Percy was Re: Harsh Morality - Combined answers

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 121130


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
 directly.
> 
> > Hickengruendler:
> > The other, and IMO most likely possibility, is Griselda 
> Marchbanks. <
> 
> Pippin:
> I assume from Fudge's stammering comment "you -er--got our 
> --er-- message" that the wizengamot had been told that 
> Dumbledore would  be notified of the change, and the message 
> was expected to get "lost" on the way. He would hardly be likely 
> to let known allies of Dumbledore in on that plan, so she 
> wouldn't have thought she needed to notify him.
> 
> Pippin

Hickengruendler:

She might not have trusted Fudge to play fair and decided to notify 
Dumbledore as well, just to be sure. And while writing this, I just 
thought about another possibility: Amelia Bones. She seems like a 
very fair woman, and might have been dissatisfied that Fudge wanted 
to trial Harry in front of the whole Wizengamot. Therefore she 
thought that Harry might need somebody to defend him and notified 
Dumbledore. That leaves IMO three realistic possibilities (if we 
exclude the portrait, which I agree doesn't seem very likely): Percy, 
Marchbanks and Bones. And while I hope that it was Percy, my money is 
on Marchbanks. If only because I think that Percy is there to show us 
that rifts between families can be healed, and don't have to end like 
the one in the Black family did. But if Percy where a spy for the 
Order from the very beginning, there would be nothing that needs to 
be healed, since there never was a rift. I think eventually both 
sides will forgive each other (and yes, I think the other Weasleys 
are partly responsible for Percy's behaviour). But I hope it won't be 
after something terrible had happend.

And, by the way, I disagree with eggplant's opinion about him, and 
especially the statement that he tried to help putting Harry in 
Azkaban, which IMO is an interpretation only based on what Harry 
thought the MoM might do to him. But I think my opinion about this is 
obvious from my previous posts.

Hickengruendler