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{{work
{{Infobox book
| title = Harry Potter and
| image = HP5.jpg
| caption = First UK edition cover
| author = J. K. Rowling
| central theme =
| elevator pitch =Voldemort's back, the Order that used to oppose him has reconvened, and the Ministry has managed to dig up someone even less likeable.
| genre = Fantasy
| franchise = Harry Potter
| preceded by =
| followed by =
| publication date = June 21, 2003
| wiki URL = https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
| wiki name = Harry Potter Wiki
}}
{{quote|''"Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything."''|'''Albus Dumbledore''' to '''Harry''', and
The fifth book in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series. Published in 2003. Voldemort's back, but the [[The Government|Ministry of Magic]] is in denial, so they decide the best solution is to start a [[Government Conspiracy]] and cover up all the evidence. Then they send one of their own, Dolores Umbridge, to Hogwarts to [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|take over]]. At the end an even more major supporting character is [[Killed Off for Real]], officially signaling that from now on [[Anyone Can Die]].
''Order Of The Phoenix'' was in the works longer than any other book in the series besides the first one. In the three-year gap between ''[[
And oh boy, [[Harry Potter and
[[Character Development]] for Ginny and Neville also contribute to the polarization. Harry also stops being a [[Knight in Shining Armor]], as his moral flaws are brought to light.
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* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Throughout the book, Harry doesn't learn that speaking his mind or telling the truth about Voldemort around Umbridge is only going to get him into trouble. McGonagall calls him out on it at one point.
* [[Agent Mulder]]: Luna Lovegood.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Harry is hated because all the students think he's an attention-seeking brat.
* [[Analogy Backfire]]: After Dumbledore gets ousted from Hogwarts, during Harry's career consultation meeting with McGonagall where Umbridge is also present, Umbridge makes more than one attempt to disparage Harry's desire to become an Auror, eventually going so far as to state he "has as much chance of becoming an Auror as Dumbledore has of ever returning to this school", to which McGonagall responds, "A very good chance, then."
* [[Anchored Ship]]: Harry and Cho. Her {{spoiler|emotional issues over Cedric's death}} make it too difficult for her to be in a relationship. The end result is a [[Anchored Ship|Type 2A]].
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Dumbledore. Although this is well known in the previous books, this is the book where he truly confirms it, as it's the first time he appears in combat when he battles with Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic.
** Voldemort, nearly seventy, holds his own against Dumbledore until the arrival of the Ministry.
*** Voldy had recently recreated his body, so his physical age was debatable at this point.
* [[Battle-Interrupting Shout]]: When Snape and Sirius are on the verge of dueling, Harry places himself between them, which makes little difference until the Weasley family walks in.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Voldemort luring Harry to the Department of Mysteries by making it seem that Sirius was in danger. {{spoiler|1=He first attempted to lure him there by simply showing him the DoM and the Hall of Prophecy, counting on Harry's natural curiosity, but Harry had no idea there ''was'' a prophecy about him in the first place.}}
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** Twice in a row: Harry and his friends are saved from the Death Eaters by members [[The Cavalry|of the Order]] (Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, and {{spoiler|the real}} Mad-Eye Moody), then when the Death Eaters appear to gain the upper hand over the Order, Dumbledore himself arrives and saves the day, rounding up most of the Death Eaters within a matter of seconds.
** Grawp the Giant shows up to save Harry and Hermoine from the ''Centaurs.''
* [[The Big Damn Kiss]]: Harry and Cho.▼
* [[Big Entrance]]: Dumbledore makes one of these after professor Trelawney has been sacked, by opening the castle's huge double doors by himself and striding through them. Harry notes how impressive he can make the simple act of walking through a door.
* [[Big Lie]]: The Ministry of Magic and the ''Daily Prophet'' attempt a Big Lie when they begin their campaign to discredit Dumbledore and paint Harry Potter as a possibly-insane attention-seeking liar. They don't entirely succeed, but they do convince enough people to cause problems for both Dumbledore and Harry.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Dolores Umbridge defines this trope. Wearing all pink and having a sickeningly sweet façade doesn't change the fact that she's probably the biggest bitch in the history of written fiction.▼
▲* [[The Big Damn Kiss]]: Harry and Cho.
* [[Big Little Brother]]: {{spoiler|Grawp for Hagrid. Lampshaded when Hagrid ''says'' that Grawp is his "little brother" and the Trio gives him weird looks.}}
▲* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Dolores Umbridge
* [[Black Shirt]]: Filch and Malfoy's gang are happy to help Umbridge. Unfortunately for them, this makes them fair game when everyone starts rebelling against her.
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Oddly averted, where Voldemort apparently has learned his lesson and tries to kill Harry quickly, only to be stopped by Dumbledore.
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* [[The Cassandra]]: Harry, with his claims that Voldemort has returned.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Both Harry's claims of Voldemort returning and pretty much anything [[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna]] says. With Harry there's really no excuse given his track record; the Philosopher's Stone being stolen, not being the one petrifying Muggleborns, Sirius being innocent, etc. Though with Luna, it's really a toss up. Some of the stuff she claims turns out to be true. Others not so much.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The series [[Chekhov's Gun/Literature/Harry Potter|has its own page.]]
* [[Close-Call Haircut]]: Done by a centaur to Umbridge after she offends them -- not that it stops her from [[Too Dumb to Live|insulting them some more]].
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Who else? Luna "Loony" Lovegood.
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* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]: Bellatrix.
* [[Commander Contrarian]]: Zacharias Smith.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Dolores Umbridge {{spoiler|being (possibly) [http://www.cracked.com/article_19397_the-5-most-depraved-sex-scenes-implied-by-harry-potter.html gang-raped by the Centaurs] in the Forbidden Forest}} should qualify. Also a case of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
* [[Cool Teacher]]: Harry.
* [[Corporal Punishment]]: Umbridge does not hesitate to use it on "problematic" students... to the tune of [[Writing Lines]] with a quill that ''carves the words into their hand and uses their own blood as ink''.
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** Hermione's suggestions of treating house elves better in Book 4 were mostly treated for comedy. In this book, the [[Fantastic Racism|inequalities between humans and centaurs, house elves and indeed any non-human sapient magical creature]] start getting ''much'' more spotlight, and a lot of it is reminiscent of real-world racism both historical and current: oh, the Ministry of Magic "permits" centaurs to live in "[[Injun Country|certain areas of land]]", hmmmm...
** The movie in particular emphasises how [[The War on Terror|the Ministry of Magic sees the reports of Voldemort's return as little more than fear-mongering, and interfere with Hogwarts' attempts at what they see as building an army in Dumbledore's name.]]
* [[Domestic Abuser]]: It's implied that Snape's father was at the very least verbally abusive to Snape's mother, and that this was a large contributing factor in his anti-Muggle attitudes.
* [[Doorstopper]]: Over 750 pages no matter which edition.
* [[Double Standard]]: In-universe. Girls are allowed to enter the boys' dormitories, but try to do the opposite and you get magically rebuffed. Ron finds this out the hard way and immediately points out the double standard (Hermione admits it's an 'old-fashioned rule').
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* [[Golden Mean Fallacy]]: Umbridge uses this in her opening speech, suggesting that she represents a middle ground between tradition and change. If that's so, we'd hate to see what "change" looks like.
* [[Government Conspiracy]]: The Ministry of Magic's coverup of Voldemort's return.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Harry develops this in this book, providing more fuel for those who say he has post-traumatic stress disorder on account of the [[Bad Dreams]] he has of his encounter in the graveyard in [[
* [[Hate Sink]]: Umbridge's character pretty much exists solely to be this. She represents the worse aspects of the Ministry of Magic, such as scrutinizing her students and fellow teachers and being the sort of villainess whom most people encounter in real life. It is because of this that a lot of fans tend to view her as a more detestable villain than Voldemort, especially since the latter has a ton of likeable quirks and a sympathetic backstory.
* [[The Heavy]]: [[The Umbridge|Dolores Umbridge]] is this to Cornelius Fudge.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Harry briefly experiences this when he {{spoiler|thinks Voldemort might be possessing him.}}
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* [[Mildly Military]]: The Order. Despite fighting against a powerful dark wizard with mind control they employ very few precautions besides the Fidelius charm. Among other examples, Moody comes to escort Harry, then realizes that he has no way of confirming Harry's identity besides using Veritaserum, which [[Word of God]] confirms is unreliable against a prepared dark wizard.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Revealed to be an important plot point. Snape reveals that Voldemort loves doing this to his victims, and his teaching Harry Occlumency is the defense against it. {{spoiler|Voldemort does attempt this on Harry near the end of the book but fails}}.
* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]: Harry, Ron, and Hermione are already-mobilized misfits, but they're joined by Neville (who [[Took a Level in Badass]]); Ginny, who up to that point was nearly an extra and only Ron's little sister; and Luna, Hogwarts's own [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
* [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]]: Umbridge, again, who fits this trope to a T, combining it with [[Sadist Teacher]] and [[Complete Monster]], while addressing the students like they're five year olds. ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' shows that she still acts this way outside of the classroom as well.
* [[Mistaken for Cheating]]: Cho gets this impression of Harry on their date, thanks to his poor choice of words in describing his meeting with Hermione later.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Kreacher and Marietta Edgecombe.}}
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* [[No Hero to His Valet]]: Sirius to Kreacher, {{spoiler|with tragic consequences}}. Of course, Kreacher's opinion of him had been pretty low ever since Sirius ran away from home.
* [[No Mere Windmill]]: People cling on to the belief that Voldemort can not have returned. Thus they let the dark lord grow in power undisturbed, while they accuse Harry of being a [[Windmill Crusader]] and Dumbledore of being a [[Manipulative Bastard]] using this [[Windmill Political]] for some shadowy political game.
* [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]]:
** And then played straight when the Ministry of Magic's propaganda campaign against Harry's story that Voldemort has returned is undermined when Umbridge bans a copy of ''The Quibbler'' that tells Harry's story about his encounter with Voldemort. The issue is then sold out and must be reprinted due to curiosity about why it was banned, in a textbook example of the [[Streisand Effect]]. This could also possibly be a [[Take That]] to all the [[Moral Guardians]] who've attacked the series, only ensuring it became more successful.
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: Filch almost manages to become this - after four books of being an empty threat, he's given the authority to hand out the sadistic punishments he's always dreamed of once Umbridge takes over. The only problem is that, by that point, there are so many troublemakers he doesn't know who to go after first.
* [[The Not-So-Harmless Punishment]]: Harry is punished for speaking out against Umbridge in class by being made to write lines... [[Disproportionate Retribution|with a magic quill that cuts his skin and takes his own blood as ink.]]
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* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: [[Heroic BSOD|Harry destroying Dumbledore's office]] was cut out of [[The Film of the Book]].
** Possibly with good reason. While it's kind of awesome in the book, it's likely that actually seeing Harry ranting and yelling while breaking stuff, with Dumbledore just standing there watching, could very easily have become [[Narm]] of the highest order. ''Especially'' for people who thought the scene in the book was Narm anyway.
* [[Offstage Villainy]]: [[Sadist Teacher|Dolores Umbridge]], arguably the most evil non-Death Eater villain in the series, is seen threatening a few characters with the [[Agony Beam|Cruciatus Curse]] and the [[Fate Worse Than Death|Dementor's Kiss]], but whether she ever actually subjects anyone to these things remains unknown.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard on the planet, causes this reaction {{spoiler|when Fudge comes to arrest him}}.
{{quote|'''Dumbledore''': Well, it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to...what is the phrase? Ah, "Come quietly".}}
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* [[Soap Punishment]]: Casting the cleaning spell ''Scourgify'' on a human will result in their mouth being washed out with soap. James Potter used it this way on Snape in the "Snape's Worst Memory" flashback.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Again, Umbridge. This is one of the reasons she pulls off her [[Complete Monster]] routine so effectively.
* [[Streisand Effect]]: Umbridge's ban on the issue of ''The Quibbler'' with Harry's interview just turns it into the most pirated and distributed newspaper at Hogwarts.
* [[Surprise Witness]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. Figg}} during Harry's trial.
* [[Tantrum Throwing]]: Harry begins throwing and smashing random objects in Dumbledore's office, wanting an explanation about everything that's been going on from Dumbledore, {{spoiler|who realizes that he must finally tell Harry the [[Awful Truth]].}}
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