Umbridge and Bellatrix Re: I hate Fudge!

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No: HPFGUIDX 147659

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:

> Curious the similar ways in which they treat the young people. I can 
> understand Umbridge because she appears to be a typical spinster 
> maiden aunt - fluffly cardigan, little hair bow and not knowing how 
> best to treat the class. But Bellatrix does not seem the type to 
> react on the same way.
> 
> Any views out there?


Umbridge does not want to relate, she wants to be obeyed. If you take
children seriously, you take into account the amount of responsibility
they can handle and give it to them accordingly. Some teachers are
stricter than others, but we always see every teacher treat the
students seriously: as students who are there to learn and have the
ability to do so (some more than others). Umbridge has a completely
different agenda. She wants to establish her own power. She does not
care one whit what the students think of her or what's best for them.
She wants to rub it in, that they are children and she is the adult.
I'm quite sure she knows the students detest the way she treats them,
but it gives her a power-kick to do so anyways. 

For Bellatrix it is more strategic, I think. She knows that
adolescents get absolutely mad to be addressed like little children.
She is goading Harry to make him angry so he will make mistakes, and
she will get the prophecy. Taunting him with Sirius also gives her
pleasure of course. 

Gerry