Umbridge

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 147915

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:
>
> Gerry wrote: 
> Actually, I don't think she [Umbridge] wanted [Harry] expelled, she
> wanted him dead. 

> Carol responds:
> Interesting idea, but a Dementor sucking your soul doesn't kill
> you. As Lupin explains in PoA, your brain and other organs
> continue to work and your body remains alive. It's just your soul
> that's irretrievably lost...

And your memories.  Remember that after Crouch Jr. got Kissed, he 
was, according to Dumbledore, "unable to give evidence".

So it works for Umbridge either way: Harry discredited, or Harry
mindless--and, apparently, if a Muggle or two got soulectomies 
in the process, so what?  They were only Muggles.

Umbridge's ability to justify such monstrous acts, combined with her
sadism and her position of power, make her one of the most horrifying
of JKR's creations, as far as I'm concerned.

Amiable Dorsai