Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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| Author | J.K. Rowling |
| Illustrator | Jason Cockcroft (UK), Mary GrandPré (US) |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury (UK), Scholastic (US) |
| Release date | June 21, 2003 |
| Number in series | Five |
| Sales | 14.3 Million (US) as of December 2006 |
| Dedicated to | "Neil, Jessica and David, who make my world magical" |
| Story timeline | 1976, 1995-1996 |
| Preceded by | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| Followed by | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the Harry Potter series of books by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 21 June 2003 in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and several other countries. It sold almost seven million copies in the United States and the United Kingdom combined on that day. It has 38 chapters, is about 255,000 words long,[1] and at 870 pages (American edition) is the longest book in the series[2].
On 5 April 2006 Warner Brothers announced that the film of the same name, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will be released in cinemas on 13 July 2007. [1]
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[edit] Plot Overview
After a fight with his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, Harry wanders about Little Whinging. He runs into his loathsome cousin Dudley when they are attacked by Dementors. Harry fends them off with a Patronus Charm, but Dudley is badly affected. A neighbour, Arabella Figg, arrives to help. She reveals she is a Squib (born to a magical family but unmagical herself) and was asked by Albus Dumbledore to secretly watch over Harry when he came to live with the Dursleys. Back home, Harry receives an owl letter stating he has been expelled from Hogwarts for performing underaged magic outside of the school. A second letter arrives ordering him to appear at a Ministry of Magic hearing.
Several Order of the Phoenix members arrive to escort Harry to their secret headquarters at the Black Family home, 12 Grimmauld Place in London. The Weasleys, Hermione, and Harry’s godfather Sirius Black are there. Harry is upset when he is denied detailed information regarding the Order's plans to fight Lord Voldemort, but he learns that Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge continues to deny the Dark Lord's return and has used articles in The Daily Prophet to discredit Harry, while Dumbledore has been removed from several influential positions in wizarding society.
Arthur Weasley accompanies Harry to the hearing, but deliberately uninformed that the time and location have been changed, they arrive late. Dumbledore arrives with Mrs. Figg, whose testimony that Harry acted in self-defense clears him. As he leaves the Ministry, Harry sees Lucius Malfoy, who he knows is a Death Eater, visiting Fudge.
Harry and friends return to Hogwarts aboard the Hogwarts Express, sharing a compartment with the rather unusual Luna Lovegood. Back at Hogwarts, Hagrid is absent, and Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister, has been appointed by the Ministry as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. She refuses to teach students any practical defense methods, and it is soon clear she is there only to spy on and take control of the school. She is soon appointed High Inquisitor, intimidating staff and students. She also harbours an intense dislike for half-breeds, centaurs, and similar creatures.
Ron becomes the new Keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The season starts well, but Umbridge bans Harry and Fred and George Weasley from the team after Harry and Fred get into a fight with Draco Malfoy after the game. Ron's younger sister, Ginny, replaces Harry as Seeker. Meanwhile, Hagrid returns to Hogwarts, revealing that he and Madame Maxime were on a failed secret mission for Dumbledore to recruit the giants against Voldemort. Hagrid's battered appearance alarms Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who soon discover Hagrid is hiding his giant (and still wild) half-brother, Grawp in the forest.
Further complicating matters, both Hagrid and Professor Sybill Trelawney are heavily scrutinized by Umbridge, who views both as incompetent. Umbridge's dislike for Hagrid is intensified by her prejudice towards "half-breeds" (Hagrid is half-giant). Umbridge fires Trelawney, but Dumbledore allows her to remain in residence and replaces her with his own appointment, the Centaur, Firenze.
Harry has been having strange dreams, mostly about running down a hallway and attempting to open a door in the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries. In one nightmare, he dreams he is a snake attacking Ron's father, Arthur Weasley, who works at the Ministry. Waking up, Harry raises the alarm, believing he had a true vision. Arthur is indeed discovered with venomous snake bites and taken to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Harry wonders if he is being possessed and transported by Voldemort to do his bidding, but Dumbledore reassures him he is not. Dumbledore has Severus Snape give Harry lessons in the art of Occlumency to block his mind from intrusion.
Threatening to expose her as an illegal Animagus, a wizard who is able to transform into an animal at will, Hermione blackmails hack journalist Rita Skeeter into writing a favourable article about Harry witnessing Voldemort's return. Luna Lovegood's father publishes the article in his newspaper The Quibbler. Furious, Umbridge bans the tabloid at the school, but the story spreads rapidly, garnering support for Harry.
Hermione convinces Harry to secretly teach students Defense Against the Dark Arts. As retaliation against Umbridge, they name their group the Defense Association, or D.A. for short, although they soon begin calling themselves "Dumbledore's Army" to mock the paranoid Ministry of Magic. Umbridge discovers the secret meetings, and to protect the students, Dumbledore claims he organized the group. When confronted by two Ministry Aurors (Dawlish and Shacklebolt), Fudge, and Umbridge, Dumbledore is spectacularly whisked away by his phoenix, Fawkes. Umbridge is appointed Headmistress, although Dumbledore's office is now impenetrable. Meanwhile, the Weasley twins instigate a student revolt, causing mayhem throughout the school. The teachers pointedly do nothing to help the new Headmistress regain control. The twins are caught, but decide they have outgrown their full-time education and leave by summoning their brooms from Umbridge's office, and fly away to start their own Joke Shop called Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. As a parting gesture, they leave a magical swamp inside the school.
Harry receives a vision that Sirius is being tortured at the Department of Mysteries, not knowing it is actually a ruse. He desperately attempts to contact Sirius via the fireplace in Umbridge's office but is caught. Umbridge reveals she was the one who sent the Dementors to attack Harry during the summer. As she is about to use the Cruciatus Curse on him, Hermione tells her that Dumbledore has hidden a powerful weapon in the Forbidden Forest. She leads Umbridge and Harry into the woods where they come upon the Centaurs, who Umbridge foolishly insults. Enraged, one carries her off screaming. The other Centaurs are about to attack Harry and Hermione because they had hoped the centaurs would work for them, and the centaurs who take this as a threat, are carrying them off to be punished, but Hagrid's giant brother, Grawp, crashes onto the scene. The Centaurs shoot arrows at him, and he decides to chase the herd away.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, along with Luna, Ginny, and Neville use the school's Thestrals to fly to the Ministry of Magic in London to save Sirius, unaware they are being lured into a trap. When Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Neville Longbottom arrive at the Department of Mysteries, they are ambushed by Death Eaters. Voldemort seeks a prophecy contained in a glass sphere and needs Harry to retrieve it for him. Only those a prophecy refers to can touch the sphere without going insane, and Voldemort cannot risk exposure.
The students heroically fight the Death Eaters, and just as they are nearly defeated, Order members arrive. During the ensuing battle, the glass sphere is shattered. Sirius is attacked by his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, a Death Eater. Her spell blasts him in the chest and he falls backwards through a mysterious veiled archway, dead. Soon Dumbledore arrives and most of the Death Eaters are captured.
Harry chases Bellatrix into the atrium as Lord Voldemort appears and duels with Dumbledore. Alerted Ministry of Magic employees arrive on the scene in time to see Voldemort before he disapparates, taking Bellatrix with him. Cornelius Fudge finally admits Voldemort has returned, and Harry's interview with Rita Skeeter is recycled for the Daily Prophet.
Later in his office, Dumbledore apologizes to the furious Harry for neglecting him over the past year. He explains his actions and reveals the meaning of the lost prophecy, which states Harry must kill Voldemort or be murdered by him. Sybill Trelawney predicted, "Either must die at the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives." At the end of the year, Harry returns to the Dursleys for another cheerless summer, still grieving his lost godfather.
[edit] Detailed plot
[edit] The Order of the Phoenix
Harry is at the Dursleys' for the summer. He becomes angry and frustrated that he doesn't hear anything about the activities of Lord Voldemort or of the wizarding world in general. After an argument with his aunt and uncle, Harry wanders around Little Whinging and spots his obnoxious cousin, Dudley. Dementors suddenly appear and attack, but Harry repels them with a Patronus Charm, although Dudley is severely affected by the encounter. When their neighbour, Mrs. Figg, arrives to help, Harry is astonished to learn she is actually a Squib, placed there by Professor Dumbledore to watch over him.
Vernon and Petunia blame Harry for Dudley's condition and demand that he leave. Harry receives an owl letter stating he has been expelled from Hogwarts for performing magic outside school. Several more letters arrive in quick succession: Arthur Weasley and Sirius Black warn Harry not to leave the house, while another overturns his expulsion and orders him to appear at a hearing at the Ministry of Magic. A Howler for Harry's aunt arrives from Dumbledore, who sternly warns her, "Remember my last, Petunia!" Visibly shaken, she tells Vernon that Harry has to stay. Soon, Remus Lupin, Mad-Eye Moody and Nymphadora Tonks, among others, arrive to escort Harry to 12 Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black's home in London, which now serves as the secret headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix. There he is reunited with the Weasleys, Hermione, and Sirius, who is confined to the house while the Ministry still hunts for him. Harry is angry and argumentative with Ron and Hermione for withholding information about Voldemort, but they maintain that Dumbledore ordered them to absolute secrecy. Harry nonetheless manages to learn quite a bit about what has transpired but is unhappy to find out that both his friends have been made school Prefects while he has not.
Although both Harry and Dumbledore have sworn that Lord Voldemort has returned, few believe them. Indeed, the complacent Ministry of Magic, keen to avoid panic, have discredited them, using the wizarding newspaper The Daily Prophet to imply both Harry and Dumbledore are eccentric liars. Dumbledore's supporters, however, have revived the Order of the Phoenix to renew the battle against Voldemort.
[edit] Harry on trial
The hearing for Harry's possible expulsion from Hogwarts finally arrives. The household is filled with trepidation, but everyone is confident Harry will be acquitted because under-age wizards are permitted to use magic in self-defence. Arriving at the Ministry of Magic, Harry and Mr. Weasley discover that the hearing's time and location have been changed without their knowledge. They make it just in time, only to learn that the hearing is actually a trial with the entire Wizengamot assembled.
This appears to be an attempt to intimidate Harry and to prevent Dumbledore coming to his defence, but the ancient wizard and headmaster of Hogwarts appears nonetheless. Mrs. Figg is also present and testifies that the Dementors were real and not figments of Harry's imagination or a lie. Harry is exonerated. Strangely, Dumbledore scarcely pays any attention to Harry and leaves without speaking to him. As Harry leaves the Ministry, he spots Lucius Malfoy conferring with Cornelius Fudge. Harry is shocked, as Malfoy is known to Harry as a Death Eater, but Mr. Weasley alludes to bribery.
[edit] Return to Hogwarts
Harry and his companions return to school. On the Hogwarts Express they share a compartment with Ravenclaw student, Luna Lovegood, a rather odd girl whose father publishes The Quibbler, a quirky tabloid she claims prints important stories, although they appear to be unfounded sensationalist speculation. Back at Hogwarts, they discover Hagrid has not yet returned, and their new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is Dolores Umbridge, one of the panel members at Harry's Wizengamot hearing. Umbridge does not let students practice any magic in her classes, only allowing them to read the textbook. Appointed against Dumbledore's wishes, it is apparent she is there to spy on the school and impose the Ministry of Magic's agenda. In the meantime, the teachers are pushing hard to prepare Fifth-year students for the O.W.L. exams.
Through a succession of Decrees passed by the Ministry of Magic, Professor Umbridge gains more influence at the school, culminating in her appointment as High Inquisitor. She begins intrusive and intimidating inspections of the teachers. In a letter to Ron, Percy Weasley, who now works for Cornelius Fudge, congratulates his younger brother on being made Prefect but advises him to 'sever ties' with Harry, who he says is an unbalanced, dangerous person to fraternise with. He also recommends Ron report anything unusual to Umbridge, "a very lovely, helpful woman." He hints this may be Dumbledore's final year at Hogwarts. Furious, Ron shreds and burns Percy's letter, choosing to remain loyal to Harry.
[edit] Umbridge's oppression
It becomes apparent to the students that Umbridge is a particularly unpleasant character. Her lessons consist solely of reading the textbook with no practical training whatsoever. She states that there is no danger out there where the students would be compelled to use the practical applications to defend themselves, but the reality is that Minister Fudge fears that Dumbledore is secretly training a wizard army against the Ministry. In light of Umbridge's refusal to teach anything useful, Hermione convinces Harry to start secret lessons for students wanting to learn practical Defence Against the Dark Arts. He reluctantly agrees, and all the participants sign a paper swearing never to reveal the existence of the later-named "Dumbledore's Army" to Umbridge.
Hagrid finally returns, although he is badly bruised and battered. After some persuasion, he eventually divulges the details of his failed secret mission with Madam Maxime to recruit the giants to the Order's side to Harry, but he is reluctant to explain his injuries. (Later during a Quidditch match he takes Harry and Hermione into the woods to show them the cause of his inguries, his brother Grawp, a giant.) Both he and Professor Sybill Trelawney are placed under heavy scrutiny by Umbridge, who views both incompetent and is prejudiced against "half-breeds" like Hagrid, who is half-human, half-giant.
As Umbridge convinces Fudge to pass more edicts, activities in the school are severely curtailed. All student activities and organizations are banned until Umbridge reinstates them; the Slytherin Quidditch team is almost immediately reactivated, but the Gryffindor team is held up until Minerva McGonagall goes over Umbridge's head to Dumbledore. This eventually causes Dumbledore's own power as Headmaster to become secondary, in many respects, to Umbridge.
Meanwhile, Ron becomes the new keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The Slytherins compose a taunting ditty entitled "Weasley is Our King" in an attempt to intimidate Ron into playing poorly. It succeeds, but Harry captures the Snitch in the first game to clinch victory. However, a fight provoked by Draco Malfoy results in Umbridge banning Harry and Fred and George Weasley from playing. Ginny Weasley replaces Harry as Seeker.
[edit] Dumbledore's Army
The Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, led by Harry, secretly continue. The students now call themselves the "D.A.", initially for Defence Association but that becomes Dumbledore's Army. The name expresses the students' defiance against the paranoid and complacent Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge and their loyalty to Dumbledore.
Harry begins having strange dreams, mostly about running down a hallway and attempting to open a door in the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries. Soon, however, Dumbledore places Harry under Severus Snape's tutelage to learn Occlumency, to prevent his thoughts from being penetrated. Eventually, their mutual animosity causes the training to be discontinued, as during what became his last session, Harry glimpses one of Snape's memories, revealing that Harry's father, James, and Sirius were school bullies who taunted Snape mercilessly. Snape catches Harry and the classes are stopped. Harry becomes upset over this vision, since he knows what it is like to be teased like that, and wants to talk to Sirius about it. Fred and George set off a decoy prank so Harry can sneak into Umbridge's office to talk to Sirius via the fireplace — the only one not under surveillance. Harry sneaks in and talks to Lupin and Sirius over James's behavior. They assure Harry that James was decent and was a good friend. The twins are caught, but they jump on their brooms and depart the school for good, leaving behind a magical swamp inside the school. As they depart, they announce the forthcoming opening of their own joke shop, 'Weasley's Wizard Wheezes', in Diagon Alley.
Hermione blackmails journalist Rita Skeeter into writing a story about Harry and Voldemort that refutes The Daily Prophet's barbs about Harry and exposes the truth about Voldemort's return. Furious, Umbridge bans the paper (The Quibbler, published by Luna Lovegood's father) inside the school, but the story spreads quickly, gathering support for Harry and Dumbledore.
Empowered by Ministry edicts, Umbridge sacks Professor Trelawney, but Dumbledore, citing his remaining authority as Headmaster, allows Trelawney to stay in residence at the castle. He also recruits a replacement Divination teacher, the centaur, Firenze. Umbridge dislikes what she refers to as "half-breeds," and is furious Dumbledore outwitted her with her own rules; an earlier Ministry Decree gave the Ministry power to make appointments only if the Headmaster is unable to find a satisfactory candidate, which means that Umbridge would have the right to find a replacement only if Dumbledore could not.
[edit] A dating disaster
Harry is attracted to pretty Ravenclaw Quidditch player Cho Chang, but he is awkward and shy around her. Her intense grief over Cedric Diggory's recent death makes him uncomfortable, although he is elated when they share a kiss under the Christmas mistletoe after one of the DA classes. During a Valentine's Day outing to Hogsmeade, their fragile relationship is further damaged when Cho becomes jealous over his friendship with Hermione, because during their date Harry says that he has to meet Hermione. At first, Harry is amused over her misunderstanding and bursts out laughing, but this deeply offends Cho. Bursting into tears, she runs out of the teashop, much to Harry's embarrassment.
Things unravel further after the DA meetings are exposed and Umbridge catches Harry. When he is taken to Dumbledore's office, he discovers that Cho's friend, Mariette Edgecombe is the informant (although the information comes with a price - Herminone enchanted the list of DA members to cause incurable purple acne to form the word "Sneak" across any betrayer's face). To protect the students, Dumbledore panders to Fudge's paranoia by telling him and Umbridge that he formed the DA to depose Fudge as Minister of Magic. Dumbledore spectacularly stuns the Ministry officials and is transported away by his pet phoenix, Fawkes, before he is able to be arrested. After his departure, Umbridge is appointed Headmistress. She quickly forms an Inquisitorial Squad, which bullies some of the students. The Weasley twins lead something of a revolt against the new Headmistress, creating mayhem throughout the school with their magical pranks while the Hogwarts teachers pointedly do nothing to help the new Headmistress. Harry meets Cho and is angry with her over Marietta's betrayal. Cho, for her part, is angry that Hermione enchanted the list without telling anyone. Both Harry and Cho defend their respective friends' actions, which leads to a heated argument. Seeing tears in Cho's eyes, Harry warns her that he won't tolerate her crying anymore. Stung, Cho storms off angrily, after which the two stop speaking, ending their relationship.
[edit] Sirius in trouble
During the nighttime Astronomy O.W.L. exam, Harry witnesses unknown persons attempting to capture and expel Hagrid. Professor McGonagall attempts to intervene but is hit by Stunning Spells, incapacitating her and sending her to the hospital. During a later O.W.L. exam, Harry has a vision that Voldemort is torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries.
Since Umbridge's fire is the only safe one, Harry wants to use it to make certain that Sirius is safe. Ginny, Luna, and Ron set off to distract Umbridge and Hermione agrees to act as lookout to the office. Harry desperately attempts to contact Sirius via the fireplace in Umbridge's office, but the Black family's house-elf, Kreacher, tricks Harry into believing Sirius has vanished, when he is, in fact, tending to the Hippogriff Buckbeak. Umbridge and her minions — mainly Slytherin students — capture Harry and some of his friends. Unaware that Snape is an Order of the Phoenix member, Umbridge asks him for Veritaserum to use on Harry, but he claims he has none left. Harry uses Sirius' nickname ("Padfoot") to try and warn Snape that Sirius is in danger, but Snape seemingly ignores him and leaves. Umbridge tells Harry that it was she who ordered the Dementors to attack him during the summer and prepares to use an Unforgivable Curse on him. Thinking fast, Hermione concocts a story that Dumbledore has a powerful weapon hidden in the Forbidden Forest. She says that she and Harry will lead Umbridge to it.
[edit] Escape to London
Hermione, along with Harry, leads Umbridge to where she told her Dumbledore hid a "weapon" in the forest. There they encounter the haughty centaurs, who are furious that one of their brethren now works for humans. Hermione knows they are disposed to hate adult wizards, and when Umbridge foolishly insults them, they break her wand and carry her off screaming into the woods. The other centaurs are about to attack Harry and Hermione when Hagrid's half-brother - a "small" giant named Grawp that Hagrid has been hiding in the woods, suddenly appears, scattering the creatures. Ron, Ginny, Luna, and Neville arrive, having escaped their "Inquisitorial Squad" captors, and the group flies to the Ministry on the school's thestrals.
Arriving at the Department of Mysteries, they find the room in Harry's dream. There is no sign of Sirius, but Harry sees rows of shelves containing glass balls, one of which has his and Voldemort's name on it, with the note "S.P.T. to A.P.W.B.D." (This is actually "Sybill Patricia Trelawney to Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore", as it was the former who made it and the latter who heard it). Death Eaters suddenly appear and demand the glass sphere. These include Lucius Malfoy, MacNair (the Ministry executioner of "dangerous beasts"), former Department of Mysteries employee Rookwood, and Bellatrix Lestrange, Sirius' cousin and one of the people convicted of torturing Neville Longbottom's parents into insanity.
Harry discovers later that the glass orb contains a prophecy about himself and Voldemort. Voldemort knows only the beginning of the prophecy and he hopes the full contents will reveal the remainder. Only those who are the subject of a prophecy are able to take the sphere from its shelf without suffering insanity. It turns out that, unwilling to risk exposing his revived existence, Voldemort lured Harry to the Ministry to retrieve it for him. Realising there was a mental connection between himself and Harry, Voldemort implanted a false vision of Sirius being tortured, knowing Harry would try to rescue him.
[edit] The Battle at the Ministry
A fight erupts between the students and the Death Eaters. Most of the students are injured and nearly defeated. Tipped off by Snape, Order of the Phoenix members, including Sirius, arrive in time. During the ensuing battle, the prophecy sphere is shattered, against the Death Eaters' wishes. Tragically, Sirius is struck by a non-lethal curse from his cousin, the Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange. His body falls through a mysterious veiled archway and vanishes.
Seeking revenge, Harry chases Bellatrix into the atrium, attempting to jinx her and even going as far as casting the Cruciatus Curse on her. Bellatrix blocks every spell except for the Cruciatus and demands the prophecy. Lord Voldemort apparates inside the atrium, and his terrible anger causes Harry's scar to hurt too intensely for him to be able to fight. However, Dumbledore suddenly appears and blocks a killing curse that Voldemort hurls at Harry. Voldemort and Dumbledore duel, and after a dramatic fight he possesses Harry's body and tries to goad Dumbledore into killing him, but the force of Harry's love makes the possession unbearable to Voldemort, who finally relents and disapparates with Bellatrix. Meanwhile, Ministry employees arrive in time to see Voldemort. Among them is Cornelius Fudge, who finally believes Voldemort has returned. In turn, The Daily Prophet reverses its hostile attitude towards the pair, restoring their reputations, and praising them for warning the wizarding community of Voldemort's return.
[edit] The Prophecy
Safely back at Hogwarts, Dumbledore explains to Harry why he distanced himself from him during the year. He had sensed Voldemort's growing power over Harry—indeed, on more than one occasion, Harry was filled with a desire to strike down Dumbledore. Dumbledore also realised that Voldemort could learn about the Order of the Phoenix's plans through Harry, and deliberately concealed information from him. He tells Harry he regrets not teaching him Occlumency himself and underestimated Snape's deep-seated resentment towards his father, James. He also reveals the entire prophecy to Harry. When Dumbledore interviewed Sybill Trelawney for the Divination post sixteen years ago at the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade, she unknowingly lapsed into a trance and prophesied that:
The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives...the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies...
This was interpreted to mean that Voldemort would kill either Harry or Neville Longbottom who were both born at the end of July, or one of them would kill him. However, Voldemort only heard part of the prophecy, as his spy, who was eavesdropping on the conversation between Trelawney and Dumbledore, was thrown out before Trelawney completed the prediction. (The eavesdropper is later identified in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.) After Voldemort attacked baby Harry, the latter part of the prophecy was realised, and Harry, not Neville, became his foe and would kill or be killed by him. Had Voldemort heard the entire prophecy, he would have known that by attacking Harry he would transfer some of his own powers to him. Dumbledore remarks to Harry that this was Trelawney's first true prediction. The one in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was her second.
Harry also learns why he must stay with the Dursleys each summer. When Harry's mother died protecting him, her sacrifice cast a protective spell on him that is sustained as long as he lives among his maternal blood relatives. Aunt Petunia, Lily's sister, therefore acts as Harry's protector.
Dumbledore goes into the Forbidden Forest and retrieves Dolores Umbridge from the centaurs. She is confined to the hospital wing in a severely traumatised state, although she is expected to recover.
Harry returns to the Dursleys', but not without Vernon and Petunia receiving a stern warning from a menacing Alastor Moody to treat Harry better. Changes are brewing in the wizarding world. Indeed, the last chapter of the book is entitled "The Second War Begins."
[edit] Notes
- The Death Eaters captured at the Ministry were: Lucius Malfoy, Nott, Jugson, Rodolphus Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov, Crabbe, Rabastan Lestrange, Walden Macnair, Avery, Augustus Rookwood, and Mulciber. Lord Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange were also at the Ministry, but they escaped. This list includes most of the Death Eaters whose names were known to the reader at this time, though Peter Pettigrew and Goyle were both absent from this mission and likely others as well, given the number of Death Eaters that Harry saw at Voldemort's rebirth in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Dolores' name may have come from the Latin word "Doloris", meaning pain or discomfort.
[edit] Editions
- Bloomsbury (United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada etc.)
- ISBN 0-7475-5100-6 Hardback
- ISBN 0-7475-6940-1 Hardback (adult edition)
- Scholastic (United States etc.)
- ISBN 0-439-35806-X Hardback
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[edit] Translations and Publishing
The first official foreign translation of the book appeared in Vietnamese on 21 July 2003, when the first of 22 installments was released. The first official European translation appeared in Serbia and Montenegro in Serbian, by the official publisher Narodna Knjiga, in early September 2003. Other translations appeared later, e.g. in November 2003 in Dutch and German. The English language version has topped the best seller list in France; while in Germany and The Netherlands an unofficial distributed translation process has been started on the net [3].
- In the Czech Republic a college student translated the book in July/September, long before its intended release date, and one 14-year old schoolboy made it available on his private website. This led to confusion, with many newspapers stating that this unofficial translation was done by group of teenagers [4] and the official Czech publisher (Albatros [5]) announcing that they would sue the schoolboy. Later they retracted this announcement.
- In Britain, the blind then-Home Secretary David Blunkett complained about the delay of the cassette version of the book, as well as its projected price.
- The Canadian version of the book is made from recycled paper and saved 29,640 trees in the initial print run of 1 million books. J.K. Rowling comments on this in a message written specifically for the Canadian edition of the book.
- The German translation of this book is 300 pages longer than the English version.
[edit] External links
- Summary of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - chapter summaries, character list, etc.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the Harry Potter Wiki
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