Jon Miltimore explains why Dolores Umbridge is the best character in the Harry Potter books (as distinct from his favorite character).  She’s an archetype, and unfortunately, our society is becoming more archetypal, these days, so to speak:

Like Dolores Umbridge, Australian leaders (and Lemon) apparently see no problem in using force for the greater good, including using the military to enforce lockdowns and prohibit free assembly. They are a chilling reminder of what the Christian author CS Lewis once described as perhaps the most dangerous kind of oppression.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive,” the Christian author once observed. “It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”