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Umbridge sincerely believes that Voldemort has not returned, however mistakenly, so she is not knowingly lying here.
(Obi-Wan is criticizing the weapon's aesthetics, not its effectiveness, so he is not contradicting himself here.) |
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* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters are [[Fantastic Racism|prejudiced against]] wizards with [[Witch Species|less than pure wizarding blood]] and non human magical creatures in general despite he himself having a muggle parent. While he's counting on the anti-Muggle feelings of his followers, he genuinely despises Muggles and anything he considers Mud-blood—and he apparently has a one drop rule for everyone except himself {{spoiler|and personal Death Eaters like Snape}}. While they also recruited Giants and Werewolves, they probably rationalized them as second and third tier "citizens" in Voldemort's new England.
** It was suggested a few times that he was exploiting the prejudices of his own followers more than enforcing his own, and that he really didn't care about anything but his own power anymore. Voldemort's own half-blood status was one of the reasons he started going after power. He considered his father to be lowly and weak and cowardly for turning away his mother and was determined to ignore his own history and go with wanting power.
** And then we have [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|Umbridge]]. Although fans have [[Complete Monster|a lot of reasons]] to [[Hate Sink|hate her]] with [[Love to Hate|relish]], her hypocrisy is certainly one of the main ones. In her introductory book, she is seen as an agent of the Ministry, sycophantic to its causes and forcing tyrannical laws onto the school in order to get her own way, yet at the same time, she gleefully (although secretly) engages in activities that are highly illegal and certainly unforgivable, even by the Ministry.
* Sinclair Lewis' ''Elmer Gantry'' is a classic of the type. Although with a goodly amount of [[Snake Oil Salesman]] thrown in. It's hard to think of a Sinclair Lewis novel that ''wasn't'' populated [[Only Sane Man|almost to the point of exclusivity]] with these.
* In [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'', Syme discusses poetry with some examples from health and sickness.
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* ''[[In Death]]'': Principal Mosebly is revealed to be this in ''Innocent In Death''. She claims to stand for the school and it's best interests. However, it turns out that she was not only aware that one teacher Reed Williams had been having sex with the parents of schoolchildren and engaging in sexual harassment, but she had sex with him in the pool and in her own office! She only took steps to have him resign when she found out that he had rape drugs in his possession and that he was the prime suspect of murdering a teacher in the school. Peabody refers to her as a Hypocrite at one point.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Well, now! Prosecutor Jack Emery tries to have the Vigilantes arrested...at least until the book ''The Jury''. There he was, practically spewing about how lawbreakers should be punished, and yet he never seems to notice that ''he'' broke a thousand laws himself in trying to arrest the Vigilantes. Indeed, several authority figures pretty much turn into this in helping the Vigilantes, and said authority figures eventually resign from their posts. [[Double Standards]] rear their ugly heads more than once, by showing that men mistreating women is a terrible thing and that women mistreating men is a great thing. The books ''Deja Vu'' and ''Home Free'' show the consequences of this.
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