But Percy was the nobody's nobody. So peripheral that if you blinked you'd miss him. He hadn't needed Voldemort's Dark Revolution to drink from the dark side's cup. He'd happily cosied up to the corruption of Fudge, the detestable fervour of Umbridge, sided against Harry on more than one occasion. There was no greater treason in Hermione's book than that. Whatever treatment Harry had in store for him, its limit of pain need have no upper threshold in Hermione's opinion.