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.