The Podmore Connection--Percy as DD's Spy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 93515

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kimberly" 
<Kimberly.Tarasenko at C...> wrote:

> I really don't think Percy is acting for the Order.  There are 
> plenty of DD's spys in the Ministry (Kingsley Shacklebolt, Arthur, 
> Tonks), and everyone in the Order is allowed to know about 
them.  It > doesn't seem like DD to have Percy do such hurtful 
things to his  family when it's really not needed.  Also, I think the 
assumption  vocalized by the twins early in the book is true: 
 "Dad reckons Fudge only wants Percy in his office because he 
wants  to use him to spy on the faimly - and Dumbledore."  If that 
is true,  then the ministry wants Percy to continue to be on good 
terms with his family so he can be an effective spy.  Otherwise, 
what's the  point?  If he was acting as spy for the Order, he would 
retain the  bonds with his family that the ministry presumably 
wanted to use.<<

Well, Arthur was obviously wrong, because Percy continued his 
upward rise even after he broke ties with his family. As for 
Dumbledore, this is war, not kindergarten. We know he can 
make decisions that will cause pain and heartache if he thinks 
he must.  Suppose you were trying to get Neville Chamberlain's 
government to oppose the Axis in WW2: would you pass up 
information from one of his aides to spare his mother's 
feelings?

Dumbledore knows The Order was infiltrated during the last war. 
The thought of it happening again must be his worst nightmare. 
It would be prudent for him to have some operatives that aren't 
known to the others. And have you noticed that he  seems to be 
able to anticipate Fudge's every move? *How* did he know that 
the time and venue of Harry's hearing had been changed? And in 
time to fetch Mrs. Figg, who can't apparate?  It can't have been 
Shacklebolt, since he didn't know about it when he was 
speaking to Arthur a few moments before. It can't have been 
Tonks since she was off duty. Was Percy's rift with his family the  
"lucky mistake" that got Dumbledore to the Ministry three hours 
early ? 

The Order was going into hiding about the same time that Percy 
argued with Arthur. What if Percy had second thoughts after the 
argument, found that his family had already left The Burrow, 
contacted Dumbledore to relay his apologies, and was recruited 
as a spy instead?

Pippin