[HPforGrownups] Umbridge,Quidditch, and the Wizarding World

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 116379

>>Brodeur asked
I've got a bunch of things to ask today. First on the list is the nasty  
Professor Umbridge. What is her status, what happend after she was taken 
by the rest of the creatures? Did she die or did she somehow return to 
>>the ministry?

Kethryn now - who cares?  Ok, here is a less flip answer (I hate that woman, can you tell?).  It is canon that she ran off and no one knew where she went.  For all we do know, she found some DEs to hang out with.  I do tend to doubt that she went back to Fudge, not after the Ministry has finally admitted that they were being bullheaded, stupid, and wrong.  Also, there are going to be a lot of wizarding parents who will have that woman on their sh*t list...Lee Jordan's parents for starters (he had detention with that sadist as well as Harry) so she isn't going to be able to go to most of her former student's parents for help, no matter what former student's parents thought about her new policies at Hogwarts.  And she sure as heck will not be setting foot anywhere near 93 Diagon Alley anytime soon, not if she values her skin that is.  It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if she ran off to join the DEs though, she would definatly fit right in.

    
    Following that, if she is gone is Harry now able to play Quidditch again? 
Now that she is gone he can get his broom and is able to play, correct?

Kethryn again - the ban would be lifted once that insane woman left, as would the rest of her insane policies.  So I think we will see Harry, Ginny and Ron for sure on the team next year...which could be really interesting for the Shippers out there.

The last thing on my mind is the wizarding world and the muggle world. I was 
reading the OOTP last night and in chapter 29 it stated that 10 prisoners of  
Azkaban had broken out, and that Fudge had told the muggle minister to be 
aware.  Do the muggles know that there is a wizarding world or not, because 
back in book two when Snape yelled at Harry and Ron for "risking the exposure 
of our world", now if they already know about wizards then there is no risk. 

    Hopefully someone can clear this up for me,
        Brodeur 
Kethryn one last time - Ever since Fudge notified the PM about Sirius' escape from Azkaban, I have just been under the assumption that the WW keeps the PM informed of what is going on.  I assume that they have a working relationship...one head of state of a friendly (or at worst, neutral) coutry to another.  The PM probably understands what letting the WW secret out will do to his world and so he keeps his mouth shut about the whole deal.  Fudge, otoh, does not have the same concerns and, therefore, the relationship is not reciprical by any means...

Hope that makes sense.

Kethryn who is starting to wonder (for the gazillioneth time) why she though computer programming was such a good idea for a major!









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