Speculation on Percy's Prospects

[fanofminerva]

No: HPFGUIDX 130809

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cleverestwitchofherage" 
<cleverestwitchofherage at y...> wrote:
> "joyfulstoryteller" wrote:
> > Sadly, Percy seems to garner most of his self-esteem from his
> > association with authority, and since he backed the wrong 
> authority,
> > his self-esteem is probably pretty low right now.  This will 
make 
> him
> > vulnerable to anyone skilled at manipulation, and Voldemort is a
> > master.
> > (Snip) I rather suspect that the chances of Percy getting 
involved
> > with Voldemort's supporters is high.  He has already faced one 
> inquiry
> > at the MOM [and] (Snip) I don't think that Percy's career at the
> > Ministry will be able to survive a second inquiry.  He could end 
up
> > sacked, or at least demoted to some closet even more obscure 
than 
> the
> > one his father's Department is currently lodged in.
> > 
> > I think that losing his appearance of being able to influence 
> powerful
> > individuals is going to be a real blow to Percy.
> 
> Cleverwitch here:
> I agree with joyfulstoryteller about Percy's future, but fear that 
> the deaths he will cause will be those of Fred and George rather 
> than that of Dumbledore. It has been obvious all through the 
series 
> that Percy is all about law and order, while the twins have a very 
> cavalier attitude toward the rules. This is a conflict waiting to 
> happen, but it has not yet happened, and that is the main reason I 
> fear for the lives of Gred and Forge. I don't think they take 
Percy 
> seriously enough. He was an extremely gifted student. With a 
> powerful backer and the right motivation, he could be a very 
> dangerous adversary. He is ambitious, proud, and bitter toward his 
> family--especially toward the twins and his father. Ron suggested 
> once (in GoF?) that Percy would be willing to turn family members 
> over to the Dementors if they stood in the way of his career. I 
can 
> easily see his going over to the dark side, or else into the 
> department of magical law enforcement--(I am allowing for the fact 
> that he might just go into the law enforcement department and NOT 
> become a Deatheater--as Sirius pointed out, the world is not 
divided 
> into good people and Deatheaters)--or both, and then going after 
his 
> brothers, feeling entirely justified in doing so. And I do fear 
for 
> them.
> Or he could just be Dumbledore's mole after all
> A few random thoughts from
> --Cleverwitch


While Percy is ambitious, etc., the Sorting Hat must have "sorted 
through" these characteristics and found something more, placing him 
in Gryffindor.  Could it be that we have yet to see these lion-
traits in Percy?

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