OOP: Umbridge and statues

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 62490

Jjoywitch wrote, about aunty Dolores:

>I think that JKR is trying to make the point that 
> sometimes people in officialdom, whose jobs are to protect the 
> public, can be just as dangerous as the horrible, evil enemies 
those 
> officials are supposed to protect the public from.
> 
> Umbridge immediately made me think of U.S. Attorney General John 
> Ashcroft, 

Them's fightin' words ma'am.  But, seriously, one is left wondering 
about chickens and eggs here: what is the source of evil in the 
Wizarding World?  Those statues in the lobby at the MOM almost seem 
to make a Voldemort inevitable, don't they?  Isn't he just the 
incarnation of 'Wizarding pride'?

So wise of Dumbledore to wreck them as part of his headmasterly work 
of educating Tom, though one doubts that Tom understood.

David