Umbridge - bad to the bone

[C John Edward Culver]

No: HPFGUIDX 180054

CJ:
> In the IMAC category, I think it's 
> a toss-up between Skeeter and Umbridge. 

Geoff:
> Umbridge ... **set out** to be the most loathsome.

Mike:
> I'll have to agree with Geoff.

CJ:

I'll have to take a pass. I saw Umbridge as petty, as cruel, as
small-minded with an obvious need for attention. But Umbridge did what
she did driven by an obsession with power and the need to control. For
Umbridge, her cruelty was a means to an end, to enforce her order and
impose her will on others. For that I found her pitiable and annoying,
but hardly loathsome.

Bellatrix, OTOH, reveled in evil for evil's sake. For Bellatrix, evil
itself was its own purpose and its own reward, needing neither reason
nor excuse, having no other end than itself. Of all his servants,
Bellatrix alone wasn't driven by self-interested desires for power or
reward, and this is why, of all his servants, Bellatrix was the only
one LV could trust. And that's where Bellatrix was truly loathsome,
while Umbridge was simply petty and mean.

CJ