How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Quote #4
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: You will be pleased to know from now on, you will be following a carefully structured, Ministry-approved course of defensive magic. Yes?
HERMIONE GRANGER: There's nothing in here about using defensive spells.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: Using spells? Well I can't imagine why you would need to use spells in my classroom.
RON WEASLEY: We're not gonna use magic?
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: You will be learning about defensive spells in a secure, risk-free way.
Knowledge is power, right? If Professor Umbridge (and the Ministry of Magic) can keep the students at Hogwarts from learning any actual magic, there's less chance those students will use that magic against the Ministry. Of course, there's also a greater chance they'll be killed in a Death Eater attack, but none of the bureaucrats are thinking that far ahead.
Quote #5
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: Pardon me, Professor, but what exactly are you insinuating?
MINERVA MCGONAGALL: I am merely requesting that when it comes to my students you conform to the prescribed disciplinary practices.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: So silly of me, but it sounds as if you're questioning my authority in my own classroom, Minerva.
MINERVA MCGONAGALL: Not at all, Dolores, merely your medieval methods.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: I am sorry, dear, but to question my practices is to question the Ministry, and by extension, the Minister himself. I am a tolerant woman, but the one thing I will not stand for is disloyalty.
MINERVA MCGONAGALL: Disloyalty?
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: Things at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared.
Let's get ready to ruuuuuuuumble. Professor McGonagall and Professor Umbridge go head to head here about who has the authority to punish students. Umbridge ends the discussion with an oldie but goodie—she questions McGonagall's wizard patriotism. If you don't let Umbridge torture students, then the terrorists win!
Quote #6
SIRIUS BLACK: The latest intelligence is that Fudge doesn't want you trained in combat.
RON WEASLEY: Combat? What does he think, that we're forming some sort of wizard army?
SIRIUS BLACK: That's exactly what he thinks. That Dumbledore is assembling his own forces to take on the Ministry. He's becoming more paranoid by the minute.
Fudge isn't the brightest bulb, is he? The Minister of Magic is so obsessed with holding onto his own power, that he's spinning all sorts of wild conspiracy theories. The irony is that, by refusing to teach Hogwarts students, he does force them to create an army—Dumbledore's Army.