#sybill trelawney
and in that moment, the entire movie theater burst into tears
i think this was the moment that made most of us despise umbridge more than voldemort
most of us?! don’t you mean ALL of us?? I don’t think even Voldemort liked this bitch!
No one likes Umbridge.
I heard, one time, a dementor kissed her and IT died
Voldemort committed genocide, but Umbridge dared to be female while she abused her power.
The point isn’t that Umbridge was worse than Voldemort; it’s that everyone hates her more. And I think it has nothing to do with her being a woman and everything with being the sort of cruel most of us have actually experienced.
I mean, look at Voldemort. He’s basically Wizard Hitler, which is, obviously, an incredibly terrible thing to be. But most people—especially the younger people in Harry Potter’s target audience—have not had their parents murdered by a xenophobic cult leader. Nor have they fought for their lives against giant snakes, been kidnapped for dark rituals, or watched numerous friends die in front of them. Voldemort’s crimes are numerous, but they’re distant and fantastical, like hearing about a serial killer on the news.
But they have had that one teacher who inflicts extra punishments just because they don’t like you. They’ve complained to parents and authorities only to be ignored. They’ve sat through pointless classes and been silenced when they criticize. Umbridge is that teacher we all hated because she made our lives miserable and we were powerless to stop her. And as we grow out of school, there are still people in positions of power who act like her. The manager who denies your schedule requests and penalizes you for invented infractions. That customer who complains to corporate because their scam didn’t work, and the corporate decision to listen to their story. Cops performing illegal searches because they know you don’t have any proof.
Yes, torturing and killing numerous people is worse than terrorizing a handful of schoolchildren, but Voldemort is the bad guy in a fairy tale. Umbridge is personal.
Also, hey guys?
Umbridgeis a torturer. She tortures people on-page. Her “punishment” for disagreeing with her is to carve words on the back of your hand, forcing you to use your own blood to write your lines. That? Is torture. That? Is abuse. That? Is violence..
She’s not just “mean”. She’s not just “unfair”. She is evil and she’s abusive, and she empowers the evil and abusive and then she tells the victims that it’s all their fault for disobeying her as she tries to gaslight them.
SHE TRIED TO MURDER A TEENAGE BOY, using Dementors as her weapons.
As demonstrated in the seventh book, the only thing stopping her from being Voldemort is she’s a coward who has to work within the rules. She will later happily oversee the abuse and torment of hundreds of witches and wizards and will be so happy to do so that her Patronus is a glowing little happy-cat so strong that she can’t even feel a room full of Dementors right next to her.
I don’t actually hate Umbridge worse than Voldemort, and her moment throwing out Trelawney was far from the moment I “started” hating her, because I hated her just fine long before that. But I have a contempt and a disgust for Umbridge that outweighs my contempt and disgust for Voldemort simply because of how she fits into society and how she uses it for her own ends, and how she justifies her actions. Voldemort at least comes right out and says that power-for-power’s-sake is the only real thing in the universe. When he kills you, it’s because he has the power to do so and wants to, and that’s all there is to it - he’ll even crow about that.
Umbridge? Umbridge tortures you and then tells you it’s your fault she’s doing it. She does this on. the damn. page.
So no, guys. Let’s not minimize Dolores Umbridge to the manager who denies your schedule requests. She’s of the same kind of evil, but a rather greater scale.
I will always reblog this because the commentary is so thoughtful and flawless.
DAT COMMENTARY ON WHY I HATED UMBRIDGE.
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Ещё один сборник стикеров «Гарри Поттер и все-все-все». На сей раз вдохновением послужили мемы, как бы странно это не звучало, хах.
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One more collection of stickers « Harry Potter and all - all all » . This time the inspiration was memes, no matter how strange it sounds, hah.
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guys…why did dumbledore not immediately go after snape when he was listening at the door when sybil said the prophecy? he must have known what snape was doing? i have never understood why dumbledore didn’t stop him relaying the info to voldemort. or at the very least question him to find out what he had heard?
What makes you certain there was an opportunity for Dumbledore to go after Snape?
From Albus’ account, Snape was tossed out of the building mid-prophecy, while Albus had been around to hear the full prophecy. Most likely, Aberforth was the one who threw Snape out of the Hog’s Head, and Snape might well have apparated to Voldemort immediately after getting tossed out.
Hell, they might not have even known who was the eavesdropper until looking in a pensieve, depending on how fast it happened, the lighting, etc. Or Albus might not have known anyone was eavesdropping until being told by Aberforth. The way prophecies are narrated in HP, they’d dominate anybody’s attention if someone delivered a prophecy right next to you.
And it’s not like Albus or Aberforth are in the prime of their lives, like Snape was, even if they did have the time to catch him.
So I based my question mainly around Trelawney’s recollection, about how they all saw him and how the barman had caught him and Snape mumbling about “coming the wrong way up the stairs.”
Why not Dumbledore question him then?
Ah, I had forgotten that passage - perhaps because it doesn’t make much sense. It’s a critical plot point that Snape didn’t hear the whole thing, while Trelawney is seemingly not aware whenever she gives a prophecy, but if he’s still there when Trelawney regains awareness, that’s just weird that he didn’t hear, since prophecies are rendered as if they’re being shouted. Maybe he was actually spotted before Trelawney started prophesying, then, and dragged out rapidly as the prophecy happened.
Still, Aberforth may have thrown Snape out quite shortly after the interruption even if it was after, or Snape might have refused to answer any questions and been thrown out. It’s not like he legally has to cooperate with Albus, or is defenseless against legilimency. Albus could try to obliviate him if Snape refuses to be questioned, but there’s no guarantee Albus could respond faster than 20 year old Snape, and there’d be no point in recounting a failed chase/failed questioning.
sybill:telling the future
snape:what’s your favourite power?
snape:wait
sybill:
snape:that was good, bro
Travel into future prompt: So when Oliver had to choose his N.E.W.T.s he found himself telling Professor McGonagall he wanted to do Divination. She had looked at him with a horrified expression and all she could ask was “Why?!” He didn’t know what to say because he couldn’t tell her it was because Percy Weasley was taking it as well and that over the course of O.W.L. level Divination he had found himself falling desperately in love with him and he’d take any stupid woolly subject to be with Percy (despite being the most level headed, down to earth person Oliver knew, Percy loved Divination lessons and lapped up the clearly bonkers Professor’s every word). Full fic here
