The Twins are bad, but poor poor Percy!!!!#?%

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 136925

Let's look at Robbie Fisher's comments on this:

"Percy must remember that Harry saved his sister from the basilisk in
her first year at Hogwarts. And that Harry enabled him to win a
dishonest bet against his girlfriend in the Quidditch season of
Harry's third year. And that Harry has been all but a foster child to
his parents, from whom Percy has heard all that Harry has gone
through with his Muggle relatives and his confrontations with the
Dark Lord. Percy must recall how Harry performed in the second task
of the Triwizard Tournament, proving not only that Ron is the most
important thing in Harry's world, but that Harry would even risk
losing 1000 galleons to help the mer-people's hostages to safety.
All these things from Percy's own experience, besides all Harry's
triumphs and goodness that the Weasley family has discussed over the
previous four years, ought to give Percy a good idea what kind of boy
Harry is. How could he set aside this firsthand knowledge and simply,
suddenly, adopt a completely opposite view—- even on the say-so of
his hero Fudge? Either Percy has lost his mind, or he has made up his
mind to be unjust to Harry (either out of self-delusion or pure
evil), ....."

Susan resumes comments: Let's remember that Harry saved Ginny,
Percy's sister, from being killed by Tom Riddle.

Now here we are in the HBP...Percy hasn't had the guts or the
character to admit he was wrong, that Harry isn't unbalanced, that
Dumbledore was right, even that he picked the wrong horse to bet on
particularly.....He hasn't acknowledge that Umbridge was vicious and
abusive to the children...it wasn't just cutting Harry's hand...she
SENT DEMENTORS TO SUCK OUT HIS SOUL...she wasn't worried that his
cousin might also have his soul sucked out!...She did the Cruciatus
Curse....(supposed to be a life time sentence in Azkaban..so much for
wizard justice) in front of witnesses.... She illegally gave him
veritasserum...she was going to have Filch flog Fred and George! But
Percy thought she was a really delightful woman...

vmonte:
I cannot let this wonderful post pass without a comment. Susan has 
given canon based evidence to support all of her arguments. I really 
cannot add to her post because she covered everything about Percy 
that has been disturbing me about him since he left his family. 

Percy has made his choice--the wrong choice. I still have hope that 
in the next book he will come to his senses (I'm hoping only for the 
sake of his poor broken hearted mother). 

Vivian