Family and Other Loyalty

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 177812

> Random832:
> Well...canon says, I believe, that Umbridge is intercepting the 
post. 
> So, how could she have gone to her mother? Hell, as far as that goes 
> canon doesn't ACTUALLY say she _didn't_ go to her mother. Imagine 
this: 
> She writes a letter to her mother - saying she's worried about 
stuff, 
> etc; sufficiently vague as to not trigger the curse. Umbridge reads 
it. 
> Then Umbridge wants to have a little 'talk' with Marietta, and, in 
that 
> situation, how many of you can say you wouldn't cave into the kind 
of 
> threats we know Umbridge is capable of making?


Alla:

Most definitely. If I saw any signs in the text that this scenario 
actually occurred, I would have felt more sympathetic to Marietta.

But I do not think I should be expected to prove something that 
**may** have happened on the page.

If you are saying that it happened, I think the burden is on you ( 
generic you of course) to prove it.

Otherwise there are a lot of things that canon does not say not 
happened.

I certainly cannot prove the negative, but as far as we know one part 
of the scenario you described is incorrect already - Marietta went to 
Umbridge of her own initiative.

I mean, you can say you do not trust Umbridge words of course. In this 
situation I do, because there are no contradicting testimony by 
anybody, no?

JMO,

Alla