[HPforGrownups] Re:McGonagall, Harry, Umbridge

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 100401


> She could have told Dumbledore who could tell Fudge that his "High
> Inquisitor" cannot treat students this way. I wonder if Fudge really
> knew what she was up to. Even if Harry didn't tell McGonagall
> Hermione could have. She told her about the new broom in book 4. I
> know the teachers did what they could to stand up to her, I just feel
> that more could have been done.
>
> Christina in GA
>

Something tells me that even if word of Umbridge's behaviour got to Fudge,
he'd find a way not to hear it. In GOF, during the World Cup, when Malfoys
arrive in the top box, Lucius insults the Weasleys, asking Arthur what he
had to sell to get seats, surely the Weasley house wouldn't have fetched
enough. Fudge acted like he didn't hear a word of it. Maybe he trained
himself (or Lucius trained him) so well that he does manage to block such
things completely and honestly not hear them.

Alina.