One night, as Harry wanders about Little Whinging, he, and also his obnoxious cousin Dudley, are attacked by Dementors. Harry fends them off with a Patronus Charm, but Dudley is hurt. A neighbour, Arabella Figg, comes to help. She reveals she is a squib (born to a magical family but is unmagical herself), and she was asked by Albus Dumbledore to secretly watch over Harry when he came to live with his aunt and uncle. Back home, Harry receives a letter stating he has been expelled from Hogwarts for performing magic outside school is ordered to appear at a hearing at the Ministry of Magic.
Cover of the UK and Canadian Adult Edition, Bloomsbury and Raincoast (respectively)Several Order of the Phoenix members arrive to escort Harry to their secret headquarters at the Black Family home, 12 Grimmauld Place in London. The Weasleys, Hermione, and Harry’s godfather Sirius Black are there. Harry is upset when he is denied detailed information regarding the Order's plans to fight Lord Voldemort. The Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, refuses to believe Voldemort has returned and has been discrediting Harry and Dumbledore through articles in The Daily Prophet.
Mr. Weasley accompanies Harry to the hearing, but they arrive late because they were not informed that the time and location were changed. Dumbledore arrives with Mrs. Figg, who testimony that Harry acted in self-defense clears him. As he leaves the Ministry, Harry sees Lucius Malfoy, a known Death Eater, visiting Fudge.
Harry and friends return to Hogwarts aboard the Hogwarts Express, sharing a compartment with the rather unusual Luna Lovegood. Back at Hogwarts, Hagrid is absent, and Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister, has been appointed by the Ministry to become the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. She is obviously there to spy on and take control of the school and refuses to teach student practical Defense Against the Dark Arts methods. She is soon appointed High Inquisitor, intimidating staff and students. She harbors an immense dislike for half-breeds, Centaurs, and similar creatures.
Ron is the new Keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The season starts well, but Umbridge bans Harry and Fred and George Weasley from the team. Ron's younger sister, Ginny, replaces Harry as the new seeker. Hagrid returns to Hogwarts, revealing that he and Madam Maxine were on a failed secret mission for Dumbledore to recruit the giants against Voldemort. Hagrid's battered appearance alarm Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who discover that Hagrid is hiding his giant (and still wild) half-brother, Grawp in the forest. Both Hagrid and Professor Sybill Trelawney are heavily scrutinized by Umbridge, who views both incompetent. Umbridge's dislike for Hagrid is intensified by her prejudice towards "half-breeds" (Hagrid is half-giant). Umbridge sacks Trelawney, but Dumbledore replaces her with his own appointment, the centaur, Firenze.
Harry has strange dreams, mostly about running down a hallway and attempting to open a door in the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries. In one nightmare, Harry dreams he is a snake attacking Ron's father, Arthur Weasley, who works at the Ministry. Waking up, Harry raises the alarm, believing he had a true vision, and Arthur is indeed discovered with venonmous snake bites. Harry wonders if he is being possessed and transported by Voldemort to do his bidding, but Dumbledore reassures him he is not. Dumbledore asks Severus Snape to give Harry lessons in the art of Occlumency, the ability to block one's mind from another.
Threatening to expose her as an illegal animagus, Hermione blackmails hack journalist Rita Skeeter into writing an article about Harry and Voldemort's return. Luna Lovegood's father publishes the article in his newspaper The Quibbler. Furious, Umbridge bans the tabloid at the school, but the story spreads rapidly, garnering support for Harry.
Hermione convinces Harry to secretly teach students Defense Against the Dark Arts. They form the D.A. (Defense Association), but this eventually becomes Dumbledore's Army in retaliation against Umbridge. She discovers the secret meetings, and to protect the students, Dumbledore claims he organized the group. When confronted by two Ministry Aurors, Fudge, and Umbridge, Dumbledore spectacularly disapparates. Umbridge appoints herself Headmistress, although Dumbledore's office is now impenetrable. Meanwhile, the Weasley twins instigate a student revolt, causing mayhem throughout the school. The teachers pointedly do nothing to help the new Headmistress regain control. Finally, the twins hop on their brooms, leaving the school for good to start their own joke shop. As a parting gesture, they leave a magical swamp inside the school.
Harry receives a vision that Sirius is being tortured at the Department of Mysteries. He desperately attempts to contact Sirius via the fireplace in Umbridge's office but is caught. Umbridge reveals it was she who sent the Dementors to attack Harry during the summer. As she is about to use an Unforgivable Curse on him, Hermione tells her that Dumbledore has hidden a powerful weapon in the woods. Once in the forest, Umbridge foolishly insults the centaurs. Enraged, one carries her off screaming. The other centaurs are about the attack the students, but Hagrid's giant brother, Grawp, crashes onto the scene, scattering them.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, along with Luna, Ginny, and Neville use the school's Thestrals to fly to the Ministry of Magic in London to save Sirius, unaware they are being lured into a trap. When Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Neville Longbottom arrive at the Department of Mysteries, they are ambushed by Death Eaters. Voldemort seeks a prophecy contained in a glass sphere and needs Harry to retrieve it. Only those a prophecy refers to can touch the sphere without going insane.
The students heroically battle the Death Eaters, and just as they are nearly defeated, Order members arrive. During the ensuing battle, the glass sphere is shattered. Tragically, Sirius is killed with a spell from his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, a Death Eater. This causes his body to float through a magical veiled arch. Soon Dumbledore arrives and most of the Death Eaters are captured.
Harry chases Bellatrix into the atrium as Lord Voldemort appears and duels with Dumbledore. Alerted Ministry of Magic employees arrive in time to see Voldemort before he disapparates, taking Bellatrix with him. Cornelius Fudge finally admits Voldemort has returned, and Harry's interview with Rita Skeeter is recycled for the Daily Prophet.
Later in his office, Dumbledore apologizes to the furious Harry for neglecting him over the past year. He explains his actions and reveals the meaning of the lost prophecy, which states Harry must kill Voldemort or be murdered by him. Sybill Trelawney predicted, "Either must die at the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives." At the end of the year, Harry returns to the Dursleys for another cheerless summer, still griving his lost godfather.
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