Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix #5

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix #5

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The Ending

After a little conflict Hagrid has with the Centaurs where they warn him to stay away from the forest the three of them go back to the game. And they hear the slytherin chant but it has some differences on it. The ones singing the chant were the Gryffindor’s and their chant praised Ron instead of ridiculing him it turns out Ron had saved excellently and Gryffindor had won the quiditch cup. After that they tell Ron about Grawp and he believes that Hagrid is crazy. The day after everyone is taking getting ready for the owls which are the test the fifth years have to take. Harry takes all the OWL’s but during the Astronomy one Umbridge and five other wizards go to Hagrids cabin and try to apprehend him but Hagrids refuses and a fight breaks out. In the middle of the fight McGonagall tries to intervene but she is hit by four stunning spells so she goes down and she doesn’t get up. After that Hagrid manages to beat the wizards and he escapes Hogwarts…. In his last examination Harry’s scar starts to burn and he sees a vision of a man being tortured by Voldemort he then goes to tell Ron and Hermione that the person that is being tortured is Sirius in the department of mysteries. But Hermione was reluctant, she thought Voldemort was using legimency to make Harry think that Sirius was in danger so she proposes for them to go to the chimney of umbridge and check to see if he was in there. They managed to get Harry into Umbridges fireplace and Kreacher the House elf told them that Sirius will not come back from the department of Mysteries.  But before Harry can say anything else Umbridge pulls him out of the fire. Harry lies to Umbridge and tells her that he was trying to talk to Dumbledore then Hermione who had been trapped alongside Ginny Luna Neville and Ron she tells Umbridge that they were going to tell Dumbledore that the weapon….. It’s ready. Then continuing the scheme Harry tells her that they would show her the weapon if she came along alone with them. Then Hermione leaded them to the forbidden forest and she pretended like Dumbledore’s secret weapon is Grwap then the centaur’s come and they are attacked by Umbridge then they seize Umbridge and they threaten Harry and Hermione trap them too but Grawp creates a distraction and they are able to escape. When they got out of the forest Harry meets the other members of the DA who got captured turns out they escaped and then they have to idea to go to London to save Sirius, in threstals. Trhestals are magical flying horses you can only see if you have seen someone die. After they arrive to the ministry they go into the department of mysteries and they find themselves in a really weird maze with a lot of bizarre things none of them had ever had seen in their whole life like in the first room they found brains. Harry because of all the dreams he had been having knew which place to go and soon they found the place and started looking for the row Harry saw in his dream soon they found a crystal ball on a shelf that read SPT TO APWBD DARK LORD AND (?) HARRY POTTER. Harry a bit recklessly grabbed the ball and soon after he heard a voice right behind them that told Harry to give him the orb. It was Lucius Malfoy Draco Malfoys father and a death eater. He was with a lot of other death eaters and then he asked Harry again to give him the orb. Harry asked Lucius where Sirius was to which Lucius answered that Harry should learn the difference between life… and dreams. Then Bellatrix Lestrange a death eater threatens to torture Ginny if they don’t cooperate but Harry just says that they can’t attack him because if they do the orb will be destroyed. Then Harry questions Lucius about the prophecy and then Bellatrix attacks when Harry starts talking trash about them then Malfoy told them that the Orb… that the prophecy was the reason why Voldemort had tried to kill Harry as a Baby and that they had wondered why Dumbledore didn’t tell Harry about the prophecy and that that is an explanation of why he hadn’t come earlier because the orb contains the words that got Harrys parents killed. Then Harry who had been making a plan with his friends yelled, “Now!” and his friend all launched spells towards the shelves on either sides of the death eater and all of the prophecies and shelves started falling un top of the death eaters. The members of the DA started to run Harry leading the way they ran and fought valiantly towards the exit then when they get to a door Hermione seals the Door and then Neville Harry and Hermione realize that the rest of them had taken the wrong turn. Then they fought other death eaters a little bit more and later one of the death eaters harmed Hermione and broke Neville’s wand later Neville was carrying Hermione and Harry saw the other three             DA members Ron was acting weirdly and Ginny’s ankle is broken then Bellatrix comes and the members of the DA all go into another room there Harry enchants the door so its barricaded and but then five death eaters came through another door and harming Luna. Harry decided to draw the death eaters attention so he ran out of the room with the prophecy held high so they couldn’t stun him then Harry was left alone facing the death eaters. Then Neville came but his attempts to fight were completely useless then he was captured and Bellatrix was now torturing him like he had once tortured his parents so Harry saw no other choice. Just when he was about to surrender the orb the members of the Order Lupin, Kigsley, Tonks, Sirius came in and attacked the death eaters.  The fight was crazy and in it Harry fought a dead eater and Neville saved him. Then Harry and Sirius defeated a Death Eater named Dolohov then Bellatrix beat Tonks and was now attacking Sirius and Harry. Sirius told Harry to take Neville and leave. Then Malfoy attacked Harry as he escaped but Harry passed the orb to Neville instead so when Malfoy was taking aim on Neville Harry took the chance to stun Malfoy. Then as Harry tried to help Neville move the Orb fell out of his pocket and then he kicked it aside accidentally so it crushed into the ground. After that Dumbledore arrived to aid the order then as Dumbledore went down to help Harry saw Sirius taunting Bellatrix as they fought and he dodged his spell but then the second spell she cast hit Sirius right in the chest…… and he was dead….. All the death Eaters were defeated except Bellatrix who was fighting Kingsley then when she defeated him she started running away then Harry in all his rage started following Bellatrix she was almost at the telephone lift that would be her escape but then she turned around and aimed a spell at Harry who dodged and hid behind the fountain. Then when she taunted him because of the death of Sirius hatred rose to his chest and he said for the first time ever…. “CRUCIO” but the spell did not have the effect that it did when Bellatrix cast it and she was back on her feet then Harry told her that the prophecy had been destroyed and that now Voldemort knew, and he was not going to be happy…. Then Bellatrix begs Voldemort to forgive her Harry tells her that Voldemort can’t hear her but a cold voice behind her said “can’t I Potter?” and behind him with his wand pointed at him was Voldemort. Then Voldemort went right to the point was he was here he launched the deadly curse into Harry but before it hit the golden statue at the fountain came to life and received the curse which simply bounced off him.  It was Dumbledore who had come to Harrys rescue. After one of the most legendary fights of the magic world Voldemort decided to enter into Harry’s body and share his mind. Then in a battle of wills between Harry and Voldemort, Harry’s will won because Voldemort couldn’t bear the goodness and love in his heart and while Voldemort went to grab Bellatrix the aurors that worked in the ministry and the minister himself saw him while he was fleeing alongside Bellatrix. Then Harry tells the minister that he would explain everything once he sent Harry to school and the Minister finally admitted that he had been wrong…. Then after Dumbledore had told Harry no one was going to die from their injuries Harry snapped and started screaming to Dumbledore. Then while he calms down Dumbledore explains Harry everything from why it was his fault that Sirius died to the prophecy that surrounded Harry and Voldemort. After this everything goes back to normal Dumbledore is Headmaster again and nobody believes he or Harry are liars. Harry is dealing with the aftermath of the discovery of Voldemort Crabbe, Goyle and Malfoy want Harry dead because their father are death eaters and they are all at Azkaban now and he is also coping with the loss of Sirius but it is very hard for him. After that he gets into the train and goes back to Kings Cross when they arrive there the members of the order are waiting for him to take him to his uncle’s house and there they threaten them to not be bad to Harry or they will have the order to answer to.

The end of the prophecy…. it was something about…. Neither can live…. While the other survives…... finished Dumbledore. So said Harry dredging up the words from what felt like a deep well of despair inside him so that mean that…. One of us has got to kill the other one…. In the end? Yes said Dumbledore This quote I really like because it feels really…. Ominous it feels as if like there is a lot more pressure in Harry now that the prophecy is out and Dumbledore admitted that   that is the reason why he hadn’t told him before that because he thought Harry wasn’t ready he thought that Harry would not be able to cope with the fact that is that in the end it has to be Harry the one who kills Voldemort in the end and if it is Voldemort the one who kills Harry then there is no Hope left for humanity after Harry dies because then no one will be able to stop Voldemort.

This was a fantastic book who I really enjoyed and I think it is just perfect for people who like a lot of mystery and suspense and a really interesting storyline that will surprise you a lot in the progress of the story and will excite you in all the parts that have action, interest you in the part that have suspense, and make you laugh in some of the Funny parts. It’s a really enjoyable and well-crafted book that I feel a lot of people can connect with at parts because a lot of the characters you feel like you can connect to them and at the end you feel things because of whatever happens to them you feel sorry for the character you are happy for a character and you will miss a character. That was an excellent book and I really strongly recommend because really to me it is one of the best Harry Potter storylines in all of the books apart from the last one but it is not too far behind it.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix #4

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix #4

Pages 522-696

Harry didn’t liked the idea about having extra lessons with Snape but still Dumbledore wanted Harry to take this lessons. After that As Harry is leaving for Hogwarts, Sirius gives him a package, which he said that Harry should only use it only when he needs him. At Hogwarts, he arranges a Hogsmeade date for Valentine’s Day with Cho. Harry then goes to Snape’s office for his lessons.  At the beginning of the lesson Snape tells Harry that Voldemort is very good at Legilimency, which is the ability to take out memories and feelings from another person’s head. Snape then uses Legilimency to enter Harry’s mind, seeing his memories. Harry fights back and then he returns to the present. Snape enters Harry’s mind again and Harry fails to block him. They try again, and Harry sees his dream again which was running down a corridor at the Ministry of Magic with Mr. Wesley. But now, Harry knows that the hallway….. is leading to the Department of Mysteries.  Harry asks Snape about it, but he dismisses the question. At night, Harry’s scar starts to burn, which was a sign that Voldemort was very happy about something. In the morning, Harry looks at Hermione’s Daily Prophet and he discovers that there was a massive breakout at Azkaban. Lestrange and several ex Death Eaters were loose. Harry thinks that that is the reason why Voldemort was happy. He also reads that a Ministry of Magic worker died at Sr. Mungo’s. His name was Bode. Umbridge later posts a new Educational Decree, which said that it banned all Hogwarts teachers from talking with students anything not related to the subjects. Umbridge then later attends to every Divination and Care of Magical Creatures classes. Hagrid then bans Harry, Ron and Hermione from visiting his cabin, because he thinks that his cabin was too dangerous. Harry then tells Luna his story because she wanted her dad to post it on her father’s magazine the Quibbler. Later, Umbridge posted a new decree which banned all students from reading or having the Quibbler but that makes them want it even more so than before. In the night, Harry goes to bed and his scar aches. He has a vision of him being Voldemort or in Voldemort’s perspective, talking about Bode’s death with a Death Eater. When Harry wakes up and Ron tells him he should go see Dumbledore, but he refuses. The next morning, Hermione thinks that Bode must have been in an Imperius Curse. When he tried to get the mysterious weapon Voldemort is trying to find, he went mad. Harry still continues studying with Snape. Harry has made a little progress but he succeeded in entering Snape’s mind for a short moment. After that they hear a scream coming from the entrance hall and they see that the girl who screamed was professor Trelawney. She was screaming because she got fired by Umbridge. Dumbledore lets her stay to live in Hogwarts, but she cannot teach again. Later Dumbledore introduces Firenze, the new Divination teacher that will be replacing professor Trelawney. In the next DA meeting Harry finally start teaching the members the patronus charm  but when some of the members are making some progress the door opens and Dobby comes in and warns Harry that she  is coming and Harry knows… that she…. Is Umbridge. Everybody starts to run but Harry gets caught by Draco and he tells Umbridge he caught Harry. In the way to Dumbledore’s office he thinks of the members of the DA and he feels quite guilty for the terrible consequences for all of them. At the headmasters office they find Cornelius Fudge alongside professor McGonagall and Dumbledore and also two guys that worked for the minister Kingsley Shacklebolt and an unknown wizard. After that Harry tried to act innocent acting as if he doesn’t know why he is there and then Dolores brings their informant who told them about the DA but the informant Marietta was denying hearing about six months of DA meetings and he just agreed to have been part of tonight’s meeting but Dumbledore lied and said that he had planned that meeting that night only to convince them to join and army to take the ministry but there had not been any real meeting. So Fudge tells Dumbledore that he would go to Azkaban but Dumbledore stuns Fudge and his companions and then tells McGonagall to tell Kinsley that good job on wiping out Marietta’s memory and he tells Harry to shut his mind. After that Umbridge presents educational degree number 28 which states that she is now the new the new headmaster of Hogwarts. After she is named headmaster she calls Harry into her office and tries to make him drink something which of course Harry does not want to drink so he just pretends. After that she starts questioning him about Dumbledore’s and also Sirius’s whereabouts.  After denying knowing anything about where they are they both hear an explosion and the floor trembles. When they leave the office they find the source of the explosion and they see that it is Dragons but not real ones but ones made of fireworks and Harry knows who made them. After congratulating the twins Harry goes to sleep and he has a dream about the department of mysteries like a lot of times that year but this time he almost got to the end of the dream he almost got what he wanted… The next day it was time for lessons with Snape again and when Snape has to get out of the room Harry goes to the pensive and he decides to see the memory Snape wants to hide from him. His memory was about when Snape was around 15 and he was taking the OWL and then when he and the other students went out after a while Harry’s father went alongside Sirius to start Bullying Snape until Lily Harry’s mother intervened but Snape was too ashamed and he called Lily a mud blood a terrible insult so then Lilly leaves hating both Snape and James. Then Snape discovers him and he tells him to leave and never go back to his office again so that meant he would not have occlumency lessons anymore. After that Harry was feeling really bad because of the way his father had acted in his youth. So Harry decides to talk to the other person who had bullied Snape and that was Sirius but he had to enter to Umbridges office. But before he enacts his plan he starts planning his career in the aurors office at the ministry with professor McGonagall and she has a fight with Dolores. After that they enact their plan and Harry appears in the chimney of the orders headquarters and starts talking to Sirius he tells him that both James and he were very sorry to have been such jerks at that age and that after that when he was seventeen James calmed down a bit and then he started dating Lily also they tell Harry that it is extremely important for him to learn Occlumency and that he must convince Snape that he should keep on teaching. After that Umbridge is telling Fred and George that they are in big trouble because of the distraction they created for Harry so they both escape to open their joke shop on diagon alley. After that in the quiditch game the Slytherins are singing a chant to Ron to make him loose his confidence and later Hagrid arrives and tells Harry and Hermione to come with him. It turned out Hagrid had brought his half-brother Grwap the giant and he was keeping him in the forest and because soon Hagrid might get fired he asks Harry and Hermione to take care of him if he is fired.

Potter she said in ringing tones I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do! If I have to coach you nightly I will make sure you achieve the required results! I liked how Professor McGonagall is defending Harry from the claims of Umbridge that he will never be able to achieve his goal of becoming an Auror. And when she does this and she is supporting Harry I like she is kind of rebelling against Umbridge in a way and he is  having faith on Harry also he is kind of stating that she believes Harry is not a liar and that the ministry is wrong and Harry is not lying. I really like Minerva McGonagall I think she is a very great supporting character because she is very strict but also very understanding and bold and intelligent she is kind of like Dumbledore’s replacement now that she is gone.

I really liked these chapters because a lot of important things that contribute to the plot happened. For example, The DA is disbanded because Umbridge finds out about one of the meetings. Dumbledore takes the blame in a very clever way I might add and then when he is about to be arrested he disappears and leaves Umbridge as the Headmaster. Harry has a fight with Snape and he decides to stop giving him occlumency lessons Harry talks to Sirius about his father Fred and George leave the school and Harry finds out about Grawp.  It was a very good sequence of events and I really enjoyed how Umbridge is being kind of humiliated by Dumbledore and Fred and George and how almost everyone is doing a little bit of rebellious acts against Umbridge. 

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix #3

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix #3

Pages 348-522

After the meeting the three friends are discussing how Ron is angry that Ginny has a boyfriend and while discussing that Hermione mentions to Harry that Cho couldn’t keep her eyes of Harry and he feel rejoiced about this. Harry was very excited for the first meeting of the Dumbledore’s army that Saturday but most of all he was happier now than he had been for a long time. But when he reached the common room Harry took notice of something written on the notice board it read educational decree number twenty four. What it stated was that Umbridge would not allow any student organizations to take place anywhere in the school if said societies were not informed to her first and that she accepted it. Harry and his friends were stunned that implied that perhaps she knew or she was suspicious of their plans to start the Dumbledore’s army. After they have stated that they will keep up with their plans of the army Hedwig arrives and she is holding a message for Harry but something is wrong with her she is hurt. They send Hedwig to be healed and then he reads the message it says same time same place and Harry deduces it’s from Sirius. Sirius knows about Harrys plans to make the army because Mundungus Fletcher overheard them and Ron’s mom absolutely forbidden Ron to take part on it and advised Harry and Hermione not to do so either. Sirius thinks it’s an excellent idea because they do need to learn to defend themselves but before they finish talking Umbridges hand appears on the fireplace and tries to grab Sirius turn out she was the one that attacked Hedwig and read the note addressed for Harry. After a few days Harry is trying to figure out a place to do the secret Dumbledore army then he runs into Dobby the House elf and Dobby knows just the place to have the meeting the room of requirement. The room of requirement was a room that gives a person anything they need so they go to the wall where the room is and with their minds they request somewhere to learn and practice how to fight and somewhere they can’t find them. Then a room full of practice dummies and books on the subject defense against the dark arts. There is enormous advance in a lot of the members of the DA especially Neville. But as the first quiditch game drew closer the team captain insisted on a lot of practices so the da meetings were put on hold and Ron who was the new keeper of the team was very, very nervous and the new song of the slytherins was not helping at all so Ron was playing terribly. Then when Harry catches the snitch and wins Malfoy starts taunting them so he and George hit him so they get sent to McGonagall’s office to get punished but Umbridge is the one who wants to punish them so she bans Harry, Fred and George get banned from ever playing quiditch again. After that Harry and his friends go visit Hagrid who had been missing since the start of the year and had just arrived and he told them he had been recruiting Giants to join Dumbledore’s side but there he met some complications because death eater were there to recruit them too. Then Dolores goes to interrogate Hagrid on where he had been and she insinuated that she wanted kick out Hagrid. After that they have a class with Hagrid and there Umbridge shows lots of hints suggesting she wants to fire Hagrid. The next day there is a new da meeting there Cho is crying in the middle of the room and after an intimate talk with Harry they kiss. That night Harry had a very weird dream in which he was a snake that attacked a man but once he woke up he realized that it was not a dream but a vision and that the snake…..  Was Voldemort’s snake and the man…… was Ron’s dad. He told this to Ron and they told professor McGonagall who told him that they were going to see the headmaster. They tell Dumbledore what happened and then he instantly sends help to where Mr. Wesley was and after a while when they are with the whole Wesley family they receive a card from Mrs. Wesley that informs them that their dad is still alive and he is in the magical hospital St Mungo’s. They all go to the Orders headquarters and they stay there until they are free to visit Mr. Wesley. Then Harry admits to Sirius that he did not see the attack from a side but he was inside him and he thought he was becoming evil….. But Sirius tells him he saved Arthurs life and that he should stop worrying. After they visit Mr. Wesley and make sure he is okay everyone goes to wander around the hospital they find Neville and then they see Neville’s parents who he was visiting and then everyone finds out that Neville’s parent were mentally unstable and that they had become that way from a torture long ago. After that Snape arrives to the orders house to teach Harry Occlumency which is the defense of the mind against external penetration. Then Sirius tells him that he should not dare to be bad to Harry because he will have to answer to him but Snape keeps on taunting Sirius so they both get out their wand but then just before they fight each other Mrs. Wesley goes into the room and they both calm down

Ban us? He said and his voice sounded strangely distant from playing…… Ever again? Yes Mr. Potter I think a lifelong ban ought to do the trick. Said Umbridge her smile widening still as she watched him struggle to comprehend what she had said. I can connect to this quote because once I was playing soccer and at the beginning of the game I fouled a guy in the other team and we got into a fight so the referee comes over and gives us both red cards and I can really do understand how Harry felt because when this happened to me I felt extremely Frustrated. The next match my trainer didn’t even put me in the starting squad because I had caused so much trouble in the game before so he thought I should not be in that game either. So I know it was not a lifelong ban but I really felt really frustrated that I couldn’t play two games in a row. So going back a little more to the story I feel very sympathetic for Harry because I understand he must be really frustrated and also I see how the whole thing is really quite unfair because both Harry and George were provoked by Draco and they both got punished while Draco was done nothing to. Also a lifelong ban is a really extreme punishment and I can see that Umbridges point in doing this is kind of not for what he did in the game but for being kind of rebellious and supposedly lying about Voldemort coming back to life.  

Anyway I am really loving these chapters because there is more of a story on the fight between Umbridge and Harry in Which he is rebelling against her and he is giving him as much punishments as possible and being as unfair to him as possible so she is trying to make life hell for him so he just gives up and cracks so he stops teaching the da and says that Voldemort isn’t back even thought that is not true. Of course Dolores does not know what Harry is doing so she is just making it very hard for him to do anything against her. Harry Potter and the Order of the phoenix is being a fantastic book so far and I really recommend it for readers who really like long very interesting books that really give the reader emotions. 

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix #2

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix #2

Pages 174-348

After they stayed in the Orders Headquarters for a few days it was finally time for Harry and his friends to go back to Hogwarts and on the train they meet Luna Lovegood a very weird girl that was the same year as Ginny that was very odd they spent the whole time in the train cabin and all she did was very weird. After a little bit of time on the train Harry was sprayed by a black liquid that came from a plant that Neville Longbottom owned and just at that same time Cho Chang the girl Harry liked since his fourth year came and saw Harry covered in that liquid so it was a really awkward moment for Harry. When they arrive to the main feast the sorting hat sings a song before he starts choosing the house for the first years which is all about the four wizards who had founded Hogwarts had meant for the four houses to be together but instead they had a rivalry between them and that they should be together in those dark times. After that Dumbledore introduces the new defense against the dark arts teacher which is Dolores Umbridge a lady that works for the ministry of magic and is very close to him which means that like the minister himself he doesn’t believe Harry that Voldemort is back. The next day Harry and the others have their first classes and after some classes they arrived to the first class of Dolores Umbridge where they had all sorts of agitations by the student because they learn all lessons will be theorical and they won’t actually practice magic and they ask what would happen if they would get attacked and when Dolores asks who would attack them Harry answers Lord Voldemort and everybody reacts badly because most of the student and Umbridge don’t believe him so Harry gets put in detention with Dolores. In the next chapter Harry goes to detention and Umbridge tells him that he should write I must not tell lies over and over again. After a while Harry starts feeling a little bit of pain in his hand and then after a while thinking he was seeing things he saw it clearly that on his hand was being cut in- I must not tell lies- and after a bit it healed but every time he wrote that again and it was carved into his hand each time he wrote that. After that Ron discovers Harrys wound and tells him he should tell Professor McGonagall but he refuses because he says he does not think she has much power over Umbridge and when Ron suggested Dumbledore Harry simply says no because he thinks that Dumbledore is being very cold towards Harry since the last school year.  After that while doing Homework Ron got a letter from his brother Percy who had distanced from the family because he also worked for the minister and he also thought Harry was lying. So in his letter Percy recommended Ron to stop being friends with Harry because he was nothing but trouble. Also he mentions that Umbridge plans to do some serious changes in Hogwarts. Right after Ron threw his brother’s letter into the fire harry thought he saw Sirius in the fire and after a little bit Sirius appeared in the fire again. Well really it was just his head  and he asked Harry about his scar and how it hurt because of Voldemort’s emotions and also he told them that Umbridge was not teaching them real magic technique because she and the minister thought Dumbledore was making an army of students to take over the ministry of magic. The next  day in the paper the ministry put on the paper that they were going to name Umbridge the high inquisitor of Hogwarts and with her new powers she can now supervise and fire other teachers and also dictate what activities both school and social they could or could not do. After that Umbridge went to see other teachers while they were doing their class and gets into a little bit of a fight with professor McGonagall. After classes Ron and Hermione have an idea that just might help them and all the student in Hogwarts a little bit. Their idea is that Harry who has a lot of experience fighting dark magic will teach all of the kids in their year or anyone who wants to learn how to defend themselves. Harry is against the idea at first because most people think he is lying about Voldemort but eventually he agrees to put up a meeting in the hogs head the bar. At the meeting most people are convinced by Harry that he is telling the truth (maybe) and that he is a very good defense against the dark arts teacher because he has had a lot of adventures and a lot of experience. In the last page Ron finds out a guy is dating his little sister Ginny and he does not like it at all.

You don’t know what it’s like! You--- neither of you---- you’ve never had to face him have you? You think it’s just memorizing a bunch of spells like you’re in a class or something? The whole time you’re sure you know that there is nothing between you and dying except your own. I really liked these quote because it really shows how Harry’s past experiences that many have been near death have kind of marked him and have thought him a hard thing to learn which is that nothing can fully prepare you for life and for what’s out there but you have to trust yourself and rely on yourself to overcome any obstacle that gets in your way and that nothing in life is easy but you have to at least try to beat anything that gets in your way. Also it shows how Harry’s experiences have made him more mature than his friends and it shows how ones experiences really make you who you are and how you are.

I really liked these few chapters because a lot of things happened and one of the main problem of the story appeared which is really to some extent Umbridge because she will have a great influence in the story and she will try to stop Harry and his friends from ever learning any defense against the dark arts and of course the main antagonist of Harry Potter is Voldemort but she and the minister will be like the main opposing forces of Harry Potter for this particular story of how nobody believes that Voldemort is really back and that the minister is doing everything he can to discredit Harry and make him look like he is crazy just because they don’t want him to accept the fact that the most terrifying dark wizard in the whole magic world is back from the dead. Anyway I really enjoyed this part of the reading and this story is really getting more and more interesting and really intense because Hogwarts is completely changing and it might no longer be the safe place Harry has always thought of it to be.

Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix #1

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Pages 1-174

Harry Potter is a kid who is not like any other, he…. is a wizard and he goes to Hogwarts a special school for wizards where they teach them to control their abilities and use them correctly. And the year before this he saw Lord Voldemort one of the most powerful and feared dark wizards in history come back to life and then he fought him. The story begins with Harry lying on a hiding spot where no one would see him in the bushes near the window of his house his goal was not to be spotted while at the same time listening to the news in search for news about Lord Voldemort. After a while a crackling noise forced Harry out of his hiding spot and after a fight with his uncle and aunt he flees to the park to be alone. After a while Harry hears the voices of his cousin’s friends and him so he followed them and when they all went to their house and the only one who was left was Dudley, Harry’s cousin. After a fight between the two cousins who had a mutual hatred the climate in the area starts changing suddenly they both can’t see anything and also they start feeling very cold and Harry realized that what was happening was that the dementors where coming. Dementors are horrible creatures that attack people and then suck out their souls from their body so the dementors attack Harry and his cousin so Harry does the only spell he knows can ward off dementors, Expecto Patronum! After that when they both go back Dudley is really weak because of the dementors. And when they are home Harry receives a letter from the ministry of magic where they tell him he is expelled from Hogwarts because he had used magic outside of Hogwarts and that they were to have a hearing to destroy Harry’s wand so he can’t do magic again. When his uncles take Dudley to the hospital a group of wizards come to Harry’s house to take Harry to a safe house where he meets all of his friends some he knew some he just met and they told him that he was not yet expelled that he would be judged and in the hearing they would decide if he was going to stay in the school or not. Harry’s friends are all part of the order of the phoenix a secret organization that is devoted to stop lord Voldemort. The house he arrived to was his godfathers family house which is the house of black his godfather is called Sirius Black and he tells Harry the history of his house and his family he tells them that they were not really good people and that his brother Regulus was a death eater death eaters as are the servants of Lord Voldemort those who pledge allegiance to him he also tells him that he gave this house to Dumbledore to use as a safe house for the order of the phoenix. After a while the hearing finally came and Harry was not in a good position because he was trying to tell the truth about the dementors but the minister who was personally leading the hearing did not believe the dementors really attacked Harry then Dumbledore arrived and managed to beat the minister in the hearing so Harry was cleared of all charges and he could go to Hogwarts that year. After that everyone is excited and happy for Harry but Harry had noticed Dumbledore did not go to celebrate and also when he had gone to the hearing earlier he hadn’t even looked at Harry much less spoken to him and also Sirius became irritable because he knew that soon Harry would have to go back to Hogwarts. After some days the booklist arrived along with the badge to Ron and Hermione because they were named prefects and Harry and almost everyone else is shocked that Ron was named prefect instead of Harry. We finish on page 174 with Madeye who is showing Harry a photo of the members of the order of the phoenix when they had last fought Voldemort.

 Harry’s heart turned over. His mother and father were beaming up at him, sitting on either side of a small, watery-eyed man Harry recognized at once as Wormtail: He was the one who had betrayed their whereabouts to Voldemort and so helped bring about their deaths (Rowling 174) - I chose this quote from the book because it really does give some very interesting insight into Harry’s reaction to seeing his fathers and wormtail together he kind of takes it in a bad way and he is kind of in a bad mood afterwards. I think by seeing that picture he kind of sees how he could have had a normal life with his parents by his side if it wasn’t for that man that betrayed them and that was sitting right next to them pretending to be their friend and I think he kind of realized how easily the death of his parent could have been avoided and how if only Wormtail hadn’t been a coward or he hadn’t been friend of James and lily. I think he was really not emotionally prepared at the moment he saw that picture to handle such a wave of emotions that would flood into him really rather unexpectedly because perhaps he didn’t even know his parent were in the order although I think he did or he wasn’t really thinking about that and he forgot they were in the order so he wasn’t expecting to see them and have all this emotions and thoughts just pop up to him.

I am really liking this book it really shows some a lot more detail than the movie and it helps you learn new things about the characters in the story that were just omitted in the movies which I have seen and really do show things about the character that you don’t know if you just watch the movie because for example we see that Harry gave all of his triwizard contest winnings to Fred and George to finance their joke shop and that shows me a character trait about Harry  that we really don’t see that much in the movies which is that he is really understanding and he really encourages the twins to follow their dreams of opening a joke shop and do what they are good at and what they like which as it is mentioned is not really a suitable career and it might really go wrong for them but he supports them to the extent where he gave them his winnings that he could have used for anything else he likes but he decided to give it to them. I also believe this portrays a relationship with Harry and the twins which we don’t see in the movies. In the book thus far Harry has had a very good relationship with the twins which is not or is very briefly touched upon in the moves and that it’s really fun and interesting to watch. For example they let harry into knowing what they are doing with the Joke shop while they are dealing with Mundungus Fletcher and he kind of warns them that they should be careful in case they get caught and also they kind of console him or are sympathetic towards him when he finds out he is not a prefect and instead Ron is. Anyway that’s what I have thought about the book so far I really like all the detail there is in the books differing from the movies and I think I will really like to talk about in other posts and also I would definitely like to read some of the other books of the Harry Potter saga after this one