another LV - Riddle question

[David Burgess]

No: HPFGUIDX 98349

>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miller, Gina (JIS)"
><ginamiller at j...> wrote:
>> How could Tom Riddle be the heir of Slytherin when he was a
>mudblood?
>>
>Robert now:
...>
>This is just a theory.
>
>If you think there is nothing to it, I also think that Umbridge is a
>DE.  Her name suggests that she is the bridge between the DE and the
>Ministry.
>

Not to me - in fact, it means implies quite the opposite.

Umbridge is sometimes used to describe what someone feels when they think
they've been insulted or slighted.  Common use is "to take umbridge" with
a statement or position.  I can't think of another colloquialism that
would mean quite the same thing, unless it was something like "got his
shorts in a knot about" the statement.  I'm not sure it's any clearer that
way, but the former is much more haughty - Thurston Howell III would take
umbridge, Gilligan would get his shorts in a knot.

>I haven't figured out what Fudge stands for though.

In American English, to 'fudge' sometimes means 'to cheat a little bit'. 
Usually, it's inconsequential stuff, like changing the margins on a paper
so that you meet the 10 page limit without actually having to figure out
another 1/2 page of stuff.  Some Americans fudge their charitable
contribution numbers to pay less taxes.  It's wrong, it's just the degree.
 I learned the term playing darts with my Dad; he used it to describe that
half hop that people sometimes use that ends them up 'just on' the hockey
after they move their toe back.

Here you go:  "I would take umbridge with your accusation that I fudged my
taxes."

Don't know what that does for your theory.

Dave
who's wondering if other cultures have a concept for 'cheating that's kind
of OK' in their primary language....