Durga - The 'Umbridge' of our show

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Posted: 6 years ago
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Lately the more I am seeing Durga's kands, she is reminding me increasingly of Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter series. We potterheads all over the world have different views on different points of the stories but there is one thing where we all agree upon. All of us hate Umbridge more than Lord Voldemort.

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She would make my skin crawl. I remember once while in hall, I was literally shaking in anger while reading "Order of Phoenix" & my roommate with whom I had an argument hours ago & didn't talk to since, noticed it. She came, handed me water & told me to take a break for sometime. 😆


Here are some of the parallels I could draw :

After entering Hogwarts Umbridge's sole purpose was to convince everyone that, Harry is a liar. Durga's sole purpose since Guddu's entry in Jindal bhavan became to prove her useless & unworthy of being a Jindal.

Umbridge permanently scarred Harry for lifetime on back of his hand by making him write "I must not tell lies" with a blood quill (whatever the user wrote with it used their own blood as ink and sliced the words into their flesh, eventually leaving his hand permanently scarred ).
Durga wrote, "tumse na ho payega" on guddu's hand with mehendi. She made Guddu write down her mistake. She reminded Guddu of being responsible for her mom's death during khichdi competition.

Umbridge disrespected all of the professors in Hogwarts by interrogating them in middle of their ongoing classes & interrupting their teaching session. We know how Durga keeps interfering in her saas-sasur's husband-wife issues.

Umbridge was a bully like Durga.

Umbridge used truth serum on students in no prescribed dose while interrogating them & then attempted to use Cruciatus Curse better known as torture curse ( one of the three unforgivable curses that inflicts intense, excruciating pain on the victim & can also drive one to insanity ) on underage students.
Durga is changing the medicine of a mentally disturbed patient & playing with his mental health.

Umbridge was phobic of beings that were not quite, or wholly human i.e. half-giants or centaurs. She is an immensely controlling person, and all who challenge her authority and world-view must, in her opinion, be punished.
Durga is phobic of any changes in rules & regulation of Jindal bhavan.

Umbridge used to detest muggle-borns (witch/wizards born from non-magical parents) & held trials for supposedly "stealing" magic from "real" witch & wizards.
We know the basis of Durga's immense hatred for Guddu is Guddu's record of mistakes that makes her see Guddu as useless & good for nothing. Hence she tries to make AJ held a trial against Guddu at every chance she gets.

Umbridge did all she did naming it enforcing law under the ministry of magic even by stepping out of laws.
Durga is doing all she is doing naming it for the greater good of the family even by breaking many of the family's ideologies.

Here is one reason why Umbridge never got married:-

In spite of her best efforts to secure the affections of one of her superiors (she never cared particularly which of them it was, but knew that her own status and security would be advanced with a powerful husband), Dolores never succeeded in marrying. While they valued her hard work and ambition, those who got to know her best found it difficult to like her very much. After a glass of sweet sherry, Dolores was always prone to spout very uncharitable views, and even those who were anti-Muggle found themselves shocked by some of Dolores's suggestions, behind closed doors, of the treatment that the non-magical community deserved.

After this all I can say is, Poor Kishore !

Here is a better description of Umbridge & her personality in an article written by J.K.Rowling herself :-




p.s. No offence meant to any Harry Potter fan or the fandom.

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Posted: 6 years ago
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I'm not a big fan Harry Potter.😉
But all you wrote is true. 👏
Today she is officially evil in every way. 😡
So far, there have been some little hopes for her, but from now on there is no more. Terrible how low this woman was fell, at the beginning of the series after AJ and Guddan she was my favorite character.😕
Big disappointment. 😲I always thought that her opinion was always for the benefit of the family. But this today what she is done, no justification for that. She uses a mentally ill person for personal revenge.
Poor Kishore I feel sorry for him. Such a woman can not love anyone. To love this is a distant thing, it can not even treat anyone with respect.
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Hi Captain agreed I remember when I read HP order of pheonix I hated Umbridge the fury I used to fell and still feel each time I read it is just😡 though she wasn't the main villain but the hate and fury she used to induce was tremendous while Voldy was the main villain he never justified himself in the name of greater good he knew he was evil and was proud of it though both shared the same beliefs of muggle born shouldn't be part of their world and magic should remain in only magical families but yet Voldy never managed that kind of hatred or temper no matter how fear inducing he was. Similarly Durga in the name of rules parampara, pratishtha aur anushashan does all the kaands a hippocrate who preaches something but does exact opposite, who talks high but does all the lows possible. In her head this deluded woman thinks and even justify all the things she does as right and even thinks and represents herself as victim while she the wrong doer.
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Sorry..I hate harry potter 😆
So no idea
I enjoyed reading your post😊
No offence to harry potter fans out there
Edited by shena07 - 6 years ago
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Posted: 6 years ago
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I am not a fan of harry
But ur comparison was bang on
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Originally posted by: sumatra1234

I'm not a big fan Harry Potter.😉

But all you wrote is true. 👏
Today she is officially evil in every way. 😡
So far, there have been some little hopes for her, but from now on there is no more. Terrible how low this woman was fell, at the beginning of the series after AJ and Guddan she was my favorite character.😕
Big disappointment. 😲I always thought that her opinion was always for the benefit of the family. But this today what she is done, no justification for that. She uses a mentally ill person for personal revenge.
Poor Kishore I feel sorry for him. Such a woman can not love anyone. To love this is a distant thing, it can not even treat anyone with respect.


She is proving to be a serious mental case & in definite needs of medical attention.

She is using the "benefit of family" to justify her acts to herself more than anyone else. She is in deep delusion & her only intention to take out her grudges on Guddu.

Such human are toxic for the people around & needs to be locked away from humanity if they can't be cured. Cause she strongly believe the acts she is doing, which are even against her own ideologies is for the greater good of the family.
While other negative characters of the show know & are clear within themselves atleast in the sense that whatever they are doing, they don't intend anything good for anyone apart for themselves.

I guess that's what makes it tough to watch her as compared to others.
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Originally posted by: BhataktiAtma.

Hi Captain agreed I remember when I read HP order of pheonix I hated Umbridge the fury I used to fell and still feel each time I read it is just😡 though she wasn't the main villain but the hate and fury she used to induce was tremendous while Voldy was the main villain he never justified himself in the name of greater good he knew he was evil and was proud of it though both shared the same beliefs of muggle born shouldn't be part of their world and magic should remain in only magical families but yet Voldy never managed that kind of hatred or temper no matter how fear inducing he was. Similarly Durga in the name of rules parampara, pratishtha aur anushashan does all the kaands a hippocrate who preaches something but does exact opposite, who talks high but does all the lows possible. In her head this deluded woman thinks and even justify all the things she does as right and even thinks and represents herself as victim while she the wrong doer.


I don't remember any frictional character generating so much hate from me as much as umbridge that it becomes clearly evident physically. I used to shake with fury, my fingers would start trembling as everytime I would feel like going inside the pages & strangling her.
Whereas Voldy was able to generate some sympathy from Harry, me & many more readers post his past story was revealed in Half-Blood Prince but he never tried to justify any of his acts ever or hide behind anything such as "greater good". Nor did he played victim card anytime to enforce anything. He was clear on what he wanted, why he wanted & he was out in open.
In Durga I see clear shades of umbridge.

Remember when Umbridge attempted to use, Cruciatus Curse on Harry, & Hermione reminded her its illegal, she ignored it saying, "what Cornelius(minister of magic) doesn't know, cannot hurt him."
Edited by captainplus - 6 years ago
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Originally posted by: shena07

Sorry..I hate harry potter 😆

So no idea
I enjoyed reading your post😊
No offence to harry potter fans out there


Its ok dear, Once upon a time I hated it too but after reading the series, I realized it taught me a lot of important life lessons & see things in different perspectives.
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Originally posted by: rs-shailu29

I am not a fan of harry
But ur comparison was bang on


thank you dear 😊
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Posted: 6 years ago
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Genie maine aaj tak koi bhi Harry Potter books nahi padha haiI only saw first three Harry Potter movies in that series that too hindi dubbed😆and I loved all three and wanted to watch the rest of the movies but mereko nahi maloom kidher dekhne milega🤪 I searched online but all are paid sites so I left my hope

So Now u know how much I know about Harry Potter characters🤣But TBH I really loved reading ur this post because U beautifully compared HP char with Durga's each actions and all matched so well👏I have zero knowledge abt the HP char mentioned here in ur post but one thing I concluded from ur post is that char is as much evil as Durga👍🏼


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