Umbridge and the Dementors at Privet Drive

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 78296

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> Lose her job, and live in disgrace? ...don't have a clue. 
Certainly,
> lose her job at the very least. The 'live in disgrace' is a matter 
of
> her personal attitude; she may still consider herself a hero.
> 
> Sent to Azkaban? ...not sure, seems extreme, but it would give her 
a
> chance to associate with the imprisoned DE's who could very easily
> recruit her. She already seems to have the right attitude to be a 
DR.
> But without her job at the Ministry, she would be of limited value 
to
> them. Still one more soldier increases the army. So, do I think
> Umbridge WAS a DE; no, but I think she has a very high potential to
> become one now. 
> 
> Maybe fade to the background and never be heard from again? She 
played
> her part, now she's gone.
> 
> Basically, don't have a clue, not even a wild guess, but the 
future DE
> idea is looking better all the time.
> 
I'm thinking she's a likely candidate to go over the Voldemort now.  
She's one of those people who never forgets a slight - the gleeful 
way she got back at everyone who crossed her in OotP makes me think 
that she's not going to just fade from view.  My take on her stunned 
behaviour in the Infirmary at the end of the book was that she was 
thinking over her humiliations and totting up the list of who was 
going to pay.  And I'll bet the centaurs are at the top of the list -
 she was probably fantasizing about wiping out every one of them.  I 
just don't think that she was reflecting on her experience, or had 
learned anything from it.  I think it just provided her more 
ammunition for her hatreds, and she'll go over to Voldemort because 
he's the sort who can deliver the goods for someone who has a lot of 
scores to settle.

Wanda