School yearVPublished2003-06-21
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Ministry denies Voldemort’s return and plants Dolores Umbridge at Hogwarts. Harry, Hermione, and Ron form Dumbledore’s Army in secret. A vision of Sirius under torture draws Harry to the Department of Mysteries, where the prophecy is smashed and Bellatrix Lestrange kills Sirius. Dumbledore duels Voldemort in the atrium, and the Ministry can no longer pretend. The year ends with the Order exposed and Harry carrying the knowledge that either he or Voldemort must finish the other.
In this book
Also profiled
- Ron Weasley
- Hermione Granger
- Rubeus Hagrid
- Severus Snape
- Lord Voldemort
- Fred Weasley
- Remus Lupin
- Ginny Weasley
- George Weasley
- Minerva McGonagall
- Alastor Moody
- Arthur Weasley
- Vernon Dursley
- Molly Weasley
- Dobby
- Cornelius Fudge
- Dudley Dursley
- Percy Weasley
- Kreacher
- Petunia Dursley
- Bill Weasley
- Argus Filch
- Ludovic Bagman
- Sybill Trelawney
- Nymphadora Tonks
- Draco Malfoy
- Gregory Goyle
- Vincent Crabbe
- Dean Thomas
- Cho Chang
- Hedwig
- Bellatrix Lestrange
- Bartemius Crouch
- Oliver Wood
- James Potter
- Seamus Finnigan
- Winky
- Peeves
- Crookshanks
- Poppy Pomfrey
- Rufus Scrimgeour
- Lucius Malfoy
- Lavender Brown
- Filius Flitwick
- Mundungus Fletcher
- Rita Skeeter
- Parvati Patil
- Buckbeak
- Lily Potter
- Angelina Johnson
- Quirinus Quirrell
- Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
- Charlie Weasley
- Katie Bell
- Kingsley Shacklebolt
- Olympe Maxime
- Fang
- Ernie Macmillan
- Lee Jordan
- Pomona Sprout
- Stan Shunpike
- Phineas Nigellus Black
- Aberforth Dumbledore
- Firenze
- Marjorie Dursley
- Colin Creevey
- The Fat Lady
- Grawp
- Elphias Doge
- Pansy Parkinson
- Mrs. Norris
- Regulus Arcturus Black
- Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank
- Alicia Spinnet
- Arabella Figg
- Rolanda Hooch
- Aragog
- Justin Finch-Fletchley
- Cuthbert Binns
- Pigwidgeon
- Marietta Edgecombe
- Norbert
- Ted Tonks
- Zacharias Smith
- Antonin Dolohov
- Amelia Bones
- Dedalus Diggle
- Hannah Abbott
- Michael Corner
- Walden Macnair
- Roger Davies
- Sturgis Podmore
- Augustus Rookwood
- Padma Patil
- Dennis Creevey
- Sir Cadogan
- John Dawlish
- Millicent Bulstrode
- Avery
- Hestia Jones
- The Bloody Baron
- Terry Boot
- Florean Fortescue
- Andromeda Tonks
- Anthony Goldstein
- Mulciber
- Emmeline Vance
- Susan Bones
- Mafalda Hopkirk
- The Fat Friar
- Rodolphus Lestrange
- Alice Longbottom
- Jugson
- Rabastan Lestrange
- Theodore Nott
On the timeline
- 1995-07
The Order of the Phoenix reforms
Headquarters is number twelve, Grimmauld Place. Sirius is still a fugitive inside his own mother’s house. - 1995-08-02
Dementors in Little Whinging
Harry and Dudley are attacked. Harry’s Patronus saves them and gets him hauled before the Ministry. - 1995-08-12
Harry’s hearing
He is cleared. Dumbledore and Amelia Bones are the reason the trial does not go the way Fudge wanted. - 1995–1996 school year
Umbridge takes the school
She arrives to teach Defence, then becomes High Inquisitor. Educational Decrees pile up. The centaurs finally drive her out of the forest. - October 1995
Dumbledore’s Army
Hermione proposes a student group. They meet in the Room of Requirement and learn actual Defence from Harry. The name is her joke and their banner. - 1995
Sturgis Podmore is caught
Podmore, Imperiused, is arrested trying to get through a door in the Ministry. The aim was the prophecy. - 1995-12
Nagini attacks Arthur Weasley
Harry sees it because of the scar. Arthur survives. Occlumency lessons with Snape begin, and fail. - 1996-01
The Azkaban breakout
Bellatrix and other Death Eaters escape. Broderick Bode, who had been made to steal the prophecy, is murdered in St Mungo’s. - 1996-06-18
The Department of Mysteries; Sirius dies
A false vision draws Harry and five friends into the Department. The prophecy sphere breaks. Bellatrix kills Sirius. Dumbledore and Voldemort duel in the atrium. The Ministry can no longer deny the return.