OOP: Re: Power hungry DADA teacher

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 66001

 David wrote: 
"I'm tellin ya, she's a Death Eater. Umbridge plays by no rules and
that makes her a candidate for DE. Voldemort has more up his sleeves
than the Malfoys, Wormtail and a few others. Imagine having a spy in 
the Ministry. She's with the dark side. Ship her to Azkaban."

To which Shadowolf replied:
I have to agree with this, not only did Umbridge try and turn
Hogwarts into a police state with herself as the head dictator, her 
version of detention for both Harry and later Lee Jordan is nothing 
more than abuse.>snip< If that quill isn't a dark artefact or at 
least filled with Dark Magic I don't know what is. >snip< Like other 
folks that have thrown out their opinions I think she's at least 
being heavily manipulated by Voldemort.  

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The thing with Umbridge that people should remember is Sirius' 
comment to Harry on the same topic: "The world isn't divided into 
good people and Death Eaters". We are *meant* to think that Umbridge 
is working for Voldemort, just as we weren't meant to think that 
Quirrel and Crouch!Moody were. The truth is ultimately more 
shocking: even the nominally "good" side has its horrors and 
corruptions. OoP introduces a much more sophisticated conception of 
the divide between good and evil, as Harry grows up and realises 
that Dumbledore is fallible, he can pity Snape, and that his dad 
wasn't that great a chap all of the time. The Umbridge story 
consumes the central part of the book, cementing the importance of 
this theme. It's far more terrifying that she has at her disposal 
Dark artefacts, and has no respect for human life when it gets in 
the way of bureaucratic process, and ISN'T affiliated with Voldemort.
Have a look at all the "shades of grey" postings recently, many of 
which deal with the same topic.

Kirstini
Baking HUMBLE PIE since 2003.