Umbridge's Rape (Was Umbridge a Half-Breed???)

[jsmgleaner]

No: HPFGUIDX 78106


> > <<"James Redmont" wrote:...Also, and excuse me if you think it's 
> > crude (we're all grown-ups here, right?), when Umbridge gets back 
> > from the Centaurs, I kept thinking (maybe I'm perverted, I don't 
> > think so, yet this still occurred to me) that she had been, um, 
> > sexually abused by the centaurs as a punishment...ok, raped...>>>

> > The Sergeant Majorette says:
> > 
> > I thought it was pretty obvious that's exactly what happened, and 
> > very mean it was of Ron to make those "clop-clop" noises...reminds me 
> > of a scene from "Animal House".
> > 

Tj:
> 
> I thought I was the only one thinking this.  I didn't want to bring it
> up, 'cause ,rape is ...  well horrible.  But, I didn't feel too bad
> only 'cause she had tried to *kill* Harry with dementors and about the
> use the Ak curse on him.  I think she is one rotten apple.  [snip]

Now Me:
I feel dumb for not cottoning on to the rape in my first read, but now that you've 
pointed it out, I think that it further supports the reading of Umbridge as 
someone who muddies the good/bad, OOP/DE distinctions.  The desire on 
the list for Umbridge to receive punishment (I'm now referring to many 
threads, not just this one), sometimes (as in this case) summary punishment 
and torture, creates an interesting and important parallel to Sirius Black and 
how Crouch, Sr. sent him to Azkaban without a trial.  

Let me just tack on one other important parallel for Umbridge.  There was 
some talk about whether Umbridge will be back and whether she is a Death 
Eater.  I don't think she's a Death Eater in Book 5 (since it would ruin my belief 
that she muddies those binary waters) but is someone who took advantage of 
the chaos produced by Voldemort's return (I'm all aboard the "banality of evil" 
reading here) to seize power for herself and Fudge.  I do adamentally believe 
that she will be back.  Here's why: her running from the school reminded me 
so much of the end of PoA, when Wormtail escapes to the forest, albeit much 
more public.  Umbridge, in my opinion, is an unfinished thread of the 
narrative.

--jsmgleaner