OOP Umbridge

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 67275

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ed" <amadeus_rex at y...> wrote:

> Just a simple note.  I've noticed a lot of poeple "hate" Umbridge. I  
Have to agree.  Haven't seen this in any posts I've read (granted, I  
haven't read them all, I have a job and have to sleep 
ocassionally.......) but has anyone wondered if LV has a very high 
placed spy in the MoM in the form of Umbridge.  I think she works for 
LV and that will be revealed in the next books.  Unfortunatly, I don't 
think we've seen the last of Umbridge.>

Oy vey! *smacks forehead*  Why, oh why does Umbridge have to work for 
Voldemort to be a complete and utter bitch?  The woman is a 
power-hungry, bureaucratic, nosy, dishonest, sneaky, rule-breaking 
witch.  I've met people exactly like her and all of them were simply 
being themselves.  It sickens me, but there are people out there who 
really want to bring others down, enjoy lying if it means someone else 
will get in trouble, and will gladly ruin someone's career if it means 
an advancement of their own.  I am utterly convinced that most of 
these people live right here in NYC and work for the Dept of 
Education.  Maybe some of the work closely with John Ashcroft, too.

Whether she works for Voldemort remains to be seen (and yes, this has 
been brought up more than once), but I wouldn't like for JKR to write 
that into Umbridge's character.  It would defeat her message about not 
everyone being divided up into good people and DEs.  One does not have 
to be a Nazi or a terrorist to be a bad person.  Plenty of bad people 
are running around and they operate all on their own nasty energies.

If I was Voldemort, I wouldn't even want such a stupid woman working 
for me, as impressed as I'd be with that detention trick Umbridge had 
perfected so well.  Did anyone else recoil in horror at that scene, 
btw?

--jenny from ravenclaw **********************