The Ministry’s smiling enforcer. She tortures students with a blood quill, drives Dumbledore from the castle, and later sits in judgment wearing the locket Horcrux. Her Hogwarts house is given in supplementary writing, not in a Sorting scene.
Appears in
On the timeline
- 1995–1996 school year
Umbridge takes the school
She arrives to teach Defence, then becomes High Inquisitor. Educational Decrees pile up. The centaurs finally drive her out of the forest. - 1997-09-02
The Ministry raid
Polyjuiced, the trio enter the Ministry, take the locket from Umbridge, and are forced on the run when their cover breaks.