[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Umbridge a Half-Breed???

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 78224

James Redmont:
>For the love of god.  I was speaking of poetic justice, not legal 
>justice.  Not the fact that she was raped, but if she had a *half 
>breed child*.  I'm saying it's ironic, her prejudices came home to 
>her.  Read the sentence again, come on, read it...If Umbridge was 
>raped, IT WOULD ALSO HAVE A SORT OF JUSTICE, like I said in my 
>original post, IF SHE HAD A HALF-BREED CHILD....

Excuse me. I assumed that you meant it would have been justice for her to be raped and forced to bear the child of a centaur.  As in, justice in the "moral" or the "comeuppance" sense.  I see what you meant better now, although I think you could have been a little clearer in your wording, as I was not the only person to make this mistake.

I do agree that it would be very ironic *if* Umbridge was raped and *if* that rape resulted in a child.  However, I highly doubt that JKR will travel down that particular road.  It would make a strong statement, yes.  But it would also be too complicated to deal with properly, unless JKR suddenly decided to spend several dozen pages on a side-point that has no actual value to the plot.

I do wonder what will become of Umbridge in the future books, however.  Will she drop almost completely from the storyline (like Lockhart)?  I don't know about the rest of you, but I spent so much time and energy hating the woman that I would feel a bit at loose ends if she just disappeared.

(Just as a side note:  *Does* everyone think that Lockhart is pretty much out of the main plotline for good?)

>And anyway, I'll bet you thought I was a man, didn't you?

Actually, I didn't. *smiles* Caught your pronoun usage when you were referring to yourself in the third person a couple posts back.

Laura

P.S. If I ever have three daughters (which I won't, because I'm not ever having kids), I'm going to name them James, Tomas, and Mordecai.  In that order. 


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