Umbridge, detention, scars, and plotlines, oh my!.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 125835


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998"
<eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:
> 
> lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> Wrote:
> 
> > I maintain that if JKR lets this 
> > drop it will be a major 
> > failure on her part.
> 
> After all the hell Harry went through last year the little
> unpleasantness in the detention class must seem like a very small
> thing to him,

Being forced to carve a blatant lie into your flesh again and again? 
I see that as more than "a little unpleasantness".  


 and with Voldemort back I imagine the adults will be far
> too busy trying to stay alive to worry about it much. Umbridge has
> lost her job and been disgraced, she's yesterday's news, I don't see
> why Rowling needs to ever mention her name again.  Harry may well be
> suffering from post traumatic shock syndrome by now, but it won't be
> because of Umbridge's detention.  

Oh, probably not PTSD, to be sure.  However, once again, I maintain
that if this is not brought up and tied off, and if the adults are not
made aware of their own failures in this instance, JKR will have
failed very badly as a writer.


Lupinlore