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Originally posted by MooseGirl
Although some of you agree to this, I do not think Percy will become a death-eater.
I feel he is more likely to go the way of Barty Crouch Sr. - so anti-deatheater, so strict, that only the Law counts for anything, which means the Order is still working outside of the law and thus he still will not accept it....
I really cannot see him joining the dark Lord, although I do imagine him with a shrine to Crouch 
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*shakes head* I can see where you're coming from, but I guess I just have a different take and yes,
sherbertlemons, I am writing a fic about this...
Percy grew up in a family where he felt alone. Bill and Charlie had each other, then there were the twins, then Ron and Ginny, the babies. Percy never had a concrete spot in his family, and I think half the reason he was so successful at Hogwarts is that he had a strong structure and rules to follow. Percy seems to like to be controlled, or be somewhere where he can enforce the rules that control. The Ministry was an obvious choice for him after Hogwarts, because it played to that strong work ethic and sense of duty to rules.
However, it seems to me that the Ministry is now going to be in complete chaos, and for Percy, it's going to be like being back at home: In theory, he knows where his place is, but the structure itself is unpredictable. The Death Eaters, on the other hand, have exactly what Percy is looking for: Loyalty, a sense of purpose, and members like Lucius Malfoy (although he did get carted off to Azkaban, which is a slight stumble there), who have the things that Percy wants: Money, power, respect, etc. Percy can be seduced by all of this, and I can see him joining the Death Eaters not because he's evil, but because they give him something that his family never could. I'm also convinced that's at least part of the reason why Peter Pettigrew betrayed James Potter; Voldemort offered him something that MPP couldn't. What that is, I'm not entirely sure, but it's there.