Umbridge
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Feb 8 07:43:40 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 147771
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, catherine higgins
<saberbunny at ...> wrote:
>
>
> April responds:
>
> So, what was the actual reason given
> for the dementors? Did they just want him expelled??
Catherine:
> Umbridge (and the rest of the MoM) want Harry discredited.
> They want him to look like a big show-off, an attention seeking
brat.
> A kid who would do anything to stay in the limelight.
>
> Umbridge says it herself (OOP, ch 32 p.658 UK edition
> I think since I'm in Canada...)
> Harry: "you sent the Dementors after me?"
>
> "Somebody has to act," breathed Umbridge,
> as her wand came to rest pointing dirsctly at Harry's forhead.
> "They were all bleating about silencing you somehow -
> discrediting you -
> but I was the one who actually did something about it...
> only you wriggled out of that one, didn't you, Potter?"...
Geoff:
In passing, it is the same page in the UK edition - I think they must
be identical.
What concerns me are the following facts.
Does Umbridge know so little about the Dementors that she is prepared
to let them loose on juveniles in order to discredit them without
knowing the possible outcome?
Dumbledore has already outlined the risks to the school:
"It is not in the nature of a Dementor to understand pleading and
excuses. I therefore warn each and every one of you to give them no
reason to harm you. I look to the Prefects, and our new Head Boy and
Girl, to make sure that no student runs foul of the Dementors."
(POA "The Dementor" p.72 UK edition)
Or, more dangerously, is she so obsessed with the good name of the
Ministry, her own position as a result and slapping down Harry that
she is prepared to see him rendered soulless by a Dementor?
She has kept the information to herself, even after putting the plan
in train, obviously fearing that Fudge would have stopped the idea.
He may be a wittering idiot, but I think he, unlike Umbridge,
possesses some humanity.
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