[HPforGrownups] Percy, ( Harsh Morality

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 121212

Eggplant wrote:
>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.

Do you think that's Percy's ambition then? If so, he's changed his mind: it
used to be that he wanted to become Minister. Not, to my mind, something
that needs a particularly powerful wizard, just one who has been able to
negotiate the political snakepit of the Ministry, keep on side with the
majority of its people of influence, be seen as an insider and "one of us".
Until Fudge came a cropper, that seemed to be the way he was going very
successfully, thank you very much, busy currying favour with the Minister
himself and his close associates.

If Voldemort hadn't come into the open, things would have been very
different at the end of the book.

Also, I would have to wonder about whether there are indeed only two sides,
as you imply. I think the WW has a large number of neutrals: the ones who
don't really like Muggles but shy away from Voldemort's extremism, and the
ones who don't really care one way or the other but would rather leave
things as they are and get on with their lives.

Percy strikes me as falling in the latter category.

But JKR alone knows all

Cheers

Ffred

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