JK Rowling announces seventh Harry Potter title - Wikinews, the free news source JK Rowling announces seventh Harry Potter title From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! Jump to: navigation , search Thursday, December 21, 2006 British author J.K. Rowling has revealed the title of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series in an online game on her official website. Contenders would click on items to reveal a chamber, then they would use the clues given and guess the title. After fans played a game they were rewarded with the title of the book which is to be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . She also revealed that Harry had been taking place in her dreams and she was returning to writing in cafes, as she did 13 years ago. "One character got a reprieve but I have to say that two die that I didn't intend to die," Rowling, 41, said June 27 on Richard & Judy , a television show run in the U.K. The book is first published in the U.K. by London-based Bloomsbury and then sent to the U.S. by Scholastic Corp .

"I'm writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more," Rowling wrote on her website. "I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will)." The film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , the fifth book in the series published June 21, 2003, is still in production and will be released in July 2007. Rowling was inspired to write after her mother died from multiple sclerosis in 1990 and after a marriage breakdown. She started writing in Edinburgh cafés. Whenever her daughter Jessica fell asleep she would put her in a carriage beside her and stroll her to the closest café. 300 million books worldwide have been sold and the series has been translated into 47 languages. No publication date has been set.

Sources Harry Potter films, including goblet of fire Book ; DVD ; PC/Video games ; Poster ; Video INTRODUCTION TO HARRY POTTER The Harry Potter books were written by the English writer J.K.Rowling (her website is: ). Studying Harry Potter books and films can be an enjoyable way of learning English (reading skills can be improved using the books, and listening skills by buying the audio books or by watching the films). Most of the characters speak with clear accents, and there is a lot of action. Many adults enjoy the stories: they are not only for children. Harry Potter's parents were killed by the evil sorceror (magician) Lord Voldemort when Harry was still a small baby. Harry survived, but a scar remained on his face in the shape of a flash of lightning. Harry lives with his mother's sister (Mrs Dursley, or Aunt Petunia) and her husband (Mr Dursley, or Uncle Vernon) and their son Dudley. They live together in a house in Surrey, in south England. The family are not kind to Harry, however. Harry is delivered a message by an owl called Hedwig.

This tells him to go to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where students learn about magic. He gets there by taking a steam train called the Hogwarts Express, which leaves from Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross station in London. The headmaster at the school is a wise and powerful wizard known as Professor Albus Dumbledore. Hogwarts shield Hogwarts Castle ( buy this poster ) At the school Harry joins the school house called Gryffindor, where he makes friends with a boy called Ron Weasley (who has twin brothers called Fred and George, and a sister called Ginny) and with a girl called Hermione Granger. Harry also meets a friendly wizard called Hagrid who tries to keep him safe. However, there is a rival school house called Slytherin where a boy called Malfoy becomes Harry's enemy. The head of Slytherin Professor Snape also hates Harry. The other school houses are Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. The school houses play a rough team sport called Quidditch (the players of the game fly on broomsticks), competing to win the House Cup. Gryffindor shield The seventh and final book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

At least two characters are killed in this book - is Harry one of them? The new book went on sale on Saturday 21 July 2007. Cover of the Deathly Hallows HALF-BLOOD PRINCE The sixth book is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The audio version of the book (read by Stephen Fry) was issued on 25 August 2005. To order these CDs, click on one of these links: audio book (CDs) or audio book (cassettes) The film is due to be released in the UK on 17 July 2009. Cover of the Half-Blood Prince Back to top ORDER OF THE PHOENIX The fifth Harry Potter book was released on Saturday 21st June 2003. It was the longest book so far: 766 pages (38 chapters, 255,000 words; one third longer than the previous book, which had 191,000 words). It includes the death (in a horrible way) of an important character. Harry is 15, and is starting to become interested in girls.

The film version was released in the UK on Thursday 12th July 2007. Back to top GOBLET OF FIRE The fourth film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was released in the UK on 18th November 2005, both in normal and big-screen IMAX cinemas. The story is centred around an international competition called the TriWizard Tournament. The contestants are known as champions, and their names are chosen from a magical cup called the Goblet of Fire. The competitors are three schools taking part are Fleur Delacour from the French school Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, Viktor Krum from the East European Durmstrang Institute for Magical Study, and both Cedric Diggory and Harry Potter from Scotland's Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Tasks are to retrieve a golden egg from a fire-breathing dragon, to rescue something valuable from the bottom of a deep lake, and to get through a maze containing a variety of dangers. Another key event in the film is the Yule Ball. This is a Christmas dance, for which the Great Hall at Hogwarts is transformed into a Winter Wonderland.

Harry is starting to be interested in girls, and has a crush on Cho Chang. Hagrid also falls in love. Some of the actors who are appearing in a Harry Potter film for the first time are: Ralph Fiennes plays Lord Voldemort Stanislav Ianevski plays Viktor Krum Katie Leung plays Cho Chang Miranda Richardson plays Rita Skeeter Robert Pattinson plays Cedric Diggory Frances de la Tour plays Madame Maxime In the UK the film has a 12A certificate, meaning that children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult if watching the film at a cinema. The book, which has over 700 pages, has been compressed into a film lasting 2 hours 40 minutes. It is directed by British director Mike Newell, whose previous films include Four Weddings and a Funeral. To watch the film trailer, see: . Poster for the Goblet of Fire film buy this poster Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third Harry Potter film. The film permiere in the UK was in Leicester Square on 30 May 2004.

For twelve years a prisoner called Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has been kept in the fortress of Azkaban, after killing thirteen people with a curse. But now he has escaped and is coming after Harry Potter at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As well as fighting the forces of darkness, Harry and his classmates Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, now in their third year at the school, must also deal with the changes brought by adolescence. The director of the film is Alfonso Cuaron, whose last film was "Y Tu Mama Tambien". Michael Gambon replaces the late Richard Harris as the headmaster Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was the second Harry Potter film. It opened in cinemas across the UK in the middle of November 2002. Main characters Harry Potter - a British boy with magical powers (a wizard).

Dudley Dursley - Harry's cousin (who doesn't like Harry) Ron Weasley - Harry's best male friend Fred Weasley, George Weasley - Ron's older twin brothers Ginny Weasley - Ron's younger sister, who is attracted to Harry Percy Weasley - Ron's older brother (a school prefect) Hermione Granger - Harry's best female friend (a member of Gryffindor, with a cat called Crookshanks) Neville Longbottom - a classmate of Harry who is forgetful Colin Creevey - A pupil at Gryffindor who admires Harry and follows him to take photos Draco Malfoy - Harry's enemy (a member of Slytherin) Crabbe & Gyle - Two supporters of Draco (also from Slytherin) Moaning Myrtle - The ghost who lives in the bathroom at Hogwarts and is always crying Tom Riddle - a former student at Hogwarts who used to be Head Boy at the school [ Background note: A riddle is a complicated question or puzzle which has a clever (or amusing) answer ] Harry Potter Dudley Dursley Adults Mrs Dursley (Aunt Petunia), Mr Dursley (Uncle Vernon) - Harry lives with the Dursley family, but

 they are not kind to him.

Mr & Mrs Mason - people who come to visit the Dursley family Mr & Mrs Weasley (Arthur & Molly) - the parents of Ron and the other Weasley children Rubius Hagrid - the gamekeeper at Hogwarts and a former student at the school.

One of Harry's friends Professor Albus Dumbledore - the headmaster of the school (Hogwarts) Professor Gilderoy Lockhart - new teacher of "Defence Against the Dark Arts", and author of the popular book "Magical Me" Professor Quirrell - the former teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts, who was killed by Lord Voldemort Professor Minerva McGonagall - teacher of "Transfiguration", head of Gryffindor, and Deputy Headmistess of Hogwarts Professor Severus Snape - teacher of "Potions" and head of Slytherin Professor Sprout - teacher of "Herbology" Madam Pomfrey - the school nurse Madam Pince - the school librarian Argus Filch - the unfriendly school caretaker Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porkington - a ghost at the school, also known as Nearly Headless Nick Lucius Malfoy - Draco's father, and a governor at Hogwarts Lord Voldemort - the evil but powerful wizard who killed Harry's parents when he was a baby Hagrid Dobby - a house-elf, used as a servant Fawkes - the phoenix bird owned by Professor Dumbledore (see note below) The Basilisk - a giant serpent (snake) which can kill you ("pet

rify" you) if you look at it (see note below) Hedwig - the owl which delivers messages to Harry Mrs Norris - the cat owned by the caretaker Argus Filch The Whomping Willow - the tree which is hit by Ron's flying car: it tries to fight back!

Fawkes ( buy this poster ) [ Background note: The bird is called Fawkes. It is a phoenix - a bird with which, according to ancient legend, dies in a fire every 500 years - but a new bird always rises from the ashes of the dead bird. The name Fawkes was chosen because of Guy Fawkes, who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament but was caught and killed. Each year fires (called bonfires) are lit in parks across the UK to celebrate the failure of this plan. For details and pictures, see: Ideas/Events/November . ] [ Background note: To petrify literally means to "turn into stone", and the word is used in this way in this film. Peter is an old Latin word meaning "stone", and is quite a popular name for a boy (the equivalent of the French name Pierre). If someone is petrified it means they are extremely scared - this is because people often cannot move (like a stone) when they are scared.

The word petrol is short for petroleum, which is a combination of the words peter and oleum, meaning stone and oil - this is because petrol is formed under rocks - Japanese and Chinese people also use characters meaning stone and oil to make the word meaning petrol. ] Actors and actresses JK Rowling asked that only British actors should be used in the Harry Potter films. Below are some brief details about some of them: Daniel Radcliffe plays Harry Potter. The 12-year old actor lives in London and also starred in the first film. His voice deepened ("broke") after making the first film. Richard Harris plays Professor Dumbledore. The actor played the Emperor in the film Gladiator. Unfortunately he died shortly after making this film. Dame Maggie Smith plays Professor McGonagall. She is one of the top British actresses, and has played in many television series and films, including the recent films Tea with Mussolini and Gosford Park. Julie Walters plays Mrs Weasley. She was Billy's ballet teacher in the film Billy Elliot, and starred with Michael Caine in Educating Rita. John Cleese plays Sir Nicholas. He is a very famous British comedian.

He appeared in the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, and plays the scientist Q in recent James Bond films. Robbie Coltrane plays Hagrid. He is best known in the UK as the star of the television series Cracker. He has also appeared in many films, including roles in the James Bond films GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. Kenneth Branagh plays Professor Lockhart. He is a well-known actor and director who often performs versions of William Shakespeare's plays either in a theatre or in a film. His most famous role was as actor and director of the 1989 film version of Henry the Fifth. Vocabulary These are some words in the film which are not English but which are special words used in the Harry Potter books: A Muggle (a rude name for which is a Mudblood) is an ordinary human who has no magical powers. A Half-blood is a child of a couple of which only one has magical powers (a wizard or witch). Both parents of a Pure-blood have magical powers. A Parselmouth is someone who can talk to snakes. Parseltongue is the language spoken by snakes. Quidditch is the sport played by pupils at Hogwarts school.

Skele-gro - a medicine which helps bones (your skeleton) to grow. Gringotts - the name of a bank used by wizards.

Gringotts ( buy this poster ) Before going to see the film, you may want to study the meanings of these "normal" English words or phrases (for further explanations, use the: Dictionary ): an elf; a scar; a willow (tree); detention (kept after class at school); a wizard (a person with magical powers); a pixie; spooky; a chamber; petrified (turned to stone); fanmail (admiring letters); a goblet; a legend; an heir; to be thick; a potion; a wand (magic stick); vermin (a pest); moaning; a duel (fight); a charm; a serpent (snake); sherbert lemon (a sweet); to have a bee in your bonnet; a phoenix; ashes; essence (concentrated food); crab (animal); school prefect; to be expelled (sent away from school); a fur-ball; slug repellent; selective (type of school); a culprit; a cloak; a governor; suspension; plumbing; to doze off; a skeleton; dark arts; a fraud; a cubicle; distraught; a sink; to fret; mangled; in a trance; a sorcerer; a songbird; something is troubling you

 (something is worrying you); welfare; to save the day; meddlesome; to meet a sticky end; release papers [ Background note: An anagram of a word or phrase is formed by rearranging the same letters to make another word or phrase.

For example, an anagram of the words "Rude, sly" is "Dursley". An anagram of the name "Tom Marvolo Riddle" is discovered during the film ] Places (was temporarily in Leicester Square) The Harry Potter films were filmed entirely in Britain. Among the places shown are: - King's Cross station platforms 4 and 5 were used for platform 9 3/4, which is where Harry and the other students take the train to the school. A sign has been put up near platform 9 (see the photo above). J.K. Rowling had the idea for Harry Potter while taking the train from Manchester to King's Cross. - The Hogwart's Express (the steam train) is shown travelling across Glenfinnan viaduct on the West Highland Line in Scotland (between Fort William and Mallaig). In summer months it is possible for tourists to take a steam train on this line: . - Goathland Station, North Yorkshire ( ) was used as Hogsmeade station (this is where the Hogwart's Express terminates when the students are taking the train to the school).

Goathland is a village on the Yorkshire Moors, and is also used as the village of Aidensfield in the popular TV programme "Heartbeat". - The outside of Hogwarts school is Alnwick Castle in Northumberland ( ). You can see this during the Quidditch games. It is the second biggest inhabited castle in England (Windsor Castle is the biggest). It was also used in the films "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves" and "Elizabeth". - The interior of the school is Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire ( ) - London Zoo was used for the scene where Harry learns that he can communicate with snakes ( ). - Some of the Hogwart's school scenes were filmed at Christ Church college at Oxford University (Hogwart's dining room is based on the Great Hall in this college) ( ). See also: . - Gloucester Cathedral (a Norman cathedral) was used in some of the ghost scenes ( ). - Durham Cathedral provided the setting for one of the classrooms as well as in a scene when Harry is with his owl Hedwig (see: Travel/Tours/England/Durham ).

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire Great Hall, Christ Church (Oxford) Cloisters of Durham Cathedral, Durham There is a map of Harry Potter film locations at: . Harry Potter Reading Club | Scholastic Subscribe now to receive free monthly resources. Sign up as a Scholastic Reading Club Host to receive our monthly newsletter with themes, discussion guides, downloadable activities, and more. * = required Email: * I am signing up as: You have successfully subscribed to the Scholastic Reading Club newsletter. Kits are limited to supplies only. A valid mailing address will be required. Harry Potter Reading Club 39 Clues Reading Club Please fill out your shipping information below. Some Welcome Kits are available only in certain territories. First Name: Address 1: (street address, p.o. box, company name) City: Address 2: (apartment, suite, unit, building, floor, etc.) State/Province/Region: Your shipping information was successfully submitted and your kit is being processed.

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He becomes expert at a game called Quidditch; encounters incredible creatures like phoenixes and dragons; and discovers an entire Wizarding universe hidden just out of sight, as prone to the darker aspects of human experience as our own, but brightened by a quirky original magic. And slowly, Harry unravels the mysteries of his original confrontation with Voldemort: why the Dark Lord tried to kill him, how he lived… and what he must do to survive another encounter. The first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was published in the United Kingdom in 1997; a decade later, the last novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, broke all records to become the fastest-selling book in history. The seven novels have been translated into sixty-eight languages, selling over four hundred million copies in more than two hundred countries. The Tales of Beedle the Bard The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of classic Wizarding fairy tales, first came to Muggle readers' attention in seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Never before had Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative stories: "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," "The Fountain of Fair Fortune," "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," and of course, "The Tale of the Three Brothers." This beautiful edition includes an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J.K. Rowling; a new translation from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger; and extensive commentary by Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Not only are these the equal of fairy tales we know and love, reading them gives new insight into the magical world of Harry Potter. This purchase also represents another very important form of giving: From every sale of this book, Scholastic will give its net proceeds to the Children's High Level Group ( a charity cofounded in 2005 by J.K. Rowling and Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, MEP. CHLG campaigns to protect and promote children's rights and make life better for vulnerable young people. Quidditch Through the Ages Quidditch Through the Ages is a comprehensive guide to Quidditch and the ultimate resource for anyone interested in the magical world and its most popular sport.

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Inside readers will find books taken out and treasured by users of the great library at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander contains descriptions of 27 magical beasts, written by a renowned magizoologist. Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp, gives a comprehensive history of the game and its rules as well as a rousing description of the top teams in the sport. (Both books are graced with the doodles of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and other students at Hogwarts who couldn’t resist.) Finally there is The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Hermione Granger’s new translation from the ancient runes of a Wizarding classic, with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J.K. Rowling and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. From every sale of The Hogwarts Library, Scholastic will donate twenty percent of the retail sales price less taxes of this boxed set to two charities selected by the author J.K. Rowling: Lumos, a charity founded by J.K.

Rowling which works to end the institutionalization of children ( and Comic Relief, a UK-based charity that strives to create a just world free from poverty ( About the Illustrators: Mary GrandPré, the illustrator for the Harry Potter books, has been drawing since she was five years old. She went through a Salvador Dali stage when she was ten or twelve and later graduated to copying black-and-white photos out of the encyclopedia. However, she really grew into her own while attending art school in her mid-20s. There, she developed her love of pastels and "soft geometry." She has tried other media, but she always comes back to pastels, especially in her children's books. She enjoys working on children's books because she can focus on a big project for a long time, using brighter colors to create larger, simpler pieces. And it allows her to indulge in her love of magic, fantasy, and whimsy. Recently, Mary was featured on the cover of Time magazine for her work with the Harry Potter series and she also worked as a visionary in the environment/scenery development in DreamWorks' animated film Antz.

Looking at life from an ant's point of view is not the sort of assignment that comes along every day and Mary enjoyed the great fun of looking at ordinary things through a magnifying glass. But what was most rewarding was being appreciated as an artist. When she saw the finished film, complete with her landscapes, she saw her work on the biggest canvas to date. Mary has illustrated six beautiful children's books and is at work on the seventh. She also works in other genres, including advertising, corporate art, and editorial. Her reputation is world renowned for her delightfully stunning illustrations. You can see her work and learn more about her on her Web site at . About Kazu Kibuishi: Kazu Kibuishi is the Eisner-nominated creator of the ongoing #1 New York Times bestselling Amulet series of graphic novels, as well as the comic collection Copper, both published by Graphix/Scholastic. He is also the founder and editor of the Flight Anthologies, a critically acclaimed comic series; and the creator of Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, which was named a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults. Kazu Kibuishi lives in Alhambra, California with his family.

Visit him at and on Twitter at @BoltCity. Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent where she went to Wyedean Comprehensive. Jo left Chepstow for Exeter University, where she earned a French and Classics degree, her course including one year in Paris. As a postgraduate she moved to London and worked as a researcher at Amnesty International, doing research into human rights abuses in Francophone Africa. She started writing the Harry Potter series during a delayed Manchester to London King's Cross train journey, and during the next five years, outlined the plots for each book and began writing the first. Jo then moved to northern Portugal, where she taught English as a foreign language. She married in October 1992 and gave birth to a daughter Jessica in 1993. When the marriage ended, she and Jessica returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh, where she trained as a teacher, and where Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone was eventually completed.

The book was first published by Bloomsbury Children's Books in June 1997, and by Scholastic in the US, as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, in September 1998 under the name J.K. Rowling. Jo married Dr. Neil Murray in 2001, and a brother for Jessica, David, was born in 2003. A sister, Mackenzie, followed in 2005. J.K. Rowling has received the following honours and awards: Order of the British Empire (OBE), 2001 Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, Spain, 2003 The Edinburgh Award, 2008 Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur: France, 2009 Honorary Degrees from the University of Exeter, University of St Andrews, Napier University, University of Edinburgh, Dartmouth College, USA, Harvard University, USA, University of Aberdeen.

Commencement speaker, Harvard University, USA, 2008 James Joyce Award, University College Dublin, 2008 Author of the Year, British Book Awards, 1999 Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 1998 and 1999 W H Smith Fiction Award, 2004 Blue Peter Gold Badge, awarded 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award, South Bank Show Awards, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, British Book Awards 2008 BAFTA Special Award 2011 J.K. Rowling supports a wide number of charities and causes. She set up the Volant Charitable Trust, which supports a wide number of causes related to social deprivation and associated problems, particularly as they affect women and children. The Trust has funded a variety of projects in the UK and abroad. It also supports research into the causes and treatment of Multiple Sclerosis. For seven years she was an Ambassador of One Parent Families, now called Gingerbread, a charity working with lone parents and their children. In 2007 she took an honorary position as President for the charity. J.K.

Rowling was patron of the MS Society Scotland for nine years before stepping down in 2009. Having lost her mother to MS at the age of 45, this is one of the causes closest to her heart. As Patron, her support included planning and hosting fundraising events, directly lobbying politicians, writing articles and giving interviews to raise awareness of this very Scottish disease, and contributing significant funds for research in Scotland, including research establishments in Edinburgh and Aberdeen. J.K. Rowling continues to fund MS research directly through The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, which is due to open in Edinburgh in 2013. In 2005, J.K. Rowling co-founded the Children's High Level Group (CHLG) with Emma Nicholson MEP, inspired by a press report she read about children in caged beds in institutions in the Czech Republic. This charity's aim was to make life better for young people in care, in Eastern Europe and ultimately all over the world. In 2007, J.K. Rowling auctioned for CHLG a copy of one of the seven special editions of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which raised £1.95 million.

In December 2008 the book was widely published in aid of the charity and became the fastest-selling book of that year. In February 2010 the UK-based arm of the charity became Lumos. Jo has supported a wide range of other causes and charities, including Comic Relief, for which she has written two short books; The Maggie's Centres for Cancer Care, of which she was a Patron for several years, and Medecins sans Frontieres, in aid of which she performed in an event with Stephen King and John Irving in New York in 2006. She has also donated to the UK Labour Party, and in April 2010 published a piece in The Times opposing the Conservatives' proposed tax relief plans for married couples. The Books Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published by Bloomsbury Children's Books in the UK June 1997 and by Scholastic in the US, as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s, in September 1998. The second title in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 in the UK and June 1999 in the US and was No.

1 in the adult hardback bestseller charts for a month after publication. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published on 8th July 1999 to worldwide acclaim and massive press attention. The book spent four weeks at No.1 in the adult hardback bestseller charts, while Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone simultaneously topped the paperback charts in the UK. The book was published in September 1999 in the US and topped the adult bestseller list, followed by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, for over a month. The fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8th July 2000 with a record first print run of 1 million copies for the UK and 3.8 million in the US. It quickly broke all records for the greatest number of books sold on the first day of publication in both the UK and the US. The fifth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was published in Britain, the USA, Canada and Australia on 21st June 2003.

Published in paperback on 10th July 2004, it is the longest yet – 766 pages - and broke the records set by Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire as the fastest selling book in history. The sixth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was published in the UK, US and other English-speaking countries on 16th July 2005 and also achieved record sales. The seventh and final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published in the UK, US and other English speaking countries in 2007. The book sold a record 8.3 million copies in the first 24 hours in the US alone. J.K. Rowling has also written two small volumes, which appear as the titles of Harry's school books within the novels. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages were published by Bloomsbury Children's Books and Scholastic in March 2001 in aid of Comic Relief. The Harry Potter books have sold over 450 million copies worldwide and are distributed in over 200 territories and translated into 73 languages.

September 2012 sees the publication of J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, which is to be published by Little,Brown in both the UK and the US. The Films HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE broke all box office records when it opened in the UK in November 2001 and has since become the number two film of all time. Directed by Home Alone director Chris Columbus and produced by David Heyman, the film contained an all-British cast, and stars included Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Dame Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall), Julie Walters (Mrs Weasley), Alan Rickman (Professor Snape), and Richard Harris (Professor Dumbledore). Harry Potter was played by Daniel Radcliffe, whilst Harry's two best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were played by Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. The second film, HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, also directed by Chris Columbus and produced by David Heyman, went on general release on 15th November 2002 and was another huge success at the box office.

British actors Kenneth Branagh and Jason Isaacs, and a computer-generated Dobby, were three of the new characters. The third film, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, was released in the UK and US on June 4th 2004. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, new cast members included Gary Oldman (Sirius Black), Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney) and Michael Gambon, who replaced Richard Harris in the role of Professor Dumbledore. The fourth film, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE, was released in November 2005. Directed by Mike Newell, new cast members included Brendan Gleeson as Mad-Eye Moody, Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter and Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort. The fifth film, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, was released in the UK and US in July 2007. Directed by David Yates, new cast members included Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge, Helena Bonham-Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange, and newcomer Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood.

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE was released in 2009 also directed by David Yates, who went on to direct the final part of the series, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, which was made into two films. The first was released in 2010 and the final part in 2011, which smashed box office records making it the most successful film of the series. Harry Potter and the “Books are just more delicious when we get to share them with others.” “Hurry up and finish that book so we can talk about it!” Adults and students alike say this to each other when they are excited about reading and want to bounce ideas, strategies, stories and connections back and forth. Books are just more delicious when we get to share them with others. Fantasy book groups such as the Harry Potter Reading Club are an exciting, compelling way for kids to talk about and explore books they love, while they hone their reading and thinking skills. Talking about books with a friend or small group is the best! But there are other ways to experience books together.

Creation of talking "book tableaux sculptures" is one of my favorite ways to explore books with kids and create "visual vignettes" of the story. The students and I pick puzzling book excerpts collaboratively, or I may select a few tricky book passages as I observe kids as they read and as we talk together. I print off a book excerpt paper for each member of a group, usually a page or slightly longer. Each selection must have the same number of characters as there are students in a group. To create a book tableau, members of the group must first read the book excerpt, think and talk about it. This may require exploring different points of view, and coming to some closure as kids figure out what is going on in this small portion of the book. Participants need to choose "their character" and decide what they will say to express their viewpoints. Students will be using their own words as they speak for their characters: words that explain an underlying story element or event. Now, with these things decided, each group creates a "book sculpture/tableau" by standing together as a unit, with some students reaching, bending, and gesturing, and so on.

Ideally, the form of the sculpture should reflect what is going on in the story excerpt. After a bit of practice to figure out and balance the sculpture or book form, the group is ready to perform. Students recreate their book display and freeze in place – naturally for a very brief bit of time. As the teacher or magician taps them with a magic brush, each character speaks the words that interpret and illuminate the story for him. Students attempt to hold their poses until each member of the group has had a turn to speak. This variation of a "role play" activity gives readers time to work out less understood portions of text, strengthens comprehension, creates group community, and gives kids a chance to move, interpret, and artfully create. Besides all that, the tableau experience is full of zest, anticipation, vim and vigor. It imprints portions of the book on participants and their audience, aids understanding, and is just plain fun! ******** Pat Barrett Dragan, retired first grade teacher, now coaches beginning teachers through the San Mateo County BTSA (Beginning Teacher Support) Induction program. She has written five published children's books, and five books for teachers. Four are published by Heinemann and one through the Bring Me a Book non-profit.

Pat also gives private art and literacy classes for children. - Pat Barrett Dragan,Retired First Grade Teacher “I use great literature like Harry Potter as the cornerstone of my literacy program to build a love of reading also to teach the ins and outs of literary elements in a kid friendly way."” I use great literature like Harry Potter as the cornerstone of my literacy program to build a love of reading also to teach the ins and outs of literary elements in a kid friendly way. WHY Harry Potter! Students that need to make the greatest gains in reading have a limited reading vocabulary, and they are under exposed to quality literature like Harry Potter. Using Harry Potter for core literacy planning and book clubs gives my students access to challenging books, but also the great movie clips and inspirational theme music that can assist with lessons. The HP characters have a special appeal for kids that face daily adversity if taught in an enriching way. In short Harry Potter helps to make reading fun! I tell my kids, “If the don't like reading Harry Potter, you are doing it wrong.” Students always have a stronger auditory or spoken vocabulary due in part to exposure to Tv and Movies.

Using the student's strengths to build connections to literary elements, in a format kids love, watching movies clips and listening to music makes building background knowledge fast, easy and fun for students. Using auditory knowledge to develop areas of vocabulary weakness is one method that helps my students become fluent, excited, erudite readers. Students will quickly transition from the cinematic elements to the literary elements using Harry Potter. Students will understand settings, characters, plot, theme, mood, antagonist, and protagonist faster when you have a movie clip, or theme music to tie in or build background knowledge and understanding of literary elements. HARRY POTTER: GOBSMACKED Game! Have your students stand up, or sit on their desk so they are facing the teacher. Start at either end of room and give a random Harry Potter trivia question to a student (Reading Comprehension question). If they answer correctly they stay standing until all students have a chance to answer a question. The game can be played as a lightning round with just one quick round or many rounds until you have two kids standing for a few Harry Potter HOT (Higher Order Thinking) questions.

When students cannot give an answer to a question they have to say "GOBSMACKED" (Brit slang for dumbfounded) and must sit down. Students that answer correctly get a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean if you are playing the lighting round, if playing for a Gobsmacked champion the game continues until you have a winner. The student that wins usually gets Harry Potter popcorn. Extensions: Students can ask for a challenge question that relates to a literary element, HOT questions, or a Tier 3 academic word that relates to HP, and every child that answers a hard vocabulary question correctly gets a nice small sample of jelly beans or pretzels, stamp, or a sticker. Anytime students' answers any question correctly all students including those that are out have to buddy buzz with a partner the question and the answer. Students love this activity and it's a great review (Formative Test) of Harry Potter, and a great opportunity to teach complex literary concepts. We start with a mix of easy and hard questions to get the kids excited and motivated to keep the Harry Potter reading fresh and exciting. I ask my students if they want a hard, medium or easy question to give every child a real chance at answering correctly!

Background information: We read all Harry Potter chapters twice before we jumping into games like Gobsmacked. HARRY POTTER: Latin Spells We explore all of the Harry Potter books for magic spells, potions, charms, and incantations to teach and introduce prefixes, suffixes and Latin root words. Students use a basic Latin glossary or collegiate dictionary to decode the spells from Harry Potter and make their own. A sample of my students invented spells using Latin Roots *Comphotoposhous: It blinds your opponent for 10 minutes. *Donamorbrev: To make someone fall in love for a short time. *Liverphill: It gives a person forever love. *Creadecadem: To create 10 clones of yourself. *Cosmdokeineiv: To teach people to be wise. *Viviodeca: It makes people live for 10 more years. *Chronacide: It kills very slowly. *Creacosmatic: You can make your own world. *Filaendo: Gives someone faith-belief. *Dynamgen: It makes you more powerful. *Anthropamor: Makes you fall in love with the first person you see.

*Domindynam: Gives power over all you command. *Pathymor: Suffer death instantly. *Zodynam: A spell that can give animal power. - Sean Taylor, 4th Grade Teacher One positive reading experience can turn children into enthusiastic readers, through Harry Potter, many children will discover the magic of books and reading. This fall, two of my sixth grade students who love all things Potter, asked me if I would sponsor a Harry Potter club at our school, Trinity Meadows Intermediate School in Kellor, Texas. After checking with my principal, I agreed to sponsor the club if the girls could get 20 students to join. There were 35 children at the first meeting. The children design all of the meeting activities. We have a sorting hat for new members! Meetings include trivia hunts (we use the Scholastic website), dueling, and other Potter-related activities. One of my students, Michael, has a willow tree in his yard. He brings in sticks for students who do not have a wand of their own. There is a side market in cauldrons, wands, and Potter-themed gear among the kids, too.

I'm sure you know that many colleges have Quidditch clubs and there was a Quidditch World Cup event held this fall where college teams competed. A colleague's son, Jordan, plays Quidditch on the University of Texas Quidditch Team. During his semester break, Jordan and his brother came to a club meeting and taught our club how to play "Muggle Quidditch." The boys built rings and brought my students a set of Quidditch gear. I won't allow the students to ride on broomsticks because I fear someone will get poked in the eye, but the kids enjoy taking on the roles of Beaters, Keepers, Seekers, and the Snitch. You need a fast runner for the Snitch position! We held a Yule Ball, completely planned by the children. The band and choir students in the club played their winter programs, and the students snacked, danced, and enjoyed taking on the roles of champions and House members. What I have noticed is that most of the members of the club are reading and rereading the books. Some students had only read a book or two, but feel motivated to read the entire series now because of their involvement in the Harry Potter club.

Others are rereading the books looking for ideas for the club and revisiting the stories, again. Classmates who are not in the club are now reading Potter books, too, because of the enthusiasm and influence of the Harry Potter club members. I thought that the students who were interested in reading the books would have read them by now, but that is not the case. My students' love—and that's what it is—love for the Harry Potter series endures and continues to capture readers after all of these years. I had no idea that our little after school club would be such a hit. Have you ever jumped into an idea with no expectations for how far it would go? I guess that is what Scholastic did when they bought the first Harry Potter book. - Donalyn Miller,4th Grade Teacher, O.A. Peterson Elementary School in Ft.

Worth, TX Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Hogwarts Library Boxed Set Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( 2007 ) PG-13 | With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 47 titles created 22 Dec 2013 a list of 48 titles created 14 Mar 2015 a list of 43 titles created 11 months ago a list of 46 titles created 6 months ago a list of 31 titles created 6 months ago Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) 7.5/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 14 wins & 38 nominations. See more awards » Videos Harry finds himself mysteriously selected as an under-aged competitor in a dangerous tournament between three schools of magic. Director: Mike Newell As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.

Director: David Yates It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Harry. Director: Alfonso Cuarón As Harry races against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, he uncovers the existence of three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows. Director: David Yates Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him. Director: Chris Columbus Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Director: Chris Columbus Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion. Director: Andrew Adamson A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.

Director: Shawn Levy After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, Shrek agrees to rescue Princess Fiona for a villainous lord in order to get his land back. Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker. Director: Tim Burton The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian. Director: Andrew Adamson An 8-year old troublemaker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation. Director: Chris Columbus Edit Storyline After a lonely summer on Privet Drive, Harry returns to a Hogwarts full of ill-fortune. Few of students and parents believe him or Dumbledore that Voldemort is really back. The ministry had decided to step in by appointing a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher that proves to be the nastiest person Harry has ever encountered. Harry also can't help stealing glances with the beautiful Cho Chang.

To top it off are dreams that Harry can't explain, and a mystery behind something Voldemort is searching for. With these many things Harry begins one of his toughest years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Written by HPfan Make a final stand. See more » Genres: Rated PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 11 July 2007 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The IMAX Experience See more » Filming Locations: £16,493,305 (UK) (13 July 2007) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia According to David Yates , he had originally shot a three-hour film. However, some material had to be cut out in the final edit, as the movie was 45 minutes too long. Therefore, several locations which were used for various scenes do not appear in the final cut of the film. In Virginia Water, scenes were shot where Professor McGonagall recovers from Stunning Spells, and Burnham Beeches was used for filming the scene where Hagrid introduces his fifth-year Care of Magical Creatures class to Thestrals.

Harry skips stones in front of the Glenfinnan Monument in Glenfinnan in another cut scene. See more » Goofs In Professor Umbridge's first class, she gives them all books, then proceeds to tell the class what to expect. During her speech, several of the students's books - particularly Ron's - switch positions from being examined by the students to being flat on the desk. The position of the books repeatedly switches positions as the camera angles switch. See more » Quotes [first lines] Radio announcer: I don't know about you, it's just too hot today, isn't it? And it's going to get even worse. Temperatures up in the mid 30's Celsius, that's the mid 90's Fahrenheit, tomorrow maybe even hitting 100. So please, remember to cover up and stay cool with the hottest hits on your FM dial. Crazy Credits The ending credits are presented in the same typeface as Professor Umbridge's numerous educational decrees. See more » Connections Soundtracks Boys Will Be Boys Dumbledore's Army | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Educational Decree Number 24 Unbeknownst to any of the D.A., they were being watched.

Mundungus Fletcher , disguised as a witch with a thick black veil, was keeping an eye on Harry for the Order of the Phoenix , while Willy Widdershins informed Umbridge of the meeting in a plea-bargain to avoid punishment for a series of Regurgitating Toilet incidents. Umbridge used the information to implement Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four, which banned all student organisations that were not approved of by the High Inquisitor. [5] Although not revealed at that time, Aberforth Dumbledore also relayed information about the D.A. to the Order, as they were meeting inside his pub. Initially, Ron thought that a student at the meeting had betrayed them, until Hermione pointed out that if they had, she would have known about it due to the jinx she placed on the parchment that they all signed. Despite the ban, Harry assured all the members that the meetings would go ahead once an ideal location was found. They would just need to be careful. Soon, Harry was informed the Room of Requirement by the house-elf Dobby , who occasionally used it to store the drunken house-elf Winky . After Dobby told how to summon the Room to Harry, Hermione, and Ron, the D.A.

convened for their first practise session. [5] Training Cho Chang: "The Defence Association? The DA for short, so nobody knows what we're talking about?" Ginny Weasley: "Yeah, the DA's good. Only let's make it stand for Dumbledore's Army, because that's the Ministry's worst fear, isn't it?" — Cho and Ginny discuss group names [src] Harry instructs the D.A. members on the Disarming Charm During the first session, Cho Chang created the name Defence Association, but Ginny Weasley suggested to make the letters DA stand for a different name of their group, Dumbledore's Army, to frighten the Ministry officials, since they were frightened that Dumbledore was creating an army to take over the Ministry; the members agreed upon their group having this name instead of Defence Association. Harry started them off slowly, practising the Disarming Charm (Expelliarmus). When Zacharias Smith scoffed at its simplicity and wondered about its effectiveness, Harry responded that it was the spell that saved him from Lord Voldemort in the Little Hangleton graveyard .

Aware that arranging meetings and passing the word about them verbally was not a secure method of communication, Hermione bewitched several coins with a Protean Charm , one for each member of the D.A. When activated by Harry, the numbers on each coin would change to inform the bearer of the time and date of the next meeting. When asked about it, she admitted to getting the idea from the Dark Marks . The class progressed at a fair rate, practising the Impediment Jinx , Reductor Curse , Stunning Spell , and various other hexes and jinxes before temporarily breaking up for Christmas break. [5] Harry instructs the D.A. on the Patronus Charm Lessons continued during the early months of 1996, and the mass breakout of imprisoned Death Eaters from Azkaban spurred them on to greater efforts, particularly Neville Longbottom , whose friends learned that three of the escapees had tortured Neville's parents into insanity at the end of the First Wizarding War . The class mastered the Shield Charm , and began to work on the Patronus Charm . The class also welcomed a new member, Seamus Finnigan .

Despite being a Gryffindor in the same year as Harry, the two boys had argued when Harry insulted Seamus' mother for believing the Daily Prophet 's version of events. However, with the publication of an interview in The Quibbler , many, including Seamus and his mother, came to see the holes in the Ministry's stories, and Seamus willingly apologised to Harry. He then proceeded to join the D.A being led to the room by Dean Thomas, although Seamus only was a member for the very last session when Harry Potter instead of Neville Longbottom was still the leader and teacher, because Umbridge finally found out about the organisation during this meeting. Betrayal and discovery Shortly before Easter, one D.A. member, Marietta Edgecombe , betrayed them to Umbridge. She was a reluctant member of the D.A., having been brought to the meetings by her friend, Cho Chang . Her mother worked in the Floo Network Office and was helping Umbridge to monitor the Floo Network at Hogwarts. Afraid that her mother's job was in jeopardy, and not convinced by Harry's interview in The Quibbler, she revealed the location of the D.A.'s meetings to Umbridge.

Immediately, the jinx that Hermione had placed on the parchment that each member of the D.A. had signed activated, causing the word "SNEAK" to break out in boils across Marietta's face. [5] Umbridge uncovering the D.A.'s meeting place Dobby the house-elf learned of this turn of events, and rushed to the Room of Requirement to warn Harry and the D.A. Most members escaped, but Harry was caught by Umbridge and several Slytherin students who were members of the Inquisitorial Squad . A search of the room uncovered the parchment that each member of the D.A. had signed, entitled "Dumbledore's Army." Finally having what she considered "proof" that Dumbledore was building an army to challenge the Ministry, Umbridge immediately contacted Cornelius Fuge immdedatley.

[5] Dumbledore escaping Ministry of Magic employees after being accused of plotting against the ministry During a confrontation with Fudge and Umbridge, Albus Dumbledore took full responsibility for the creation of Dumbledore's Army, to shield Harry and the students from the Ministry's wrath, arguing that the initial overheard discussions about the creation of such a group had taken place before the relevant Education Decree banning such meetings and they had no evidence that any meetings had taken place between then and that evening. Kingsley Shacklebolt , an Auror and member of the Order of the Phoenix , used a False memory charm on Marietta to make her version of events tally with Dumbledore's, exploiting the fact that Marietta had only mentioned the meeting this evening rather than revealing the months of classes that had preceded it. His "confession" led to Fudge attempting to arrest him. Dumbledore escaped with help from his phoenix, Fawkes , resulting in Umbridge being installed as the Headmistress of Hogwarts. [5] Disruption of authority Dolores Umbridge: "You two are about to learn what happens to wrong-doers in my school." Fred Weasley: "You know what? I don't think we are.

George, I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?" George Weasley: "Definitely." — Fred and George prior to escaping Hogwarts [src] Fred and George Weasley's fireworks terrify Umbridge Members of the D.A., especially Fred and George Weasley, rebelled against the new authority at the school. On one occasion, the twins released enchanted fireworks through the school, which caused chaos, and with which the professors neglected to assist Umbridge. Fred and George took it easy during the Easter holidays , but then took their rebellion to a new level. They turned a corridor of the school into a swamp to create a diversion for Harry to access the fireplace in Umbridge's office in an attempt to contact Sirius Black , and were cornered by Umbridge and members of the Inquisitorial Squad . In a final act of defiance, the twins summoned their brooms, openly mocked Umbridge's authority, struck the Squad members with a variety of jinxes, and escaped the school behind to pursue a career in their joke shop .

Peeves chasing Umbridge with McGonagall's cane In the aftermath of Fred and George's departure, the student body took up their mantle, releasing dungbombs, using Skiving Snackboxes , and, in the case of Lee Jordan , releasing Nifflers into Umbridge's office. Even Peeves , who had never taken an order from any student, followed Fred and George's request to "give her hell from them." [5] Peeves during the end of the school year proceeded to chase Umbridge out the castle with Professor McGonagall's cane. Despite this, the O.W.L. exams went ahead, and members of Dumbledore's Army impressed the examiners during the Defence Against the Dark Arts practical exam, especially Harry, who produced his corporeal Patronus for bonus marks. [5] He imagined Professor Umbridge being sacked, looked her straight in the eye and did his Patronus. Though she looked smug on the outside when Harry finished his O.W.L., she was furious that he indeed had passed his Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L.

As for the betrayer Marietta, due to her treason causing the organisation's shutdown, she was deeply despised by almost all other members: Harry, Hermione, and Ron all found insults and criticisms to say against her, though her friend Cho was the only one who stood up for her. She still has scars from the "SNEAK" boils. Battle of the Department of Mysteries Neville Longbottom: "We were all in the DA together. It was all supposed to be about fighting You-Know-Who, wasn't it? And this is the first chance we've had to do something real — or was that all just words to you?" Harry Potter: "No — of course it wasn't —" Neville Longbottom: "Then we should come too. We want to help." — Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter before heading off to the Department of Mysteries [src] On 18 June , 1996 after receiving a vision of Sirius Black being tortured by Lord Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic , Harry vowed to rescue him.

However, Hermione pointed out that he needed proof that Sirius was indeed in danger, and convinced him to use the fireplace in Umbridge's office to contact 12 Grimmauld Place . As her fireplace was not being monitored. Harry and Hermione were to break into the office while Ron distracted Umbridge. Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood were to stand guard outside Umbridge's office to ensure that no one caught them. However, during the attempt, Umbridge saw through their ruse and caught them all with the help of the Inquisitorial Squad. Neville attempted to help a captured Ginny, and was apprehended along with them. [5] Umbridge captured members of DA and proceeded to interrogate Harry Potter Umbridge first attempted to interrogate Harry with the use of Veritaserum , but Professor Snape informed her that he had none left. She then threatened to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry to make him talk, prompting Hermione to feign a breakdown. She pretended to cry and made up a story about the D.A. creating some kind of weapon for Dumbledore.

Umbridge believed her, and Hermione and Harry lured Umbridge out into the Forbidden Forest , where she offended a herd of centaurs and was carried off. With some assistance from Grawp , Harry and Hermione made it back to the castle, where they were reunited with Ron, Ginny, Neville, and Luna, who had escaped the Inquisitorial Squad using a combination of the spells Harry taught and others, such as: Stunning Spells , Disarming Charms , and the Bat-Bogey Hex , thanks to Ginny Weasley. Ron, Harry, Hermione, Luna, Neville , and Ginny in the Death Chamber The six members of the D.A. then flew to London on Thestrals , only to discover that Lord Voldemort had planted the vision in Harry's mind to get him to remove his prophecy from the Department of Mysteries . During the subsequent battle, several of the D.A. members suffered injuries until the Order of the Phoenix arrived to rescue them. All the D.A. members survived the battle, and were treated by Madam Pomfrey in the hospital wing upon their return to Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny all lost their close friend and, in Harry's case, godfather, Sirius Black .

This battle exposed Voldemort's return to the public, and signalled the beginning of open war . [5] 1996-1997 school year Practical gains During the 1996-1997 school year , Dumbledore's Army did not reform since there was no need to learn practical magic secretly, despite the wishes of some members to continue with the meetings — especially Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom , who regularly checked the coins Hermione Granger had made. Severus Snape had taken over as the subject professor, and many of the former D.A. members benefited from their practical experience, finding lessons easier than expected. [9] Battle of the Astronomy Tower Main article: Battle of the Astronomy Tower The Dark Mark above the Astronomy Tower on 30 June, 1997 Towards the end of the school year on 30 June , 1997 Harry had become convinced that Draco Malfoy was a Death Eater , and was planning something. However, he was due to accompany Dumbledore on a trip to recover one of Lord Voldemort 's Horcruxes. He asked Hermione and Ron to watch Malfoy and the Room of Requirement , and to gather as many other members of the D.A.

as they could. Only Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, and Neville Longbottom (and possibly Ernie later on) answered their call, and they fought alongside the Order of the Phoenix during the Death Eater invasion of the school that ended with the murder of Albus Dumbledore by Severus Snape . Neville was badly injured during the battle, but survived. None of the other D.A. members were injured because Harry had given Ron, Hermione, and Ginny the rest of his Felix Felicis , making all of the curses just miss the Order and D.A. members. However one member of the Death Eaters called Gibben was hit by a rebounding Killing Curse . 1997-1998 school year

Question: The fifth 'Harry Potter' book is due for publication on June 21st. What is it called?
Answer: 'HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX'