Percy under the influence (Was: Umbridge and Fudge)

[Randy]

No: HPFGUIDX 152956

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol earlier:
> > 
> > >noting that Umbridge is Fudge's Senior Undersecretary and Percy 
is
> his Junior Assistant, and wondering if Umbridge is also responsible
> for, erm, brainwashing Percy
> > 
> Ffred responded:
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> drinking his morning coffee with them, going for a beer at 
lunchtime,
> taking notes at meetings - it would be very hard for a young and
> impressionable man like Percy not to get sucked in to their way of
> thinking.
> > 
> > hwyl
> > 
> > Ffred (who can't help thinking about the speech by David Owen 
back
> in the early 80s when he talked about the "politics of fudge and 
mudge")
> >
> 
> Carol responds:
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> Carol, imagining going out for coffee with Umbridge and gagging at 
the
> thought
>

Umbridge is the spitting image of the Assistant Principal of my 
former High School.  She obviously used her connections in 
Government to move up into the Ministry.  My mom (rest her soul) 
once went toe to toe with her over my being late to register for 
classes for my Senior year.  I think my mom would have cleaned house 
at the Ministry of Magic if she had the chance.  Voldemort would 
have feared two people if he had met her on a bad day. ;0)

Randy