On the subject of Umbridge and Book VII

Sat Dec 3 00:08:24 UTC 2005

No: HPFGUIDX 143956

> 
> There is an International Council of Wizardry, which Dumbledore
> presided over as Supreme Mugwump...
> 
> Sherry
>
I'd forgotten that!

I wonder how and why JKR came up with that title. TTBOMK, a mugwump is 
a bird so-called because it sits on the fence with its mug on one side 
and its wump on the other. One thinks of Dumbledore as being much more 
decisive.

--La Gatta