Session Information
HPEF - Azkatraz 2009
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The Dolores Umbridge Problem
Track : Sunday, July 19, 2009
Program Code: 330
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM  EST
Location: Cyril Magnin I (190)
SPEAKER :
Gerald Sullivan
Description
This presentation examines the place of Dolores Umbridge within the broad set of relations and inversions constituted by the characters in the Harry Potter novels. We will seek to understand more fully the interrelations of disguises, lies, appearance, and the character of revenge and justice so much at the heart of the magical world. Besides Voldemort's desire for power and vulnerability, it contends that Umbridge provides a source of the sinister--an unprincipled quest for order and enforced agreement.