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Order Only - Private message to Bill Weasley
I'm not a prophet, or anything like that. I don't know if you remember, but I said he "was doomed" - that wasn't me breathing some death wish into being, it was just a statement of fact based on what I know about the mechinations and intrigues of council politics.
Your brother cast himself as an individual looking for the validation of any council member who would have him, which sends off a whiff of desperation. And even though Mulciber has plotted against my father, the fact that Percy snipped his allegiance to Lucius Malfoy so readily no doubt made him seem like a fickle opportunist. Which is exactly what he was.
The council is strange. Membership does require ambition and a certain amount of opportunism, but it also requires adherence to the pecking order and abiding by a whole host of unspoken rules. If you grow up in a council family, or if you're fostered by a council member the way that Finnigan was, you learn the rules through observation and lived experience. The other way to learn the rules is to be mentored by a council member, the way my father mentored Crispin, and the way Lana Sandoval has mentored Padma. My father would have never taken Percy under his wing for council mentoring. And the moment Percy turned on my father in favour of Mulciber, he revealed the very qualities that make him unsuitable for the council.
That's what I meant when I said he was doomed.
I'm sure that your family will be grieving not just Percy's death, but also what might have been. Know that I take no personal pleasure or satisfaction in hearing the details of his fate, and that I regret your loss.
Your brother cast himself as an individual looking for the validation of any council member who would have him, which sends off a whiff of desperation. And even though Mulciber has plotted against my father, the fact that Percy snipped his allegiance to Lucius Malfoy so readily no doubt made him seem like a fickle opportunist. Which is exactly what he was.
The council is strange. Membership does require ambition and a certain amount of opportunism, but it also requires adherence to the pecking order and abiding by a whole host of unspoken rules. If you grow up in a council family, or if you're fostered by a council member the way that Finnigan was, you learn the rules through observation and lived experience. The other way to learn the rules is to be mentored by a council member, the way my father mentored Crispin, and the way Lana Sandoval has mentored Padma. My father would have never taken Percy under his wing for council mentoring. And the moment Percy turned on my father in favour of Mulciber, he revealed the very qualities that make him unsuitable for the council.
That's what I meant when I said he was doomed.
I'm sure that your family will be grieving not just Percy's death, but also what might have been. Know that I take no personal pleasure or satisfaction in hearing the details of his fate, and that I regret your loss.