Double standards... what about Umbridge?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 125472


Vivian:
> 
> I wonder if what Umbridge did to Harry had any lasting effects 
(aside
> from the psychological)? Do you think that there is going to be a 
key
> moment where Harry will need to lie, for example to save someone
> else, and on his hand a raised mark will appear stating that he is
> lying? So, even though let's say that Harry becomes a good 
occlumens, 
> his hand will betray him.

Finwitch:

Don't know about that... Why would Umbridge wish to drug Harry with 
Veritaserum if Harry's hand would betray his lies anyway? Or was it a 
test to *Snape*? And didn't Harry LIE there as it was?

Anyway, I imagine a scene where Harry, in the 4 Privet Drive, wonders 
how a Muggle could intimidate him so much when even Voldemort can't. 
Or seeing Dudley bully Mark Evans. He might think of the magic first 
(which he uses when fighting a DE or Voldemort) since he's not 
allowed to use it - but seeing that scar on his hand - he recalls 
that he did not need *magic* to defy Umbridge. Not even support of 
friends.
 
And then he'd realise that what kept him so low and intimidated by 
Dursleys has more to do with the way they made him live in a lie - 
how he had let them lie to the neighbourhood... how he'd freed 
himself by defending the truth about his parents with Aunt Marge...

You know, the Ministry may well be able to detect using magic in 
Muggle Area *but* I doubt that *telling* about the magic would be. OR 
showing the moving pictures in an album and spellbooks, the functions 
of Marauder's Map, or wearing invisibility cloak... Or growing a 
nearly bald hair back up over one night...

I'd like to see how long Dumbledore would keep Harry at the Dursleys 
if oure dear Harry took to tell the Muggle neighbours all about 
wizards openly and loudly, using BOOKS(that Monster Book of Monsters, 
like - or the moving pictures in them), PHOTOs (that move) and 
possibly that amazing hair-growth as evidence... to warn them about 
Voldemort... getting back at the Ministry who didn't bother giving 
poor Sirius a trial... doing what he believes is right (well, Harry 
DID ask why wizards were so secret... maybe he figures now that the 
time of secrets is over; after all, he got lured into a trap because 
Dumbledore was keeping the existence of a prophecy secret from him...)

and while Harry's not much of a talker, that Quill *may* have had the 
effect that he will stand up and speak the truth - the truth about 
where he REALLY goes to school; the truth of what the Dursleys are 
like; the truth of Magic. Truth can be a very powerful weapon - and 
in OOP Harry used it on Umbridge effectively.


Finwitch