True. Although his remark was fairly restrained. More like a sarcastic aside, and far removed from the shouting earlier. Fairly restrained for Harry, I'd say. Still stupid, of course.




I get flashbacks to a certain type of western feminism.



Yes. She reminds me of me when I was 16. Which is probably part of the reason why it irks me.




True.



Yes. I suppose part of the problem of this sort of thing is a muddling of vocabulary. "They are all the same" type thing. I suppose you could argue that his blood is tainted by the werewolf-thing, so it is related to blood purity (although not in the genealogy sense of it).




And that of shadings of character: you need not be a death eater to be bad. We had it in the preceding book, with Crouch, Fudge has been making the point by his mere presence, and now Umbridge. I suppose this ties in with the Dumbledore not being perfect stance: just because he is a wise old man and a Good Guy, he is able to make mistakes.