Umbridge the Monster? WAS :Re: Harry the monster? (was: Snape's Psycology)

[montavilla47]

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> > > Eggplant:
> > > So when you first read the book you wept for Umbridge? 
> > 
> > Montavilla47:
> > Not when she got carried off, but I did feel sympathetic for
> > her later, when she was in the hospital wing.  I felt quite
> > indignant when the children made clopping noises to scare
> > her and then laughed about it.
> > 
> > Mind you, I didn't include that in my argument because 
> > the text doesn't indicate *Harry* joining in on that laughter.
> >
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> See, this is a very good example of how different people view things and characters.  This is the reaction I find impossible to understand. I cannot master a tiny shred of sympathy to the monstrocity like Umbridge. This character is the main reason why I do not bother rereading OOP so hard I find to read about Harry's detentions and her sadism to everybody else, all that I was hoping for when centaurs took her is that she will end up dead. But I am not about to say that I find your reaction illogical or anything like that. I would just say that this is something *I* do not understand and probably never will.
> 

Montavilla47:
I probably wouldn't have minded if Umbridge had been killed
by the centaurs.  I was as happy as anyone else when she was
carried off by them.

Just like I was happy when Gilderoy Lockhart got his comeuppance.
But, if he had ended up as a mental case in St. Mungo's and children
came in to point and laugh at him, I would have felt that was over
the top.