Percy, ( Harsh Morality)

[eggplant9998]

No: HPFGUIDX 121200


Hickengruendler wrote:

> 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. 

Take a look at the very first message Harry received from the 
ministry in the chapter "A Peck Of Owls", it said he was already 
expelled and his wand would be destroyed but IN ADDITION he was 
ordered to attend a "disciplinary hearing"; there is only one thing 
that could mean, expulsion and being forced to live as a muggle was 
not enough, the specter of Azkaban loomed. And remember, in reality 
this was not a simple disciplinary hearing, this was a formal trial 
held in the largest courtroom by the full Wizengamot, something 
that has not happened in many years. 

We know it was full criminal trial because Dumbledore said it was, 
and we all know what happens to people who are found guilty in a 
criminal trial, they go to jail. The wizard prison is Azkaban so it 
didn't take much for Harry to put two and two together, and 
I think his worries were very well founded. 

The text clearly indicates that at least one person on the Wizengamot
thought expulsion and wand destruction was not enough, another had
expressed open hostility against Harry, and another had actually 
tried to kill him (Percy may or may not have known the last).
Harry put two and Two together: 

>From OoF:

"would the matter of where he went next be decided for him? Had his
breach of the International Statute of Secrecy been severe enough
to land him in a cell in Azkaban?" 

We do know for a fact that Harry was deeply worried about 
being sent to that horrible place and I can think of 
absolutely no reason the same thought wouldn't occur to Percy.
He just didn't care. We also know for a fact that Percy was not 
squeamish about sending people to Azkaban who don't deserve to go 
there, Fudge said he was going to send Dumbledore to that hell hole 
and Percy seemed absolutely delighted about it. He must have known 
that sending a benign old man to that hell was not justice, he just 
didn't care. Percy has burned his bridges, the only hope he has of 
becoming a powerful wizard is through the Death Eaters. 

Eggplant