Percy

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 166054

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
 
> When Harry received his first protest letter from the ministry it 
said
> he was already expelled and wizards would be arriving soon to 
destroy
> his wand, and then they said this:
> 
> "we regret to inform you that your presence is required at a
> disciplinary hearing at the Ministry of Magic at 9 a.m. on the 
twelfth
> of August."
> 
> Clearly somebody at the ministry thought expulsion and a broken wand
> was not sufficient punishment. I have no doubt Umbridge would love 
to
> send Harry to Azkaban for life, Fudge too probably; and when the
> Dementors were dragging the boy who saved his sister's life away to
> suffer a hideous fate I have no doubt Percy would just smile at 
Fudge
> and say "very good minister". 

Hickengruendler:

There weren't any Dementors during the hearing. So they hardly could 
have dragged Harry away. I can't help but find your reading a very 
extreme one of the situation. Harry's fears might be understandable 
given his situation, but seeing that nobody even mentioned Azkaban, 
even though Fudge several times mentioned Harry's expulsion from 
Hogwarts, there is nothing in the books that confirms his 
fear. "Disciplinary hearing" also doesn't sound like Azkaban to me.
>

Eggplant:
 
> let me ask again a question that I received no answer to, would 
anyone
> bother to mount such a ferocious defense of Percy if he had a
> different last name?
> 
 
Hickengruendler:

Yes, I would. Because even if his name wasn't Weasley, he would still 
be the guy, who ran into the lake after Ron, who fought the Death 
Eaters after the Quidditch Worldcup, etc. These are doubtless some 
positive character moments for Percy, and why should JKR have written 
them, if Percy is evil through and through?