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*** High Octane Nightmare Fuel, say hello to [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]. Umbridge is allowed to put Harry in detention ''for his entire free time from the end of school to '''midnight''' every day for two weeks''. The other teachers' response? Sorry, Harry, you still have to do your homework for all your other subjects.
**** This is actually [[Truth in Television]]. Teachers rarely care about how much screwed you are from other subjects. Although taking the fact that Umbridge was not generally liked by anyone in the teacher room, they could cut him some slack.
** The scene where Umbridge attempts to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry. This is the wizarding version of [[Cold
* Frankly, the Wizarding World seems to get away with a lot. Leave Umbridge and consider Snape for a minute: never fired, never reprimanded. Sure, Dumbledore wanted to keep him on board, but he had no good reason to knowingly let him cripple the teaching of students or play favorites.
** Snape's classes are described as working beyond their level. He can be a dick, but he gets results. And at least he tries to protect his students.
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=== [[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and
* [[Face Stealer|Nagini the snake being INSIDE Bathilda's corpse and controlling her like a puppet]], then [[Orifice Evacuation|SHEDDING her dead body like it was SNAKE SKIN]]. Ugh!
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* What about the Ministry rounding up Half-Bloods and Muggle-borns, even the ''children''? And it's implied that a lot of them (yes, even kids) are given to the Dementors...
** Considering the correlations between these actions and [[Those Wacky Nazis|certain real life versions]], I'd say pretty damn scary.
* Fenrir Greyback's [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|remarks]] about Hermione, and {{spoiler|all of the torture scene, despite not being graphic,}} are very creepy too.
** It'll get worse in the movie. {{spoiler|We get to see Bellatrix pinning Hermione to the ground, interrogating her while Hermione screams.}} Doesn't sound much more creepy than the book, right? Except then {{spoiler|Bellatrix [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|carves the word "Mudblood" into Hermione's arm]]}}. *shiver*
*** I honestly thought that {{spoiler|Bellatrix was ''biting'' Hermione. Even though I saw the words, I'm still convinced that she gnawed them in.}}
* Umbridge keeps her government post when Voldemort takes over the country and turns it into a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|thinly-disguised fascist dystopia]], to many readers' lack of surprise.
** Not just keeping her government post, it seems like she becomes even ''more'' politically powerful upon Voldemort's takeover! The idea [[Hanging Judge|of someone like her having the power to be other people's judge and jury in a police state]] is pretty terrifying!
** Don't forget {{spoiler|the magical eye mounted on her door, which used to belong to Mad-Eye Moody}}.
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** Oh, no, no, it ''is'' so bad, because JKR COMPLETELY and cruelly fakes us out for a second, not revealing who the person is suspended above the table, and then having Voldemort say that "she" was a teacher from Hogwarts. It might have been McGonagall, Sprout, Trelawney, or one of the others we know well. And then it was... someone we'd never met before. Still sad, but that was ''mean.''
** And then there's the whole reason he targeted her to begin with: For ''daring'' to suggest that Muggles should be tolerated and peacefully coexisted with. Knowing all the poor woman wanted was peace makes watching her die, while tearfully begging for Snape's help all the more heartrending for the viewer/reader {{spoiler|and Snape}}.
** The whole implications of this scene, much like with the "MAGIC IS MIGHT" statue: Muggles aren't even considered ''human''. They (make that ''WE'', the readers) are lower forms of life; vermin to be devoured by snakes, or if luckier, to simply live to serve Pure Bloods (and half bloods?). Of course, this is also [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|very reminiscent]] of how some members of a [[Those Wacky Nazis|certain group]] felt/feel about another certain group.
* As to the statue... were the people being crushed underfoot a depiction or '''real''' Muggles [[Taken for Granite]]? Or worse, put into an [[And I Must Scream]] situation?
** Even worse if you realize that statue is quite reminiscent of a lot of Holocaust monuments, particularly [http://photos.igougo.com/pictures-photos-p395000-The_Sculpture_of_Love_and_Anguish.html this one].
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