Why did the trio have to wear the locket?

They decide to take turns wearing the locket because they realize while Harry was wearing it, it makes you become different from who you usually are. So they decided on taking turns wearing it so one person wouldn’t have to go through that, they would split it equally instead.

Why was umbridge wearing the locket?

It was just to show the purity of her blood and the extent of her connections. She had seized the locket from Mundungus Fletcher and wasn’t aware of what exactly the locket was or to whom it had belonged. Mundungus Fletcher stole the locket,along with many of Sirius’possessions. He tried to sell it in Diagon Alley.

Does Dolores Umbridge’s locket Horcrux affect her abilities?

5 Answers 5. Canon doesn’t indicate that Dolores Umbridge had the locket Horcrux prior to or during Order of the Phoenix. After she acquired it, she was able to produce a Patronus without any trouble while wearing the locket; it fostered her abilities, though, rather than negatively affecting them.

What happened to the real locket Horcrux?

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows we discover that the true locket Horcrux is in the possession of Dolores Umbridge. Apparently she confiscated it from Mundungus Fletcher’s backalley fence, in exchange for not shutting his illegal business down.

Does the Horcrux make Umbridge a bad person?

Suggesting that while the locket does have a negative influence, Umbridge has always been an awful person – the horcrux only enhanced the terrible personality she had already. This is also corroborated by JK’s 2014 Pottermore essay, in which she describes Umbridge as “one of the characters for whom I feel purest dislike”.

What did Umbridge lie to Harry about the locket?

It was Umbridge’s lie that brought the blood surging into Harry’s brain and obliterated his sense of caution – that the locket she had taken as a bribe from a petty criminal was being used to bolster her own pure blood credentials.