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

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 78505

Susanne:
> It's possible that JKR will let us know later what exactly
> happened to Umbridge while she was with the Centaurs, and
> maybe the kids will feel guilty about having laughed at her
> reaction in the hospital scene.
>
> For now, I didn't get the feeling there was rape involved,
> because of the way JKR wrote the hospital scene.

I've been reading the thread and I've noticed the mythological 
references, I'll like to add that centaurs, bacchae, and berserks 
were also notorious for ingesting phychoactive fungus during 
rituals, which leads easily to the violence and lust fame.

I don't think Jo is giving a view of centaurs that include uses of 
amanita muscaria in rituals that end with rapery, but the hint to 
the shock can be she has been drugged. They have forced her to 
'see'.

Links:
<http://sci.cancerresearchuk.org/labs/med_mush/final_pdfs/chapt2.pdf>
<http://www.erowid.org/plants/amanitas/references/journal/1979_mochtar_afghanistan1.shtml>
 
silmariel