Character Psychological Profiles - Umbridge

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No: HPFGUIDX 127507


<snip>> Umbridge seems to be at the extreme end of a path Percy 
seems well
> started on.  She's an apparatchik.  Having no moral compass of here
> own, she's turned over her conscience and sense of right and wrong 
to
> someone else, in this case Fudge and "the Ministry" as if it was a
> higher power. She will not follow her own path, only someone 
else's. 
> The official facts are her facts, the official truth her truth. 
> Thinking is not required.
> 
>  The world is full of people like this, and always had been; Henry 
II
> asked "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"  Some 
knights
> heard it, and Thomas á Becket died.  Umbridge would have approved. 
> Heck, she tried it with Dementors.  The swords would have been 
kinder.
>  Jodl, Keitel, and Eichmann "just followed orders."  JKR clearly
> doesn't approve of people without their own consciences.
> 
> It's a kind of reflected sociopathy, an amorality come by second-
hand.
> 
> Jim Ferer

Reflected sociopathy...I like that term.  How is that different 
from "Closet Narcissism"?  I certainly agree with your statement 
regarding those of whom JKR disapproves.  I had been thinking along 
those lines as I was thinking about the similarities of the people 
we have discussed thus far -- Snape, Malfoy, Lockhart, now Umbridge.

Julie