"When did you know?" was ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7){kind=small}
shadesong's writing prompt this morning.
It tied into some things I've been pondering with regards to the Harry Potter books, so I wrote a 100-word drabble about it.
Set late during OotP, might possibly be considered a minor spoiler for someting in the first chapter of HBP:
Routine filing, that's all he intended. Still, this evidence proved Dolores sent Dementors to Little Whinging.
Percy sank into his seat. The Minister couldn't know. Not after all he's done. And if he could be so easily misled by own department, what else might be going on that could catch them unawares?
This, or something like it, spelled certain end to Fudge's tenure. But Percy wouldn't give up so easily. As he learned last year, departments couldn't run themselves. They'd need someone knowledgable and above reproach.
Percy carefully slipped the papers back into Umbridge's desk. Time to make himself indispensible.
July 26 2005, 00:02:26 UTC 6 years ago
July 26 2005, 13:30:29 UTC 6 years ago
He must be extremely competent, politically astute, or both. [The fact that at 18 he managed to singlehandedly run Crouch's department for months with nobody noticing anything amiss also speaks well for the former assessment.]
Clearly Arthur was wrong that Percy was merely hired as a way for Fudge to keep an eye on the rest of the Weasleys.