CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 12, "Professor Umbridge"

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 91282

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Peter Felix Schuster 
<pfsch at g...> wrote:
> Jen:
> 7) Why does McGonagall warn Harry that misbehavior is Umbridge's
> class will cost more than a few detentions? What does she think he 
> will lose?
> 
> Anatol again:
> The worst, I presume, i.e. what he most cares about. At this point,
> Dolores had already confronted him in the Wizengamot trial with an
> expulsion. So, I reckon McGonnagal expects nothing less than that.
> She might reckon that Umbridge isn't over the lost trial yet and 
wants
> to succeed at last. Cutting off priveleges first, making that
> expulsion step-by-step. Umbridge might have told of plans to
> discipline the pupils to the staff before.


Jen: The more I think about it, the more it seems McGonagall is 
referring not to what Harry will lose at Hogwarts (even expulsion), 
but that Harry is putting Dumbledore and the Order at risk by his 
outbursts. That would ultimately mean a loss of protection for 
himself that Harry doesn't see.  Harry doesn't yet know about 
LegilimencyOcclumency, but McGonagall does, and she knows that an 
out-of-control Harry is a threat to the entire Order if his high 
emotions offer a way for LV to get into his brain. So, maybe those 
Ginger Newts did have a little Draught of Peace in them, eh?