[HPforGrownups] Re: Fudge & Percy

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No: HPFGUIDX 99053

No poop for Moonmyyst, just some other ideas; From Becki

You give valid reasons that Percy is going after power, even though 
he is a git, he is not evil.  He has not shown any signs of being 
evil and in order to be a DE, you have to be.  Even Bellatrix says 
to Harry in OoP when he attempts an unforgivible curse that 
you "have to truly mean it" and I don't think he has the evilness. 



Moonmyyst:

I am not saying that Percy is now evil, but power, itself, is such a seducer and for someone from a family that does not have much, it can be a lure.  Remember what Ron saw in the mirror?  He also was looking for something, power of a sort, that would raise him above his brothers.  Maybe Percy is looking for something that will raise him above his family.  When you are that age, you feel that you are "10 foot tall and bullet proof" - as the song goes. (I have 2 kids that age!!) He may be seeing the power but thinking that he can get it without having to do anything evil ("I can handle it").  But then again, at the end of the last war, there were several people (including the Malfoys) who "claim" that they were placed under a spell, making them do things.  What if there actually is a spell.  It is going to be next to impossible in such a closed world as WW to get a plant into the middle of the Order, so what better way?  Find an ambitious, power hungry middle son of one of the key
 members of the order, seduce him with empty promises, place him under a spell, then send him back as a "repentent son" in order to gain information from the inside.  I have to admit that this would be something I would try if I were a DE.

Moonmyyst (who's shelties are too smart and fast to hold still)