“These people are just like Delores Umbrage.”
Book 5 of the Potter series convinced me that, despite the liberal decline of the UK in general, at least the redoubtable Mrs. Rowling is on our side.
I’m rereading Order of the Phoenix now before seeing the movie and before reading the new book. The Dummies who are sure that Bush wants to send them to Walmart detention camps probably think that she embodies the evils of the Bush administration but their logic is always so twisted as to not make any sense. But the whole concept of the ministry of magic not wanting the students to learn to defend themselves has to be based on the teachers’ unions.