Some more OOTP Questions

[Richard Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 126400


I am continuing my rereading OOTP and I have some more questions that 
I hope you can all help me with.  (I tried to do some searches but 
didn't get anything.)

(1) Is Umbridge part troll?  Does anyone else think that Umbridge is 
part human and part something else?  Troll?  Also there are lots of 
references to toads in how she looks to Harry.  Is why she 
hates "half-breeds" so much because she is one?

(2) How did LV know what was in the Department of Mysteries?  In the 
thoughts that Harry shares with him, LV has a pretty good knowledge 
of the DoM.  He even knows to go to row number 97.  How could he know 
this?  Some of the Ministry employees may be DE's but wouldn't only 
the "Unspeakables" know what exactly is in there?  So is an 
Unspeakable a DE?

(3) How does the Pensieve work?  The Pensieve doesn't 
store "memories" exactly because Harry sees things from a third-
person point of view, not from Snape's.  Harry had to stay within 
sight of Snape, but he heard things Snape could never have heard and 
thus couldn't have a memory of them.  So what does this say about 
what is stored in our heads?

(4) Snape's worst memory.  Snape put three "thoughts" into the 
Pensieve so that Harry couldn't penetrate them.  Are they all part of 
one "memory" or are there two more "memories" we didn't see?

(5) Did Snape really expect Harry to see his "worst memory"?  He was 
furious afterwards, but did he really mean it?  He got to show Harry 
that his father was an arrogant jerk and he got an excuse to stop 
giving Harry Occulmency lessons.  If he is really working for LV, the 
latter is the result he wants.

(6) Did JKR have Sirius give HP that special mirror just so that 
Harry would feel guilty, or is there is something more?  Will that 
mirror return in HBP?

(7) In DD's exit scene, I noticed that DD didn't have a particularly 
high regard for the truth or the law.  No real question — just an 
observation.  He lied about organizing the DA and about it having its 
first meeting that evening and about plotting against the Ministry.  
He used violence to resist arrest.  He didn't mind Marietta Edgecombe 
being put under a curse to modify her memory.

Richard Jones