On 8 March 1996, Hogwarts High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge and Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge signed Sybill Trelawney's Order of Dismissal, due to her inadequate performance.
During Dolores Umbridge's time at Hogwarts, Sybill Trelawney's qualifications as a Divination Professor were put to the test harder than ever, resulting in Umbridge firing Trelawney from her position.
When she sacked and humiliated Professor Trelawney. Ok, so Professor Trelawney was hardly the most popular teacher. And yes, her talents as a Seer were questionable. However, when Umbridge sacked and publicly humiliated her in front of the entire school, it was truly heart-breaking.
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Why did Hermione hate Trelawney?
Yes, she thought Professor Trelawney was a bit of a fraud and the subject was useless…but it seemed that what she couldn't cope with was not being amazing at a subject straight away. Trelawney expressed that she didn't have what it takes and rather than try to prove her wrong, Hermione believed her and gave up.
Although she was very happy to go along with Voldemort's view of the world – she was very much a bigot – her predominant motivation seemed to be more about how much authority and influence she could secure because for Umbridge it was all about well… Umbridge.
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.
TIL: The actor that played Professor Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh) was once married to Professor Trelawney (Emma Thompson). They divorced in 1995 after she found out he's cheating on her with Belatrix Lestrange (Helena Bohnam Carter)
When she speaks to Luna in Half-Blood Prince, Trelawney responds with “an angry, drunken titter.” Rowling writes that Trelawney “developed an over-reliance on alcohol” due to her perceived ill-treatment. Alcoholism is an addiction and should be treated as an illness, not a character flaw.
If you have only seen the films, you might be surprised to hear that it wasn't Cho Chang who betrayed Dumbledore's Army to Professor Umbridge – it was Marietta Edgecombe. A friend of Cho's and a fellow Ravenclaw, Marietta (reluctantly) joined the DA.
Their relationship ends when the D.A. is exposed following Marietta Edgecombe's betrayal of the group to Umbridge. Cho defends her friend's actions by saying that Marietta simply made a mistake.
A Ministry of Magic bureaucrat who was able to indulge in her sadistic tendencies when she was posted to Hogwarts as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Dolores Umbridge was famous for her sickly pink wardrobe and her particularly violent taste for corporal punishments.
Harry describes Umbridge to Sirius Black, saying that she's vile enough to be a Death Eater, despite not being one. Umbridge is also depicted to be a prejudiced person, despising half-breeds and Muggle-born witches and wizards to the point of firing Hagrid due to his half-giant birth status.
Correctly judged, by senior Death Eaters, to have much more in common with them than she ever had with Albus Dumbledore, she not only retained her post but was given extra authority, becoming Head of the Muggle-born Registration Commission, which was in effect a kangaroo court that imprisoned all Muggle-borns on the ...
Magical aptitude: Noted to have been rather above average in both intelligence and magical ability during his formative years, all things considered, Gilderoy Lockhart was never a bad wizard, just an exceedingly lazy one that got so out of practice that his skills became largely ineffective.
The accident that cost Lockhart his sanity occurred at the end of his year at Hogwarts, when he was hit by a backfiring Memory Charm that forever erased his past. He has since resided in the Janus Thickey Ward of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
Gilderoy Lockhart was an immoderately vainglorious, self-obsessed, egocentric, and narcissistic self-promoter who claimed to have accomplished multiple heroic deeds. However, in reality, he was nothing but a charlatan who took credit for other Wizards and Witches' achievements.
Was Umbridge a terrible person because of the Horcrux?
Despite this, some feel that her extreme cruelty in Deathly Hallows was given to the influence of Slytherin's Locket as a Horcrux, but J.K. Rowling has affirmed that this isn't the case and that the Locket couldn't worsen Umbridge as she was already such a horrible person.
When the centaurs made threatening moves, Umbridge cast "Incarcerous" on the centaur Magorian, strangling him with ropes. The centaur Bane then picked her up and carried her away deeper into the forest screaming (what happened to her beyond that, during her time with the Centaur herd until she was rescued, is unknown).
What happened to Umbridge after the Centaurs took her?
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 hoof-beats.
The next school year, Filch was furious when Harry learned that he was a Squib. Then, he believed that Harry was the one who petrified Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat, as he was one of the few people who knew he was a Squib.
In keeping with his dislike for students and their inevitable tendency to create messes and disorder (which he, as caretaker, would get stuck cleaning up), Filch idolised "the old ways" of discipline and constantly lamented that he was no longer allowed to use corporal punishment.
At this time, Dolores Umbridge is put on trial and quickly and easily found guilty of the awful crimes she committed against muggles and muggle-born, as well as in aiding the Death Eaters. She is thereafter sentenced to life imprisonment in the dark halls of Azkaban prison.
