Percy the Prefect -Defender to the Death

[ericoppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 141302

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" 
<eggplant107 at h...> wrote:
>
> "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
> 
> > From Percy's perspective it is not
> > he who has turned on his family,
> > but his family who has turned on him. 
> 
> Yes but no man is a villain in his own eyes.
> 
> > He has made ever effort to live his life properly, 
> 
> I disagree, Percy happily took part in a proceeding that attempted 
to
> destroy a boy and send him to Azkaban, a boy who had always been 
kind
> to him and who saved his sister's life. 

I agree, this doesn't look good for Percy at all.  That said, _how 
well does Percy actually know Harry Potter?_  If he's been hearing 
all sorts of stuff about "Harry Potter's crazy; Harry Potter, Dark-
Lord-In-Waiting," and so on, he might have a very different view of 
Harry than those who know him better do.  

Percy tried to destroy the
> friendship between Ron and Harry. Percy refused his mother's 
Christmas
> present and didn't visit his father in the hospital when he was near
> death or even ask about him, then he called Umbrage "delightful". 

I can't really excuse Percy's treatment of his parents---but I 
wonder, what would you expect would happen to me, if I had a daughter 
who came home delighted about a wonderful promotion she'd received at 
work, and my reaction was to ask her how many pairs of kneepads, and 
how many mattresses, she'd worn out getting it?  And, again, we don't 
know what happened when Molly tried to visit Percy, since _we don't 
see it!_  Molly could well have tried to dominate him like he was a 
little kid, and (worse!) defended those pestilential Twins' treatment 
of him as "all in good fun," and Percy might just have Had E-Bloody-
Nough.  

Until we have the whole story, I am withholding judgement on both 
Snape and Percy.