[HPforGrownups] Harry as last DADA teacher?

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 100298

| From: gift_lady
| Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 13:50 PM
| In OotP why didn't Harry go to McGonagall after detention with
| Umbridge and show her what she had done to his hand? Does Fudge
| realize she is punishing students this way? I know the ministry
| wanted more control but that woman is just plain mean. I hated even
| reading that part and I felt for sure that McGonagall would do
| something but either she didn't know or couldn't do anything.

[Lee]:
Two things:

1. I don't think MM could have done anything about Umbridge's quill.  She
had to detach herself as much as possible in order to remain at Hogwarts,
IMHO.  Add to that, if she had done something, or tried to, Umbridge would
have come up with another decree or found some way to remove Minerva from
the scene.

2. Umbridge would stop at nothing! She was even willing to do a Cruciatus
curse...uh--hello...that's one of the unforgivable curses, thank you very
much, and she was more than a little excited about possibly using it on a
student to gain information!

Again, IMHO, One has to wonder about Umbridge; is she just that
power-hungry?  Or has/does she have ties to Death Eaters?

Whichever way you look at it, what could McGonagall really have done?  Not a
whole lot.