[HPforGrownups] Umbridge Under the Influence: Dolores and the Locket

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 174744


I thought the whole "wearing horcux interferes with your patronus" 
business is a giant plot hole. I mean, Harry was able to produce perfect 
Patronuses for four and a half books, while all this time he was 
carrying a horcrux inside his head. So how come the external locket was 
so much more influential?

Irene

Ceridwen wrote:
> What effect did the locket horcrux have on Dolores Umbridge?  She was 
> the most horrible character invented in the series, so it's hard for me 
> to see any difference between the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts in OotP, 
> and the High Inquisitor of Muggles in DH.  She's still a rotten... 
> person.
> 
> We know the locket exacted a toll on the trio when each of them wore 
> it.  Tempers flared, spirits were depressed, and Ron's concerns seemed 
> to have been magnified - shown in detail in the sequence where 
> he 'kills' the horcrux.
> 
> What was its effect on Umbridge?  Did its influence weaken her 
> Patronus?  Did it make her even eviller than she was?  Did it in any 
> way influence her to retrieve Mad-Eye Moody's eye when he was killed?
> 
> At which point in the book, or the last three books, did she get this 
> Horcrux?  How long has it been affecting her?
> 
> Ceridwen.
>