[HPforGrownups] Re: Fudge & Percy

[Miss Melanie]

No: HPFGUIDX 99081

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)

My reply:  Percy Weasley is not under any spell.  He has always been the  odd one of the bunch.  I often compare Percy to his brother Bill.  Why?  Well, for one thing they both were extremely smart.  (Although, Charlie is probably smart..it's not his OWLS that get noticed).   They both have pretty prestigious jobs, I am guessing that if you are in charge of money then you have lots of power.  Money in many ways equals power.  However, we don't see Bill striving for money...for power.  He HAS the power, yet he chooses not to flaunt it or use it to take advantage of others.  On the other hand, Fred and George have the money and flaunt it but they don't neccessarily strive for power beyond what they currently have.  
 
I don't think Percy is pure evil, however, I do think he is very blinded by what is going on right in front of him.  He wants power so much that he ignors all of the warning signs that are flashing at him.  Although, the wizarding world is very quick to turn their oppions of people.  I mean look how quickly the condemned Sirius, even if they had a ton of muggle witnesses.  Since when did muggle witnesses mean much to their world anyhow?  It just seems odd to me that people through out what all they knew of Sirius, and if nothing else they ignored that it is obvious that Sirius was quite loved by James and Lily.  It was a mutual love too.  I mean I know you can believe one thing and have it turn out quite oppossite.  But this is a boy afterall who at age 11 made a choice to defy his family and choose the house that he felt he truly belonged in.  This is a child that at age 16 left home because he couldn't handle them and their "pure-blooded superiority."  It just doesn't seem like the
 same guy who would in just a couple of years send Voldie to kill the people that had become his family.
 
~Melanie



		
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