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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 123267


> >Festuco wrote:
> 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.
>
> vmonte:
> What a boring book it would have been if I had to read almost 800 
> pages of: 'Harry shut up and take it like a good oppressed 
person!  
>  
> 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.
> 


Valky:
Well there you have it, you have made your point extremely well Alla 
and vmonte. 

Now though I totally think that Gerry makes a good point about 
choosing actions wisely, I am beginning to see that Harry's actions 
were wise in themselves, though they may not have been wisely chosen 
per se.

You see I don't imagine quite so much student and teacher revolution 
against DU could have ever been possible if *Harry* hadn't made the 
first move, broke the ice as it were and confronted her dictatorship 
face to face. As Alla says, someone has to *decide* to do something 
about it. That in itself is wisdom. 

There is a lot of history in RL that shows dictatorships can go on 
unchallenged for a long time before some reckless desperado, like in 
this case Harry, shows up to spit on the fire.