[HPforGrownups] Re: Dementors in Little Whinging

[Feng Zengkun]

No: HPFGUIDX 117204



--- Glavgirl <zacksmom3 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> In OOTP we learned that Umbridge had ordered the
> Dementors to Little Whinging.  Since she was working 
> at the MoM at the time, would the ministry not have 
> a record of someone ordering them? No more mention 
> was made about it after Harry's hearing.  Are we
> going to find out in HBP that the Minister actually 
> finds out about Umbridge and the dementors?  It almost 
> appears like she is one of Voldemort's Death Eaters 
> instead of a Ministry official.  She got along well 
> with Draco and his cronies in Slytherin.  Could 
> Umbridge be one of Voldemort's??


>Juli: I remember that during OoP when Sirius was
>talking to the Trio in the chimney, Ron suggested she
>could be a Death Eater, but he replied that just
>because she's mean she's not necessarily a DE.

I think it would weaken the series as a whole if Umbridge did turn out to be a DE. I think that one of JKR's points is that not all bad people are DEs, because even people working on the 'good' side (in their opinion) can sanction dubious actions that they believe is for the common good. Crouch, for instance, in the first VW, allowing Aurors to kill suspected DEs (there's a quote somewhere, I just can't remember it), and sending people to prison without trials. As for the ministry keeping records, I can totally see Fudge closing an eye to Umbridge's actions if/when he found out.   

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