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I'm not arguing with you that it didn't happen, i'm saying that you didn't provide how you reached that conclusion, which has caused the argument between the two of you.

If this wasn't how you reached your conclusion, I will ask for how you reached the conclusion that she was raped..."oh it's implied" or "intelligent creatures rape" is vague because i dont know where exactly it's implied in the text. The book just says she was carried away, no mention of what happened after that. And it is precisely because of the fact that "being carried away" is different from "being raped" that the other party is asking where you reached that conclusion, with some level of substantiation from the text which you based your conclusion on.

When I was first learning to write literature essays I was always taught PEEL - Point, evidence, explain, link. Right now you have the point ("Umbridge was raped in the forest") and you have the explanation of how you got to that conclusion, but without evidence from the text (i.e. the screaming was heard in the forest), it can't be substantiated well.

Again, I'm not disagreeing with your point that this happened, but I'm just saying your argument could've been prevented if included the quotation of heaing screams and her apparent trauma early on in the argument, considering that it's such an extreme conclusion to reach.

Hope this clears things up.

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