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