[HPforGrownups] Re: Umbridge's Rape (Was: Is Umbridge a Half-Breed???)

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 78378



EnsTren at aol.com wrote:

> 
> I would like to point out that according to greek mythology there were no
> female centaurs.  They were expected to reproduce via mares and humans.
> 
> If Ms. Rowling is following that myth, well, we would have a more solid 
> basis
> for the rape accusation that would bipass the "too human" statement
> 
> 
> 
> Nemi

I have found no source in mythology to suggest that there are no female 
centaurs.  Please provide some sort of proof for this. (ie. What book 
did you find this in.  And no, Piers Anthony's Xanth is not acceptable 
as a source for Greek Myth)

I would suspect that centaurs are so suspicious of humans that they do 
not allow their females to be seen by them. You don't see foals in their 
'war party' that greets humans either.

The most solid evidence that the centaurs didn't rape her is that its a 
CHILDREN'S BOOK.  They would never publish it.

Besides, its SATYRS, not centaurs that supposedly were all males and 
they mated with the 'all female' wood nymphs and anything else that 
would  hold still long enough.  In Greek Myth, only one centaur tried to 
run off with a woman (Hercules wife) and was killed.

Jazmyn