whose deaths or near-deaths are
foreshadowed.) Ginny, who wasn't shown, has already had her brush with
death (CoS). So has Arthur (OoP), and Ron, I assume, will have one in
every book. That leaves us with Percy, whom we both think will die
redeemed (after causing yet more grief to himself and his family),
Bill, the twins, and Harry, who doesn't count because he's not a
Weasley. Oddly, we don't see Charlie, whose work with dragons would
otherwise make him a likely candidate. So I predict Bill, in some sort
of dispute involving Goblins, Percy, and a not-yet fired (or fired and
very disgruntled) Fudge. I don't want it to be the twins because that
would be a double blow to Molly, and just one dead twin would be too
hard on the survivor to even contemplate. The boggart showed them
together, though, and I think that *if* they die, it will be together.
Just let them be reconciled to Percy first.
Carol, who's still mourning Cedric, beginning to wonder if she really
wants to read these books
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