J. K. Rowling presents Umbrigde's backstory

[t0ra-chan.livejournal.com]

In time for Halloween JKR gave us another short story (more background info to be honest, it's not like it has a plot). You can read it at Pottermore (if you have an account and can actually remember your user name and password) or you can read it here: J.K. Rowling writes Harry Potter Halloween tale profiling 'malicious' Dolores Umbridge

My personal take on this little story is that it's wholly pointless. It just repeats that Umbridge was always a nasty person with no depth to her and she's worse than blood purists. Nothing really new or insightful is revealed, nor do I believe did anybody care to know this sort of stuff about Umbridge. I also found it very unbelievable that anybody would buy her claims of being a pureblood, considering how small the wizarding community is. And of course she was a Slytherin, because where else could an evil person in HP have come from.

Comments

[oryx_leucoryx]

Or, a love of all things saccharine is traditionally girly, and JKR's not a regular woman, she's a Cool Woman. Bitches, ammirite?

Also: Umbridge decorating with pictures of kittens is evil, Flitwick decorating with *live* fairies is just fine.

[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

That's are because cats are inherently evil. Kittens are especially evil because their cuteness disguises their evilness./sarcasm

As for decorating with live fairies, bats, etc, that's okay because they're not magical humans, so they don't feel real pain like magical people do.

That really is an atrociously unempathic attitude for an adult to take, isn't it? Six-year-olds usually have more empathy than that.