Dolores Umbridge

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Dolores Umbridge is a member of the Legion of Mullac and is a recurring antagonist in the *Sean In The Vyond World*. She was taken from the *Harry Potter* series written by J.K. Rowling which was adapted into a Warner Bros. film series of the same name.

## Personality

Umbridge was very ambitious, yet was an extremely vicious, immoral, egotistical, manipulative sadist who possessed an extremely high opinion of herself. She evidently believed herself above the law, as shown multiple times like when she used the Black Quill (a torture device that causes the user to write in their own blood) on Harry and then the entire DA. Or when she secretely slipped Veritaserum potion into tea cups that she offered to students, despite its use on the students being forbidden. The most notable example of her power abuse is when she personally sent two Dementors to assault a minor, Harry, by her own initiative without legal permission from the Ministry, to either have them give Harry the Dementor's kiss, an extreme action only taken for the most dangerous criminals, or force Harry to use magic to defend himself, giving Minister Fudge a pretext to expel him from Hogwarts. By doing so, Umbridge also put the life of a bystanding Muggle teenager, Dudley Dursley, and many Muggle residents in danger by sending Dementors to roam around freely at Little Whinging. She was even prepared to use the Cruciatus Curse, a spell of physical torture, on Harry despite him being a minor and it being illegal to use. However, she justified this this by saying, "What Cornelius doesn't know won't hurt him".

Umbridge's most notable abuse of power is when she sent several Ministry officials to raid Professor Hagrid's hut to evict him during the night when fifth year students were having their Astronomy exam, having chosen nightime as not to cause a commotion with the students, as when they were present at Sybill Trelawney's dismissal. Due to her extreme prejuduce towards Hagrid, Umbridge blamed him for releasing a couple of nifflers into her office (Lee Jordan actually being the culprit), and attempted to have Hagrid forcibly removed from the premises, and possibly even arrested. When Hagrid refused to go quietly and started to fight the officials, who unsuccessfully tried to Stun him, Fang came to his master's aid until one of the wizards Stunned him, sending Hagrid over the edge and causing a violent wrath in him. When Professor Minerva McGonagall intervened, furiously charging to the hut and demanding that Hagrid be left alone, she was seriously injured by the officials after being hit by four simultaneous Stunning Spells without warning, which would require for her to be moved to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries for medical treatment. This enraged Hagrid even more and led to him knocking out more officials, and this outcome was likely a satisfying result for Umbridge, as Hagrid's reaction gave her an excuse to prove how dangerous Half-Giants are and to have Hagrid arrested for assault, although the Ministry failed to do so, since Hagrid fled with the unconscious Fang and went into hiding outside Hogsmeade until Umbridge's dismissal from Hogwarts.

Umbridge could also be bribed to ignore the law and not report criminals, as when she caught Mundungus Fletcher selling valuable goods without a license, she was convinced to let him get away by confiscating Salazar Slytherin's locket from him. When she was put in charge of registering Muggle-Borns by Minister Thicknesse, she became even more incredibly corrupt and malevolent; she sentenced Muggle-Born wizards and witches for life imprisonment at Azkaban under outrageous false accusations and under the prejudiced beliefs that these witches and wizards stole their magic from Pure-Bloods, supporting the Death Eater propaganda. Some of these victims died from the horrendous conditions in Azkaban. Those who were not found "guilty" of stealing magic were condemned by Umbridge to be stripped of their wands, jobs, and families, and be evicted from their homes to be left on the streets as the "Wandless". Many of the condemned were Umbridge's fellow employees of the Ministry, especially Aurors.

Despite being a teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she openly hates kids, and due to this took great pleasure in enforcing torturous punishments on students. When she realized she was tricked when Hermione and Harry lured her to the Forbidden Forest, Umbridge flatly said "I really hate children". While under control of Hogwarts, she enforced strict and somewhat tyrannical rules that the students were forced to comply. For instance, one of the few was that boys and girls could not be in close vicinity of one another and broke up a Wizard and Witch kissing with her wand. Umbridge was a colossally prejudiced and inequitable woman as well. She believed that Half-Breeds, Half-Bloods and the Muggles were inherently inferior and registered them with extreme cruelty at the Ministry of Magic under Lord Voldemort's fascist reign.

Umbridge was xenophobic and intolerant towards Half-Breeds as well. Because of this, she was extremely impertinent and argumentative towards Rubeus Hagrid, the Gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures professor, and antagonized him as he was Half-Giant. She additionally spoke in an insulting and scornful tone towards the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, unwisely provoking them into wrath by doing so and assaulting Magorian with a spell. According to Sirius Black, Umbridge was well-known for her hatred towards Half-Breeds and for looking down to other magical creatures, having contributed to make the lives of Werewolves as miserable as possible by using the law.

Umbridge was condescending and even cruel towards her fellow teachers. For example, she interrupted Dumbledore's start of year speech with her trademark fake cough. She later did the same to Professor McGonagall who also offered her a cough sweet. She also insulted Professor Flitwick when she measured his height or mocked Professor Snape for his unsuccessful attempts to become Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher. Umbridge was especially vituperative and disrespectful towards Divination teacher Professor Trelawney and asked her to predict something for her. Professor Trelawney said it is impossible to predict something on demand, which made Umbridge dissatisfied with that answer. However when Umbridge was told she was in "terrible danger", she merely said, "good".

She was also dishonest and fraudulent. As noted earlier, she would have performed one of the Unforgivable Curses on a teen and would never have told the Minister. She claimed that a Locket, which was also a Horcrux, was in her family for generations. As such, she was extremely hypocritical, as she repeatedly punished Harry Potter for "lying" to others from her perspective even though she herself would deceive others for personal gain.

Umbridge attempted to mask her wickedness by giving off a sweet and pleasant demeanor, she dressed and spoke as a person's grandmother; her creator (J.K. Rowling) describes her personality as "poisoned honey". She wore a decorative black bow on her head (in the books only), dressed exclusively in pink, adorned her office with cat plates (though simply liked pictures of cats and considered the real animal to be too troublesome) and enjoyed drinking tea along with cakes and sweets. Also, when first meeting her in her office, Harry resembled Umbridge's appearance with that of a toad. Even after making it obvious how evil she was, she still kept up her sweet facade, which only ascertained how monstrous she truly was.

Despite her evil nature, Umbridge appears to be good friends with Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic, referring to him by a first name basis, and Fudge placed Umbridge in control of Hogwarts. Then again, this didn't stop her from lying to him about using the Cruciatus Curse on Harry, more than likely due to her arrogance, something that Cornelius would never approve. While she spoke highly about him, Dolores in reality just saw Cornelius as nothing more than a pawn, as demonstrated when Fudge was sacked and fired from his position. Instead of siding with him, Umbridge didn't give any support to her former employer and just sided with his replacement, Rufus Scrimgeour.

Another similarity between Cornelius and Umbridge was that they were both quite paranoid and were worried that Dumbledore was amassing a secret army and weapon that would end the Ministry of Magic. However, Dolores was crueler in pursuit of her answers; when she became the Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher, she forbade any students from using their wands or magic as she believed it would only further Dumbledore's Army.

A cold-blooded sadist who rarely ever raised her voice or lost her cool, Umbridge was able to maintain a calm, nearly worry-less persona. Her voice was incredibly relaxed and rarely displayed genuine emotion, aside from making a sinister smile while making Harry use her "special quill". While extremely rare, Umbridge occasionally lost her temper, like when she screeched at Harry Potter for insinuating that Lord Voldemort had returned and later slapped him when she caught him and the DA sneaking into her office. While being dragged deeper into the Forbidden Forest by centaurs, she was seen screaming in terror.

Though she was a noticeably powerless witch, Umbridge was a very intelligent woman. When she was nineteen years old, she enrolled in Improper Use of Magic Office and thirteen years later, she became head of the office. She is quite conniving and manipulative, as shown when she was able to let loose two Dementors on Harry Potter and his cousin Dudley, which only highlighted her ruthlessness. Despite her intelligence, Umbridge was extremely gullible and unsophisticated at times, and was easily deceived by Hermione's deception that led her into the Forbidden Forest and to be taken by the centaurs.

However, what makes Umbridge more despicable than other Death Eaters is that she was abnormally self-righteous. As stated above, she cruelly forced Harry to write in his own blood using the Blood Quill. After the boy finished writing the single sentence "I must not tell lies", she then coldly said, "You know deep down, you deserve to be punished." However, the only thing that Harry had done was speak out of line and he didn't remotely deserve something so monstrous as a punishment. Umbridge was always a glutton for power to the point of immorality in its pursuit, but in a position of respect, she viciously abused it. Her corruption carried out by the way she gave people who groveled or sucked up to her, such as Malfoy and Filch, power in her ranks. She dished out a vast multitude of sadistic and vicious punishments on a myriad of pupils simply to instill people's fear for her. This shows that she didn't want to be respected but feared, as respect would imply that she was equal to others, when she thought herself to be *above* everyone else.