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** A similar case can be made about Hagrid, mainly due to his [[FluffyTamer attitude]] towards monsters. However, her clear attempts to have him [[DisproportionateRetribution arrested]] as opposed to simply fired is extreme, to say the least. She's also so openly racist against non-humans that her axe to grind likely has more to do with Hagrid being a half-giant than his teaching skills. It is notable, however, that while Hagrid's first couple of years of teaching are not particularly good, by the time Umbridge inspects him, he does appear to have actually hit his stride, as the lessons we see from around the midpoint of Goblet of Fire onwards all appear quite reasonable and safe, and the lesson on Thestrals that Umbridge inspects first is entirely competently taught.
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** Fudge's overall [[IRejectYourReality stupidity]] regarding Voldemort's return ends up being a subversion of this trope. Voldemort realizes that it's actually in his own best interest to leave Fudge alone and allow him to continue to misrule the Ministry and persecute the people who'd stand the best chance against Voldemort.
** Despite having nearly autocratic authority as Minister of Magic, his attempt at organizing a KangarooCourt for Harry's trial is so poorly done that it's easy for Dumbledore to point out flaws in Fudge's court procedures and the incredibly flimsy evidence he tries to introduce. The upshot is that only half a dozen people vote to convict Harry, and ''many'' hands are raised in favour of acquittal.
** Fudge's overall [[IRejectYourReality stupidity]] regarding Voldemort's return ends up being a subversion of this trope. Voldemort realizes that it's actually in his own best interest to leave Fudge alone and allow him to continue to misrule the Ministry and persecute the people who'd stand the best chance against Voldemort.
** Despite having nearly autocratic authority as Minister of Magic, his attempt at organizing a KangarooCourt for Harry's trial is so poorly done that it's easy for Dumbledore to point out flaws in Fudge's court procedures and the incredibly flimsy evidence he tries to introduce. The upshot is that only half a dozen people vote to convict Harry, and ''many'' hands are raised in favour of acquittal.
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->''"And I trust you remember the many proofs I have given, over a long career, that [[KnightTemplar I despise and detest the Dark Arts and those who practice them?]]"''
The Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation in the fourth book, and one of the organizers and judges of the Triwizard Tournament. In the First Wizarding War, he was Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and one of the main forces opposing Voldemort. However, he fell from grace in the public eye after sentencing his own son to Azkaban on the charges of being a Death Eater. He was right in doing so, though, as Barty, Jr. really was one of Voldemort's supporters and ends up killing him after using him as a pawn through most of the fourth book.
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->''"And I trust you remember the many proofs I have given, over a long career, that [[KnightTemplar I despise and detest the Dark Arts and those who practice them?]]"''
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: During her brief stint as headmistress she's likely more hated than Phineas Nigellus ever was. Students and even teachers subvert her authority at every turn to the point of orchestrating a full-fledged rebellion of sorts designed to make her job a living nightmare - [[LaserGuidedKarma not that she doesn't deserve it]]. The only people who tolerate her are Filch and the Inquisitorial Squad, which they clearly only do because she's given them positions of power. Hogwarts itself rejects her as Headmistress, and when she tries to get into the headmaster's office, the office seals itself and refuses to allow entrance to her.
* AdaptedOut: Her brief cameo in ''Half-Blood Prince'' since her one appearance took place at [[spoiler:Dumbledore's funeral, which was not adapted for the film.]] She only appears in the film as a mocking statue in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the books and the illustrations, she's portrayed as resembling a large toad. In the movies, she looks like someone's adorable grandmother, which actually helps [[FauxAffablyEvil mask her foul demeanour]] even better by not making it as obvious at first glance. Imelda Staunton, who played Umbridge in the films, also bears a passing resemblance to UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, whom Umbridge was written as a caricature of.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** In the book version of ''Order of the Phoenix'', she gets rolled pretty much instantly by the Centaurs once she pisses them off, showing that for all her bluster and high station, she's not really that skilled as a witch. In the film, she's able to hold off a group of angry and heavily armed Centaurs pretty much effortlessly all by herself [[note]]right until Grawp sneaks up on her and relieves her of her wand[[/note]].
** An example that's more competence than badassness, she actually uses the proper dose of Veritaserum in the movie. She only runs out because she interrogates the entire DA with it. In the book, she uses the entire bottle to interrogate Harry when she only needs three drops, thus she comes off as incompetent when Snape asks what happened to the rest when she asks for more.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: ''Very'' mild, but in the movie there is no confirmation that [[spoiler:she was the one who sent the Dementors]], implying it was Voldemort as suspected.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: Her hair is described as "iron-grey" in the books but is light brown in the film.
* AdaptationalVillainy: She was still a horrifically vile person in the book, but also in the book, she is only seen inflicting her punishment method on two students (Harry and Lee), as well as getting Fred, George, and Harry a lifetime [[note]]meaning as long as she's in power there[[/note]] ban from playing Quidditch. In the film, she did it to practically every student who disagreed with her, even [[WouldHurtAChild first years]], and threatened [=McGonagall=] with everything up to legal action on trumped-up charges, not to mention the 100+ educational decrees hanging on the wall outside the Great Hall.
* AnimalMotifs:
** Umbridge uses the CatsAreMean motif, but it's downplayed; while she has paintings of cats and a cat Patronus, she's never actually shown with a '''living''' pet cat and is thus juxtaposed against Hermione and Ms. Figg. That's assuming that a living cat could ''survive'' being in [[EnemyToAllLivingThings her]] presence. In fact, her backstory shared on Pottermore states she finds actual kittens to be too messy -- fortunately for the kittens.
** Appearance-wise, Harry (and years later, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Mundungus]]) also describes her as looking like a toad -- short and squat, with a black bow in her hair that reminds him of a fly.
* BigBad: While she is eventually overshadowed by [[GreaterScopeVillain Voldemort]] himself, for about 90% of ''Order of the Phoenix'', she is effectively the main antagonist, the only one in the series that is not affiliated with Voldemort at all. She is actually [[HateSink more despised]] than Voldemort by fans.
* BigBadEnsemble: In ''Order of the Phoenix'', she shares this role with Lord Voldemort as the person who directly threatens the students and opposes Harry for most of the book, whilst the latter works behind the scenes and only shows himself in the climax after Umbridge has already been dealt with. Despite both of them being main antagonists, they never interact with each other and are actually working independently from each other towards different goals.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She may come off as affable, but her true personality is nothing more than a {{Sadist}} that loves to torture the students of Hogwarts.
* BoomerangBigot: She despises Half-Bloods despite, according to Rowling, being one herself and having a Squib brother to boot.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Her profile on Pottermore names her hobbies to be "collecting the 'Frolicsome Feline' ornamental plate range, adding flounces to fabric and frills to stationary objects, inventing instruments of torture."
* BreakingOldTrends: Unlike the past {{Arc Villain}}s within the first four installments of the franchise, Umbridge is the only one to not have a direct connection to Lord Voldemort himself.
* BrightIsNotGood: [[color:pink: Pink]], [[color:pink: pink]] everywhere, but her soul is as black as the night itself.
* TheBully: At her core Umbridge is nothing but a sadistic bully who lives to enforce her authority to others by torturing, tormenting, and making their lives the most miserable possible by depriving them of their freedom and of the slightest joy they can have.
* BullyingADragon: In ''Order of the Phoenix'', she insists on [[spoiler:insulting a herd of angry Centaurs, currently surrounding her and armed with bows, eventually calling them "filthy half-breeds" ''to their faces''.]] She is promptly abducted and dragged off into the depths of the forest; it takes intervention from Dumbledore himself to save her life.
* TheCameo: She makes a brief appearance in ''Half-Blood Prince'' attending [[spoiler:Dumbledore's funeral, looking unconvincingly sad.]]
* ChildHater: While she explicitly says she hates children in the film version of ''Order of the Phoenix'', this is averted in the books themselves where she doesn't ''particularly'' hate children, but rather all people who challenge her power. The only reason why she abuses children in the books is simply because it's a way to assert power over them and because she can get away with it.
* ColourMotif: Pink, to go with her sickly sweet personality.
%%* TheComicallySerious: She's played this way more prominently in the fifth film.
* CondescendingCompassion: She likes to speak to her students and coworkers alike as though they're idiots, whilst simultaneously insisting that she's doing what's best for them.
* CoughSnarkCough: Frequently interrupts people with a fake cough/clearing of the throat.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In the films. She's petty, cruel, and woefully saccharine, but her altercation with the centaurs in ''Phoenix'' establishes that she ''is'' a dangerous witch with surprisingly good reflexes.
* CuteKitten: Has decorative plates with images of kittens hung up on her office wall. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Don't take this as a good example of what to expect from her, though]].
* DeanBitterman: During her time as the "Hogwarts High Inquisitor", she was pretty much a headmistress of Hogwarts all but in name, and created many rules in order for her to suit her sadistic, intrusive, and old-fashioned nature. She becomes this trope full-time when she actually becomes the headmistress for a short while.
* DemBones: In the film, her cat Patronus has a visibly skeletal appearance, a trait not seen in any other character's Patronus.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She forces students to write lines in their own blood with a quill that cuts into the skin on the backs of their hands. It's stated that at least one student's hand is bleeding quite badly and that Harry himself has another permanent scar. All of this is for speaking out of turn and/or questioning the Ministry.
* TheDragon:
** Umbridge is the one who sabotages the Defence Against the Dark Arts education at Hogwarts on behalf of Fudge.
** She also seems to be this to Yaxley in the Death Eater-controlled Ministry.
* DragonInChief: Umbridge is nominally subservient to the Minister, who gave her access to those powers to start with, but she's far more of a personal antagonist than the Minster.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: A series of them. At Harry's trial, she acts to deflect the blame for the incident that put Harry there and votes for him as guilty in the face of all justice and logic. During her first portrayed class, she puts Harry in detention [[DisproportionateRetribution because he said that Voldemort had returned]], and punishes him by making him write lines with a quill that puts a scar on his hand.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** In the fifth book when the Death Eaters escape from Azkaban she looks just as dismayed as the other teachers do. Knowing her, however, this was likely more about the stress this would cause the Ministry or [[ItsAllAboutMe fear for her own safety as a ranking Ministry official]]. Ultimately it becomes [[AvertedTrope moot]] in the seventh book when she ends up working with Death Eaters.
** Also in the fifth book, she seems to consider using the Cruciatus Curse on Harry a GodzillaThreshold as she actually spends a few moments talking herself into it, since per her word, Fudge still would ''never'' have authorized it being used on Harry, let alone her commanding the Dementors to attack the boy.
* EvilCounterpart: Several scenes position her as this to [=McGonagall=]. Umbridge is the right-hand woman of Cornelius Fudge, mirroring [=McGonagall's=] position under Dumbledore and, with the power she's given by Fudge, Umbridge has just as much of a say in Hogwarts affairs as [=McGonagall=] does. While [=McGonagall=] is a SternTeacher who is ultimately reasonable and caring under her strict exterior, Umbridge puts on a facade of friendliness to hide her sadistic, ruthless true personality.
* EvilerThanThou:
** {{Subverted}} in comparison to the Death Eaters. She's clearly not as brutal as they are, preferring to punish her enemies in more refined ways or through authoritativeness. However, she's otherwise just as evil as many Death Eaters or only at best a step below them.
** When interacting with Snape, a SmugSnake and (by this point) known Death Eater, she makes him look very good next to her.
---> '''Snape:''' Unless you wish to poison Potter -- and I would be in the greatest possible sympathy with you if you did -- I cannot help you.
** In her backstory on Pottermore, ''Muggle-hating wizards'' were shocked at some of her ideas about Muggles -- and this was stuff she said in private, "behind closed doors"!
* EvilIsPetty: Unsurprisingly for such a sadistic bully and tyrant, Umbridge is incredibly petty and spiteful, willing to go to incredible levels of low just to make others' lives miserable.
** She puts Harry, as well as other students such as Lee Jordan, in detention and has them write on their hands with their own blood, for very minor offences such as Harry claiming that Voldemort is back, or Lee jokingly pointing out the hypocrisy of one of her decrees, out of sadism.
** During her inspection of Professor Trelawney, she constantly harasses her with questions, follows her around the class, visibly aware that it annoys and stresses Trelawney, and when firing her she gleefully makes a show of it, fully intending to expel her from Hogwarts.
** Her inspection of Hagrid is just as petty and cruel, with her loudly taking notes that are extremely unfair to Hagrid, accusing him of being insane, of loving violence and seeing students being hurt, and not knowing what he's doing right in front of him, and obviously in part to unnerve him and make him lose his confidence.
** After Fred and Harry attack Malfoy, who had spitefully insulted their mothers after losing a Quidditch match to Gryffindor, she bans them, as well as George, who had been restrained by his teammates, from ever playing Quidditch again.
** She bans Harry from returning to Hogsmeade and gives him another week of detention after he gives an interview about Voldemort's return here.
* EvilTeacher: Dolores Umbridge is a government stooge who got a job at Hogwarts School by government mandate and proceeds to force students to carve words into their skin, forcibly removes every staff member who disagrees with her politics, and goes so far as to threaten the main character with ''torture''.
* FaceFramedInShadow: When she's introduced.
* FantasticRacism:
** She is noted to have an intense loathing of those she considers "half-breeds" or "part-humans," ranging from Werewolves to Centaurs. It [[HoistByHerOwnPetard comes back to haunt her]] at the end of ''Order of the Phoenix'', where she is [[spoiler:carried off into the Forbidden Forest by a herd of Centaurs]].
** Her hatred of half-breeds apparently extends to half-blood wizards and witches [[BoomerangBigot like herself]], as evidenced in ''Deathly Hallows''. She sends a Half-Blood Wizard to his FateWorseThanDeath, labelling him a Muggle-born without listening to his argument. She gets her comeuppance for sending countless half-bloods and Muggleborns to the Dementors, though.
* FatBitch: She is depicted in the books as extremely, almost humorously squat. This is {{downplayed|Trope}} in the film, though, as Imelda Staunton isn't really that overweight at all.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She certainly tries, but overdoes it; her fake persona is every bit as foul as her real one, and the fact that it's so over the top actually adds to her creepiness.
* {{Foil}}: With two characters after learning her backstory:
** Voldemort: Wizard supremacists who hid their Half-Blood parentage (Voldemort killed his relatives; Umbridge's mother "melted back into the Muggle world" with her son after leaving Mr. Umbridge, who blamed their son's powerlessness on her, which seems to be where Dolores got the idea that Muggle-Borns steal magic) and have horrendous ideas about what to do with Muggles.
** Percy Weasley: Ambitious children of Ministry of Magic worker fathers who are described as "unambitious" (Mr. Umbridge was a janitor who never got a raise or a promotion and didn't seem to care about it) and do their best to rise above their fathers' reputations and their embarrassing families (after he retires, Dolores basically bribes her father with a nice cottage and small allowance to stay out of her life forever).
* ForTheEvulz: Most of her actions are understandable (though obviously [[DisproportionateRetribution disproportionate]]) when viewed through the lens of her [[MyCountryRightOrWrong fanatical loyalty to the Ministry]], but her imposition of a lifetime Quidditch ban on Harry and the twins is all down to her wanting to [[EvilIsPetty hit them where it hurts]].
* FoulFlower: Under the Voldemort-controlled Ministry, she produces and distributes an anti-Muggleborn/pro-pureblood propaganda pamphlet, which has on its cover an illustration of a rose with a simpering face being strangled by a scowling green weed. Really subtle metaphor, there.
* FreudianExcuse:
** According to ''Pottermore,'' her parents were unhappily married and fought frequently. Her wizard father blamed her Muggle mother for their son being born a Squib and influenced Dolores into turning against them. By the time she was fifteen, her parents divorced, and her mother and brother were never seen again.
** Her pureblood supremacist beliefs stem from the shame of having a Muggle mother and a Squib younger brother.
** It's also implied that her [[AmbitionIsEvil hunger for political power]] and [[SadisticTeacher clear enjoyment over tormenting the students]] seems to stem from lingering embitterness from her time at Hogwarts, where she was deprived of the chance at getting a position of power, like prefect or Head Girl.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: When she started working at the Ministry of Magic, she was just an intern working there long before she became one of the highest-ranking members of the Ministry.
* GlurgeAddict: As evidenced by her ornamental kitten plates, which Harry finds sickening.
* GoldDigger: Her backstory reveals she tried to romance various Ministry members (including her bosses) to gain wealth and status but [[FatBitch for some reason]] they never saw her as anything more than a colleague.
* GonkyFemme: In the books, she's described as squat and toadlike, while also being a glurge-addicted MisplacedKindergartenTeacher who loves kittens and the colour pink. In the movies, the {{Gonk}} part is very downplayed.
* HateSink: Voldemort has done lots of horrible things, but we can't really hate him since he's an awesome villain with a tragic backstory. We can, however, hate Umbridge [[invoked]] [[RealismInducedHorror for a dozen reasons that make her too close to the sort of people we encounter in real life]]. In ''Order of the Phoenix'', she's shown to be a despicable character which is driven home when she takes over as headmaster of Hogwarts, enacts "Educational Decrees" to limit the authority of the teachers, and mocks the centaurs as half-breeds. She's been compared to [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Joffrey Baratheon]] in this regard. In just about every fan poll of who the worst ''Harry Potter'' villain is, she wins in an absolute landslide. Even ''Creator/StephenKing'' has praised her as one of literature's most horrifying villains.
-->'''Stephen King:''' The gently smiling Dolores Umbridge, with her girlish voice, toadlike face, and clutching, stubby fingers, is the greatest make-believe villain to come along since Franchise/HannibalLecter. One needn't be a child to remember The Really Scary Teacher, the one who terrified us so badly that we dreaded the walk to school in the morning, and we turn the pages partly in fervent hopes that she will get her comeuppance... but also in growing fear of what she will get up to next. For surely a teacher capable of banning Harry Potter from playing Quidditch is capable of anything.
* TheHeavy: While Cornelius Fudge creates most of the problems Harry deals with in ''Order of the Phoenix'', Umbridge is the main enforcer of his will at Hogwarts.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard:
** Umbridge enacts several "Educational Decrees" that, among other things, severely limit the authority of the other teachers at Hogwarts. This backfires ''spectacularly'' when the students raise holy hell in rebellion and the teachers don't do anything to stop them because they don't have the authority to do so (although the teachers might be using the lack of authority as a convenient excuse, given that they hate Umbridge just as much as the students do.)
** Her "I must not tell lies" punishment with Harry has bitten her in the ass twice: when cornered by the centaurs, she begs Harry to tell them she doesn't want to hurt them, and he only coldly responds that he can't because he "must not tell lies" and just lets them carry her off with nary a backwards glance. The second time when she accuses a Muggle-Born Ministry employee of stealing a wand and not being a real Witch, Harry calls her out on her lies, again throwing her words in her face, before zapping the hell out of her with a Stupefy Curse. Suffice it to say, Harry didn't take that punishment well.
* TheHorseshoeEffect: Umbridge pursues an insanely harsh and fundamentalist interpretation of law and order. In the process, she commits numerous sins while trying to do the Ministry's work, including pride and wrath. By the end of ''Order of the Phoenix'', she ends up becoming the "naughty" person she claimed to oppose.
* IdiotBall: Surrounded by Centaurs aiming arrows at you... and you ''still'' insult them for being ''"[[FantasticRacism filthy half-breeds]]"''? Dumbledore has to personally bail her out of that one, and [[UngratefulBastard she's not even grateful for it in the slightest]]!
* IHaveNoDaughter: She grew to despise her Muggle mother and Squib brother, under her father's guidance. After her mother left the family and took her brother with her, she never bothered to contact them again and instead pretended she was the daughter of a wealthy Pure-Blood family to gain further rank in the Ministry of Magic.
* InformedAbility: She's said to be a skilled Witch on Pottermore, though from what we see in the series, her magical abilities seem to be rather average at best.
* InsanityImmunity: Slytherin's Locket Horcrux corrupts the soul of anyone who wears it, but her soul is already so pitch-black that it doesn't affect her one bit to the point that she's able to cast a Patronus while wearing it by summoning happy thoughts of torturing people.
* IronicEcho: In the film adaptation of ''Order of the Phoenix'', Harry uses one against her right before the Centaurs carry her off.
-->'''Umbridge:''' Tell them, Potter! Tell them I mean no harm!\\
'''Harry:''' I'm sorry, Professor. I must not tell lies.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Several instances that arguably make her more annoying like firing an incompetent teacher or pointing out that practicing magic in class might be dangerous as her predecessor used forbidden curses on students. [[spoiler:That being said, [[{{Hypocrite}} she later decides to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry.]]]]
** She cracks down on Hogwarts teaching standards because she's afraid of Dumbledore, not because she's concerned about the children's welfare. But she's not wrong when she says Hogwarts has a bad habit of hiring incompetents (Lockhart and Trelawney, both of whom were deliberately hired despite this on Dumbledore's part), subpar teachers (Hagrid, at least compared to the much more experienced Grubbly-Plank) and lunatics in disguise (Quirrell, Barty Crouch Jr.) and that someone needs to impose standards.
** She's not wrong that Sybill Trelawney is not a great Divination professor and also not very good at actually predicting the future -- Dumbledore himself admits all of this and acknowledges that he primarily hired Trelawney to protect her from the Death Eaters, which is the [[UltimateJobSecurity main reason she's still around.]] However, the sadistic enjoyment she takes in seeing Trelawney's grief and distress when she fires her is absolutely revolting.
** A similar case can be made about Hagrid, mainly due to his [[FluffyTamer attitude]] towards monsters. However, her clear attempts to have him [[DisproportionateRetribution arrested]] as opposed to simply fired is extreme, to say the least. She's also so openly racist against non-humans that her axe to grind likely has more to do with Hagrid being a half-giant than his teaching skills.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Umbridge initially appears to be sympathetic and worrying when Harry hesitates after feeling the effects of the Black Quill he is forced to use during one of his detentions. Umbridge, however, claims that deep down, Harry knows he deserves to be punished.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Especially in ''Deathly Hallows'', in which she accuses Muggle-borns of "stealing" magic from true mages (which is a load of crap) and feeds them to Dementors. And she ''enjoys'' it.
* JustAKid: Umbridge views her students as children. In her speech at the start-of-term feast, she addresses the students (who range from eleven to seventeen years old) as though they're toddlers ("And to see such happy little faces looking back at me!").
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Besides being captured by some centaurs and getting chased out of Hogwarts by Peeves when Fudge is forced to admit the truth about Voldemort's return, she gets away with most of her misdeeds in ''Order of the Phoenix''. Never once does she get charged with the ''numerous'' cases of blatant child abuse, abuse of Veritaserum in the movie (which Snape told us in ''Goblet of Fire'' is a heavily-controlled substance) and even participating in an unprovoked attack on both Hagrid ''and'' [=McGonagall=] that left the latter in need of serious medical attention. Pottermore revealed the reason for this was that the Ministry was so busy reorganizing itself to fight Voldemort and the Death Eaters that it got overlooked. She does finally get her first major comeuppance in ''Deathly Hallows'', though; In the movie version she is left at the mercy of Dementors she would use on muggle-born and half-blood wizards after the Golden Trio inflitrates the Ministry to get [[SoulJar the Slytherin Locket]]. And Creator/JKRowling confirms that [[spoiler:after the end of ''Deathly Hallows'', she received a life sentence in Azkaban for her war crimes.... though regrettably, that was after they banished the Dementors from the place]].
* KarmicButtMonkey: Hogwarts Headmistress Umbridge is subject to an ensemble of pranks thanks to the Weasley twins, other Hogwarts students alike, and Peeves. Later when escorted into the Forbidden Forest, she is dragged away after she calls a pack of centaurs "filthy half-breeds" in their presence. Given her actions and attitude, however, she deserves every bit of it.
* KnightTemplar: While she's on the side of the Ministry of Magic rather than the Death Eaters, she's one of the most horrible characters in the series.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: During her tenure as a DADA professor, it was blatantly obvious that she had neither any idea of nor any interest in defensive magic, she got the job entirely due to Ministry pressure, and her onscreen fight record is two easy losses. She still feels free to patronize and boss around people who could do (or in Harry's case, ''did'' do) her job better than she ever could.
* LackOfEmpathy: She cares not for the fact that the Black Quill she forces Harry to use during his detention pains him to the point of eventual permanent scarring on his hand. Quite the opposite, in fact.
* LightIsNotGood: Unlike the Death Eaters, she can summon a Patronus (although, as noted in the seventh book, it had no warmth unlike the heroes'), and unlike the heroes, she is not the least bit impaired by [[SoulJar Slytherin's Locket]], thanks to the fact that what she considers "happy thoughts" are pretty much the exact opposite. To say nothing of her GlurgeAddict status.
* ManipulativeBitch:
** It's strongly implied that for having the chance to read Harry's letter she lies to Filch that he is ordering Dungbombs. Also, her general attitude towards Filch is this, letting him have his way in exchange for serving her faithfully, while actually having no respect for him.
** She reveals that near the end of Book 5 that she was responsible [[spoiler:for ordering the Dementor attack on Harry so that he would perform magic to defend himself, thus giving the Ministry a chance to expel Harry]]. She did it secretly because she knew not even Fudge would go to that extreme to achieve his goals, which [[KnightTemplar she considered soft]].
** To ensure that those in the student body are loyal to her, she creates the Inquisitorial Squad, a gang of Slytherin students, i.e. Malfoy and his cronies, who spy for her, and, in exchange, they can dock points however they want. This resulted in a colossal drop in House Points of Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor, which eventually led to Gryffindor having zero points at the end of the year when [=McGonagall=] returned.
* MarriedToTheJob: She believes her main job to be "taking care" of Hogwarts's student population and interprets almost everything around her through that lens. At the Ministry of Magic, she is like this as well and relishes when Voldemort takes over.
* MeaningfulName:
** ''Dolores'' means "sorrows" or "pains".
** ''Umbridge'' is a homonym of "umbrage" (outrage, also shade or shadow). The Cambridge Dictionary defines the phrase "take umbrage" as "to feel upset or annoyed, usually because you feel that someone has been rude or shown no respect to you", which is a pretty solid description of how she felt for most of her debut novel.
** If we consider the ongoing Arthurian legend ThemeNaming of the series, her first name could also be a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolorous_Stroke the Dolorous Stroke]]. A wound against the Fisher King caused both he and his land to weaken and wither. Umbridge's attacks on Hogwarts (and Dumbledore himself) turn Hogwarts into a pretty miserable place under her rule.
** The Traditional Chinese translation goes toe-to-toe with the original English version on the topic of her name being meaningful and reflective of her. Other than giving her a DubNameChange to Dorothy, it transliterates her surname as 恩不里居 (''Ēnbùlǐjū''), which roughly translates to "[[{{Sadist}} kindness]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk does not]] [[HateSink reside inside]]".
* MildlyMilitary: Umbridge's authority as Headmistress appears to have no limits, as it seems as far as the book's concerned she is the KnightTemplar dictator of Hogwarts. She commands a sizable garrison in the school in the form of the All-Slytherin Inquisitorial Squad and can ban students like Harry from playing Quidditch for life.
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: She initially introduces herself to the school by treating the students rather condescendingly and maintaining a sugary sweet demeanor. This soon becomes more sinister as she reveals herself to be a SadistTeacher (she gives Harry detention by making him [[WritingLines write lines]] in his own blood that cut into his skin), and she becomes even worse when she [[TyrantTakesTheHelm takes over the school]].
-->"Well, it is lovely to be back at Hogwarts, I must say! And to see such happy little faces looking back at me!"\\
''Harry glanced around. None of the faces he could see looked happy; on the contrary, they all looked rather taken aback at being addressed as though they were five years old.''
* {{Mundanger}}: What makes Umbridge more terrifying and hated than Voldemort himself: she is essentially a walking embodiment of incompetent, cruel and corrupt authority figures everywhere. It's very unlikely that a regular person would be unlucky enough to cross paths with someone like Voldemort. However, unless you live a ''very'' charmed life, you have met or ''will'' meet someone like Umbridge, whether it's a [[SadistTeacher teacher]], a [[BadBoss boss]], or your government.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Umbridge doesn't care who runs the Ministry so long as she gets to keep her job, though one rather gets the impression that she enjoys enforcing the most ruthless laws more than anything. In the fifth book her devotion to Fudge seemed sincere (and therefore probably her ''only'' redeeming trait), but by the seventh, she's very comfortable with the promotion she's gotten under Voldemort's regime and her previous love of Fudge comes off more in a ProfessionalButtKisser kind of way.
* TheNapoleon:
** In the books, she is described as so short, that standing up from a chair makes no difference in terms of her overall length. This is especially obvious during her argument with [=McGonagall=] during Harry's career advice. When [=McGonagall=] stood up, her full-length intimidated Umbridge. When Umbridge stood up as a response, Harry felt it made no difference.
** In the movies, she's played by the five-foot-tall Creator/ImeldaStaunton and is dwarfed by every other adult character and even most of the students at Hogwarts. In ''The Order of the Phoenix'', she stands on a step to try and look down on everyone during her argument with [=McGonagall=] and only comes up to Snape's shoulders.
* {{Narcissist}}: She is a textbook narcissist who projects her own narrow-minded ideas into an open-minded school system. Her office is a physical example as it is decorated in her signature color and image. As is typical of a KnightTemplar, she uses self-righteous morality to justify her perceived superiority, such as when she tells Harry that he deserves to be punished.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName:
** Umbridge [[BitchInSheepsClothing hides it a bit better]] than the Death Eaters, but she's honestly no better than them. Her main role as Headmistress of Hogwarts in the fifth book is to have her paramilitary force (the Inquisitorial Squad) persecute and keep Dumbledore's Army under their thumb. By the final book, she [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope skydives off the slippery slope]] and starts holding a KangarooCourt to persecute Muggle-Born Wizards.
** In ''The Cursed Child'', Umbridge continues her prejudice streak [[spoiler:and happily tortures Muggle-Borns on the orders of the Augurey.]]
* NeverMyFault: The one person Umbridge never blames is herself. She never acknowledges her faults and screw-ups, as best shown when she deals with Fred's and George's magical fireworks. In a comedic moment, she berates Argus Filch, telling him to not Stupefy the fireworks, as it causes them to multiply, as if he was the one who had done it when she was the one who did it and despite Filch being utterly unable to use magic as a Squib.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Rowling has never hidden the fact that Umbridge is a thinly veiled parody of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She gets uncomfortably close to Harry at various times, mostly when she is punishing him.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Umbridge insists she's doing what's best for the Wizarding World when really she just wants power for herself and for the Ministry and its corruption to remain as is and never be questioned.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: She's a Ministry official who wholeheartedly participates in Fudge's efforts to block the truth about Voldemort's return. During her tenure as a teacher at Hogwarts, she constantly issues decrees that make life harder for the students and teachers in order to have total control over the school.
* ObviouslyEvil: Despite wearing pink and having the mannerisms of a kindly lady and her own delusions about being a good woman, she treats her students like five-year-olds, has an annoying voice, has a scary demeanor, surrounds herself with the narrow-minded Slytherins, and shows prejudice against anything against her idea of normal. Harry is obviously unsettled as soon as he meets her.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Compared to many of the other teachers, she doesn't seem to be very magically capable. When the students rebel against her and make a mess out of Hogwarts, it takes Umbridge all day to clean up messes that would've taken [=McGonagall=] or Flitwick about three seconds.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Wears fluffy, frilly pink clothes to hide her real nature.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** Her prejudice against non-humans and half-breeds seems a little shoehorned in just to make her more hateable, but it might have been {{Foreshadowing}} to explain why she so gleefully goes along with the New Order's persecution of Muggleborns.
** In fact, Rowling gives a bit of insight into her backstory, showing that she's ''always'' looked down on Muggleborns just as much as Half-Breeds.
** During the third year of Harry's scolarity at Hogwarts, she wrote anti-werewolf laws that make it impossible for werewolves to legally find work, causing further misery for Remus Lupin and reinforcing Harry's disgust for her once he finds out about it.
* PragmaticVillainy: Despite her prejudice and contempt toward Squibs she's pragmatic enough to recognise Argus Filch's usefulness with his intimate knowledge of Hogwarts and its secret passages, and to make him one of her accomplices by playing on his hatred of students.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: According to her Pottermore profile, this is how she managed to rise through the ranks of the Ministry in the first place (with also [[StealingTheCredit taking undeserved credit for the work of others]]). She doesn't care who's in charge as long as she remains in a position of power and authority.
* PsychoPink: Dolores Umbridge not only wears pink but has her office's walls coloured pink and lined with cute kitten-themed decorations upon becoming Hogwarts's Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in ''Order of the Phoenix''. She's also a thoroughly corrupt SadistTeacher who delights in inflicting cruel punishments upon students and generally abusing her power.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: In some respects. While she is intelligent enough to at least try to hide it, when pushed even so much as a little, she reveals herself as an overconfident, snot-nosed, petulant SpoiledBrat whose only response to her rule being challenged is to squeal about her apparent authority pathetically. That's not even getting into her sadism and dumping sugar into her tea.
* PutOnAPrisonBus: As [[https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/dolores-umbridge confirmed]] by J.K. Rowling herself, Umbridge was taken to Azkaban for her war crimes after the end of ''Deathly Hallows''.
* TheQuisling: In ''Deathly Hallows''. She didn't need to be Imperiused at all to go along with Voldemort's takeover of the ministry.
* RedRightHand: Her wand is unusually short. According to Pottermore, a short wand usually chooses a wizard or witch whose character lacks something. In her case, any sort of moral compass whatsoever.
* SadistTeacher: Another item on the (very short) list of things to call her without resorting to profanity (or trope titles). In the film, she becomes irredeemable when it's revealed that she forces ''first-years'' to use the blood quill.
* {{Sadist}}: She is ''horrific'' in this regard. It is incredibly obvious that she loves to inflict pain and misery on everyone she can. Her ability to conjure a Patronus literally comes from her happy thoughts of torturing people.
* SickeninglySweet: Several traits of hers, such as her fluffy pink clothing, her high-pitched girlish voice, and her fixation on {{Cute Kitten}}s and doilies are definitely seen as this InUniverse.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Though she's a powerful Ministry official she vastly overestimates how much others respect her authority. In the second half of ''Order of the Phoenix'', insults a heavily-armed horde of Centaurs and then tries to stop them from retaliating by emphasising that she's the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic. The Centaurs aren't impressed.
* SmugSmiler: In addition to being a SmugSnake and StepfordSmiler, she often shows her overconfidence this way.
* SmugSnake: Umbridge is highly competent at exploiting the system to get what she wants. Otherwise, she's largely inept, and the best way to deal with her is to put her in a situation where her connections can't get her out (like the middle of a herd of angry centaurs, for example...).
* TheSociopath: More so in the films. When you take away all of the sugary sweetness, this is what lurks at the core of her being. She has a staggering LackOfEmpathy for the victims of her cruelty, which is to say ''anyone'' put under her jurisdiction, is positively gleeful at the prospect of using ColdBloodedTorture ForTheEvulz, and when she's put under sentencing Muggle-borns and half-bloods, she uses the time to toy with and throw away their lives with the same happy-go-lucky attitude as a particularly sadistic child burning ants under a magnifying glass.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Her fluttery, girlish, high-pitched voice belies her true nature.
* StealingTheCredit: Her Pottermore profile notes that she often took credit for other people's works in order for her to rise up within the Ministry.
* StepfordSmiler: Type C. Her smile is only a façade to hide her sadistic personality.
* StrawHypocrite:
** She teaches the students that the Unforgivable Curses are illegal. The Cruciatus Curse, itself an Unforgivable Curse, appears to be one of her favourite spells.
** For all of her boasts of her strong sense of loyalty to the Ministry, she'll ''constantly'' break the laws to get what she wants.
** She hates liars, then goes around lying over who she is to make herself look better to the general public. From lying over her accomplishments to get promoted in the Ministry, her so-called family pure-blood ties, and accusing muggle-born witches or wizards of "stealing" magic. The movie takes this up a notch by begging Harry to reassure the very same centaurs she [[BullyingADragon insulted and strangled via a spell]] that [[BlatantLies she means no harm]]. Having been tortured by Umbridge herself because she accused him of being a liar, [[TheDogBitesBack Harry bluntly tells her]] [[IronicEcho he shouldn't tell lies.]]
** During her inspection of Hagrid, she loudly accuses him while writing her notes of not knowing what he's doing, and of enjoying students being hurt. That's rich from a SadistTeacher who greatly enjoys punishing and torturing her students, and who's inept as a teacher.
* SugaryMalice: She tortures students but she's very polite about it, in a grandmotherly way. And just ''look'' at all those cute little kittens!
* TokenEvilTeammate: She's the only one on Fudge's side who remains a jerkass by the end of the fifth book.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Discussed in the seventh book. Ron speculates that Umbridge managed to open the Locket Horcrux and was possessed by the piece of soul inside it, but Harry dismisses the notion.
-->"Wouldn't make any difference to her, she was so evil in the first place."
* TraumaButton: After having been captured by the Centaurs, and rescued from them by Dumbledore, Umbridge has such a fear of Centaurs that anything that sounds like hoofbeats triggers a violent and fearful reaction from her, as shown when Ron fakes a hoofbeat noise with his tongue that causes her to frantically and anxiously rises her head from her bed and look for any centaur while in Hogwarts hospital wing. The mere sight of Firenze at Dumbledore's funeral is also enough for her to get away for a place where she can't see him.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Her horrible misrule follows this arc, with her replacing ReasonableAuthorityFigure [=McGonagall=]. Ex-TropeNamer.
* UndyingLoyalty: The closest thing she has to a positive trait is her undying loyalty to the Ministry, as when the Death Eaters' takeover ordered the interrogations of Muggle-Borns from all of Britain, Umbridge went as far as to judge the persecuted herself.
* VillainousBreakdown: She often loses it every time her plans get derailed or when someone questions or bypasses her authority. Examples include:
** When Harry tells her that he gave an interview to the Quibbler and shows her a copy of it, with Harry giving his detailed testimony of Voldemort's return, Umbridge becomes purple with fury, giving Harry another week of detention, forbidding him from returning to Hogsmeade, and furiously bans everyone from reading the Quibbler and searches for anyone having a copy of it.
** When Marietta Edgecombe, who had been stealthily hexed with Imperium by Kingsley Shacklebolt, wordlessly denies Umbridge's affirmations about Dumbledore's Army and that they had meetings before, Umbridge loses it and begins to furiously grab and shake her, but she's stopped dead in her tracks when a furious Dumbledore warns her that he doesn't tolerate anyone harming his students. Shortly after, she turns red with fury and angrily yells for Dumbledore to be taken away after the Headmaster jollily makes it clear that he has no intention of going to Azkaban, though she and the rest of the Ministry are quickly and easily stunned by Dumbledore.
** Brief but she becomes hysterical and yells for someone to stop Fred and George Weasley when they leave Hogwarts on their brooms after putting a swamp in one of Hogwarts's corridors.
** During Harry's career advice interview with [=McGonagall=], she loses her smile and all semblance of calm when [=McGonagall=] tells her to her face that Harry had good grades in Defense against dark forces when he had a competent teacher, meaning that she sucks as a teacher,[[note]]For extra insult, by competent teacher [=McGonagall=] could have been refering to just Remus Lupin, a ''werewolf''.[[/note]] and becomes utterly hysterical when [=McGonagall=] keeps contradicting her and defending Harry's chances of becoming an Auror, delusionally yelling that [=McGonagall=] is planning to become herself Senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of Magic after Dumbledore takes over the Ministry, much to [=McGonagall's=] contempt.
** When confronted by Centaurs, Umbridge quickly loses her composure as the Centaurs make it clear that they don't bow to her authority as a member of the Ministry of Magic, becoming utterly terrified after one of the Centaurs shoots an arrow close to her, after which she totally derails and furiously calls them filthy hybrids, resulting in them capturing and taking her away while she screams hysterically for them to release her.
* VillainRespect:
** ''Very'' briefly. Harry notices that she actually looks genuinely impressed when Hermione completely bumrushes through her entire textbook's curriculum in a short amount of time and commits it to her legendary memory.
** She is unable to find any fault with Professor Grubbly-Plank, who is just genuinely that good a teacher, even when she publicly praises Dumbledore and is forced to give her a pass during inspection.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: As a high-ranking and distinguished Ministry official, Umbridge is held in high regard by many, including [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Percy Weasley and her boss, Cornelius Fudge]]. Because of this, her [[SadistTeacher child abuse]] and FantasticRacism are either overlooked or ignored.
* VocalDissonance: Her high-pitched girly voice surprised Harry the first time he heard her speak, as her "frog-like" appearance had left him expecting a croak.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After her experience with the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, she develops a litteral phobia for centaurs, with just the sight of a centaur or any sound reminding her of a centaur foot footstep terrorizing her.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** She forces the 15-year-old Harry to carve the words "I must not tell lies" onto his own hand so many times that it leaves a permanent scar. In the film of ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'', we get a shot of a crying boy of eleven or twelve years, implied to have been subjected to the same punishment, and Umbridge commenting, "Naughty children deserve to be punished."
** She comes ''very'' close to using the Cruciatus Curse on Harry to torture a confession out of him about the secret Dumbledore's Army meetings, justifying it as being for the greater good, and outright slaps him in the face in the film.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Umbridge despises Half-Bloods and Muggles. Supplementary material reveals that she herself is a Half-Blood, her mother is a Muggle, and her brother is a Squib.
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[[folder:Bartemius "Barty" Crouch Senior]]
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->''"And I trust you remember the many proofs I have given, over a long career, that [[KnightTemplar I despise and detest the Dark Arts and those who practice them?]]"''
The Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation in the fourth book, and one of the organizers and judges of the Triwizard Tournament. In the First Wizarding War, he was Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and one of the main forces opposing Voldemort. However, he fell from grace in the public eye after sentencing his own son to Azkaban on the charges of being a Death Eater. He was right in doing so, though, as Barty, Jr. really was one of Voldemort's supporters and ends up killing him after using him as a pawn through most of the fourth book.
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* HateSink: A Subversion in the Half-Blood Prince he is presented as a GloryHound Jerkass who wants Harry to Represent him to Boost his Publicity, of which Harry is highly irritated by, on the other hand he Died in Harrys name which is something despite his feelings towards him respects.
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*HateSink: While we never see the Real Runcorn (in the Book) what we hear of him is Enough for Harry to feel terrible pretending to be Him.
* UnceritainDoom: We never hear from him again but !Imposter Runcorn has just let a ton of Muggle Borns escape imprisonment, Voldy would probably not take it well and Yaxley being the Selfish Death-eater he is (and Fellow HateSink) probably won't bother telling him that it was Really a Disguised Harry as that would mean he let HARRY escape.
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* AdaptedOut: He doesn't appear in the film adaptation of ''Half-Blood Prince''.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: He may be related to Tiberius Ogden, a Wizengamot elder, or the makers of Ogden's Old Firewhiskey.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He was leader of the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, and more than capable of defending himself against wizard criminals.
* BigNo: Shouts one at the same time as Harry when he sees Marvolo trying to attack his daughter.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Since he doesn't know how to dress to blend among Muggles, he looks silly at first, but Harry immediately respects him when he sees how dismissive he is of blood status and is shown to be a good policeman.
* ConsummateProfessional: Remained calm, polite, and patient when dealing with the Gaunt family, despite them being extremely rude to him and Morfin shooting a jinx at him that made yellow pus spew out of his nose.
* HeroicBystander: Attacks Marvolo when the latter is about to attack his daughter with the intent to kill.
* NervesOfSteel: Showed no fear when facing the clearly mad and dangerous Morfin Gaunt.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His arresting Marvolo and Morfin eventually leads to [[BigBad Voldemort's]] birth.
* PosthumousCharacter: He has already died of natural causes by the time Dumbledore tells Harry about him. He appears in his own memory of his visit to the Gaunt shack.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: From what we see of his memories he was a fair, professional agent of the Ministry who calmly dealt with Marvolo's inane ranting, and he intervened to save Merope's life.
* RummageSaleReject: His attempt to dress as a Muggle consisted of wearing a frock coat and spats over a one-piece bathing suit.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: {{Reconstructed}}. Seeing the male Gaunt family members having their heads too far up their ass to understand the litigations the son was facing, Odgen rose to leave, but not before warning them one last time that Morfin is required and expected to attend his later hearing date or face even further legal proceedings. When Ogden defended Morfin's sister Merope from their father, this caused Morfin to attack him and force Ogden to flee for his life, though he returns soon after with Ministry reinforcements to subdue the crazed father and son.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's introduced in the sixth book and only appeared in it (in a PensieveFlashback, to boot), but his meeting with the Gaunt family and subsequent arrest of Marvolo and Morfin help set the story in motion.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When Ogden freed Merope from the clutches of her abusive father and brother, the first thing she did was drug and rape Tom Riddle Sr. and [[ChildByRape sire]] ''[[BigBad Lord Voldemort]]'' with him.
* WhiteSheep: His unfamiliarity with Muggle clothing and the presence of other wizards named Ogden suggests that he was a pureblood, but he never showed any prejudice against non-purebloods and refused to let the Gaunt family's pureblood status dissuade him from his mission of bringing them to justice. In any case, if he ''was'' a pureblood, he didn't seem to think it made him above others; when Marvolo Gaunt asked him if he was one (while making his own opinion of non-purebloods very clear), Ogden answered sternly, "That's neither here nor there."
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The Muggle-born head of the Goblin liaison office.
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* AmbiguouslyRelated: He may be related to Tiberius Ogden, a Wizengamot elder, or the makers of Ogden's Old Firewhiskey.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He was leader of the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, and more than capable of defending himself against wizard criminals.
* BigNo: Shouts one at the same time as Harry when he sees Marvolo trying to attack his daughter.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Since he doesn't know how to dress to blend among Muggles, he looks silly at first, but Harry immediately respects him when he sees how dismissive he is of blood status and is shown to be a good policeman.
* ConsummateProfessional: Remained calm, polite, and patient when dealing with the Gaunt family, despite them being extremely rude to him and Morfin shooting a jinx at him that made yellow pus spew out of his nose.
* HeroicBystander: Attacks Marvolo when the latter is about to attack his daughter with the intent to kill.
* NervesOfSteel: Showed no fear when facing the clearly mad and dangerous Morfin Gaunt.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His arresting Marvolo and Morfin eventually leads to [[BigBad Voldemort's]] birth.
* PosthumousCharacter: He has already died of natural causes by the time Dumbledore tells Harry about him. He appears in his own memory of his visit to the Gaunt shack.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: From what we see of his memories he was a fair, professional agent of the Ministry who calmly dealt with Marvolo's inane ranting, and he intervened to save Merope's life.
* RummageSaleReject: His attempt to dress as a Muggle consisted of wearing a frock coat and spats over a one-piece bathing suit.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: {{Reconstructed}}. Seeing the male Gaunt family members having their heads too far up their ass to understand the litigations the son was facing, Odgen rose to leave, but not before warning them one last time that Morfin is required and expected to attend his later hearing date or face even further legal proceedings. When Ogden defended Morfin's sister Merope from their father, this caused Morfin to attack him and force Ogden to flee for his life, though he returns soon after with Ministry reinforcements to subdue the crazed father and son.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's introduced in the sixth book and only appeared in it (in a PensieveFlashback, to boot), but his meeting with the Gaunt family and subsequent arrest of Marvolo and Morfin help set the story in motion.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When Ogden freed Merope from the clutches of her abusive father and brother, the first thing she did was drug and rape Tom Riddle Sr. and [[ChildByRape sire]] ''[[BigBad Lord Voldemort]]'' with him.
* WhiteSheep: His unfamiliarity with Muggle clothing and the presence of other wizards named Ogden suggests that he was a pureblood, but he never showed any prejudice against non-purebloods and refused to let the Gaunt family's pureblood status dissuade him from his mission of bringing them to justice. In any case, if he ''was'' a pureblood, he didn't seem to think it made him above others; when Marvolo Gaunt asked him if he was one (while making his own opinion of non-purebloods very clear), Ogden answered sternly, "That's neither here nor there."
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The Muggle-born head of the Goblin liaison office.
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[[folder:Bob Ogden]]
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]''
A Ministry of Magic employee, Ogden worked in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. He went to the Gaunt family to inform the Gaunts of Morfin's trial hearing arrangement for his criminal offence, before the events led to him fleeing the house of the Gaunt family and returning with reinforcements to arrest Morfin and his father, Marvolo. Dumbledore tracked Ogden down and convinced Ogden to give him his memory of the aforementioned encounter, which he then kept with him before [[PensieveFlashback showing it to Harry]].
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* AdaptedOut: He doesn't appear in the film adaptation of ''Half-Blood Prince''.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: He may be related to Tiberius Ogden, a Wizengamot elder, or the makers of Ogden's Old Firewhiskey.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He was leader of the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, and more than capable of defending himself against wizard criminals.
* BigNo: Shouts one at the same time as Harry when he sees Marvolo trying to attack his daughter.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Since he doesn't know how to dress to blend among Muggles, he looks silly at first, but Harry immediately respects him when he sees how dismissive he is of blood status and is shown to be a good policeman.
* ConsummateProfessional: Remained calm, polite, and patient when dealing with the Gaunt family, despite them being extremely rude to him and Morfin shooting a jinx at him that made yellow pus spew out of his nose.
* HeroicBystander: Attacks Marvolo when the latter is about to attack his daughter with the intent to kill.
* NervesOfSteel: Showed no fear when facing the clearly mad and dangerous Morfin Gaunt.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His arresting Marvolo and Morfin eventually leads to [[BigBad Voldemort's]] birth.
* PosthumousCharacter: He has already died of natural causes by the time Dumbledore tells Harry about him. He appears in his own memory of his visit to the Gaunt shack.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: From what we see of his memories he was a fair, professional agent of the Ministry who calmly dealt with Marvolo's inane ranting, and he intervened to save Merope's life.
* RummageSaleReject: His attempt to dress as a Muggle consisted of wearing a frock coat and spats over a one-piece bathing suit.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: {{Reconstructed}}. Seeing the male Gaunt family members having their heads too far up their ass to understand the litigations the son was facing, Odgen rose to leave, but not before warning them one last time that Morfin is required and expected to attend his later hearing date or face even further legal proceedings. When Ogden defended Morfin's sister Merope from their father, this caused Morfin to attack him and force Ogden to flee for his life, though he returns soon after with Ministry reinforcements to subdue the crazed father and son.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's introduced in the sixth book and only appeared in it (in a PensieveFlashback, to boot), but his meeting with the Gaunt family and subsequent arrest of Marvolo and Morfin help set the story in motion.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When Ogden freed Merope from the clutches of her abusive father and brother, the first thing she did was drug and rape Tom Riddle Sr. and [[ChildByRape sire]] ''[[BigBad Lord Voldemort]]'' with him.
* WhiteSheep: His unfamiliarity with Muggle clothing and the presence of other wizards named Ogden suggests that he was a pureblood, but he never showed any prejudice against non-purebloods and refused to let the Gaunt family's pureblood status dissuade him from his mission of bringing them to justice. In any case, if he ''was'' a pureblood, he didn't seem to think it made him above others; when Marvolo Gaunt asked him if he was one (while making his own opinion of non-purebloods very clear), Ogden answered sternly, "That's neither here nor there."
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* IRejectYourReality: His response to claims that Voldemort returned. Averted when he finally sees Voldemort face-to-face at the end of ''Order of the Phoenix'', he immediately faces up to his failure and defers to Dumbledore, though the fact that it happened in public kind of left him with no room to save face.
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* IRejectYourReality: His response to claims that Voldemort returned. Even when Snape shows him his Dark Mark, which faded of Death Eaters' arms after Voldemort's first downfall and is now back with his return, Fudge still refuses to face reality and doubles down in his opposition to Harry and Dumbledore. Averted when he finally sees Voldemort face-to-face at the end of ''Order of the Phoenix'', he immediately faces up to his failure and defers to Dumbledore, though the fact that it happened in public kind of left him with no room to save face.
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: When Voldemort came to murder her, she went down fighting. The fact that she was able to duel Voldemort at all is quite impressive.
* LockedRoomMystery: Voldemort murdered her in a room with a locked door, something which mystifies the Muggle authorities who find her body.
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: When Voldemort came to murder her, for her personally, and she went down fighting. The fact that she was able to duel Voldemort at all is quite impressive.
* LockedRoomMystery: Played with. Voldemortmurdered murders her in a room with a locked door, something from the inside, which mystifies makes it this trope to the Muggle authorities who find her body.body; however, the crime isn't a mystery to anyone in the Wizarding World, where a locked Muggle door really isn't much of an obstacle.
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* WhiteSheep: His unfamiliarity with Muggle clothing and the presence of other wizards named Ogden suggests that he was a pureblood, but he never showed any prejudice against non-purebloods and refused to let the Gaunt family's pureblood status dissuade him from his mission of bringing them to justice. In any case, if he was a pureblood, he didn't seem to think it made him above others; when Marvolo Gaunt asked him if he was one (while making his own opinion of non-purebloods very clear), Ogden answered sternly, "That's neither here nor there."
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* WhiteSheep: His unfamiliarity with Muggle clothing and the presence of other wizards named Ogden suggests that he was a pureblood, but he never showed any prejudice against non-purebloods and refused to let the Gaunt family's pureblood status dissuade him from his mission of bringing them to justice. In any case, if he was ''was'' a pureblood, he didn't seem to think it made him above others; when Marvolo Gaunt asked him if he was one (while making his own opinion of non-purebloods very clear), Ogden answered sternly, "That's neither here nor there."
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* HateSink: After initially being presented as something of a Reasonable Authority Figure, by the end of Book 4 and throughout Book 5, Fudge shows his true colours: that of a corrupt, cowardly, greedy, xenophobic moron who puts the entire world in danger by ignoring Voldemort's return. To do this, he launches a smear campaign against Harry and Dumbledore (despite the latter always gave him helpful advice during his years in office) and puts the former through a Kangaroo Court where he acts incredibly smug and refuses to let Harry state his case. He also puts too much importance on so-called blood purity, having held back Arthur Weasley to low-paying positions within the Ministry because of Arthur's like of and fascination toward Muggles, considering Arthur to lack proper wizarding pride, while continuing to associate with Lucius Malfoy, a former Death Eater. Eventually when the truth about Voldemort's return is revealed, he wants Harry to help him despite everything he did, leaving Harry and Dumbledore disgusted.
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* HateSink: After initially being presented as something of a Reasonable Authority Figure, ReasonableAuthorityFigure, by the end of Book 4 and throughout Book 5, Fudge shows his true colours: that of a corrupt, cowardly, greedy, xenophobic moron who puts the entire world in danger by ignoring Voldemort's return. To do this, he launches a smear campaign against Harry and Dumbledore (despite ([[UngratefulBastard despite the latter always gave him helpful advice during his years in office) office]]) and puts the former through a Kangaroo Court KangarooCourt where he acts incredibly smug and refuses to let Harry state his case. He also puts too much importance on so-called blood purity, having held back Arthur Weasley to low-paying positions within the Ministry because of Arthur's like of and fascination toward Muggles, considering Arthur to lack proper wizarding pride, while continuing to associate with Lucius Malfoy, a former Death Eater. [[EntitledBastard Eventually when the truth about Voldemort's return is revealed, he wants Harry to help him despite everything he did, did]], leaving Harry and Dumbledore disgusted.
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* HateSink: After initially being presented as something of a Reasonable Authority Figure, by the end of Book 4 and throughout Book 5, Fudge shows his true colours: that of a corrupt, cowardly, greedy, xenophobic moron who puts the entire world in danger by ignoring Voldemort's return. To do this, he launches a smear campaign against Harry and Dumbledore (despite the latter always gave him helpful advice during his years in office) and puts the former through a Kangaroo Court where he acts incredibly smug and refuses to let Harry state his case. He also puts too much importance on so-called blood purity, having held back Arthur Weasley to low-paying positions within the Ministry because of Arthur's like of and fascination toward Muggles, considering Arthur to lack proper wizarding pride, while continuing to associate with Lucius Malfoy, a former Death Eater. Eventually when the truth about Voldemort's return is revealed, he wants Harry to help him despite everything he did, leaving Harry and Dumbledore disgusted.
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* TokenGoodCop: Despite their esteemed reputation and CoolOldLady boss (Amelia Bones), the Department of Magical Law Enforcement Aurors, besides Tonks and Kingsley, display little obvious talent and never provide much help against the villains (whose return they take a while even to believe happened). Arthur Weasely, who works in a joke division of the Department, displays twice the intelligence, integrity, and magical skills as prominent Aurors like Dawlish and Scrimgeour.
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** [[spoiler: Wizarding Britain and the main cast saw him as cruel, cold, and too ruthless for sentencing his own son to Azkaban on charges of being a Death Eater and committing war crimes on fairly weak evidence without hesitation. It then turns out whether or not his son was guilty of torturing the Longbottoms, he absolutely did become a loyal and committed Death Eater at some point who went on to revive Voldemort.]]
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** [[spoiler: Wizarding [[spoiler:Wizarding Britain and the main cast saw him as cruel, cold, and too ruthless for sentencing his own son to Azkaban on charges of being a Death Eater and committing war crimes on fairly weak evidence without hesitation. It then turns out whether or not his son was guilty of torturing the Longbottoms, he absolutely did become a loyal and committed Death Eater at some point who went on to revive Voldemort.]]
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* HiddenDepths: What's the one coherent thing he talks about, while completely insane after spending [[spoiler: months under the Imperius Curse]]? [[WellDoneSonGuy His son]], and not how much he hates the boy, but how [[SoProudOfYou proud he is of him]].
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* HiddenDepths: What's the one coherent thing he talks about, while completely insane after spending [[spoiler: months [[spoiler:months under the Imperius Curse]]? [[WellDoneSonGuy His son]], and not how much he hates the boy, but how [[SoProudOfYou proud he is of him]].
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** Fudge seemed to be on friendly terms with Harry and Dumbledore, but when faced with the uncomfortable news of Voldemort's return, Fudge turned on them both and threw them under the bus while pushing a narrative that the two of them were trying to overthrow him. Scrimgeour keeps his high suspicions of Dumbledore and Harry rather than ever be their friend, and more than once attempts to pry into their relationship and plans, only to be rebuffed time and again. Neither of the two of them get along with Scrimgeour, but ultimately, Scrimgeour fights for good, and [[spoiler: dies stone-walling ''Voldemort himself'' while Voldemort attempted to break into his mind to find Harry's location.]]
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** Fudge seemed to be on friendly terms with Harry and Dumbledore, but when faced with the uncomfortable news of Voldemort's return, Fudge turned on them both and threw them under the bus while pushing a narrative that the two of them were trying to overthrow him. Scrimgeour keeps his high suspicions of Dumbledore and Harry rather than ever be their friend, and more than once attempts to pry into their relationship and plans, only to be rebuffed time and again. Neither of the two of them get along with Scrimgeour, but ultimately, Scrimgeour fights for good, and [[spoiler: dies [[spoiler:dies stone-walling ''Voldemort himself'' while Voldemort attempted to break into his mind to find Harry's location.]]
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* IdiotBall: He was appointed Minister of Magic after it's revealed [[spoiler:that Harry and Dumbledore were telling the truth about Voldemort's return]]. That being said, why doesn't he trust Harry? One would think he would try to befriend him and work together to [[spoiler: stop [[spoiler:stop Voldemort once and for all]].
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** Later subverted, when it becomes clear that Dumbledore is keeping information from Scrimgeour not just because the latter is a jerkass, but because he knew the Ministry had been infiltrated and didn't want them to know he knew about Voldemort's [[spoiler: horcruxes]]. And even then, wasting manpower on inspecting Dumbledore's will instead of publicizing the mass breakout helps the Death Eaters out even more.
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* OldSoldier: A veteran Auror, he's described as looking like an old lion. He has a limp, presumably from his fighting days, [[spoiler: and he resists Lord Voldemort's torture before being killed.]] All in all, the guy seems like a poor man's Alastor Moody.
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* OldSoldier: A veteran Auror, he's described as looking like an old lion. He has a limp, presumably from his fighting days, [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and he resists Lord Voldemort's torture before being killed.]] All in all, the guy seems like a poor man's Alastor Moody.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler: He and Harry almost immediately dislike each other, but nonetheless he refuses to reveal Harry's location to Voldemort even under torture, and pays for this with his life.]]
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He and Harry almost immediately dislike each other, but nonetheless he refuses to reveal Harry's location to Voldemort even under torture, and pays for this with his life.]]
