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Harry Potter booksHarry Potter and the Order of the

Phoenix

Author J. K. Rowling

Illustrators Jason Cockcroft (UK)Mary GrandPré (US)

Genre Fantasy

Publishers Bloomsbury (UK) (Canada2010­present)Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic (US)Raincoast (Canada 1998­2010)

Released 21 June 2003

Book no. 5

Sales 55 million

Story timeline 2 August 1995 – 17 June 1996

Chapters 38

Pages 766 (UK)870 (US)

Word count 257,045 (US)[1]

ISBN 0­7475­5100­6

Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the book. For its adaptations, see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(film) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game). For the film's soundtrack, seeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (soundtrack).

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifthnovel in the Harry Potter series, written by J. K. Rowling.It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year atHogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, includingthe surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort,O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. Thenovel was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury inthe United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, andRaincoast in Canada. Five million copies were sold in thefirst 24 hours of publication.[2] It is the longest book of theseries.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has wonseveral awards, including being named an AmericanLibrary Association Best Book for Young Adults in 2003.The book has also been made into a film, which wasreleased in 2007, and into a video game by ElectronicArts.

Contents

1 Plot

2 Publication and release

2.1 Critical response

2.2 Predecessors and sequels

3 Adaptations

3.1 Film

3.2 Video games

4 Translations

5 See also

6 References

7 External links

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Preceded by Harry Potter and the Goblet ofFire

Followed by Harry Potter and the Half­Blood Prince

7 External links

Plot

During another summer with his Aunt Petunia and UncleVernon, Harry Potter and Dudley are attacked by dementors. After using magic to save Dudley andhimself, Harry is expelled from Hogwarts, but the decision is later rescinded. Harry is whisked off by agroup of wizards to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, the home of his godfather, Sirius Black. The housealso serves as the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, of which Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, RemusLupin, Mad­Eye Moody, and Sirius are members. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger explain that theOrder of the Phoenix is a secret organisation led by Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, dedicatedto fighting Lord Voldemort and his followers, the Death Eaters. From the members of the Order, Harryand the others learn that Voldemort is seeking an object that he did not have prior to his first defeat, andassume this object to be a weapon of some sort. Harry learns that the Ministry of Magic, led byCornelius Fudge, is refusing to acknowledge Voldemort's return because of the trouble that doing sowould cause, and has been running a smear campaign against him and Dumbledore.

At Hogwarts, Harry learns that Dolores Umbridge, a senior employee under the Minister of Magic,Cornelius Fudge, will be the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Umbridge and Harry clash, asshe, like Fudge, refuses to believe that Voldemort has returned. She punishes Harry for his rebelliousoutbursts by having him write "I must not tell lies" with a cursed quill that carves the phrase into hisskin. She also refuses to teach her students how to perform defensive spells, prompting Harry, Ron andHermione to form their own Defence Against the Dark Arts group, which they call Dumbledore's Army.Many students sign up, including Neville Longbottom, Fred and George Weasley and Luna Lovegood.The club meets in the Room of Requirement to learn and practice Defence spells under Harry'sinstruction.

Meanwhile, Rubeus Hagrid has not yet returned from the secret mission given to him by Dumbledore atthe end of the previous book, and is absent for the first part of the school year. Upon his return, Harry,Ron, and Hermione learn that his mission, which was mostly unsuccessful, was to seek out the lastgiants to stop them from joining Lord Voldemort. Dolores Umbridge has been steadily amassing moreand more power and influence at the school, and as she begins regularly inspecting Hagrid's Care ofMagical Creatures lessons, it is clear that she intends to get rid of him.

One night, Harry has a vision through the eyes of Voldemort's snake Nagini, possessed by Voldemort,attacking Ron's father Arthur Weasley. Harry informs Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore, and Mr.Weasley is rescued. Dumbledore arranges for Harry to take Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape toprotect his mind against further invasions by Voldemort. During one Occlumency lesson, Snape is calledaway and Harry, left alone, looks into Snape's pensieve, viewing a memory of his time as a student atHogwarts. Harry sees his father, James Potter, and Sirius bullying Snape. Snape catches Harry and,enraged, refuses to continue the lessons.

One evening, Umbridge is given a tip­off about Dumbledore's Army by Marietta Edgecomb, who indoing so unwittingly activates a curse set by Hermione which disfigures her face. When Dumbledoretakes responsibility for the illegal organization, he is forced to leave the school and go into hiding.Dolores Umbridge becomes headmistress, and Fred and George cause pandemonium around the schoolin revenge. They eventually leave Hogwarts to start a joke­shop in Diagon Alley.

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Umbridge finally sacks Professor Trelawney, the Divination teacher; However, she is outraged whenProfessor Dumbledore undermines her power by allowing Trelawney to continue living at the school,and hires Firenze, a centaur, to take her place, in spite of Umbridge's prejudice against part­humans.Suspecting that he will be next, Hagrid confesses to Harry, Ron and Hermione that he has brought hisgiant half­brother, Grawp, to Hogwarts, and hidden him in the Forbidden Forest, with the intention ofeventually introducing him to human society. Hagrid asks the three of them to look after Grawp if hehimself must leave the school. Sure enough, Umbridge leads a party of Aurors to attack Hagrid in hishouse one night. Hagrid overpowers them and flees the school. McGonagall, trying to disrupt theviolence, is badly injured and is put in St. Mungo's Hospital.

On the last day of OWL tests, Harry has a vision of Sirius being tortured by Voldemort in theDepartment of Mysteries. He tries to illegally use Umbridge's office fire to communicate with the Orderof the Phoenix's headquarters to make sure the vision was genuine, and is told by Kreacher the house­elfthat Sirius is indeed at the Ministry, before Umbridge catches Harry and his friends in the act. Snape issummoned to provide Veritaserum in order to question Harry, but he claims to have no further stocks ofthe potion left. Remembering that Snape is also a member of the Order of the Phoenix, Harry gives hima cryptic warning about Sirius's fate, but Snape claims to have not understood it.

Umbridge decides to use the illegal Cruciatus Curse on Harry to interrogate him on Sirius's whereabouts.She also reveals she herself ordered the dementor attack on him, intending to have him either silenced ordiscredited. Hermione intervenes and in order to create a distraction, convinces Umbridge that they arehiding a weapon of Dumbledore's in the Forbidden Forest. Harry and Hermione lead her into an area ofthe forest inhabited by centaurs, where Umbridge provokes them into taking her captive. The centaursare furious upon learning that Hermione used them to do her bidding and turn on the pair, but Grawparrives and clashes with the centaurs, allowing Harry and Hermione to escape.

Luna, Ron, Ginny, and Neville join them in the forest and all six fly to the Ministry on thestrals,expecting to find and rescue Sirius. Once in the Department of Mysteries, Harry realizes that his visionwas falsely planted by Voldemort; however, he finds a glass sphere that bears his and the Dark Lord'snames. Death Eaters led by Lucius Malfoy attack in order to capture the sphere, which is a recording ofa prophecy concerning Harry and Lord Voldemort, which is revealed to be the object Voldemort hasbeen trying to obtain for the whole year, the Dark Lord believing that there was something he missedwhen he first heard the prophecy. Lucius explains that only the subjects of the prophecies, in this caseHarry or Voldemort, can safely remove them from the shelves. Harry and his friends, soon joined bymembers of the Order, enter a battle with the Death Eaters. Amidst the chaos, Bellatrix Lestrange killsSirius and Harry faces Voldemort, who unsuccessfully tries to possess Harry in an attempt to getDumbledore to kill the boy. Dumbledore does not do so and Voldemort escapes just as Cornelius Fudgeappears, finally faced with first­hand evidence that Voldemort has truly returned.

In his office, Dumbledore explains that Snape had understood Harry's cryptic warning, and hadsubsequently gotten in contact with Sirius, learning that he was still at Grimmauld Place. After Harryfailed to return from the Forbidden Forest, Snape deduced that he had gone to the Department ofMysteries and alerted the Order of the Phoenix, allowing them to travel there and save Harry and hisfriends. It is revealed that during the Christmas holidays, Kreacher had interpreted a command of Sirius'sas an order to leave the house, and went to Narcissa Malfoy, the wife of Lucius, and told them aboutHarry and Sirius's close relationship; Voldemort subsequently realised that he could lure Harry to theDepartment of Mysteries by tricking him into thinking that Sirius was in danger there.

Dumbledore then explains the prophecy: Before Harry was born, Professor Trelawney predicted that aboy with the power to defeat Voldemort would be born, would be marked as an equal by Voldemort andhave power unknown to him, and that one of the pair must kill the other, for "neither can live while theother survives". Voldemort learnt of the first part of the prophecy, and subsequently tried to murder

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Harry in the belief that he could prevent it from coming true, unaware that he would grant Harry powerby doing so. He tells Harry that he must stay with the Dursleys for one last summer because by takingHarry into her home, his Aunt Petunia, Lily's sister, seals the protection that Harry's mother afforded himwhen she died; As long as he is there, he is safe from Voldemort and his followers.

Harry comes to terms with the responsibility of the prophecy, but mourns for the loss of his godfather.Luna comforts him, telling him about her and her father's belief in heaven. Harry then finds an old hand­held mirror in his dormitory that was a gift from Sirius. He realizes that Sirius would not want him to bedepressed on the matter, and resolves to continue fighting Voldemort still.

Publication and release

Potter fans waited three years between the releases of the fourth and fifth books.[3][4] Before the releaseof the fifth book, 200 million copies of the first four books had already been sold and translated into55 languages in 200 countries.[5] As the series was already a global phenomenon, the book forged newpre­order records, with thousands of people queuing outside book stores on 20 June 2003 to secure theircopy at midnight.[5] Despite the security, thousands of copies were stolen from an Earlestown,Merseyside warehouse on 15 June 2003.[6]

Critical response

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was met with mostly positive reviews, and received severalawards. The book was cited as an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and as anAmerican Library Association Notable Book, both in 2004.[7][8] It also received the Oppenheim ToyPortfolio 2004 Gold Medal along with several other awards.[9]

The novel was also well received by critics. Rowling was praised for her imagination by USA Todaywriter Deirdre Donahue.[10] Most of the negative reviewers were concerned with the violence containedin the novel and with morality issues occurring throughout the book.[11]

The New York Times writer John Leonard praised the novel, saying "The Order of the Phoenix startsslow, gathers speed and then skateboards, with somersaults, to its furious conclusion....As Harry getsolder, Rowling gets better."[12] However, he also criticises "the one­note Draco Malfoy" and thepredictable Lord Voldemort.[12] Another review by Julie Smithouser, of the Christian­right group Focuson the Family, said the book was, "Likely to be considered the weakest book in the series, Phoenix doesfeel less oppressive than the two most previous novels."[11] Smithouser's main criticism was that thebook was not moral. Harry lies to authority to escape punishment, and that, at times, the violence is too"gruesome and graphic."[11]

Predecessors and sequels

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the Harry Potter series.[3] The first bookin the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997 withan initial print­run of 500 copies in hardback, three hundred of which were distributed to libraries. HarryPotter and the Order of the Phoenix is also the longest book from the series, yet the second shortest filmat 2 hours and 18 minutes.[13] By the end of 1997 , the UK edition won a National Book Award and agold medal in the 9 to 11 year­olds category of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.[14][15][16] Harry Potter

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and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8September 1999.[15][16] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8 July 2000 simultaneously by Bloomsbury and Scholastic.[17]

After the publishing of Order of the Phoenix, the sixth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half­Blood Prince, was published on 16 July 2005, and sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of itsworldwide release.[2][18] The seventh and final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, waspublished 21 July 2007.[19] The book sold 11 million copies within 24 hours of its release: 2.7 millioncopies in the UK and 8.3 million in the US.[18]

Adaptations

Film

Main article: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)

In 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released in a film version directed by DavidYates and written by Michael Goldenberg. The film was produced by David Heyman's company,Heyday Films, alongside David Barron. The budget was reportedly between £75 and 100 million(US$150–200 million),[20][21] and it became the unadjusted eleventh­highest grossing film of all time,and a critical and commercial success.[22] The film opened to a worldwide 5­day opening of$333 million, third all­time, and grossed $938.4 million in total, second to Pirates of the Caribbean: AtWorld's End for the greatest total of 2007.[23][24]

Video games

Main article: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)

A video game adaptation of the book and film versions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixwas made for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii,Game Boy Advance and Mac OS X.[25] It was released on 25 June 2007 in the U.S., 28 June 2007 inAustralia and 29 June 2007 in the UK and Europe for PlayStation 3, PSP, PlayStation 2, Windows and 3July 2007 for most other platforms.[26] The games were published by Electronic Arts.[27]

The book is also depicted in the 2011 video game Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7.

Translations

Main article: Harry Potter in translation

The first official foreign translation of the book appeared in Vietnamese on 21 July 2003, when the firstof twenty­two instalments was released. The first official European translation appeared in Serbia andMontenegro in Serbian, by the official publisher Narodna Knjiga, in early September 2003. Othertranslations appeared later (e.g. in November 2003 in Dutch and German). The English­language versionhas topped the best­seller list in France, while in Germany and the Netherlands an unofficial distributedtranslation process has been started on the Internet.[28]

See also

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Religious debates over the Harry Potter series

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