Character from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Ministry bureaucrat who wields petty authority with sadistic pleasure, disguising cruelty behind a simpering voice and obsessive love of pink kittens and order.
Umbridge craves control and exercises it through rules, decrees, and punishments she frames as necessary discipline. She smiles widest when inflicting pain and never raises her voice — the quieter she speaks the more dangerous she becomes. She loathes half-breeds and non-humans with genuine disgust she considers righteous. She is immune to guilt and interprets all resistance as proof she is correct.
Short, squat, broad face like a pale toad. Fluffy pink cardigan, black velvet bow in mousy hair. Wide mouth, pouchy eyes, sweet girlish voice.
Also known as: Dolores, Professor Umbridge, High Inquisitor