Percy was Re: Harsh Morality - Combined answers

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 121126


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998" 
> <eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:
> > After all the disastrous mistakes Percy has made he has no  
> future in the ministry, if he ever wants to be an important 
wizard,  
> and he most certainly does, he will have to look to another  
> organization to make him one, the Death Eaters.<
> 
> Pippin:
> What about The Order of the Phoenix? We know Dumbledore 
> has a spy in the Ministry, because somebody had to have told 
> him about the change in the time of the hearing  for him to show 
> up with Mrs. Figg in tow. 
> 
> It  can't be Shacklebolt, because he didn't tell Arthur about the 
> change. It can't be Tonks, because she was off duty at GP.  
> Making it a character we never heard of would make it 
> impossible to guess -- no fair.
>
> Pippin

Hickengruendler:

IMO, there are two other possibilities that come to my mind. The 
first is the headmaster who has his other portrait in the MoM. Sorry, 
I've forgotten his name, but Dumbledore sends him to alarm somebody 
after Arthur was attacked. As we later learn, Arthur was attacked in 
the MoM, therefore the headmaster must have his second portrait 
there. He's a possibility. Not necessarily a likely one, since the 
MoM is big, and it would be a big coincidence if he heard anything, 
but a possibility nonetheless.

The other, and IMO most likely possibility, is Griselda Marchbanks. 
In the chapter where Umbridge was announced High Inquisitor, she 
retires under protest from the Wizengamot. Meaning she was a member 
of the Wizengamot until then and probably one of the two old witches, 
who welcomed Dumbledore. Even if she's not a member of the Order, I 
still can see her telling Dumbledore, if the time and the place of 
Harry's trial are changed, just because she might have suspected, 
that Dumbledore wanted to help Harry. Related to this possibility, 
there's also Tiberius Odgen who left the Wizengamot together with 
Marchbanks and also the second old witch, who welcomed Dumbledore at 
Harry's trial (if we assume Marchbanks was the first).

Hickengruendler