Umbridge (WAS: Umbridge's Rape (Was: ...Half-Breed???))

[Shirley]

No: HPFGUIDX 78275

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jsmgleaner" <jsmgleaner at y...> 
wrote:
->>big snip<<-
Stylistically, though, I thought it 
> was a bit too much at the end with JKR practically saying "Look 
Umbridge is  *
> really* evil" with Umbridge about to use the AK curse on Harry and 
having set 
> the demnetors on him -- >>snipped again<< -- 
> --jsmgleaner

now Shirley:

I've read this several times in these Umbridge threads, and I just 
have to correct it:  Umbridge was about to use the Cruciatis (sp?) 
curse on Harry; *not* the AK curse.

And while I'm at it, I *didn't* think she had been raped any of the 
times I read (or heard) OoP; I thought she was completely in shock 
because she had been carted off by the very things she hated most 
(half-breeds).  I thought she had probably been absolutely terrified 
during the whole ordeal and was suffering from post-traumatic-stress, 
for lack of a better description.  However, I think I'll need to keep 
the centaurs' natural behavior (I read some of the mythological 
links) in mind when next I read OoP to see if it comes across 
differently to me now.

Thanks for the enlightenment on other literature!  ;)

Shirley  (who is re-reading all the books in order; now in the middle 
of PoA; and hoping she can put them to bed for awhile after this in 
order to read all the other books she has piled up!)