Umbridge and Fudge and DEs (Was: Case for Marauders)

[stellablue571]

No: HPFGUIDX 110034

Nora <nrenka at y...> wrote:
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> Umbridge and Fudge, I will contend, because they believe too much 
> in blood, and have (in Umbridge's case) the particularly nasty 
> attitudes towards the other magical creatures, share a certain 
> amount of their philosophical BASIS with the DEs.
>  
> Fudge may be anti-Voldemort, but he still believes in and uses the 
> blood principle, which is what fueled Voldemort's rise to gaining 
> supporters in the first place.  Umbridge, in her eager desire to 
> help Fudge stay in power, ends up doing a whole hell of a lot of 
> things that aid the DEs.  This, it seems fairly obvious to me, was 
> one of the major points of OotP--the world isn't divided into 
> Order members and DEs, and the wrong methods towards the right end 
> can end up being assistance to those very things that they purported
> to be fighting.


Stella says:

Hello, and you couldn't have said it better!  Fudge and Umbridge have 
a very strong supportive relationship with the Death Eaters and 
Voldemort, as you've observed, noting all the inadvertent help they 
have given to the dark cause.  The root of this important connection 
is what they represent, or rather the negative human traits they 
represent.  

Actually, many behaviors they both exhibit are consistent with 
the "Seven Deadly Sins", often associated with the downfall of 
humanity.  (pride, greed, gluttony, etc.  you get the picture...)
Anyway, these human weaknessess are displayed so prominently in these 
two that they are almost caricatures.  The selfish motivations, 
subversion, lust for power...all of these play out in such a way that 
they ultimately aid the "bad side" time and again.  

Unfortunately for both, (and everyone else) Voldemort's power is 
strengthened through just such ignorance.  They play right into those 
putrid hands of his without any magical intervention or imperio 
curse; just by following their own human nature, they are feeding 
into that power.

Regards to all,(and watch out for those deadly sins!)
;D
Stella