Is Umbridge a Half-Breed???

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 78108

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "James Redmont" 
<jamesredmont at h...> 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. <snip> 

  Anyway, I thought I'd throw that out 
> there.  There's no canon that supports it except that she came back 
> mentally hurt, yet there weren't any huge physical injuries...why 
> else would she be so scarred?  And by the way, I don't feel the 
> centaurs are creatures who are likely to do something like that or 
> anything...


Jen: You said above Umbridge came back "mentally hurt, yet there 
weren't any huge physical injuries" which seems to indicate more of a 
mental/emotional trauma.  

Why is she so opposed to "half-breeds" to begin with, is my question. 
Did she experience a traumatice incident prior to the centaurs and 
was reminded of that? Was it passed down to her by family?  Typically 
such a zealous opinion about others doesn't come from a vacuum. 

The centaurs have never been portrayed as creatures who would rape, 
as you said above. They ARE being portrayed in OOTP as capable of 
physical violence and more territorial than ever before, although the 
only incident we have proof of was against one of their own kind.