"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Readers, on the other hand, will be energized as they enter yet again the long waiting period for the next title in the marvelous, magical series. Confronting death again, as well as a startling prophecy, Harry ends his year at Hogwarts exhausted and pensive. Here we have an adolescent who's sometimes sullen, often confused (especially about girls), and always self-questioning. Gone is the wide-eyed innocent, the whiz kid of Sorcerer's Stone. Harry faces the thorny transition into adulthood, when adult heroes are revealed to be fallible, and matters that seemed black-and-white suddenly come out in shades of gray. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a coming-of-age story. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations (O.W.Ls), devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team lineup, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry's resilience is sorely tested. Life isn't getting any easier for Harry Potter. Enter a particularly loathsome new character: the toadlike and simpering (" hem, hem") Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, who takes over the vacant position of Defense Against Dark Arts teacher-and in no time manages to become the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, as well.
Even Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of the school, has come under scrutiny by the Ministry of Magic, which refuses to officially acknowledge the terrifying truth that Voldemort is back. Somehow, over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teen.
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Rowling's Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for our young wizard, who finds himself knocked down a peg or three after the events of last year. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Readers get to discover the purpose behind the Order of the Phoenix and more is revealed of the connection between Harry and You-Know-Who. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero's non-Muggle friends from school. And Harrys romance with his crush from the last book, Cho Chang, turns out to be a major waterworks (she cries when shes happy, she cries shen shes sad).
We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory.Īs his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. Not only are the Dursleys as despicable as ever (though Rowling drops a few intriguing hints that there may be more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye), but dark forces are reaching out for Harry even in Little Whinging, the drab suburb that had seemed too ordinary for magic.īut when he finally gets back to the wizarding world, Harry finds things aren't much better there: Voldemort is gaining followers Dumbledore is avoiding Harry the Daily Prophet has been running articles implying that Harry is publicity crazed and Dumbledore is senile (it seems that even in the wizarding world one defeats one's enemies by discrediting them in the media) Hogwarts is under siege by the Ministry of Magic, which has appointed a High Inquisitor to wrest control of the school from Dumbledore and ensure that the students do not learn any defense against the dark arts and Hagrid is missing.Īdded to these potentially fatal struggles are the stresses of growing up: Harry is a bit older, a bit taller, and a lot angrier Fifth Year is the time for the first round of testing (Ordinary Wizarding Levels, or O.W.L.s) and career counseling Harry has his first girlfriend (and first kiss, mercifully not described) and Ron and Hermione have both been appointed prefects (along with Draco Malfoy), but Harry has not.The next volume in the thrilling, moving, bestselling Harry Potter series will reach readers J- and it's been worth the wait! Harry's summer break with the Dursley's is more wretched than usual in HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, the fifth installment in the most popular book series of all time.
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