Flitwick dead? Pat on the Head.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 127321


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lea" <ajroald at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Tonks wrote:
> > > Maybe something to do with the fact that he is part 
> > > goblin.


> Dave <DaveH47 at m...> 
> > Um... He *is*??  Is this Canon?  And if so, why didn't Umbridge
> > persecute *him*?


> Lea:
> Yes, apparently he is.  ...
> 
> Quote from website:
> 
> "He is human but with a dash of goblin ancestry - something like 
> a great, great grandfather."
> 
> Why Umbridge didn't persecute him is a good question.  She must 
> not have known.  
> 
> ~ Lea

bboyminn:

Well, post volume seems relatively low, so perhaps I can drop in a
short post.

Why didn't Umbridge persecute Flitwick? Because he is a tame, docile,
compliant, and submissive-to-her-authority Half-Breed, and that's just
the way she likes her half-breeds.

By contrast, Lupin, Hagrid, and the Centaurs are untame, undocile,
uncompliant, and so very very NON-submissive-to-her-authority.

Umbridge plays the 'Power Game'. In the Power Game, those who have it,
have it absolutely, and those who don't...don't. Anything that
challenges that order must be quashed with /extreme prejudice/.

Hence, werewolves can't have jobs, but docile Charms Professors can
have a condescending pat on the head.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn