weren't we supposed to get someone using magic previosuly thought not to have any? Theories were abouding about the various Squibs, and the Dursleys...
I might have read too fast at that point in the story, but did not get Petunia Evans a letter from Hogwarts inviting her into the school, which she refused to follow? That would mean she was really a (potential) witch, who blocked her talent well and good and chose to live as a Muggle. But I am not sure if I read that correctly. Have to go back and read it again.
- the Return of Umbridge, even more loathesome. Curious to think in hindsight about what was HER (because we know she's an evil hag anyway), and how much was the locket, since that also must have affected her.
We cannot be sure on that, because I have to check OotP again, but I think she does not wear the Locket there; and the way she gained it from Mundungus also shows she has not a tiny bit better character *before* she got it. So I think it was mostly her, acting the way she was best at, all along.
Umbridge is a character I truly loathe, but who's portrait is absolutely perfect to the point. I hopoe she is spending the remainder of her days in Askaban, but people like that are going to lie their way out of any judgment, afterwards, anyway.
One think that had me thinking was Rita Seeker. She knew ahead of time that Herminoe would not be any danger to her when she wrote that Dumbledore Biography. So, how did she know? I do not believe she was a Death Eater, herself, but somebody must have set her on it.
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Date: 2007-07-22 12:24 pm (UTC)I might have read too fast at that point in the story, but did not get Petunia Evans a letter from Hogwarts inviting her into the school, which she refused to follow? That would mean she was really a (potential) witch, who blocked her talent well and good and chose to live as a Muggle. But I am not sure if I read that correctly. Have to go back and read it again.
- the Return of Umbridge, even more loathesome. Curious to think in hindsight about what was HER (because we know she's an evil hag anyway), and how much was the locket, since that also must have affected her.
We cannot be sure on that, because I have to check OotP again, but I think she does not wear the Locket there; and the way she gained it from Mundungus also shows she has not a tiny bit better character *before* she got it. So I think it was mostly her, acting the way she was best at, all along.
Umbridge is a character I truly loathe, but who's portrait is absolutely perfect to the point. I hopoe she is spending the remainder of her days in Askaban, but people like that are going to lie their way out of any judgment, afterwards, anyway.
One think that had me thinking was Rita Seeker. She knew ahead of time that Herminoe would not be any danger to her when she wrote that Dumbledore Biography. So, how did she know? I do not believe she was a Death Eater, herself, but somebody must have set her on it.