wonder who would win in a duel between Professor Umbridge and Professor McGonagall?

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 Annemehr:
 Umbridge is a definite choice.  Rita Skeeter bothers me a lot, too.
 
 Here's another question: over the course of the series, did your opinion change drastically about any of the characters?  That would be Lily for me - her behavior toward Snape was disgustingly disloyal.  Yes, Snape had some issues, but then so did James - serious ones.  But then, James was "cool" so it was okay.

Alla:

I cheered for Lily ;). I felt like she gave her loyalty to unworthy person and stuck with him for way too long and more than he deserved and the word that broke the camel back most certainly would have been the same for me.

But the only character I changed my opinion drastically about was of course Dumbledore and maybe even with him drastically was the wrong word, because it was not the one action of his that made me change that opinion. It was several things and with every new bit of knowledge he sank lower and lower and lower in my eyes till he drowned pretty close to you know who :-).

Everybody else? Eh, no matter what I discovered, it was not enough. James and Sirius? Bad actions, but overall no change of opinion. Actually, come to think of it, yes my opinion of James and Lily changed for the better, especially of James, but it was never bad, so I guess that did not count.


Snape, honestly, not really. Oh I was hoping he would turn to be serving Voldemort, sure, but my overal opinion of him was the one that I am sure you know and after book seven it is still the very same opinion with some minor adjustments.

Kids? Again, not really. Malfoy had all the potential to do that, but no, not really, did not see any drastic changes in him, just some minor ones.

Harry? Definitely not ;) Maybe Hermione slowly made me think of her worse, but again, I always liked her less of the Trio anyway.

Thanks for the questions.

Alla