Professor Umbridge

[D.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 69438

savrsd wrote:
After reading Chapter 36, I don't like the way things ended with 
Professor Umbridge. I think she was up to so much more. I didn't like 
how she was "easily" taken away by the centaurs. I cant believe she 
did the things she did and there was not anymore to her...

me:

That, in fact, may be the point.  Umbridge was portrayed as the 
ultimated bureaucrat, a know-it-all who specialized in telling others 
what to do when she, herself, was barely competent.  Thus, it would 
make sense that when push came to shove, she was unable to fend for 
herslef. 

On the other hand -- I'm a tad uncomfortable with Dumbledore's 
apparently all-too-effortless offscreen rescue of her.  Why would JKR 
just toss this in?  She certainly doesn't need to provide any more 
evidence of Dumbledore's mastery of Magickal combat, or the ease with 
which he can extricate almost anyone out of almost any situation, 
when he chooses to.  Somehow it seems too easy --even too sloppy-- to 
simply tell us blithely that Dumbledore amlbed into the Forest, faced 
down a herd of angry Centaurs, and rescued the not-so-very-fair 
maiden from certain death --"Ho, hum, all in a day's work for your 
friendly omnipotent Wizard!"-- without it having some kind of more 
significant implication farther on down the line.


D.G. ("JazzmanChgo")