Doug versus Umbridge speculation

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 Hogwart's is shown to be a private institution, not a branch of the Ministry, and to have a political functionary come in and basically promote herself to its head because she's an agent of the Minister fails the reality check for me. Someone should have publicly protested, and rightfully so.

Isn't this nothing more than J.K.R.'s nod to the all the Acts that have been passed to control education in the U.K.?  There are a lot of acts and many appear to impact Independent Schools.  IIRC, Umbridge had the Ministry, through Fudge, pass acts that gave her the right to do what she did.  As for someone protesting, most of the people in the Harry Potter world appear to be unable to think for themselves.  If it's printed they appear to believe it and most of them would go along with whatever was "suggested."  Look at what Molly Weasley did to Hermione after reading about her in Witch Weekly.