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Дж. К. Роулинг. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists
Chapter One. Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Umbridge. by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling’s thoughts
Chapter Two. Ministers for Magic and Azkaban
MINISTERS FOR MAGIC. BY J.K. ROWLING
AZKABAN. BY J.K. ROWLING
J.K. Rowling’s thoughts
Chapter Three. Horace Slughorn
HORACE SLUGHORN. BY J.K. ROWLING
Childhood
Early Teaching Career
Relationship with Voldemort
Retirement
Hiding
Later Teaching Career
Hogwarts under Death Eater Rule
The Battle of Hogwarts
J.K. Rowling’s thoughts
POTIONS. BY J.K. ROWLING
J.K. Rowling’s thoughts
POLYJUICE POTION. BY J.K. ROWLING
J.K. Rowling’s thoughts
CAULDRONS. BY J.K. ROWLING
J.K. Rowling’s thoughts
Chapter Four. Quirinus Quirrell
QUIRINUS QUIRRELL. BY J.K. ROWLING
J.K. Rowling’s thoughts
Chapter Five. A Pesky Poltergeist
PEEVES THE POLTERGEIST. BY J.K. ROWLING
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Dolores Jane Umbridge was the eldest child and only daughter of Orford Umbridge, a wizard, and Ellen Cracknell, a Muggle, who also had a Squib son. Dolores’s parents were unhappily married, and Dolores secretly despised both of them: Orford for his lack of ambition (he had never been promoted, and worked in the Department of Magical Maintenance at the Ministry of Magic), and her mother, Ellen, for her flightiness, untidiness, and Muggle lineage. Both Orford and his daughter blamed Ellen for Dolores’s brother’s lack of magical ability, with the result that when Dolores was fifteen, the family split down the middle, Orford and Dolores remaining together, and Ellen vanishing back into the Muggle world with her son. Dolores never saw her mother or brother again, never spoke of either of them, and henceforth pretended to all she met that she was a pure-blood.
An accomplished witch, Dolores joined the Ministry of Magic directly after she left Hogwarts, taking a job as a lowly intern in the Improper Use of Magic Office. Even at seventeen, Dolores was judgemental, prejudiced and sadistic, although her conscientious attitude, her saccharine manner towards her superiors, and the ruthlessness and stealth with which she took credit for other people’s work soon gained her advancement. Before she was thirty, Dolores had been promoted to head of the office, and it was but a short step from there to ever more senior positions in the management of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. By this time, she had persuaded her father to take early retirement, and by making him a small financial allowance, she ensured that he dropped quietly out of sight. Whenever she was asked (usually by workmates who did not like her) ‘are you related to that Umbridge who used to mop the floors here?’ she would smile her sweetest, laugh, and deny any connection whatsoever, claiming that her deceased father had been a distinguished member of the Wizengamot. Nasty things tended to happen to people who asked about Orford, or anything that Dolores did not like talking about, and people who wanted to remain on her good side pretended to believe her version of her ancestry.
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