# Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix

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## Chapters

    Chapter 1: Dudley Demented
    Chapter 2: A Peck of Owls
    Chapter 3: The Advance Guard
    Chapter 4: Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
    Chapter 5: The Order of the Phoenix
    Chapter 6: The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black
    Chapter 7: The Ministry of Magic
    Chapter 8: The Hearing
    Chapter 9: The Woes of Mrs. Weasley
    Chapter 10: Luna Lovegood
    Chapter 11: The Sorting Hat's New Song
    Chapter 12: Professor Umbridge
    Chapter 13: Detention with Dolores
    Chapter 14: Percy and Padfoot
    Chapter 15: The Hogwarts High Inquisitor
    Chapter 16: In the Hog's Head
    Chapter 17: Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four
    Chapter 18: Dumbledore's Army
    Chapter 19: The Lion and the Serpent
    Chapter 20: Hagrid's Tale
    Chapter 21: The Eye of the Snake
    Chapter 22: St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
    Chapter 23: Christmas on the Closed Ward
    Chapter 24: Occlumency
    Chapter 25: The Beetle at Bay
    Chapter 26: Seen and Unforeseen
    Chapter 27: The Centaur and the Sneak
    Chapter 28: Snape's Worst Memory
    Chapter 29: Careers Advice
    Chapter 30: Grawp
    Chapter 31: O.W.L.s
    Chapter 32: Out of the Fire
    Chapter 33: Fight and Flight
    Chapter 34: The Department of Mysteries
    Chapter 35: Beyond the Veil
    Chapter 36: The Only One He Ever Feared
    Chapter 37: The Lost Prophecy
    Chapter 38: The Second War Begins

## Overview

The fifth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is told from the viewpoint of the now fifteen-year-old Harry.
This is possibly the darkest book in the Harry Potter series. Surprisingly, perhaps, it is not the return of Voldemort and his Death Eaters that give this book its power, for in fact they do very little during this year. Its grimness is the multiplicity of enemies facing Harry, as the Ministry of Magic, headed by Cornelius Fudge, has also set itself against Harry and Dumbledore. Additionally, Harry must deal with a new nemesis and possibly the series' most hated character, Dolores Umbridge, a petty Ministry bureaucrat.
Apart from the usual magic, events at Hogwarts School, and the frustrating Dursleys, this book includes the resurrection of the Order of the Phoenix, a group dedicated to Lord Voldemort's downfall, and Voldemort openly returning. Darker and more mature than the preceding entries in the series, this book shows Harry coping with loss and dealing with adversity, while growing in maturity and ability.
While the book appears daunting at 766 pages (Bloomsbury / Raincoast edition), it is set in somewhat larger type than the first three volumes. If set in the same type as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, it would be 655 pages (approximately) to 223 for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. At this, though, it is still the largest of the seven volumes.

## Book Highlights

* New places visited: Grimmauld Place, the Ministry of Magic, St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, The Room of Requirement
* Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers: Dolores Umbridge (official teacher), Harry Potter (Dumbledore’s Army teacher)
* Title refers to: The Order of the Phoenix, Fawkes the Phoenix