Our very own pensieve

[B.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 130552

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ladi lyndi <ladilyndi at y...> 
wrote:
> "B.G."  wrote:
>  
> 
> It is also interesting how JKR used Umbridge to gather information 
> regarding the teachers.  We now know when each of the teachers 
came 
> to Hogwarts and a bit more about they handle themselves in a 
> difficult situation.  The most surprising to me is McGonagall - 
she 
> tends to do what is easy over what is right - IMO.
> 
> 
> Lynn:
>  
> I'm not sure what you mean by this.  I think it would have been 
much easier for the teachers to tell Umbridge off and leave.  It was 
right and much harder for them to put up with Umbridge in order to 
be there for the kids as much as possible.  Consider, if they had 
left, just who would Umbridge have brought in to take their place?
>  
> When McGonagall wanted to help Dumbledore, he wouldn't let her 
because she was needed at Hogwarts.  So again, she did what was 
right over what was easy.
>  
> Perhaps, though, you meant something different.
>  
> Lynn
> 
BG:
My point about Umbridge's evaluation visits was that it was JKR's 
clever technique to give us information about when each of the 
teachers came to Hogwarts so we could use it for a reference.  
Harry's lifetime line is key here.  Snape came before or right after 
Lily and James died, McGonagall was there long before LV started his 
terror and so on.  And a bit more personality information on other 
teachers about whom we previously had little  - Sprout and Flitwick 
for example.  This all being because we have only Harry's POV.  JKR 
uses the Umbridge visits and Harry's observations most effectively.

About McGonagall - like I said, this is a great pensieve and reading 
others thoughts makes me re-examine mine.  There may be a bit of 
movie corruption going on in my mind about this character.  I keep 
seeing Maggie Smith's face as I read.  And she definitely has some 
great expressions at key moments.  I'll need to re-read certain 
passages again and stay off the movies until November.
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