Umbridge / Blaise's mother / evil author / Snape

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) catlady at wicca.net
Mon Nov 19 03:27:04 UTC 2007


"Carol" wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/34370>:

<<  I don't think it's a sublimation of romantic or erotic love. She's
clearly using Fudge and his insecurities in her own bid for power
("What Cornelius doesn't know won't hurt him.") >>

To me, "What Cornelius doesn't know won't hurt him" as her excuse for
doing illegal nasty things that would horrify Cornelius (siccing the
Dementors on Harry, using Cruciatis on Harry) can be totally
consistent with her using those methods to achieve results that she
believes will make Cornelius happy, for the motive that she wants
Cornelius to be a happy VIP, which could result from her having
sublimated erotic or romantic or maternal love mis-directed at him. 

That would indeed be a context in which she resembled what is said of
the Grand Inquisitor because she would be seriously lying to Fudge
because of her sincere belief that her secret bad behavior was for his
benefit. (Hermione Confunding McLaggen so Ron would be chosen Keeper
had an element of that psychology, altho' I think mostly it had
nothing to do with Ron and was simply anti-McLaggen.) (Btw, thanks for
the Grand Inquisitor links that I might actually get to some day.)

If Fudge's happiness were Umbridge's motive, then she wouldn't have
decreased his happiness by pushing up his insecurities and his
suspicions of DD and Harry. And we don't know if she manipulated him
into his anti-DD attitude or he came up with it on his own. 

If she did manipulate him into his anti-DD beliefs, and not as a
service to Voldemort, then I agree that she was just using Fudge to
increase her own power. 

I am certain that she did not want power in order to do what she
thought would be best for the wizarding community. If she didn't want
power to do what would be best for Fudge or what would be best for
Voldemort, she wanted it to do what would be best for her own pleasure
and amusement. Anti-werewolf laws gave her a comforting, secure
feeling that she wouldn't encounter a werewolf while shopping or
whatever, not that she cared whether she was 'protecting' anyone but
herself. 






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