Mum and Dad fought as hard as they could to keep Percy, but he was always ambitious, you know, and proud, and I guess rather ashamed of his background.
And then Lucius Malfoy got his hooks into him.
I think all that's left to hope for is that somehow he'll see the error of his ways, before he's taken the Lord Protector's Mark and ends up on the Council. I don't know what it'll take to turn him around. But it can't be his family. It's simply to dangerous to try, because--and yes, this hurts--he doesn't care about us enough to listen to us.
I meet with him every week, you know; have lunch with him to pump him for information. It may be that he'll give us a tidbit we can use, and if that's the case, maybe if we have our way and the Protectorate falls, it'll be enough to get clemency for him.
I don't know if he'd even want it.
I'm afraid there'll be a lot of hard things you'll learn, reading the journals. We've had to make some painful decisions, and not all of them are admirable, by any means. I include myself; I've done things I'm ashamed of, for the Order, but I'm firmly convinced they were necessary.
I guess you'll see more clearly what a difficult and dangerous path some of us have had to walk. And maybe a lot of things about the last several years will suddenly make much more sense, in hindsight.
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Re: Private message to Ginny
Date: 2014-04-13 04:09 am (UTC)And then Lucius Malfoy got his hooks into him.
I think all that's left to hope for is that somehow he'll see the error of his ways, before he's taken the Lord Protector's Mark and ends up on the Council. I don't know what it'll take to turn him around. But it can't be his family. It's simply to dangerous to try, because--and yes, this hurts--he doesn't care about us enough to listen to us.
I meet with him every week, you know; have lunch with him to pump him for information. It may be that he'll give us a tidbit we can use, and if that's the case, maybe if we have our way and the Protectorate falls, it'll be enough to get clemency for him.
I don't know if he'd even want it.
I'm afraid there'll be a lot of hard things you'll learn, reading the journals. We've had to make some painful decisions, and not all of them are admirable, by any means. I include myself; I've done things I'm ashamed of, for the Order, but I'm firmly convinced they were necessary.
I guess you'll see more clearly what a difficult and dangerous path some of us have had to walk. And maybe a lot of things about the last several years will suddenly make much more sense, in hindsight.