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[adeliej]

Why does the world not bend to our will? Honestly, you would think that no one else at all had a brain in their heads, nor used it. Incompetents, imbeciles, idiots, all. (Quoted from Umbridge's latest post.)

That sentence? To me gets the tone and language and so on so right - it's most of the things horrible about Umbridge to me. (Most of the rest being contained in "Sizzie, dear", of course.)

Comments

[synecdochic]

i love how so many people in Alternity suffer from considering themselves the Only Sane (wo)Man. :)

[cheyinka]

It really is just right. By which I mean perfectly horrible. Heh.

Purple eyebrows is from Sinistra's charm, isn't it? Or am I misremembering?

[wintercreek]

That's what I was thinking. She's the one who taught it to Linus Moon, yes?

[cheyinka]

Okay, so it's not just me. Good, I'm glad her snooping had at least one negative effect - though I gotta say I'm disappointed that Marston kept her away from the two rooms likely to zorch her!

[jenett]

Allies have to be good for something, I guess? (It's not to his interest to have Dolores get blown up, really.)

[cheyinka]

Sure, it makes good sense that he'd do it, and it also makes sense from a storytelling standpoint for the character not to get zorched by blithely wandering into a Very Dangerous Person's residence rather than as part of a communal Umbridge-zorching, but I'm still disappointed she isn't a small pile of pink ashes :D

[wintercreek]

Ugh, the nicknames. "Sizzie dear," "Willie." Those just scream, "This is a person who didn't have friends growing up and is now determined to MAKE people be her friends, by whatever force necessary." Umbridge, you can't coerce people into being friends with you. And no matter how hard you try to ruin Aurora and Raz's relationship, you aren't going to turn her into your old-maid-best-friend.