OoTP, Percy's letter, chptr 14, Cryptic message? / "New Clues to HP: Book 5" by GW

[karen_lvssr]

No: HPFGUIDX 112028

> Yb:
> I don't think they were really "clues", but GW refers to them 
> as "coincidental references," which according to rule #3, 
> means the radar should be picking up something...
> 
> <snip>
>
> Plus, in the letter, Percy writes "_petty_ criminals with whom 
> they are currently rubbing shoulders" (emphasis mine). "Petty" 
> jumped out a little (Petty=petti=small=pettigrew) as did the 
> "rubbing shoulders" bit. In the old order picture Moody showed 
> Harry, Peter is between Lily and James, rubbing shoulders with 
> the rest of the Order. 
> 
> Also, Hagrid says in Chapter 20 that "we [he and Olympe] knew we
> was bein' tailed by someone from the ministry." Hagrid goes on to 
> say that they gave "the berk tailin' us" the slip. (A berk is a 
> stupid person easy to take advantage of. A little like Pettigrew...) 
> Hagrid thinks it's a ministry person, but maybe it was Pettigrew, 
> and he tipped off the DEs when Hagrid and Olympe shook him off.
> 
> 3. This was blatantly obvious: The Prisoner of War is Sturgis
> Podmore, and he's been sentenced to six months in Azkaban, as Percy 
> reiterates. (We knew that from a DP article a while back.)
>
> <snip>
> 
> He mentions that he is sorry more than once, and his comment near 
> the end, "I hope they will realize how mistaken they were," points 
> me towards the idea that we may have Perce all wrong. Maybe he's a 
> spy, and the whole prat-act is a charade. I'd like to think so.


Karen here:
I agree with you on some of your points, but how is GW coming 
up with her info. if not through some sort of code?   Percy uses 
Harry's name a total of 10 times, counting Harry and Potter 
separately, that would give us the Number 10, but how do we 
know that 10 and escape and Azkaban are related to each other 
and point to the fact that 10 prisoners escaped?  That's what I 
am trying to get at.  

The word "Petty" jumped out at me also, but again, how did they  
come up with Pettigrew's location?  I think your idea that 
Pettigrew was tailing Hagrid and Olympe was a good one, but 
how would Percy know that? 

There was a post recently that Brenda alerted me to that 
supposes that Percy should not know that his parents are 
associated with Sturgis Podmore, and therefore would not ask 
Ron to tell their Mother the info. regarding Podmore's arrest.  I 
can't recall if Percy knows of the OoP, I believe he "separated" 
from his parents before the order was reformed, and should 
have no knowledge that they are "rubbing shoulders with" those 
petty criminals.  

It's all very interesting, and I love looking for the story clues.