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.