Rowling tells how Harry Potters least favourite teacher was based on a former teacher of her own, whom the author disliked intensely on sight
JK Rowling has revealed that Dolores Umbridge, the witch who forces Harry Potter to cut the words I must not tell lies on to his hand, was inspired by a real person.
In an essay for her website Pottermore, released to mark Halloween, Rowling says the inspiration for Umbridge was someone whom I disliked intensely on sight. The novelist has not revealed the persons identity, but did write that she had been her teacher long ago ... in a certain skill or subject.
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