Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School ofWitchcraft and Wizardry. His best friends Ron and Hermione have been very secretive all summer and he is desperate to get back to school and find outwhat has been going on. However, what Harry discovers is far more devastatingthan he could ever have expected.
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[The hottestday of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay overthe large, square houses of Privet Drive](Bloomsbury Children's, 21 June 2003,first edition, hardback, 766 pages, bought from WH Smith)
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I've readthis books so many times I've lost count and I love it even more on each re-read. This is one of my favourite books in the series. The Order of the Phoenix is the book where many strands from the previous books come togetherand the scene is set for the rest of the series. Things get distinctively darker from here out. This is the first book in the series that made me really cry. I've been teared up at certain points in the other books but The Order of The Phoenix had me bawling like a baby at the end, when a belovedcharacter dies. I love this book so much. Umbridge is a monster and I cannot believe she's not a Death Eater. Imagine how worse she would be if she was. The film adaptation of the book is one of my favourites as well.