Hey everyone welcome back to Harry Potter folklore, today I wanna talk about Dolores
Umbridge and in particular why she was able to produce a patronus despite having what
id call the ugliest heart in the wizarding world. For a woman who loves imposing misery,
how is she even able to conjure the level of happiness required to even conjure a patronus.
Believe it or not and what I mean by that is believe it, Dolores Umbridge is one of
if not the most hated villains of the Harry Potter universe. There’s even been videos
on whose a worse individual between her and voldmeort, I should know, I’ve made one
but I’ve never talked about how she was able to make a patrons while she worked as
head of the muggleborn registration committee which was of course guarded by dementors.
Let’s just take a look at the character of Dolores in order to get a better understanding
of why she really shouldn’t be able t create a Patronus. Then we can try to figure out
how she did it. These are my favourite kind of videos guys so please stick with me if
you want to go on an investigative route and figure this all out. There isn’t a character
I dislike more than Dolores Umbridge. I can understand why people hate her more than voldemort,
I’m one of them. In the books, she had me wanting to rip the pages out that showcased
her horrible dialogue and treatment towards people.
Then I seen her on screen and I have never been more angry watching a movie then I was
watching Imelda stauntons portrayal of her. I mean on one hand it was absolutely incredible,
she nailed it, got the character to a tee. Honestly, for having such little screen time,
I don’t have any more words to describe how worthy of a performance Imelda put in.
Im not surprised, she’s a fantastic actress. Dolores Umbridge has been what I’d call
a nasty piece of work since the tender age of 11 when she first attended hogwarts. Sorted
into Slytherin she tried to assert dominance quite early on but her desperation for a position
of power became quite evident to Horace Slughorn, her year head. Horace made sure she was never
even considered for Prefect or Head girl as he believed she’d abuse her position if
award it. This made her resent her time in hogwarts and she never really enjoyed any
of her school years. Dolores was also pretty obsessed with blood purity even tho she didnt
have it. She wanted everyone to think she was a pureblooded witch and even went as far
a disassociating herself from her muggle brother and squib brother while barely accepting her
father due to his low level position in the department of magical maintenance. As they
shared the same name, Dolores became more uneasy about being linked to her father as
they shared the same name. She convinced him to retire early in exchange for a small monthly
allowance.
As she moved her way up the ministry ranks, she claimed to be related to the pure blooded
Selwyn family and also set her sights on gaining a husband, hopefully a ministry employee like
herself. Unfortunately for dolores, she was very difficult to be around due to her rude,
unfiltered persona which accompanied her quite disturbing views on the magical world. This
made her really unappealble and she never succeeded in finding a husband. So you can
see early on that her cold heart had already been well developed by then. She also really
despised half breeds and went about drafting an anti-werewolf legislation in 1993, which
made it nearly impossible for werewolves, such as Remus Lupin, to find work. This
act also made it easier for Lord Voldemort to recruit werewolves to his cause, preying
on their treatment by the Ministry. In 1994, she also campaigned that the Merpeople be
rounded up and tagged, though this idea was scrapped due to it being too ludicrous to
be put into effect. Dolores was even behind the dementor attack aimed at Harry Potter
in order to silence his claims on Voldemorts return, with the dementors given the instructions
to perform the dementors kiss. It’s absolutely nuts. Then she joins the hogwarts teaching
staff and thats where it really goes to the next level. Umbridge immediately tried to
assert dominance over Dumbledores rule from the first moment when she interrupts his speech
with one of her own.
She stuck by what she described as a ministry approved theoretical based defence against
the dark arts curriculum that was clearly designed to weaken the students out of Cornelius
Fudge’s ridiculous paranoid assumptions that the students where ready to overthrow
him with dumbledore at the front. She slammed anyone who even questioned whether Harry Potter
could indeed be telling the truth and inflicted harsh punishments on anyone who disobeyed
or misbehaved with harry in particular being subject to her blood quill. A magical pen
that draws its ink source from the blood of the person who’s writing with it, leaving
a nasty wound on their hand. She actually invented this. She sat there and thought this
up, then put it in practice. I’ve recapped on Umbridge so you can all see how truly black
her heart is and why she shouldn’t be able to produce a patronus. It didn’t stop there
guys, she was promoted to high inquisitor where she enforced new educational decree
after decree, giving her the power to basically make up any rule she wanted, which of course
is a dream for her. Something that I thought was quite fitting although only featured in
the movies was her intention to have educational decree number 29 passed which would allow
the physical punishment of students at the hands of Argue Filch. Anyway then she becomes
the headmistress and governs over the school like a dictator. I mean it’s not too far
off the death eater regime that ran the school under Snape’s leadership.
Dolores took it a step further when she threatened to perform the cruciatus curse on Harry off
he didnt talk..threatened isn’t the right word actually, she was about to do it before
she was interrupted. Despite being suspended, she still managed to worm her way back to
her job in the ministry and was placed as head of the muggle born registration committee
in addition to gaining possession of Alastor Moody’s magical eye. Then we see her produce
her cat patronus as it sits there beside her the whole time. How did she hold that happy
thought so long to be able to continuously have the patronus by her side all day, like
literally the entire time? I’ll get to that in a moment. So I’m sure you guys can all
see just why she shouldn’t be able to produce a patronus, I mean just look at all the things
she’s done..Surely she’s evil right? Well I’m gonna say no..she’s not evil. She’s
mean, cold hearted and vindictive but she’s not evil and here’s why. Dolores Umbridge
loves power and position. She wants to be highly thought of. She wants to elevate herself
as high as possible within the ministry and within life in general. Nothing makes her
happier than enforcing law and order because and only because she’s in a position to
do so. That’s what Umbridge loves more than anything, just being able to be the person
who makes important or less important decisions, she enjoys effecting people lives because
she can.
When she was under Cornelius Fudge’s leadership, she enforced his way of thinking to the absolute
max, because he allowed her to. She imposed maximum punishment whenever she could. It
didn’t matter to dolores what side she was on and I have to say it’s one of the few
things that the cursed child got right in the alternate timeline, how easily she accepted
voldemort’s reign. She knew all too well that the ministry had fallen to voldemort
in 1997 and went along with it anyway because she finally got to become the head of a department
and to be the one in charge. This all stems back to her time as a hogwarts student and
being denied any position oof power as I mentioned earlier in the video. Dolores Umbridge took
her happiness from imposing misery on others through law and order. It wasn’t the misery
she enjoyed, it was the fact that she could do without question. Thats the most important
part to note guys I need to stress that again as it explains why her loyalty changed so
quickly. She was literally living the dream. That brings me back to the question I highlighted
a few moments ago? How was she able to continuously produce a patronus the whole time? The patronus
charm is extremely difficult to master.
It requires a high level of concentration as the caster needs to focus on their happy
memories and experiences in order for the spell to be effective. The patronus then fades
away after the caster lowers their wand and resumes normal focus. Umbridge didnt even
have a wand and looked oblivious to the fact the the patronus cat was sitting beside her.
Actually it’s kind of a double meaning to the videos title because its a double question.
How did Umbridge produce a patronus and how did Umbridge produce a patronus the way she
did in the muggleborn registration committee chambers. Well lets answer it because its
easier than you may think. Dolores Umbridge didnt need a happy memory, she was living
pure happiness just by being alive and in her current role. She got to condemn people
to the dementors kiss if she felt like it. Even if the people on trial in front of her
were telling the truth, she could dismiss them as she alone was the judge, jury and
executioner. That is how she could produce a patronus for so long. Anyway guys, thats
todays video on why Dolores Umbridge could produce a patronus. As always, leave you thoughts
on the matter in the comment section. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you for the next
video.