Umbridge refuses to teach her students how to perform defensive spells, and before long, Fudge appoints her High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, giving her the authority to inspect all faculty members and evaluate their skills.

Moreover, by contrasting the trials held before the Inquisitor of Milian in 1384 and 1390 of Sybil de Laria and Pierina de Bugatis, Portone has demonstrated how Inquisitors constructed beliefs surrounding " evil witches " directly from the Pagan worship of Diana.

In 1525, the Inquisition issued an Edict on the alumbrados in which the Inquisitor General, Alonso Manrique de Lara, explained how the new heresy of alumbradismo was discovered and investigated.

Don Sgabarizza was concerned with such talk of witchcraft, and on 21 March 1575, he appeared as a witness before both the vicar general, Monsignor Jacopo Maracco, and the Inquisitor Fra Giulio d ' Assis, a member of the Order of the Minor Conventuals, at the monastery of San Francesco di Cividale in Friuli, in the hope that they could offer him guidance in how to proceed in this situation.

In 1321 the Dominican Inquisitor at Narbonne, John of Belna, declared heretical the teaching of an imprisoned Beghard of that region, who asserted that Christ and the Apostles owned nothing either individually or in common.

* Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov features a famous parable involving Christ coming back to Seville in the days of the Spanish Inquisition, and being confronted by Torquemada as the Grand Inquisitor.

The Inquisitor frames his denunciation of Jesus around the three questions Satan asked Jesus during the temptation of Christ in the desert.

The Inquisitor advances this argument by explaining why Christ was wrong to reject each temptation by Satan.

The segment ends when Christ, who has been silent throughout, kisses the Inquisitor on his " bloodless, aged lips " instead of answering him.

On this, the Inquisitor releases Christ but tells him never to return.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Grand Inquisitor, part of the novel The Brothers Karamazov, features an extended treatment of the temptation of Christ.

Here, Jesus is rejected by the Inquisitor who puts Him in jail and then says, The Grand Inquisitor says that Jesus should not have given humans the " burden " of free will.

The Inquisitor states that Jesus rejected these three temptations in favor of freedom, but the Inquisitor thinks that Jesus has misjudged human nature.

Despite declaring the Inquisitor to be an atheist, Ivan also has the Inquisitor saying that the Catholic Church follows " the wise spirit, the dread spirit of death and destruction ," i. e. the Devil, Satan.

*" Talitha Cumi ", the third season finale of The X-Files borrowed heavily from this parable for an interrogation between The Smoking Man and Jeremiah Smith ( as the Inquisitor and Jesus, respectively ).

He went on to act in The Relapse 1950 ( Sir Tunbelly Clumsey ); The Taming of the Shrew 1951 ( Grumio ); The Way of the World 1954 ( Petulant ); The Carefree Tree 1955 ( The Sixth Son ); King Lear 1956 ( Duke of Cornwall ); Mister Johnson 1956 ( Gollup ); Saint Joan 1956 ( The Inquisitor ); Protective Custody 1956 ( Dr. Steidl ); Oscar Wilde 1957 ( Oscar Wilde ); The Golden Six 1958 ( Tiberius ); A Man for All Seasons 1961 ( Cardinal Wolsey ); Andorra 1963 ( pub keeper ); The Seagull 1964 ( Sorin ); The Crucible 1964 ( Danforth ); Baker Street 1965 ( Moriarty ); The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1965 ( Miguel Estete ); Ring Round the Moon 1966 ( Messerchann ); Those That Play the Clowns 1966 ( Henning ); Breakfast at Tiffany's 1966 ( Rusty Trawler ); The Sorrows of Frederick 1967 ; The Bench 1968 ( Phillipi ); Uncle Vanya 1971 ( Serebryakov ); The Jockey Club Stakes 1973 ( Sir Dymock Blackburn ); The Dogs of Pavlov 1974.

Piedrahíta, near Ávila, where the Inquisitor General Torquemada had gone to live in the Dominican monastery, was María's spiritual home.

The Inquisitor says that under him, all mankind will live and die happily in ignorance.

* In the video game Civilization V: Gods & Kings, there are two Steam achievements: " Nobody expects ..." with the description " As Spain, use an Inquisitor to remove another Religion ", and the more explicit " Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition " whose description is " Beat the game on any difficultly setting as Isabella ".

In 1627 he began his apprenticeship as vice-papal legate at Ferrara, and on recommendations from two cardinals he was appointed successively Inquisitor of Malta and nuncio in Cologne ( 1639 – 1651 ).

Before being elected as Pontiff, Chigi served as Inquisitor on the Island of Malta where he resided mostly at The Inquisitor's Palace in Birgu ( alias Citta ' Vittoriosa ).

In 1515 Adrian was sent to Spain on a diplomatic errand, and after his arrival at the Imperial Court in Toledo, Charles V secured his succession to the See of Tortosa, and on 14 November 1516 commissioned him Inquisitor General of Aragon.

For the Rome premiere on 9 February 1868 at the Teatro Apollo, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Papal censor changed the Inquisitor into a Gran Cancelliere ( Grand Chancellor ) and the Monk / Emperor into a Solitario ( Recluse ).

A commonly anthologised story is The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoevsky from his long psychological novel The Brothers Karamazov and is told by one brother to another to explain, in part, his view on religion and morality.

Luckily for the Imperium, Inquisitor Kryptman found oral data concealed on one of the databases on Tyran and dedicated the rest of his life to exterminating the new foe.

In return for his loyalty, Ferdinand made Cisneros Grand Inquisitor for Castile and León in 1507 and prevailed on the Pope to give him a Cardinal's hat.

En route, the Enterprise is met by an omnipotent being who identifies himself as a member of the Q continuum and declares that humanity is being put on trial – posing in appearance as a Grand Inquisitor, invoking a chapter of the same name in Dostoyevsky's ' The Brothers Karamazov ' which includes the lines " I think if the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness ," demonstrating the preconceived notions of the Q concerning humanity's quality as a species – using their actions in this upcoming mission to judge their worthiness and to avoid extermination.

When the Inquisitor appeared on Red Dwarf to judge the crew, he declared that Lister's failure to put his brain to good use was evidence that he had not lived a worthwhile life.

The Inquisitor informs the Doctor he is on trial for conduct unbecoming a Time Lord ; evidence will be presented by the Valeyard.

The Valeyard provides evidence to the Inquisitor and presiding through a screen linked to the Matrix, showing the details of the Doctor's actions on the planet Thoros Beta.

" Not only is the kiss ambiguous, but its effect on the Inquisitor is as well.

In the trial room, the Inquisitor and Mel look on helplessly.

There, a grateful Inquisitor drops the charges against him and reveals that Peri Brown survived the events on Thoros Beta and became Yrcanos's queen.

Deza was commissioned as Grand Inquisitor for Castile, León, and Granada on 24 November 1498.

When Gabriel tries to inquire for more information, the Farseer shows surprise at his ignorance, commenting that the Inquisitor " keeps them on a short leash ".

In the tabletop RPG Inquisitor, ablative armour may be layered on top of other armour.

Whereas Warhammer 40, 000 is based on squad based tactical warfare, Inquisitor focuses on a small group of adventurers and plays a bit like a Role-playing game.

Throughout the presentation of the evidence the Doctor barked at the Valeyard, calling him names such as " the Boneyard ," " the Scrapyard ," and " the Knacker's Yard ," and only the interventions of the Inquisitor, another Time Lord, kept the trial going.

* In the penultimate episode of season 2 of Babylon 5, " Comes the Inquisitor ," there is an extended sequence that is an homage to this episode.

When the Grand Inquisitor enters, he explains that the prince was raised incognito by Baptisto Palmieri, a humble gondolier, who had a young son of his own about the same age.

The Grand Inquisitor neglects to mention that the King is married to Casilda, fearing that it would cause the men to refuse to leave their new wives.