Under her pressure, he entered early retirement and she promised him a small monthly allowance in exchange for quietly leaving the public sight, but it is pretty clear that she lied to him so she could severe all ties with him, and denounced him. From that point on considering herself only a pure-blood rather than a half-blood.
Umbridge's hatred towards " half-breeds " led her to draft a piece of anti-werewolf legislation in , which prevents people with lycantrophy to have a full-time job, which made it nearly impossible for werewolves , such as Remus Lupin , to find work. She also suggested that the merpeople be rounded up and tagged and also planned to create the legislation of it as well, but it was never put to action, since it was too absurd to be ever put into effect.
Harry was to be punished for inadvertently violating the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery ; however, thanks to the efforts of Albus Dumbledore , he was released without punishment. What Umbridge did not reveal at the time was that she herself had ordered the Dementor attack on Harry and his cousin Dudley Dursley , leaving him no choice but to violate the Decree by casting a Patronus. She claimed such an order was impossible.
However, in June the next year, she revealed to a small group of Hogwarts students she had in fact made that order, believing that it was the most effective way to silence his claims about Voldemort 's return. It was clear that she was used by the Ministry mostly as a spy placed by Fudge, since he was paranoid about Dumbledore, and was not fond of children, as she once confessed to Harry.
She rudely interrupted Dumbledore's opening feast announcements, which no new teacher had done before, before giving a very dull speech that Hermione Granger summed up rather well: "The Ministry is interfering at Hogwarts"; the other students simply drifted off to talk with each other, while some prefects pretended to listen to live up to their duties, and the teachers looked displeased at every word that came out of her mouth. She taught according to a politically-restricted, Ministry-approved curriculum which entailed learning strictly the theory of Defence Against the Dark Arts , without any practical applications.
Umbridge taught exclusively from a singularly useless book: Defensive Magical Theory , by Wilbert Slinkhard , which seemed, based on the chapter headings, to concern itself with negotiation and appeasement of, rather than with defence against, the Dark Arts. By teaching basic defensive theory as opposed to real spells that would prepare her students for the outside world, she and the Ministry hoped to decrease the chance that Dumbledore could form a wizard army of students to overthrow the Ministry.
This was also used since she had no teaching abilities whatsoever. Most students were concerned and felt they would be left defenceless against the Dark Arts , since the book was useless. Some spoke out openly in class, such as Hermione , Ron , Harry , Dean Thomas , and Parvati Patil , but were immediately silenced or punished by Umbridge. She steadfastly hewed to the Ministry line that Lord Voldemort had not returned and that Harry Potter's claims were only to garner attention for himself.
When Harry dared to contradict the Ministry of Magic's stance, Umbridge punished him by forcing him to write the phrase " I must not tell lies " repeatedly with a Blood Quill , eventually leaving him scarred. After working at Hogwarts for a short while and having a discussion with the Minister, Educational Decree Number Twenty-Three increased Umbridge's power and influence in Hogwarts: she was appointed the first-ever " Hogwarts High Inquisitor ," and used this position to evaluate, harass, and fire any teachers at Hogwarts deemed unsatisfactory by her or the Ministry.
Umbridge was rude to many of the teachers she evaluated, especially those with close ties to Professor Dumbledore , at one point measuring Filius Flitwick , and those she considered unfit to teach, such as Sybill Trelawney.
To combat Umbridge's repressive stance of not teaching practical defensive magic, Harry formed a group to teach practical Defence Against the Dark Arts. However, Umbridge, learning of the group was created and afraid that the students would soon start to rebel against her, soon abolished all student groups of three or more members, meaning students were not allowed to be seen together in a group whose members numbered three or more or they would be suspected of rule breaking.
This also included Quidditch teams. She permitted them to be reformed if they asked for permission, and only if she deemed them to be allowable, which meant that Dumbledore's Army became an illegal organisation. When Harry gave an interview about Lord Voldemort to The Quibbler , Umbridge then banned possession of the magazine or risk expulsion from Hogwarts, and took away Harry's Hogsmeade privileges as a punishment for giving the interview, accusing him of giving false statements.
However, by committing the former, Umbridge only caused the entire school to secretly read and discuss the Quibbler. These actions were sanctioned by the Ministry of Magic in the form of Educational Decrees , but students merely found ways to circumvent or avoid them. With her new power, she dismissed Sybill Trelawney as Professor of Divination ; however, she was foiled in her attempt to send Trelawney away from the school, since Albus Dumbledore still had the power to keep Trelawney on school grounds and chose to exercise those powers.
Umbridge was horrified when Dumbledore replaced Trelawney with a centaur named Firenze ; however, she was unable to prevent Firenze from being applied for the job, as the Ministry's rules only allowed her to appoint a new teacher if Dumbledore could not find one himself, since the Ministry was counting on Dumbledore being unable to find a new teacher.
Umbridge considered Firenze, like all centaurs, as a "filthy half-breed", an opinion which would later get her into trouble. In , Umbridge and many other Slytherins found the D. She tried to prosecute Harry and have him thrown out of Hogwarts for forming the Defence of Dark Arts club, but Dumbledore took advantage of lack of evidence and organisation's name to take the blame — claiming that he had invited the group to attend this meeting and no other such gatherings had taken place in the intervening time, and also the fact that the group was formed before it was made illegal — and he disappeared from Hogwarts, after a minor scuffle with Aurors and the Minister for Magic himself.
She soon after formed the Inquisitorial Squad , which rewarded certain students for reporting on others and sanctioned them to act as enforcement goons. Thanks to the newly passed Educational Decree Number Twenty-Eight , Umbridge replaced Dumbledore as Headmistress, but found herself in over her head as she became the target of numerous pranks performed by Hogwart's students in attempt to make her life a living hell, many of which were orchestrated by Fred and George Weasley.
Before Fred and George flew away on their brooms , they gave the mission of making Umbridge's rule of the school as hard as possible to Peeves , who, even though he never took a single order from any student, actually saluted them and complied with pure joy. This included doing things that made her work harder, like bursting out of blackboards, pushing over statues, toppling neatly stacked piles of parchment into fires, and following Umbridge around for hours, blowing raspberries every time she spoke.
Umbridge had previously asked Cornelius Fudge to sign an order for the expulsion of Peeves , but if any such order was ever signed, it was clearly unsuccessful at his removal, since he was literally impossible to be kicked out of Hogwarts.
The Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's office also, much to her dismay, became the Headmistress's Office, as the Headmaster's Tower, which apparently realised that she was not the true Head of the school, sealed itself against her, preventing her from using it. The teachers, who disliked Umbridge intensely, did as little to help her in her duties as possible, many going out of their way to make things difficult for her by requesting her assistance in removing various charms and pranks by claiming that they weren't sure they had the 'authority' to do so.
The teachers also lavished favours on Harry in the form of House Points and even sweets, specifically Squeaking Sugar Mice from Professor Flitwick , for resisting against her. Minerva McGonagall, someone who intensely disliked Peeves and his antics, refused to stop him and even gave him advice on how to perform his actions. The only staff member who supported Umbridge whole-heartedly was the caretaker, Argus Filch , who grew to like her methods, as well as being given permission to torture students himself.
She later fired Gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid , as he was a Half-giant. When attempting to subdue and force Hagrid off the school's grounds with five Ministry of Magic officials, they seriously injured Professor Minerva McGonagall , who was protesting the force used to wrangle Hagrid, which was so scandalous that, while the event was occuring, an O.
Astronomy test was just near the action and even the instructor objected. Umbridge interfered with as much as she could while in her various positions at Hogwarts. She tried to prevent Harry Potter from contacting his godfather Sirius Black. She read all incoming and outgoing student mail, and even Hedwig , Harry Potter's owl, was injured. It was hypothetically suggested that Hedwig was attacked by a Thestral , but there is also the more likely possibility that she was manhandled by Umbridge herself or Argus Filch, who gleefully assisted Umbridge in anything she requested of him.
Soon afterward, Umbridge caught Harry trying to use the Floo Network in her office, who was trying to contact Sirius, and he and his friends and fellow D. When Harry refused to tell her what he had been doing, Umbridge first attempted to dose him with Veritaserum , but Professor Snape told her he had no more.
She then claimed that the illegal Cruciatus Curse might "loosen your [his] tongue", showing her true diabolical and psychopathic side. Hermione, much in her shock, protested against it, but Umbridge simply brushed her off and noted that what "Cornelius doesn't know, cannot hurt him. There, Umbridge was confronted by a herd of centaurs , whom she shamelessly insulted with racial slurs and arrogance. Umbridge then attacked one of the centaurs near her. She was chased and nearly killed by them.
Although she survived, her wand was snapped in half when one of the centaurs stepped on it. Umbridge was ultimately rescued by Dumbledore, although she was apparently left with a significant fear of centaurs afterwards, reacting violently at even the sound of hoofbeats.
How Dumbledore managed to rescue her from the human-hating centaurs without suffering any injury himself remained a mystery, though it is likely that centaurs had respect for Albus, based on their salute at his funeral. After Voldemort appeared in the Ministry of Magic and was seen by a number of people, including Cornelius Fudge , Dumbledore was restored as the Headmaster.
Umbridge, who had been in the school's hospital wing, attempted to leave the castle without anyone noticing. Peeves the Poltergeist discovered her and chased her out, hitting her over the head alternatively with a walking stick and a sock full of chalk , leading a crowd of students cheering for him and her ousting from Hogwarts.
Professor Minerva McGonagall expressed regret at not being able to chase Umbridge herself because Peeves had borrowed her walking stick and she was not fully recovered. Umbridge later returned to the position of Senior Under-Secretary at the Ministry and told the new Minister, Rufus Scrimgeour , about Harry's wish to become an Auror, much to Harry's fury.
She was later seen at Albus Dumbledore 's funeral at Hogwarts, though she did not speak, and was startled by the sight of Firenze. She feigned grief and looked scandalised when Hagrid blew his nose with loud trumpeting noises.
Following Voldemort's takeover of the Ministry of Magic in , Umbridge resumed her post as Under-Secretary and oversaw the registration and persecution of Muggle-born witches and wizards. She conducted trials with sadistic pleasure, subjecting innocent Muggle-borns to the presence of Dementors and sending them to Azkaban for supposedly stealing magic from "real" witches and wizards.
She also wrote the prejudiced propaganda booklet Mudbloods and the Dangers They Pose to a Peaceful Pure-Blood Society , [6] which featured a cover including a rose being strangled by green weeds. Affixing it to her office door, she was able to terrorise all Ministry employees with the mere concept that she could observe their every move.
At some point, Umbridge received a locket as a bribe from petty thief Mundungus Fletcher. She boasted of this supposed connection to Hermione Granger , who was in the guise of Ministry employee Mafalda Hopkirk , during one of Umbridge's blood purity hearings.
At that moment, full of rage, Harry Potter attacked both Umbridge and Yaxley. Umbridge was stunned , leaving Harry and Hermione free to snatch the locket from around Umbridge's neck and flee the scene.
Hermione created a copy of the locket to leave with Umbridge, so that she did not become suspicious. It is not clear exactly why Umbridge felt it necessary to emphasise her wizarding ancestry, though in the case of some other wizards this has been because they wished to distract attention from some non-wizarding ancestors.
When the locket was in the possession of Harry Potter and companions, it exerted a malign influence on each of them when they wore it. Due to Umbridge's wicked nature she'd developed an "affinity" for the object and so the Horcrux — rather than impart a negative effect on her — actually strengthened her. After Voldemort 's final defeat by Harry Potter and the reformation of the Ministry of Magic by Kingsley Shacklebolt , Umbridge was arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity , [10] working with Voldemort and his Death Eaters and abuse of power at both Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic.
She was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban without any chance of parole. Dolores Umbridge is described to be a short, squat woman resembling a large pale toad.
She had a broad, flabby face, a wide, slack mouth, and little neck. Her eyes were bulging and pouchy eyes, and in her mousy brown hair she often wore a black velvet bow, which reminded Harry of a fly perched dangerously above a toad, furthering Umbridge's toad-like characteristics.
She spoke with a simpering, high-pitched voice that was girlish and breathless, contrary to her appearance Harry expected a croak and decorated her office with kittens and other cute pink things.
Her wide, toad-like smile and tendency to speak in a sugary voice that has been described as poisoned honey is a physical exemplification of her cruelty that is barely hidden by her seemingly harmless dress-style.
Umbridge's thick, stubby fingers were adorned with several gaudy old rings. She also was said to have a big bosom, as noted by Harry Potter when he saw Slytherin's locket lying there. Umbridge is seen wearing various green tweed outfits, usually with a pink fuzzy cardigan on top, giving her greater toad-like qualities.
The head-to-toe matching outfits, usually in shades of pink, were worn while she taught and during her duties as High Inquisitor. According to Harry, she looked like someone's maiden aunt, and that her style of dressing would fit someone half her age. During Harry's hearing regarding under-age magic , Umbridge wore the black robes of the Wizengamot with a silver "W" on it.
Also, while she interrogated Muggle-borns, she wore Salazar Slytherin's locket on top of her frilly, girlish pink outfits in an attempt to prove her blood purity , claiming that the S stood for the pure-blood Selwyn family.
However, since her imprisonment in Azkaban, it is unlikely that she still wears any of her old outfits, but instead wears the black and white striped uniform of the prison.
Dolores Umbridge was clearly an evil woman [9] [11] — nothing short of a sociopath — who characterised the worst aspects of political power. She was ruthless, cruel, brutal, corrupt, and devoid of a moral or ethical centre.
She was depicted using any means to maintain her personal power and the political power of her bosses. She committed attempted soul-removal via the Dementor attack on Harry , solicited bribes, and tortured children to achieve her goals.
Her draconian ideals of discipline, such as having victims write lines in their own blood using a Black Quill , which carves the words into the back of the writers hand, were considered by Harry and Ron to be "sick". Her cruelty was disguised by her quiet, childish, high-pitched voice which both took Harry aback and made the hair on his neck stand up straight, as he had expected a croak , as well by decorating her office with paraphernalia related to kittens , chocolate cakes , biscuits , tea , and other cute things to the point of being sickening.
Her personality has been described as "poisoned honey"; it was said on various occasions that the sweeter her voice was, the more dangerous or infuriated she became. She also tended to give her signature fake cough, " Hem-Hem ", when she wanted someone's attention, rudely interrupting them, as well as usually speaking to people she felt were beneath her in a very condescending tone, as if they were simpletons or very young children.
Umbridge was fanatically prejudiced against part-humans such as werewolves and half-giants , which she called " half-breeds. Her prejudice also led to her mistakenly believe that mermaids and centaurs were part-humans, when in fact they were separate species, and in her haste of prosecuting them she would forgo her usual feigned politeness, and be outright rude.
However, after the incident with the Hogwarts centaurs, she developed a phobia of centaurs. An odd derivative from this prejudice was that, despite her hatred of half-breeds, Umbridge did not seem to hate part-goblin Filius Flitwick most likely due to lack of knowledge of Flitwick's ancestry and his undeniably skilled teaching methods , as Fred Weasley stated that she marked him well on his inspection. Dolores was what could be described as a textbook example of "Lawful Evil".
She placed a blind faith in authority, believing that it could not possibly be wrong and this went hand-in-hand with her self-serving nature; [12] she liked power a lot, naturally siding with those who would give her the most authority as was clearly seen when she was loyal to Fudge over Dumbledore, rather than accepting the truth, and then abandoning Fudge when he was ousted from his office.
Indeed, she seem very fond of the locket, which she claims as a Selwyn family heirloom. Right… Though not officially a Death Eater we think , she sure seems to be enjoying herself in the Death Eater-controlled Ministry. Like the Death Eaters, Umbridge wants to do away with any witches and wizards that are not "purebloods. Some are even executed via dementor's Kiss. Though we're glad to see her hit by a spell, we were positively gleeful when we read an interview in which Rowling revealed that after the defeat of Voldemort, Umbridge is "arrested, interrogated and imprisoned for crimes against Muggleborns.
Suddenly, a large bang shakes the school, courtesy of Fred and George, leading her to let Harry go. When Peeves engages in harassing her, his actions are apparently supported by the teachers. It is Fred and George Weasley, however, who lead an outright revolt, creating havoc throughout the school, before jumping on their brooms and leaving Hogwarts for good.
Some time after this, Umbridge decides that she has enough information to fire Hagrid, but feels a need to bring a squad of Aurors to assist her. The resulting magical battle results in Professor McGonagall being injured to the point of having to go to St. Mungo's , and completely disrupts the Astronomy O. Although she works for the Ministry of Magic, Umbridge engages in illegal activities, such as attempting to cast Unforgivable Curses on Harry, in an attempt to determine who he has been communicating with via her fireplace.
While she is deciding to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry, she happens to mention that she was the one who had ordered the Dementors to Privet Drive the previous summer. When Hermione tricks her into going into the Forbidden Forest to search for a non-existent weapon, Umbridge foolishly insults the Centaurs , who become enraged and carry her off screaming.
When Dumbledore is reinstated as Headmaster, he personally goes into the Forest to rescue her, although she is so psychologically traumatized that she has to be hospitalized. Just before the end of term, Umbridge sneaks out of the Hospital Wing quietly in the hopes of going undetected. However, she runs into Peeves, who hits her repeatedly with McGonagall's walking stick and pelts her with chalk while chasing her away from the Hogwarts premises, thereby ending her tenure at Hogwarts.
While visiting the Weasleys' at Christmas, Rufus Scrimgeour mentions that Dolores Umbridge had told him that Harry was interested in becoming an Auror , much to Harry's fury. Umbridge was seen towards the end while attending Albus Dumbledore's funeral along with the other Ministry of Magic staff.
We discover in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that the real locket of Salazar Slytherin is now a Horcrux containing part of Lord Voldemort's soul, ensuring his immortality and that it had already been removed from its hiding place.
Kreacher the Black Family House-Elf , reveals that it was Regulus Black who replaced it for a fake and that he kept it instead of allowing it to be discarded by Sirius but that it was stolen by Mundungus Fletcher. Mundungus admits to the Trio that he had indeed stolen it and was trying to hawk it and other valuables from the house, when Umbridge stopped him.
Umbridge, abusing her power in the Ministry, had demanded the locket as a bribe, in exchange for not jailing Mundungus for selling artifacts without a license. Mundungus does not know her name, but the physical description he gives to the Trio - "looked like a toad" - is enough for them to realise who he is referring to.
Ron is immediately detailed by Yaxley to handle a problem with rainfall in his office. Harry and Hermione meet Umbridge on the top floor; Hermione is taken to the courtrooms to record proceedings of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission. When Harry's search of Umbridge's office proves fruitless, he hides under the Invisibility Cloak , and makes his way into the courtroom where Umbridge is enjoying sending Muggle-born wizards and witches to Azkaban for "stealing wands from blood wizards".
Umbridge, leaning forward, reveals that she is wearing the locket. Harry, disgusted by Umbridge's using the locket to claim more Blood descent than she is entitled to, Stuns her, and then Yaxley, which gives Hermione time to retrieve the locket. Harry and Hermione then free the remaining Muggle-borns, escorting them to the Atrium and allowing them to leave the Ministry.
The author, in an interview given after publication of this book, reveals that Umbridge has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban for her crimes against Muggle-borns. It is difficult for us to judge the quality of her magic, as we see very little of it; one gathers that she is powerful, but definitely not as skilled in magic as Professor McGonagall or Professor Flitwick, as, for instance, Flitwick is able to remove the Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes Instant Swamp quite quickly, while Umbridge is unsuccessful after apparently a full day.
Nonetheless, the fact that she is able to summon a fully corporal Patronus , as seen in the Muggle-born registration scene , is evidence that she does have some magical strength; we are generally led to believe, and the author has confirmed explicitly, that this requires superior skills which at the least a sizeable fraction of wizards never master.
She does seem to have a very powerful personality, in any case, as she is a senior assistant to at least two Ministers Cornelius Fudge and Pius Thicknesse , and is respected within the Ministry.
She manages to get herself into a position of significant authority under Thicknesse, despite not being a Death Eater — it seems that the higher offices in the Ministry under Thicknesse are filled by Death Eaters, for reasons that should be obvious. Even prior to her appointment as High Inquisitor of Hogwarts and long before her crimes against Muggle-borns, Dolores Umbridge has a reputation within the Wizarding world as a politician who has particular prejudices against semi-humans or "half-breeds", most notably werewolves.
It is this that leads her to smear and later sack Hagrid, since he is half-giant. She has a weak self-image, which she props up with pomposity, elitism, officious behavior and a dependency on external props, such as the locket she extorts from Mundungus Fletcher and later claims as an heirloom that "proves" her descent from an old Wizarding family.
She exhibits paranoid behaviour both in her monitoring of students' mail as High Inquisitor and in her use of Alastor Moody's magical eye at the Ministry to spy on her staff outside her office.
These personality traits are further compounded by her bigotry, which seems to be largely based on a fear of beings outside her understanding or control. It is these same prejudices which ultimately lead to her downfall, first by being seized by the centaurs whom she also calls "half-breeds" and then by being sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban for her crimes against Muggle-borns.
Umbridge has a particular dislike for Harry Potter. Throughout Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , her bias against Harry in particular, and Gryffindor House in general, is evident. Using her newly acquired power under the Educational Decrees from the Ministry, she bans all extra-curricular activities and gatherings until they are approved by the High Inquisitor herself ; this meant that the House Quidditch teams were disbanded.
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