Umbridge - bad to the bone

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 180037

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> > > CJ:
> > >
> > > Mike:
> Yes again, and it may be that she succeeded in her toady quest, 
since 
> she still occupied a high position in the Ministry even after it 
fell 
> to the DEs. 
> 
> In the past we speculated that Umbridge was the ultimate 
bureaucrat, 
> blinded by the rule of law. I propose that DH showed she was the 
> ultimate politician, able to fit right in to an administration, 
> regardless of who's holding the reins of power. She seemed to be 
> quite comfortable in her role as chairwitch of the Muggleborn 
> Registration Committee. She transferred her allegiences from Fudge 
to 
> Scrimgeour to Thickness without a hitch in her get-along, didn't 
she?
> 
> Mike

Sue:
True, but mainly because Fudge was an idiot she could control, 
Scrimgeour had his own troubles and Thicknesse was under an Imperius 
curse and she was a Death Eater at heart if not officially. Wonder 
what would have happened to her in, say, a Dumbledore-run 
Ministry...? :-) "..that whatsoever king may reign, I'll still be 
the Vicar of Bray, sir!" Yes? No? [g]
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