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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

[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