She Looks Like a Toad/Trevor the Toad

[carodave92]

No: HPFGUIDX 157493

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Luckdragon" 
<luckdragon64 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "laurawkids" <balrogmama@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I tried using the advanced search on this idea and came up with 
> > nothing, but has it been discussed why Umbrigde looks like a 
toad?
> > 
> >snip<
> 
> Luckdragon replies:
> 
> I've wondered as well if there could be some correlation between 
> Umbridge who Looks like a toad, the portrait in the prime 
Ministers 
> office of the "froglike little man wearing a long silver wig", and 
> Neville's toad "Trevor". It seems odd that there would be three 
such 
> references with no seeming correlation between them. Perhaps there 
is 
> something the frog/toad represents which we are missing.
>
Carodave:
I always assumed that the portrait in the PMs office was an ancestor 
of Dolores'.  She is obviously not muggle-born with all those 
prejudices and I don't think she can be a pure-blood - was the 
Umbridge family mentioned on the Black tapestry? (I don't think so). 
One of her ancestors could be the frog-like man in the portrait, a 
muggle born wizard who served in muggle politics (the family 
business?)

I know that other posters have wondered about Trevor - he is 
mentioned alot.  It seems unlike JKR to continually mention him when 
he serves no purpose in the storyline.  I think Neville will play a 
crucial role in Book 7, maybe Trevor's secret will be revealed as 
part of that plot line?  Will it somehow relate to Neville's wand, 
the last one purchased prior to Ollivander's disappearance?

Carodave