[HPforGrownups] Re: Coming of age in the WW

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 86958

On 11 Dec 2003 at 21:51, Geoff Bannister wrote:

> Geoff:
> This reminds me of something that has really annoyed me whenever I 
> read it.
> 
> Umbridge told Harry and Co that they were banned from playing 
> Quidditch ever again. That, of course, could only apply to Hogwarts. 
> Presumably what she meant was ever again at the school.
> 
> But my main irritation is the woman's arrogance in confiscating the 
> brooms. Harry's broom is a valuable possession and is his own 
> personal property; she has no right to remove it. Perhaps if he had 
> felt more secure, he might have remonstrated with her. Whenever I 
> read that section, I find myself echoing Hermione's words - "You hag, 
> you evil hag", "That foul, lying, twisting old gargoyle", (words she 
> used to describe the "truly delightful woman" after her inspection of 
> Hagrid if you've lost the quote).

I don't know.. I had my own personal valuable property confiscated while I was at 
school, on a couple of occasions - and it never even would have occurred to me 
to protest about it. As far as I was concerned, the teacher had absolutely every 
right to confiscate it, and I don't find it at all surprising that Harry would have a 
similar attitude.

This is contingent on the understanding that you would *eventually* get it back - 
that it wouldn't be somehow disposed of - but as long as it wasn't gone forever, I 
can't see that Harry would have any reason to doubt Umbridge's right to do 
exactly what she did in that case.


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