If any of you have been keeping up with Zoot’s blog you are probably well aware that H Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is coming out in a little more than 21 days from now. Don’t think that because I haven’t mentioned it before now, that I haven’t noticed. I’m a big fan! Not as big as Zoot, of course, but I think few people are. :) But I am anxiously awaiting the release date and have been trying to properly prepare myself for this momentous occasion. Part of this preparing is refreshing my Potter memory.
So a few months back I decided to re-read some of the books. I was only going to read Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix since a) I was short on time and b) the movies are good enough refreshers for now for books 1-3. I started out reading the books to H before bed each night. But I can only read so much to him at a time before he’d start falling asleep, most times only a half a chapter. And time was growing short. So I started reading ahead in OotP during the day and before my own bedtime.
I’m nearing the conclusion of OotP and I am reminded how much I *HATE* Umbridge. She is easily the most dispicable character in the H Potter universe as far as I’m concerned. More than Voldemort, you ask? YES. And I’ll tell you why. She’s passive agressive. With Voldemort, you know where you stand. You know he’s evil, he knows…we all know. Nothing is hidden, the evil is performed out in the open, unapologetically. It is who he is, after all. Snape and Malfoy as well. Though they can both be enormous gits, we know they’re going to be gits and they make no apologies for it. As well they shouldn’t. They don’t put a smiley face on their evil.
Dolores Umbridge put a smiley face and couple of cute kittens on her evil. And that’s why I cannot STAND her. Part of it is the whole, “If you’re not with the government, you’re against it,” bullshit which always pisses me off, in any forum. Also extremely aggravating is her obvious delight whenever she knows she’s caught someone in a precarious situation. Which is why my favorite scenes involved someone sticking it to Umbridge, including Dumbledore’s fabulous (although sad in its own way) exit from Hogwarts and the Weasley twins’ departure out from under Dolores’ nose. Remembering her fate from the previous time I read this book, I anxiously await that moment when we are finally rid of her back biting, conniving, EVIL ways and Hogwarts once again becomes a place of sanctuary for H. At least for now.
So yeah. “Eat dung, Umbridge.” I so cannot wait to read Book 6. :)
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