[HPforGrownups] Is Umbridge on the side of good or bad?

[JaanisE]

No: HPFGUIDX 127157


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From: hickengruendler

I think it's even more than that. She does not simply believe, that 
rules are right, she uses the rules to make her own wrongs right 
(partly through the Educational Decrees). If she were only a woman 
who slavishly believes in the rules, than she would never have sent 
Dementors to "silence" Harry, she would never have tortured school 
children with that quill, she would never have used her position to 
humiltate Sybill Trelawney like that. I think she is a major 
villainess and everything she does is to further hew own personal 
agenda. She is as evil as Voldemort or Bellatrix; she just couldn't 
show it as openly, because her aim is not to destroy or fight the 
wizard society, but to raise to power by (seemingly) legal means. The 
rules are just a tool for her.
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Jaanis:

Taking all this into consideration, isn't it funny that we find out
about Umbridge this late? A woman with such ambitions, attitude and
behaviour, being the next official to the Minister of Magic! She must
have been a topic among wizards, Weasleys or Hogwart's professors and
students, for example. Especially if she's been so ill-disposed to the
current administration at Hogwarts. Or if she hasn't, why did she
suddenly became such? Had she got some kind of pressure?...