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

[eggplant9998]

No: HPFGUIDX 125849


"lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> wrote:

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

I think The Quill is terrible too, however I am not Harry, I have been
fortunate enough not to have seen a classmate, my mother, my father
and my godfather murdered before my eyes, and I have not been hung
upside down and stung by a spider the size of a small elephant, and I
have not been tied to a tombstone and tortured so horribly I wished
for nothing but death. If I had been subjected to even one of those
things I think my perspective on what was bad and what was REALLY bad
would be somewhat different.  Umbridge's quill is small potatoes
compared to many other horrors in Harry's life.  

> 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. 

I don't see why, Harry has already lost whatever trust he ever had in
the adult world, more particularly he has lost his affection for Albus
Dumbledore and for reasons far more profound than detention class. 
Dumbledore was quite correct when he said it his fault his beloved
godfather is dead.  There are many things the Wizarding World needs to
apologize to Harry for, but The Quill is only number 422.

 Eggplant