Watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[LiberalFighter]

Segment with Dolores Umbridge (crazy cat lady) as High Inquisitor in class telling students they will be following a carefully structured ministry-approved course of defense magic.

Seems maybe Republicans got their idea to control education from the movie.

[Trueblue1968]

1. GOPs Dolores Umbridge. in this movie ... she is so evil, scarys me to death

[gratuitous]

7. There's a clip that runs on Sy Fy during commercial breaks

James and Oliver Phelps (who played George and Fred, the Weasley twins) talk about Imelda Staunton (Umbridge). Off camera, she's a sweet, funny, engaging person. But when they call "Action," she turned into this monster of a character. The Phelpses were equal parts stunned and repelled by the transformation.

[Trueblue1968]

10. i AM repelled by her. Reading the book is even worse. YOU want to be the person

who ends. I have never seen another character who is such a sick monster as Umbridge.
she also reminds me of the evil witch in the wizard of oz. umbridge LOVES inflicting pain and torment.
when the weasely twins scare the crap out of her and when the centaurs take her are the best....... KARMA BABY to come around

[Ilsa]

11. I wonder if her wearing Voldemort's horcrux locket

was part of the cause of her hateful personality. Or did she have it during the 5th year? The locket even made Ron Weasley cranky and unreasonable.

[Trueblue1968]

12. that was maybe it. she had to have the beginning of EVIL though to be as horrible as she was

[PJMcK]

2. JK Rowling's politics are pretty clear in the novels (n/t)

[Aristus]

3. It's a shame she went off the deep end with her transgender hate.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Plenty of bigotry in the books themselves.

[Aristus]

6. I never made it past the second one.

And I barely even remember reading the first two. My impression is that she was not a very good writer. Maybe she got better with the later ones, and writers do improve over time. Still I don't remember any bigotry other than epithet "mudblood".

[AZSkiffyGeek]

8. There are a few examples with some of the characters

The only Chinese character is named "Cho Chang."
The black Minister of Magic's last name is "Shacklebolt."
The only Irish character loves setting off bombs...
There were problems w/ Nagini in the second "Fantastic Creatures" movie that I read about, but I never saw it.
I think there was something w/ the evil werewolf character (Not Lupin) but I don't remember what it was.

[Hekate]

4. JK Rowling got her ideas from 20th century history & current affairs. Republicans, likewise. nt

[genxlib]

9. The right wing occasionally takes the wrong message from allegorical tales

Anti-vaxxers have started to refer to themselves as "purebloods"

I made one howling mad on line when I pointed this out. I asked him if he understood that it was an allegory for the Nazi Aryan race purity bullshit. I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he was just dense rather than purposely evil. He didn't like that.