Talk:Dolores Umbridge

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[edit] High Inquisitor Box

I have removed the following:

Preceded by None

Hogwarts High Inquisitor 1995-1996

Succeeded by None

since it seems a little pointless to have a succession box for a role created for one time only... CJHung 23:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

It's back with a vengeance. I'm removing it again, for the same reasons stated above. Razer 23:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

THe picture is pixalated to crap. Someone please fix it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.10.1.61 (talk) 04:01, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

When the 5th book came out, there were many parallels between what Umbridge said and what Gordon Brown said in respects to the purpose of education. Additionally, Oxford and Cambridge are seen as the ultimate goals of the English education system. When the names are combined, they form Oxbridge. The novel itself seems more concerned with a condmenation of government interference into Hogwarts (ie good schools) than developing a plot in its meandering course. I think it's very reasonable that Umbridge is a pun on Oxbridge with the phenome Ox changed to Um to imply stupidity and the first name Dolores (viz. Dolor-Grief) to encompass the tribulations and hardship entering such a system entails. Even though this seems blindlingly obvious to me and probably many readers who likewise live in Oxford, it probably would be considered original research. In response to the Umbridge = Shadows speculation, I think it would have spelled Umbrage.