Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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]].

** 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.''

* [[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.

* [[Big Little Brother]]: {{spoiler|Grawp for Hagrid. Lampshaded when Hagrid ''says'' that Grawp is his "little brother" and the Trio gives him weird looks.}}

* [[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.

** 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.]]

* [[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').

* [[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}}.

* [[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. ''[[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.]]

* [[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.

* [[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".}}

* [[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.

* [[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]].}}