What HP Character Scares You Most?

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No: HPFGUIDX 191859



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote:
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> > > The character who scares me the most is Umbridge, because she is so completely believable, I;m sure she exists in RL, and because she has no doubts or self-awareness.
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> Annemehr:
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> The thing that might make Umbridge scary is that she has both the inclination and the power to force her point of view onto the lives of others.  Imagine if someone like this had authority over you.  Some of us, I'm sure, don't have to imagine too hard.
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Pat:

I have to agree that Umbridge is the scariest character. My problem with her is that she not  only has the inclination to "force her point of view", as Annemehr says, she also is in a position to see that whatever she wants will happen. It's the power (or abuse of it) that is so scary to me. Anyone in a position of power has the potential to abuse it; Umbridge has gone so far beyond that. And what makes her even scarier is that her enjoyment of abuse is obvious to everyone who is in a position to be abused by her. Unfortunately, those who could throttle her never see her dark side, i.e. Fudge. Lockhart doesn't really take the time to enjoy his abuses - it's all about him, really, not what it does to others.  Yes, he's more than willing to get people out of the way, but he doesn't seem to gloat over their loss (of memory or whatever). I'm totally in agreement with the opinions expressed about Bellatrix - she has several screws loose. But this begs a question - what about Malfoy Senior? He is sorely tempted by "the dark side" - but at the end he seems to agree with his wife that family is the most important thing (not that I'd really ever trust him in a high position again. . . )

Back to Umbridge - to me she exemplifies the saying that power corrupts - and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Pat