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Professor Dolores Umbridge is cast
Yet another thespian has given in to her desires to mix it up at Hogwarts.
Imelda Staunton, known for her roles in the films “Vera Drake” and “Bright Young Things”, has joined the cast of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, says ComingSoon.net and Mugglenet.
Staunton, who is yet to receive the script, will play Professor Dolores Umbridge in the film, set for release in 2007.
Umbridge, one of the most unlikeable characters of the series, holds the position of Senior Undersecretary to Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, and acts as one of Harry’s interrogators in the Wizengamot, a wizard’s court, when he is tried on charges of breaking the ban on underage sorcery. It is later revealed that Umbridge herself ordered the Dementors to attack Harry, causing him to use magic for self-protection.
Elizabeth Hurley is rumoured to be up for the role of Bellatrix Lestrange in the same film.
