Umbridge's Rape (Was: Is Umbridge a Half-Breed???)

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> 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

Very good point there. The idea that Umbridge's punishment was to see 
her own future, possibly even her own death, fits neatly into the 
information JKR has given us about her centaurs. It also works well 
with the fact that Umbridge is in a state of shock after 
she's "rescued". After all, wouldn't seeing yourself die be rather 
tramatic?

V, who's strongly opposed to the "Umbridge was raped" theory.