Percy. ( was Harsh Morality)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 121214


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998" 
<eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:
> 
> "hickengruendler" Wrote:
> 
> > I think it's perfectly possible from what
> > we seen from the Ministry that they would 
> > plan to send Harry to Azkaban 
> 
> So you though it was possible Harry could be sent to Azkaban, I do 
> too, Harry also thought he could be sent there too; Percy was head 
> boy so he can't be dumb the thought MUST have occurred to him also; 
> and yet he seemed to be having great fun, until Harry won that is.
> 
> Eggplant

Hickengruendler:

No, I think that is something Fudge would try to do. I think what we 
know from Fudge and the laws from the Wizarding comminuty makes it 
seem possible, that Fudge would have tried to send Harry to Azkaban. 
But I don't think he tried to do so in this special case. Fudge never 
mentions Azkaban, and therefore I think he never planned to do it. 
And since Percy works with Fudge, he probably knows about his plans 
and therefore doesn't consider Azkaban as a possible punishment for 
Harry in this case [since I think Fudge doesn't consider Azkaban as a 
punishment in this special case, but I know that we have different 
opinions here. I just think Harry's suspicion was only this: a 
suspicion]. Fudge wanted to expell Harry, and that's what Percy 
wanted as well, IMO. Not that I really want to excuse him for doing 
so, like I said, I think that's bad enough (if he isn't a spy for the 
Order, as Pippin suggested), but I don't think he's as unredeemable 
as you describe him, and that's not only because he's a Weasley, but 
also because JKR spent a lot of time, to describe Percy's good sides 
in the earlier books, for example during the Second Task in book 4, 
or when he was worried about Ginny in book 2.