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Prof Responds- The Umbridge Trap
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On this Prof Responds episode of Critical Magic Theory, Professor Julian Wamble returns to the woman in pink—Dolores Jane Umbridge—to unpack the powerful and sometimes uncomfortable insights raised in the post-episode chat. Why do we hate her so much?...
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Professor Julian Womble
Wayfair Every style, Every home welcome to Critical Magic Theory, where we deconstruct the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Because loving something doesn't mean we can't be critical of it. I'm Professor Julian Womble and today we are going to be doing our Prof. Response episode on the Hated, the despised, the maligned, and rightfully so. Dolores Umbridge. You all, you did what you do. And I knew that when I made some statements that you all would have a lot to say. And it turns out you did have a lot to say. And we are going to get into some of it and I'm going to make a couple of prefaces before we dive into everything. But before we even get into all of that, some of you gave voice to the fact that you were still stretching before the bop because I very unceremoniously just launched into it. And so right now I'm giving you a little bit of time to prepare yourself because the BOP is coming in three. In two, in one. Let's bop. We need to talk about Harry Potter.
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Professor Julian Womble
I hope that you danced and that you had enough time to prepare for the BOP this time around. I can't always guarantee that you're going to have it, but I was feeling generous and so if you didn't take advantage of it, I don't know what to tell you. Okay, so there are a couple things that I want to highlight because we're not gonna dive in deep to these particular things, but I do wanna highlight them. A lot of us were surprised that we didn't spend a considerable amount of time talking about umbrage and the torture, y' all. That felt very self evident. It felt like, you know, one. It came up in some of your responses, but not a lot, but I wanted to spend some time in the more kind of nuance y places like her torturing the students. That obviously matters, but it also is one of the big parts of how we understand Umbridge. And I think that there are a lot of other smaller things that inform who she is, why she does what she does, and why she does it the way that she does it. And so for me, at the time, I didn't necessarily feel like we needed to dive into that because we know that that's what makes, that's one of the things that makes her absolutely deplorable as a person. And the character herself is so rich in other dastardly deeds that in some ways I'm like, the torture is kind of the least fun of the things, the least chaotic of the things that we can discuss. And so that's why we didn't spend a considerable amount of time talking about it. Which isn't to say that it's unimportant and isn't to say that torture is a thing that we get to just ignore. But in the case of an hour long episode where we're talking about a bunch of stuff, it's like, yeah, we get it, she's trash. We understand that. And so we're also not going to spend a lot of time talking about it here. It will come up because how could it not? But some of you brought up some really interesting things in the post episode chat and I think given the state of what we do here and the nature of what we do here, I want to spend some time on a few other things that came up that I think are, I won't say more interesting, but also more interesting. And I'm excited for us to spend a little time chatting about these things because you all really kind of pushed me a little bit in the post episode chat and I'm so excited and so happy and I love seeing you all chat with one another and agree with one another, disagree with one another, or push each other to kind of explain your points. It brings me unspeakable joy. I realize I haven't been singing as much. I can't make any promises, but you know, Hagrid is quite a musical person, but only when he's drunk. And yeah, so maybe I'll sing. I won't be drunk, but I will sing. And I hear some of you saying like, why not? Because I'm classy. Because I'm classy, everyone. Oh my goodness. Anyways, let's get into this episode before you start asking more silly questions.
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Professor Julian Womble
So one of the first things that came up that I thought we should talk about and was one of the bigger topics that came up in the post episode chat was the question of Umbridge versus Voldemort. Who is the bigger villain? Emma wrote, that concept of being a part of a system like that, while technically keeping your hands clean, is worse, in my opinion, than Voldemort's behavior. Rebecca wrote Voldemort is defeated at the end of these books, but no one is doing that with Umbridge. She's out there legally destroying people's lives. And Kawan wrote, Voldemort is a grenade and Umbrage is a knife twisting in between your ribs. Oof. Imagery capturing a very visceral reaction to a truth. This is something that many of you said. Many of you said, you know, Voldemort is bad, but that what he did feels in some ways smaller in scope because the reach of Umbridge is larger because of her positionality. And I get that, I really, really do. And I think that we're going to talk a little bit more in the next piece about, you know, the notion of the system and how she leverages it and what that means both for her and for Voldemort and other people. I feel like I understand what's being said here. I understand the idea of, you know, these two characters, Voldemort being one who feels much larger than life, whose goal structure is very specifically, you know, not focused on anyone really, but Harry, like he kind of wants to take over the magical world, but also does he. He's really focused on just getting Harry out of the way so he can live forever. Like immortality is the name of his game. So he doesn't really derive a lot of meaning from the idea of like torturing people for the sake of asserting his power over them insofar that he tortures them if they get in the way of his ultimate goal. Right. Everything that he does has a purpose. And Umbridge, in many ways, like I said in the episode, we really don't know why she does what she does. It just feels like she's wanting people to feel her power because she feels powerless. Like it's giving very much an insecurity thing. And I'm not. Again, I'm never trying to excuse her behavior, but there's no motivation, which then makes it harder for us to really understand why she makes the choices that she's made. And. But I still struggle with this, because, yes, Umbridge is a problem, but I think what is true for both her and for Voldemort, but more her, I think, even, than Tommy. Tommy Ridd's Voldiva, I think for Dolly J. She is a symptom of the structure. Right. She learned what it would take to be successful, and she did it. And did she go too far? Absolutely. Did she do too much? For sure. But she's rewarded. She's incentivized to make these decisions. And I think that when we talk about, you know, being a part of a system that allows for you to do these things and still kind of keep your hands clean, I wonder. I think there's a way in which we have to blame both the system and the individual at the same time. And when we think about Rebecca's quote, voldemort is defeated at the end of these books, but no one is doing that with Umbridge. She's out there legally destroying people's lives. Here's the thing, like, she gets to do that. Like, she's not fighting against the system. She is working within it. And I think that one of the things that I've learned in the work that I do, and particularly in the work that I do on notions of systemic oppression and thinking about things at a systemic level, the harder part for us as kind of citizens within these structures is a recognition that the evil that exists and persist is the byproduct of a structure that wants it to. And that while yes, we as individuals do play a part in that, we are only allowed to do the things that we are allowed to do if the system permits. Is easier for us to rail against an individual and seek to hold an individual accountable for their actions than it is for us to recognize and try to hold an institution, particularly one that has its foundation in a lot of history. And so I think that I understand the notion of what Umbridge is doing and how we juxtapose those things with Voldemort. Because Voldemort is seemingly operating outside of the structure. But here's the gig and the gag, y' all. He's not operating outside of the structure. He's operating within it as well. Because we're talking about someone who was gone for 13 years, came back and nothing had changed. We're Talking about someone who was able to take over the, the Ministry of Magic just kind of without doing much of anything. And Umbridge was able to stay inside of it. Yes, but Voldemort was able to put in Pious Thickness after killing Rufus Scrymgeour. And everyone was kind of like, we know something's not right, but who's to say? And so when we think about, like, who is the bigger villain? I think, you know, many of us made really great cases for why we would argue that it's umbrage. But I think at the end of the day, I think fundamentally it's the structure itself, it's Pure Blood supremacy, it's the Ministry of Magic, it's the governing bodies that allow for people like Umbridge to persist. Because again, what's so fascinating, right, everything happens in the Ministry of Magic and Cornelius Fudge is fired. Umbridge stays on, though Rufus Scrymgeour comes in actively fighting against Death Eaters but not fighting against Pure Blood supremacy. So Dolores Umbridge stays on, Voldemort takes over, puts Pius Thickness in office. Dolores Umbridge stays on. Like, at a certain point we can blame her for a lot of things but there is no accountability for her when it comes to the government. And it doesn't matter who's in charge. And that's the gig and that's the gag. It doesn't matter who's in charge. Three ministers of magic. One a puppet working for the Death Eaters one supposed to be the one getting rid of the Death Eaters and one a scheme and a scam, a plot and a plan. Because that's how I think of Cornelius Fudge. What a disaster of a person. And so when we think of these things I think the biggest villain in all of this is actively pure Blood supremacy. Like, yes, Dolores Umbridge is awful but she's only as awful as she's allowed to be. And again, I'm going to say it is easier for us to have so much disdain for her and want to see her downfall because it's easier to watch a person fall than it is to try to make a system fall. But that mentality is exactly how we get Voldemort back after 13 years, right? Because they put so much of the Pure Blood supremacist belief structure into Voldemort that when he dies at the end of Deathly Hallows, nothing changes because they're like, ding dong, the witch is dead. And it's like, no, no, baby, he's a symptom. Dolores Umbridge is a symptom terrible symptoms, disastrous, violent, offensive, horrific symptoms. But at the end of the day they're only as good as a system that allows them to exist and persist the way that they do.
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Professor Julian Womble
And that is a perfect segue into this next conversation that you all brought up in the post episode chat. And some of it is about the system and systemic evil and some of it is about white womanhood as a vehicle for oppression in pursuit of power. And I'm bringing these two things together because I think that when we think about the way that power structures work and we think about systemic evil, part of the problem with systemic evil is that it looks great. Think about for a second, think about Lucius Malfoy. That man is the pinnacle of privilege, the pinnacle of power. He literally was accused of being a Death Eater. Evidence was provided to support that. Everybody knew that man walked out hair looking great. The ban was never even a thought for him. And he walks through the ministry and gets to do whatever he wants. Who wouldn't want that kind of power? It is, it looks amazing. And when you are a marginalized person and Umbridge is not marginalized with to the extent of Muggle borns but she's not pure blood. So when you are not a person who operates with the full privilege of the society but you are close. You are just a hair away. You've got seven eighths of the pie and you're missing one piece and you want it. You work so hard then to try and get it. It's why Umbridge is like, yeah, I'm not. I'm pureblood. Even though she doesn't have to do that. She's half blood. There are plenty of half bloods who can go around. She can actually prove her father is a magical person. He works for the Ministry of Magic. And yet she decides to perpetrate the idea that she is pureblood and then persecutes individuals who are Muggle born and half blood. Honestly. Because there are a lot of half bloods who may or may not know their parentage. Here's looking at Eugene Thomas JKR did you'd dirty but that's not the point. We're not talking about that right now. Okay, so she's Also going against people who may occupy the same identity space as her. And she's like, and what of it? I'm not half blood. And so that when we think about, like, what it takes for individuals who are not at the top of a hierarchy to want to be a part of it, right? The system rewards, rewards that particular identity betrayal. Maddie wrote she is all of the white women who voted for Trump and work as part of the Republican Party that is actively trying to take the rights of women away as well as every other marginalized group. By rights, they should not be supporting those ideals. But the patriarchy rewards misogyny in women. And white women above all, like Umbridge, capitalize on that and use it to seize power while convincing men, the men around them, that they couldn't possibly be a threat. And this is the thing about Umbridge, and I know people hate this when I say it, but I'm gonna say it. The brilliance of her using misogyny to her advantage by way of upping the ante of her femininity by becoming so hyper feminine that it's almost disarming. How could you possibly be a bad person? You wear pink, you like cats, your voice is squeaky and high. Like, how could you possibly be a threat to us? You couldn't be. And like, she did not create that. She simply understood it. And I know that it's bad. It's awful. It's brilliant, though, like, knowing. And here's the thing. Most people who are part of marginalized communities across the spectrum, whether it be gender expression, sexual orientation, race, gender, what, what, what have you. As a marginalized person, you have a very clear understanding of what the majority wants from you, what the expectations are, and you have a choice. You can either subvert that and call it out for the oppressive ideology that it is, or you can go along with it. And the latter tends to get rewarded. And throughout history, we have seen a number of women, most of them white, navigate spaces in very particular way. I'm thinking about Sarah Palin right now, right? Like, if you're too young to know or remember Sarah Palin and her vice presidential bid, I don't want to know about it. Just pretend. Just nod your head and say, aha, yes, Sarah Palin while you're googling her. I don't want to hear it. Young people, enough. But she played the game. And when we look at a lot of the women who are in the Republican party right now, it is a lot of women who are pretty hyper feminine in their presentation, operating from very specific kinds of aesthetics and leveraging those. The belief that women who occupy the bodies that they live in and that occupy the aesthetics that they present could never be a problem. And that's how we get certain legislators that are in Congress and from the state of Georgia. And I think that there is something to be said about this as a very historically grounded tactic that has been used for a very long time. And men, never mind it. Because if you are out here espousing misogynistic, patriarchal understandings of the role of women, what women are allowed to do with their bodies, why would we shut you up? Right? If you are a black man and you are espousing things that continue to promote the derogation of black individuals, if you are a trans woman and you have a platform and you are promoting the idea that trans women are dangerous, why would we stop you? It upholds the system. You get rewarded because you are now a novelty and we get to maintain power. And so we can understand why Umbridge does what she does. And we can also understand that because she has a sense that her position in this space is fairly tenuous, that she has to go for broke. And Renee wrote she is the one putting Muggle borns in those cattle cars and. And sending them to their deaths. And Miroslava wrote, she's operating within the system and Voldy is kind of creating a new one. I think that this is really fascinating for us to think about the notion that systems of oppression reward marginalized groups that buy in. And when we think about the villains in this text, Voldemort, Lockhart, Quirrel, all these people, Umbridge, they all to a certain extent, have bought in. And part of it is because the system rewards them for it. They've either bought into the idea of being powerful, they bought into the idea of being famous, they've bought into the idea of being so powerful that you can run a school or run the magical world, broadly construed. And all throughout all of that, the system is maintained. It's giving the wizarding world version of the American dream. All you have to do is work hard and don't disrupt anything. I think a lot of, you know, populations that immigrate to countries and are kind of invited to assimilate with the belief that if you do it correctly, you'll be rewarded. And so, yes, again, Umbridge is terrible, Voldemort, awful. They are both products of a system that rewards them for their behavior for one reason or another. And I think when we ask the question of what it means to Be a good half blood. We really tap into this idea of the kind of problems with the system. And I think that when we look at Voldiva and Dolly J, we are really able to see what the system wants from people who are not pureblood. They want Dolly J's, they want Voldivas. Because if those people work this hard to fit in, then the system gets to stay. And that's how we end up with Voldemort falling in the last book and nothing changing. The system seems exactly the same. And what better way to keep a system going than to have the people who are actively marginalized advocating for its maintenance? So the next topic that I want us to talk about came up in a comment that Mila Rina wrote, which was her background was not explained. So it seems that her character is utterly evil. Here's the thing, y' all, all of these men in these books, all of them, all the bad ones, Snape, Voldemort, even Gilderoy, Lockhart, Quirrell, like all these men, there's something that happened in their past that made us think like, oh, we kind of get it. They all get something. Draco, like, all of them, all of them. Umbridge doesn't get anything. And even in her post canonical lore, she doesn't get anything. And I think that there's something to be said about the privilege of a backstory when it comes to being evil. I think that there's something to be said about what it is that we are looking for. We spent a lot of time in the last episode talking about the familiarity that we have with Umbridge and what that then means for how we understand the actions that she takes. And I wonder if there's a way that that is intentional on the part of J.K. rowling, that we just happen to know this woman and maybe she based her on someone that she knew. I wanna say that she did. I wanna say that I either watched something or read something that said, like, Umbridge was based on a teacher of hers or something. So she's grounded in a realism that makes her more unforgivable. But we also don't get anything in her past. We don't find. We don't understand why she does what she does. She just does it. And it's strange to me because we get chapters dedicated to some of these people. We get even. Even Gilderoy Lockhart's like, evilness is explained to us as straight up vanity. And then he still gets his, like, you know, St. Mungo's moment where we're Kind of like, oh, okay, well, he kind of got his right. And so we are not as angry. Some of us. Some of us are. But Snape gets a full on rehaul Voldemort. Many of us are, you know, buy into this notion that he was. Because he wasn't conceived with love. He, you know, it makes sense that he is the way that he is. Like, you are literally taking the big bad and giving him a background enough for. He gets a whole book dedicated to his background and it's enough for people to basically say, I kind of get it. It's not great, I'll grant you that. But I understand like making excuses for him. It's giving like villains will be villains. But not her though. And that feels weird to me that we have absolutely no idea why she does this. So she just comes off as being flat out evil. And there's something about that to me that feels. I don't really know. And I hope that we can talk about it a little bit in not even a little bit, a lot of it in the post episode chat, because I think it's important because there is a privilege in a backstory. There's a privilege in having a narrative that explains your behavior. It explains why you do the things that you do. And Umbridge doesn't get any of that. She's just an evil woman who does evil things to children and we don't know why. She's just a person who shows up and the wisdom Gama. And we're like never liked her. And what's more is we don't ask. But I don't want to get ahead of myself because we're going to talk about that. I normally don't do reflections in the Prof. Response episodes, but I had a thought in the car and it felt very important that I share it with you. And the best way that I know how to do that is via reflection. So we're going to have one. Sorry, not sorry, honestly. So let's get ready for that. So the question guiding this reflection, is Umbridge a trap? And I don't mean that in the she tricked us kind of way. I mean, did J.K. rowling create her so perfectly, so precisely that we as readers walked right into hating her exactly the way that we were supposed to? Like, think about it. Umbridge is universally hated, gleefully hated. We do not hesitate, we do not flinch, we don't ask for nuance. She is one of the only characters in the entire Harry Potter universe who we feel completely justified in hating without guilt, without Remorse. And in fact, we savor it. And yet, what makes her so uniquely hateable? That's the question that we've been grappling with in the last episode and in this one. And part of it was, you know, as I said in the last reflection, it's familiarity. But when we look at the male characters in these books, the Snapes, the Barty Crouch Juniors, the Lockharts, we get something right. We get a backstory, we get a rationale, we get a crack in the mask. Voldemort gets a tragic origin. Snape gets a broken home and a broken heart. Even Barty Crouch Jr. Gets a father who sentenced him to Azkaban. Even Lockhart, who literally erases people's memories, gets a kind of infantilized absolution when he loses his own memory. But umbrage, nothing. She's not wounded, she's not misunderstood. She's just bad. Completely, consistently, from the first scene to her last. And even in the post canonical lore, right? Like, I went looking, I tried to find something that was like, maybe this will explain what little we get, is that she was just born evil, a nasty child, a worse adult. No evolution, no fracture, no tenderness, just evil with a pink bow on top. And, like, I know that there are people who just get to be evil, but it strikes me as very odd that, like, one of the only full on, like, villain du jour in the series is a woman and she does not get anything. And here's what's even more complicated about that. Because we don't just hate what she does. We go after her looks. We talk about why she looks the way that she does. She's so often described as a toad in these books. We fixate on her girlish voice, her bows, her cardigans, her cats. We mock her femininity, we recoil at her pink. And we are invited to do this. The narration hands us those adjectives on a silver platter. And because we hate her so much, we don't question it. We don't ask whether it's fair, we just go with it. Even in the year of our Lord 2025, when we are in the age of a girl's girl, when we're critical of other women and girl characters in these books for the way that they treat other women and girl characters in these books. And what's wild is, I get it, y' all. I'm not shaming anyone. I'm using we very specifically. Because I'm, I'm. I'm in this, right? Because Umbridge is awful. She Sends Dementors after children. She tortures students. She upholds fascism. She's not some misunderstood girl, boss. She's dangerous. But so are a lot of people in these books. Snape literally traumatizes children for fun. Crouch casts unforgivable curses on kids. Voldemort tried to kill a baby. But we reserve a special kind of disgust for Umbridge. And that's what got me thinking. Maybe that's the trap, because she doesn't fit Rowling's feminine ideal. That ideal is strict, cold, clever, emotionless Hermione McGonagall tonks if she keeps her hair short and doesn't flirt too much. Women who do not want attention, women who do not lean into softness, women who succeed by denying the things that make them traditionally feminine people. Right. And to be clear, I have no problem with the shunting of traditionally understood notions of femininity, masculinity, or. Or whatever else kind of gendered performance one puts out into the world. I think that the problem is, is that these books prize one over the other. They make it seem like one is actively better than another. Because what about the other women in these books? The ones who cry, the ones who giggle? The ones who mother or flirt or wear pink? They get mocked, sidelined or punished. So maybe Umbridge is what happens when femininity and power refuse to apologize for each other. Maybe that's why we hate her. Because the story J.K. rowling wants us to. And when we as readers do not stop to question, when we take it at face value, when we double down on that hatred without asking where it comes from, we fall into the trap. Because the moment that we decide she is uniquely despicable, we are no longer just criticizing her character. We are reinforcing the idea that femininity itself is suspicious. That pink is the disguise, that softness is a lie, that powerful women must be monsters underneath their lipstick and lace. Because, remember, Carrie sees her for the first time and immediately dislikes her. And it's fascinating to me because in the discourse surrounding the upcoming TV show, and to be clear, I'm not saying anyone should watch the show, but I have been privy to the discourse. One of the things that people say that they're worried about as it pertains to Black Snape is the very first scene where Harry sees Snape and he is, like, suspicious of him. And they're like, that's, you know, will become steeped in racism. And I'm like, no, it's really just because his scar hurts. So it's not unfounded but when Harry first sees Umbridge, no, he already doesn't like her. Immediately. And then there's one more thing that we have to talk about. It's what happens at the end of Order of the Phoenix. We don't know exactly what happens to Umbridge when the centaurs take her. We're never told. But we are told enough to let our imaginations run wild, to have our understandings of centaurs and Greek mythology play a part in the way that we understand the possibility of what happened to Umbridge. And maybe some of us don't know what I'm talking about. And if you don't, ignorance is bliss. But if you do, if you've heard the fan theories about this, then you'll understand why it gives me pause. Because what's wild to me is a lot of people relish that moment. Not because it was justice, but because it felt like revenge. It felt like exactly what she deserved. It allowed us to project our darkest desires onto a woman that we already hated, who, up until that moment, had not seen anything that even remotely resembled a comeuppance. And I want us to sit with that, us, all of us. Because when we take pleasure in what we assume was her suffering, especially at the hands of a group coded in our cultural imagination as brutal, masculine creatures, we have to ask ourselves, what does that say? What does it say that we wanted to punish her so badly, so viscerally, that we cheered when she was taken away? And more importantly, why is it so easy for us to go there with her? Because I don't see people fantasizing about what should have happened to Snape or Barty Crouch Jr. Or even Voldemort in the same way. But with Umbridge, people want revenge. They want humiliation. They want something dark. And they want it because she was a woman who was cruel. And this is not about accusing her. I get it. Like, I totally get it. I understand why people want it. But, like, that feels like something that we were led to want. Because when we cheer for that kind of retribution, even against the character we despise, we're revealing something that goes deeper than the fandom, deeper than the books. We are revealing a cultural muscle memory of punishing women who transgress, women who operate from spaces and places that don't quite sit well because they didn't meet the expectations we may or may not have had of them. Because at no point in any of these books, like, when Lockhart gets his memory taken away, it's like, oh, okay. But, like, compared to what people have projected onto Umbridge. That's child's play. So yes, Umbridge is a villain. But she also reveals how quickly we can fall back into these patriarchal understandings of the roles of women. How easy it is for us to be okay with the mocking of women's physical appearance and aesthetic. How hungrily we can celebrate her suffering, and without asking why not, because we deny her complexity, even though she's not really given any. But we don't really look for it either. It's not handed to us, and we really don't go searching. We're not interested in questions. We just decide that she is evil and that's that. And we move on. And we wait for her to get what we think she deserves. And maybe that desire is the most dangerous part. Which brings me to the original question. Is Dolores Umbridge a Trap set for us by J.K. rowling? And if the answer to that question is yes, how do we reconcile the fact that we enjoy falling for it?
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Professor Julian Womble
This has been another episode of Critical Magic Theory. I'm Professor Julian Womble and if you enjoyed this episode. First of all, thank you. Please feel free to like rate, subscribe and do all the things that one does where pods are cast y' all. Thank you so much for those of you who participated in our post episode chat on Patreon. If you have not followed us on Patreon, what are you waiting for? Patreon.com criticalmagictheory you can join for free. If you want to join as a paid subscriber, those options are there for you as well. Please feel free to fill out the Hagrid survey for the upcoming episode on the one and only Rubeus Hagrid. I cannot wait to hear your thoughts y' all. I hope you bring the fire for the post episode chat for this episode because that reflection was a little bit heavy. But you know me, if I get attacked, you get attacked. Either way, I cannot wait to hear what you all have to say. Until then, be critical and stay magical my friends. Bye.