Percy is traveling around attending the Minister of Magic, after all. And that's a really convenient position in which to have a spy.
It seems like too quick a change to me. Percy's defining characteristic, I think, is his faith and trust in the hierarchy, his belief that everything always needs to be done through the official channels according to the established system; I think part of the reason he is this way is to contrast with Hermione, who started the series with similar feelings but learned thanks to Harry and Ron that sometimes the best results came through bent rules. Although I'm sure he was shaken by the return of Voldemort, I suspect that he was then reassured by the switch in Ministers.
"It's not the Ministry that was at fault, but poor leadership," he would think. "It was Fudge's fault, not the system. Now we have a new Minister, who's going to clean up the mess in the right way, the legal way, not some crazy vigilante like Dumbledore."
I suspect Percy will come around in the end, but my feeling is that it's too soon for him already to have done so.
It seems like too quick a change to me. Percy's defining characteristic, I think, is his faith and trust in the hierarchy, his belief that everything always needs to be done through the official channels according to the established system; I think part of the reason he is this way is to contrast with Hermione, who started the series with similar feelings but learned thanks to Harry and Ron that sometimes the best results came through bent rules. Although I'm sure he was shaken by the return of Voldemort, I suspect that he was then reassured by the switch in Ministers.
"It's not the Ministry that was at fault, but poor leadership," he would think. "It was Fudge's fault, not the system. Now we have a new Minister, who's going to clean up the mess in the right way, the legal way, not some crazy vigilante like Dumbledore."
I suspect Percy will come around in the end, but my feeling is that it's too soon for him already to have done so.
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