Professor Umbridge.

No, he's not!
He was just in deep, deep, deep denial.

He chose to believe that Dumbledore and company were plotting
against him rather than believe... the unthinkable.

Ok, that's no excuse, but you can't compare him to Umbridge.
He was never sadistic. (Trelawney, Hagrid...)
And never consciously dishonest. (sending dementors...)
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He most certainly is. Placing your own desperate need for power over doing what you know to be right is about as evil as it gets.

I don't remember that part. Where was it?

I don't see the idea of Umbridge helping Harry as so terrible. He's not so petty. And the big issue at the moment pushes everything into perspective. I would never trust Umbridge with anything important, simply because she is a fool and likely to mess it up. But to do something out of spite? She's not that important. Harry has bigger things to worry about.
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I don't think Umbridge is going to play much of a role again, and Harry can't be an auror anyway, but you don't think Harry is that petty? We've seen again and again Harry doing and saying stupid thing because he always let's his emotions rule him.

No, Fudge did not place his desperate need for power over doing what he knew to be right. The point is that he did not know. He was a fool, he was in denial, but he is not truly evil.

Saying something stupid on impulse is not the same as carrying a petty grudge for two years and loosing sleep over it. Umbridge is no more important than Dudley. And no more useful.

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Of course he knew. To be in denial, you have to know what the truth is. Otherwise it's ignorance, and he certainly wasn't ignorant of what was going on. He just didn't want to believe it because it threatened his comfort and power.

Saying something stupid on impulse is not the same as carrying a petty grudge for two years and loosing sleep over it. Umbridge is no more important than Dudley. And no more useful.
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Umbridge's or Dudley's importance is irrelevant. Harry's not that conscious. It wouldn't stop him from doing something spiteful to either of them. I'm not saying he will in book 7, I'm just saying I wouldn't put it past him.

Ok the bit where Scrimgeour tells Harry that Umbridge has been telling them at the ministry that Harry wants to be an auror is in chapter sixteen of HBP when Scrimgeour visits the Weasleys and has a chat with Harry one on one. When he's telling Harry how the ministry wants to use him he also says that Umbridge has told him that Harry cherishes an ambition to become an auror. Like, she stated emphatically in book five that the ministry wouldn't have Harry as an Auror.

Aberforth, what do you mean Harry can't be an auror anyway!?

He didn't get a high enough OWL in potions to do it. That's in an early chapter in HBP, I can't remember which.

I'll bet you another nickel he doesn't become an auror. :P

He didn't get a high enough OWL for potions if Snape were teaching it... but Slughorn was happy to have him back with an Exceeds Expectations, which was what he got. That was why he got the Half Blood Prince's potions book - 'cause he hadn't bought himself one from Diagon Alley at the beginning of the year.

Don't take that bet! I'm sure that Harry will be ABLE to become an Auror. Still, he could go in another direction, for reasons unrelated to academics or politics.

Then again... Slughorn changed that rule AFTER Harry knew Harry's final grades from last year. Speaking of politics, maybe Mr. Favoritism was cheating?

Maybe Slug did cheat the test, it seems fitting. Don't know just another thought.
I don't doubt Harry becoming an Auror. I mean he really seemed into it.
Or maybe he might not want to be later and just try to live out his life as an ordanary wizard.

I'm sure Harry will always want to be an Auror. He has, so far, all the right stuff to at least appy for the job. If Harry survives to the end of the series, he'll want a career, even if he doesn't need to earn any gold.

Also, I think there is a difference in the level of trechery between Umbridge and Fudge. Umbridge was much worse. But I don't think either of them fit into the category of "evil". That's a category for Voldemort, alone, because I can't see either of them stooping to the darkest of Dark Arts that LV has done.