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Baddies in books: Dolores Umbridge, the trilling torturer

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 | 3:09 AM

The only person apart from Voldemort to permanently scar Harry Potter, she is the kitsch face of sadism who, once encountered, can never be forgotten


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The most frightening villains are the ones who know us. They prey on our particular vulnerabilities and threaten the things we love. They have the power to activate a personal nightmare.


Rarely has this brand of malice been exercised to more horrific effect than by Dolores Umbridge, Professor of the Dark Arts at Hogwarts school and sometime employee of the Ministry of Magic, who makes her first appearance in the fifth book of the Harry Potter series and retains her sickening hold until the latter part of The Deathly Hallows.


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