History Characters / HarryPotterMinistryOfMagic

* AffablyEvil: She certainly tries, but overdoes it - her fake persona is [[TastesLikeDiabetes every bit as foul as her real one]].

* '''''[[BitchInSheepsClothing BITCH IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.]]'''''

* TheStoolPidgeon: Despite her being a GossipyHens, her actual classification under this trope is Lacerated Larry, since the reason she squealed was because she was tortured by Lord Voldemort and Wormtail.

* LightIsNotGood: Unlike the Death Eaters, she can summon a Patronus, and unlike the heroes, she is not the least bit impaired by [[SoulJar Slytherin's Locket]], thanks to the fact that what she considers "happy thoughts" are pretty much HighOctaneNightmareFuel. To say nothing of her GlurgeAddict status.

* TooDumbToLive: Subverted. He's not exactly unintelligent, but he's so scared of the truth that he comes across as this. He's ''so'' blindly in denial that it's actually in Voldemort's best interest to leave Fudge alone and let him continue to misrule the Ministry. So he does.

* TheChamberlain

* KarmaHoudini: Though she is thoroughly traumatized by the Centaurs at the end of the fifth book, she is next seen gleefully serving the new regime at The Ministry in the seventh. WordOfGod is that she ends up in Azkaban when the threat of Voldemort is over, but [[TheMovie in the film of The Deathly Hallows]], [[LaserGuidedKarma it's implied that she...]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard more directly]] [[FateWorseThanDeath gets what's coming to her.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[CloudCuckooLander Luna Lovegood]] says he's a vampire, though this is questionable to say the least.

* TheQuisling: Not that he has much of a say in the matter.

* MeaningfulName: "Pius" is Latin and means, among other things, "devoted to order." Pius was also the name of several popes, one of whom created the Inquisition. "Thicknesse" sounds like "thickness" and can be broken into "thick nesse" (thick tongue) referring to his speaking abilities.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Come book five, it's easy to imagine Lucius Malfoy and Dolores Umbridge effortlessly manipulate him by acting like cliché {{Evil Chancellor}}s.

The Minister for Magic for most of the series, initially a rather affable figure with a keen fondness for Harry who continually asks Dumbledore for advice, he outs himself as a slanderous, incompetent coward when he refuses to believe that Voldemort has returned, [[DyingLikeAnimals instead opting to act as if nothing is wrong]] and making Harry and Dumbledore out to be insane. After Voldemort's return is revealed to all, he is sacked from his position and replaced by Rufus Scrimgeour.

* AdaptationDecay: To a degree. In the books he is described as very, very austere, by-the-book and with little tolerance for just about anything weird. In the movies, well..''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0cvGPP8JU&feature=related]]''

The celebrated Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bones, she likely attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as a Hufflepuff before joining the Ministry of Magic.

* DyingLikeAnimals: A stubborn, determined ostritch.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Her prejudice against non-humans and halfbreeds seems a little shoehorned in just to make her more hateable, but it might have been {{Foreshadowing}} to explain why she so gleefully goes along with the New Order's persecution of Muggle-borns.

* SwissMessenger

* TookALevelInJerkass

* FridgeHorror/[[FridgeBrilliance Fridge AWESOMENESS]]: You know how she gets [[spoiler: dragged off into the forbidden forest by a herd of angry centaurs? Well, centaurs are famous for two things: the intelligence of man, and the reproductive urges of horses, so what do you think they'll do with a woman in their midst? Yes, you heard that right, Umbridge, probably the most hated character in the series, was gang raped by centaurs. And millions of GreekMythology buffs rejoiced, as did everyone else who figured it out.]]

* WrittenInAbsence: According to Robert Hardy, at least. Given what happens to Fudge in the books, it doesn't seem especially likely that he would have been in the last three movies anyway, but nevertheless Hardy claims he got written out due to being too old to insure (this has happened before -- it was why DeForestKelley got cut from ''StarTrekGenerations'').

* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Trope picture.