Umbridge and Harry (was McG / DD / Re: Why should Harry be expected...)

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Geoff:
All things considered, I think that you missed an important point in 
Alla's remarks - that using the quill was /in itself/ correct. Are 
you suggesting that the action, which was improper and sadistic, was 
correctly started by this woman to bring home to Harry the need to 
conform? 

Festuco: 
No, I did not. But I refuse to spell out for people what I mean for a
third time. If they don't get it, too bad.

Alla:

No need to spell it out anymore. I finally think that my opinion 
about your opinion is fully supported by the arguments. I appreciate 
your helpfullness.


Festuco:

Now we as readers can analyze all we want. Say how evil a person she
is, and how immoral her behaviour. But inside the story, the Hogwart
students had better not do the same where she or her squad members 
can hear it, because she will make them pay for it. They had better 
learn that in a dictatorship the rules are what the dictator says 
they are.
They can scream about morality and justice all they want, but
sometimes it is not available. And then people had better adapt and
choose their actions wisely, especially if they are going to resist 
her. 


Alla:

Rules in the dictatorship CAN be changed and often ARE changed if 
people decide to DO something about it ( For the latest of such RL 
developments let me refer you to events in my former home country - 
Ukraine)

Hogwarts students and teachers eventually refused to let Umbridge 
have power over them. Result? She is not there anymore.

Just my opinion of course,

Alla