marietta edgecombe told umbridge about dumbledore's army in the book.
marietta edgecombe told umbridge about dumbledore's army in the book.
who told umbridge about dumbledore's army in the book?
marietta edgecombe
umbridge finally sacks professor trelawney, the divination teacher; however, she is outraged when professor dumbledore undermines her power by allowing trelawney to continue living at the school, and hires firenze, a centaur, to take her place, in spite of umbridge's prejudice against part-humans. soon after, umbridge is given a tip-off about dumbledore's army by marietta edgecombe, who in doing so unwittingly activates a curse set by hermione which disfigures her face. despite dobby's warning, the gang are caught and get into trouble with fudge. when dumbledore takes responsibility for the illegal organisation, he is forced to leave the school and go into hiding. dolores umbridge becomes headmistress, and fred and george cause pandemonium around the school in revenge.
harry potter and the order of the phoenix
umbridge is first presented as an interrogator at harry's trial for under-age use of magic in the opening chapters of "order of the phoenix". it is later revealed that umbridge had the dementors attack harry in an attempt to silence him from contradicting the ministry's statement about voldemort not returning from the dead. umbridge is subsequently installed at hogwarts as defence against the dark arts professor by order of the ministry. her teaching consists only of defensive magical theory, due to fudge's paranoid fear that dumbledore intends to use his students as an army to bring down the ministry. she is soon appointed the first "high inquisitor" of hogwarts, in which she is given extraordinary powers over the students, teachers, and curriculum. she dismisses sybill trelawney as a teacher, though dumbledore points out she cannot send her away from the school itself. ultimately, she deposes dumbledore after he 'confesses' to plotting against the ministry to prevent harry being expelled, and has herself installed as headmistress by the ministry. however the headmaster's office (the room itself) rejects her authority by sealing her out, meaning she has to continue to use her own office. she creates the "inquisitorial squad", which rewards its student members for reporting on others and sanctions them to act as enforcers of umbridge's rules, including the ability to take points from the other students for the house cup competition. all the members of the inquisitorial squad are slytherins, with the exception of the squib mr. filch. her authority is initially challenged by fred and george, who leave hogwarts after turning a corridor into a swamp and bombarding umbridge with fireworks. she then faces trouble from the non-slytherin student body and peeves at every opportunity, with the teachers doing very little to stop them, even aiding peeves and the students on occasion. filch the caretaker tries to help her, delighted at being given permission to whip students, but there is too much trouble for him to keep order. towards the final chapters of "order of the phoenix", umbridge attacks hagrid, but her attempt is thwarted partly due to hagrid's half-giant heritage which grants relative immunity to spells. hagrid escapes hogwarts, and minerva mcgonagall is severely injured by umbridge's followers and is sent to st. mungo's hospital, clearing the way for umbridge to assume complete control of the school.
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