Just think - what if Percy had gone into the Ministry's equivalent of Internal Affairs? His dad could be mad at him for "persecuting" all the good people at the Ministry just trying to make an honest living trading Quidditch tickets for cover-ups and suspect him of leaking tips to reporters, and Voldemort still could have manipulated Percy's job for his own ends. Don't know whether they'd have let Crouch be boss of that department, since it might still be too much law enforcement power, but if not maybe he and the IA department head would coordinate a lot anyway (can't cooperate well with other magical nations if they're complaining that all your officials are corrupt, right?). Maybe those cauldron bottoms are part of a giant fraud scheme involving crooked cauldron producers and a corrupt safety inspector.
And then we could all pretend that sometime between Harry's sandwich and the epilogue, Percy cleaned up the wizarding world and all really was well.
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Date: 2011-03-05 07:47 pm (UTC)And then we could all pretend that sometime between Harry's sandwich and the epilogue, Percy cleaned up the wizarding world and all really was well.