Umbridge's goal calling in Dementors

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 127154


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> wrote:
> 

> Did she expect that the Dementors would successfully administer the
> Kiss, thus eliminating this irritation permanently?  
> 
> Or as Senior Undersecretary to the Minister, was she aware that the
> Potter boy had already survived at least one Kiss attempt from a swarm
> of Dementors and was in fact capable of producing a corporeal Patronus
> that would be sufficient to ward off two Dementors?  
> 
> If the latter was it a setup to provoke underage magic/magic performed
> in front of a muggle and thus a charge that could at least get Harry
> expelled and possibly sent to Azkaban?
> 
> Or was it "If the dementors don't get him the Wizengamot will?"

Pippin:
I'm sure Dolores thought through as many outcomes as she could imagine and decided 
none of them were worse than doing nothing. Her situation is more desperate than it 
appears. Surely Dolores knows that Fudge has been filling his pockets with Malfoy jingle 
and that Harry has told Fudge that Malfoy is a DE. If people start believing Harry, then her 
career and her reputation will be beyond saving. Never mind whether Voldemort is really 
back or not -- if he is, her boss is toast anyway.

So the worst that can happen if her plan succeeds is that it will all come out and Dolores 
will earn herself an all expenses paid stay in Azkaban -- exactly where she'll end up if the 
Wizengamot learns that her boss was taking Death Eater bribes, er, contributions to 
worthy causes,  and she knew about it.

Pippin