As promised, J.K. Rowling unveiled Pottermore’s take on Order of the Phoenix and published new information about Dolores Umbridge on Friday morning.

The release was purposely timed for Halloween – a beloved holiday frequently referenced through the seven Harry Potter books.

Leading up to today Pottermore was getting everyone excited about the new writing on Umbridge. Let’s dive into what we learned:

Dolores Umbridge is a half-blood

Perhaps Umbridge’s best kept secret was that she was born to Orford Umbridge, a wizard, and Ellen Cracknell, a muggle. She also has a younger brother who is a Squib. Umbridge, unsurprisingly, despised both of her parents — Orford for his lack of ambition, and Ellen for her “flightiness, untidiness, and Muggle lineage.”

Both Umbridge and her father placed the blame of her brother’s lack of magical ability squarely on Ellen’s shoulders, and when Dolores was 15 her parents split. Dolores and Orford remained in their home, while Ellen and her son disappeared to the Muggle world. Umbridge never saw them again, and from that moment introduced herself as a pure-blood.

Umbridge never married

Our theory that it might be time for J.K. Rowling to out another character was proven wrong. Umbridge, instead, had the ambition to marry one of her superiors within the Ministry — she didn’t care which, but rather wanted the status and security that came with a powerful husband.

She never succeeded with this particular goal. While her work ethic and ambition was valued and admired within the Ministy, she wasn’t particularly well-liked. Some of her views were shocking to even the most staunchly anti-Muggle in her acquaintance, especially her ideas of how the non-magical community should be treated. And we all know very well how that looked.

Umbridge went on trial

We finally learned Umbridge’s fate, following the end of Voldemort’s reign of terror. She stood trial for her “enthusiastic co-operation with his regime” and was eventually convicted for the torture, imprisonment and deaths of several people. As it turned out, some of the Muggles that Umbridge wrongfully imprisoned met their end at Azkaban.

She is based on a real person

J.K. Rowling outlined that Dolores Umbridge was based heavily on someone that she knew, though she remained as vague as possible about their identity. Much like Umbridge, this person shared an affinity for all things twee, and Rowling in particular recalls a pale-lemon plastic bow that she used to wear in her hair — the inspiration for Umbridge’s own fly-like hair accessory.

She wasn’t the only inspiration, however, and Rowling drew from several other people she had the misfortune of knowing. In particular, a kitten-loving bigot who was a champion of the death penalty, with whom Rowling had to share a kettle. As she remarks, “A love of all things saccharine often seems present where there is a real lack of warmth or charity.”

Finally, Rowling says that Umbridge was always a character that she disliked intensely. She even likens Umbridge’s desire to be in control, to punish people and inflict pain as being just as “reprehensible as Lord Voldemort’s unvarnished espousal of evil.”

Elsewhere…

In a statement this morning, Pottermore said that all told there are over 5,500 new words of writing by Rowling in Order of the Phoenix. After sifting through the chapters, we found new information on Azkaban (Aurors have replaced Dementors as the prison’s security guards), a complete list of Ministers of Magic since the organization’s founding in 1707, and the author’s thoughts on how she came to name Sybill Trelawney.

Fans of Harry Potter know that these deeper looks at particular characters have been appearing in Pottermore since it launched in 2011. Umbridge’s was released today since, obviously, she makes her first appearance in the fifth Potter book.

Starting at 5 PM GMT (1 p.m. eastern/10 a.m. pacific) Pottermore will be hosting a chat about the new Umbridge information on Twitter using the hashtag #UmbridgeFacts.

We wonder when the final two books will hit Pottermore. Could the final book be published within the next year?

Additional reporting by Donya Abramo.