Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

This is the book I read. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is about Harry Potter's fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During the Summer, Harry is taken from his house in number four Privet Drive and taken to number twelve Grimmauld Place, which is the home of Sirius Black, and the headquarters of the new and improved Order of the Phoenix (a secret organization devoted to stopping Lord Voldemort). At Hogwarts, things change. The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is Delores Umbridge, who works for the ministry of magic. She was sent by Cornelius Fudge (the Minister of Magic) to make sure Professor Dumbledore wasn't trying to teach the students spells in an attempt to overthrow the ministry. She soon became the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, and that gave her the power to make magical decrees, or rules, when she felt something was out of line at Hogwarts. Harry had this recurring dream that he was walking down a hallway, where a locked door was at the end. Dumbledore probably thought this was Voldemort's doing, because he was told that he was supposed to take Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape (Occlumency is when you learn to clear your mind so your enemies can't get into it to learn confidential things, which is what Legilimency is). Harry was assigned to clear his mind for homework, but since he didn't study, Harry had a dream where he went into the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic building, where he saw Sirius Black being tortured, and Harry, along with Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny Weasley, and Luna Lovegood, went to save him. In the end, Sirius went to save Harry after he went to save him and dies, Dumbledore saves Harry from Voldemort, and Mad-eye Moody, Professor Lupin, and Tonks, along with everyone who went originally made it out alive, also Fudge ends up believing Voldemort is back, and Dumbledore explained his plan about protecting Harry, but Voldemort, and all of the death eaters who went to get the prophecy from Harry, escaped.

I give this book a ten out of ten because of all the great parts, deep description, and suspension.

This book has 870 pages in it.

John Mixner