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Order of the Phoenix

The Order of the Phoenix is the private army Dumbledore raises when the Ministry will not fight Voldemort. It is not a school club and not a government office. Members take watches, pass messages, and hide people the Ministry is hunting. The first Order is the generation of James and Lily Potter. The second is rebuilt before Harry’s fifth year, meets at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, and loses Sirius Black in the Department of Mysteries. By the seventh book the Order is moving Harry out of Privet Drive and then going to ground as the Ministry falls. Severus Snape sits in it as Dumbledore’s spy, which is why a Death Eater mark and an Order mark can both be true.