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.