“For surely a teacher capable of banning Harry Potter from playing Quidditch is capable of anything.”
The jarring contrast between her appearance and her attitudes contributes to the terror she cultivates.
They become malevolent not only because they are associated with Umbridge, but because they are everywhere.
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The Wizarding World is larger than you may realize.
Because of this, Umbridge is actually amajor turning point for theHarry Potterfranchiseand for the Hogwarts students.
Before this, the dangers recounted in the stories were restricted to certain aspects of the school.
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With their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.
