History Literature / HarryPotterandTheOrderOfThePhoenix

** After [[spoiler Fred and George leave Hogwarts and ask Peeves the Poltergeist to "give Umbridge hell from" them, he ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness salutes]]''. [[ExaggeratedTrope And almost everyone]] also takes their request to heart, all the students except the Inquisitorial Squad and all the staff except Filch (which includes ''[[SternTeacher Professor McGonagall]]'').]]

* {{Delinquent}}: The Dursleys' [[SpoiledBrat raising of Dudley]] has helped make him a juvenile delinquent. Him and his gang started vandalising public properties, terrorising children, and smoking.

* DevelopersForesight: InUniverse, magical edition. The Ministry of Magic visitor's entrance provides badges for visitors stating their name and their purpose for being there; i.e. Harry arrives for his hearing near the start of the book and receives a badge reading ''Harry Potter, Disciplinary Hearing''. [[spoiler:When six DA members arrive, Harry gives the purpose "We're here to save someone, unless your Ministry can do it first!" and gets a badge reading ''Harry Potter, Rescue Mission''.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Umbridge [[spoiler:sending the Dementors after Harry becomes this by the end of the book. Fudge is either an idiot or a JerkAss when he refuses to believe it since only a Ministry official or Voldemort would have the authority to order such an assassination. It convinces the Order that the Ministry has it out for Harry if they won't even ask why Harry cast a Patronus if it seemed unnecessary and they take precautions accordingly. The government gets incontrovertible proof at the end of the book that Voldemort is back, and Fudge goes OhCrap as he realises that if there were Dementors, they nearly de-souled the last hope of fighting the Dark Lord. Umbridge herself gets a demotion when Dumbledore firmly orders her removal from the school, though sadly isn't sacked from the Ministry or imprisoned]].
** Umbridge gets this again when she tries to intimidate the centaurs surrounding her, Harry and Hermione in the woods. She tries to intimidate them by stating her status as a Ministry Inquisitor and claims she has authority to boss them around. They tell her she doesn't because the forest belongs to the centaurs, and give her and the others a chance for a polite escort back to the school grounds. Umbridge proceeds to say they are not worth anything as "half-breeds". ''This'' gets her dragged off screaming.

** PlayedForLaughs with Arthur experimenting with medical treatments. He and his Healer agreed it would be a good idea to try out Muggle stitches. The kids conclude, after beating a hasty retreat to avoid Molly's subsequent lecture for Arthur, that Nagini's venom was so potent that it dissolved the sutures. That's why Mr. Weasley's bandages were changed and Mrs. Weasley noticed. Hermione ''does'' mention that stitches are pretty effective for non-magic injuries.
** Harry suffers from this twice with regards to Snape. [[spoiler:After having his vision of Sirius]] he forgets that Snape is also a member of the Order until he arrives in Umbridge's office. He also doesn't consider that Snape may have been pretending when he tried to give him a code.

** After [[spoiler: Fred and George leave Hogwarts and ask Peeves the Poltergeist to "give Umbridge hell from" them, he ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness salutes.]]'' [[ExaggeratedTrope And everyone]] except the Inquisitorial Squad and Filch, but including the entire staff (which includes ''[[SternTeacher Professor McGonagal]]'' also takes their request to heart.]]

* NoodleImplements: [[spoiler:The spell that Ron is hit with that makes him giggle and laugh at everything has never been revealed, and causes him to bleed from his mouth.]]

** Things continue to keep escalating (Harry and Cho fall out, [[spoiler:the DA is forcibly disbanded, and Dumbledore is exiled from Hogwarts]]), until it finally reaches a climax with [[spoiler:Harry receiving a vision of Sirius being kidnapped at the Department of Mysteries, which prompts him and his friends to go there to save him. However, it was really a trap by Voldemort to have Harry retrieve the prophecy and causes him and his friends to fight for their lives against Death Eaters (which gets most of Harry's classmates wounded and knocked out), spiralling into an all-out battle between them and the Order that puts all of them in grave peril, and culminates in the death of Sirius, Harry's only real family. Harry chases Sirius' killer in anger, only to run into Voldemort, who immediately tries to kill him, though Dumbledore rescues him by a hairsbreadth. Minutes after, Voldemort manages to possess Harry and tries to kill him, nearly succeeding until Harry's love for Sirius drives him out.
** Naturally, when Dumbledore tries to talk to him later, Harry is absolutely livid and throws a tantrum after everything he's been through, destroying much of his office. But it's still not over: Dumbledore then tells Harry (some of) the truth behind his circumstances, that he's the Chosen One destined to oppose Voldemort and that as a result, one of them will kill the other eventually as a result. And as if ''all that'' wasn't enough, Nearly Headless Nick tells him Sirius not only has boarded the train and gone into the afterlife, but if he didn't, he'd be a coward for not accepting his death and clinging to an imperfect imitation of life forever.]] The poor boy really has the weight of the world on his shoulders.

** Although not shown, all of Harry's detractors no doubt got a very nasty shock when they realized that he and Dumbledore had been right all along. This is especially true for Percy Weasley, who now had to face the reality that the family he had deserted for siding with Dumbledore and Harry against the Ministry were right and he wasn't.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The House of Black was an ''extremely'' elitist family of wizard supremacists. Whenever a family member married anyone not pure-blood, tried to treat Muggles and Muggle-borns like human beings, or was a Squib (which couldn't be helped), [[IHaveNoSon they were disowned]]. Because of the dwindling number of pure-blood families, several times the Blacks resorted to incest, which only resulted in mental instability.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Fudge sees Voldemort with his own eyes, forcing the Ministry to accept has, in fact, returned, and the Wizarding World finally gives Harry and Dumbledore the admiration and respect they deserve after all they've been through. But Sirius Black is dead, and Harry doesn't get to enjoy his victory much due to the incredible pain of his loss. Dumbledore also finally tells Harry (some of) the truth, which he had anxiously been wanting to know the whole year, but with that comes the AwfulTruth that Harry is the chosen one destined to oppose Voldemort, and [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne as a result, one of them is fated to kill the other eventually.]] [[YouCantFightFate He's been locked into this fate ever since Voldemort attacked him as a baby, and cannot escape it.]]]]

** When Umbridge and Fudge start [[spoiler:''really'' ramping up the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulSchoolJurisdiction Educational Decrees]], she forms the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Inquisitorial Squad]], a band of loyal Slytherins who enforce her reign of terror over the school and which, naturally, is led by Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle.]] To demonstrate their Absurd Power, they [[spoiler:abuse it by deducting points from Gryffindor willy-nilly.]] At the very end, when Harry returns and he and Draco taunt each other over Lucius being in Azkaban, they move to draw their wands against each other. Snape appears and tries to [[KickTheDog take ten points from Gryffindor]], before he sees the points hourglass and realizes Gryffindor ''already has '''zero points'''''.]] Cue [[spoiler:[=Professor McGonagall=], who gives Gryffindor 250 points and Ravenclaw 50 for our heroes' revealing that Voldemort is really, truly, seriously, no-more-ignoring-the-problem back.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Harry forgets that three years before, Ginny was possessed by Lord Voldemort for the better part of a year. For Harry, it was just one detail of one of his many adventures, so Ginny's involvement wasn't a major event to him, but for Ginny, it's probably the most significant event of her life thus far. He says he forgot about it, and her reply is a cool "lucky you". Harry feels sincerely sorry and apologizes.

* CerebusRetcon: The Marauders get a major one. Their classic snarky banter among each other, immortalized in the Marauder's Map in Book 3, where it mockingly insults Snape for his appearance, gets played in a much darker light when that same banter is followed by them cruelly attacking Snape.

** The book deconstructs the notion of a KidHero fighting against a much older EvilOverlord by showing that adults would be much better equipped to fight a large-scale war, or at least think they are more competent and shut the kid out. Because of his youth, Harry has trouble dealing with the traumas of war, resulting in a HeroicBSOD that harms his efficacy as a fighter, leading him to lash out in anger and make rash decisions. [[spoiler:Subverted as the whole point of the book was a prophecy proclaiming Harry to be TheChosenOne destined to stand against Voldemort. This makes Dumbledore, who knew this all along, realize that he was wrong to shut Harry out of the business of fighting Voldemort as it deprives him of the necessary preparation for his eventual encounter.]]

** Umbridge [[spoiler:sending the Dementors after Harry becomes this by the end of the book. Fudge is either an idiot or a {{Jerkass}} when he refuses to believe it since only a Ministry official or Voldemort would have the authority to order such an assassination. It convinces the Order that the Ministry has it out for Harry if they won't even ask why Harry cast a Patronus if it seemed unnecessary and they take precautions accordingly. The government gets incontrovertible proof at the end of the book that Voldemort is back, and Fudge goes OhCrap as he realizes that if there were Dementors, they nearly de-souled the last hope of fighting the Dark Lord. Umbridge herself gets a demotion when Dumbledore firmly orders her removal from the school, though sadly isn't sacked from the Ministry or imprisoned]].

** The movie in particular emphasizes how [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 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.]]

* EitherOrProphecy: Of great concern to Voldemort is a prophecy tying his fate to Harry Potter. The wise mentor reveals the prophecy to Harry, which says that Harry must kill Voldemort, or else Voldemort must kill Harry. Until then, neither can be at peace. Harry is convinced this is some cosmic rule, but Dumbledore emphasizes the only reason that part of the prophecy is true is [[SelfFulfillingProphecy because Voldemort thinks it's true, so now he will not rest until he kills Harry.]]

** According to Sirius, his parents and many other pure-blood families initially supported Voldemort. While not Death Eaters, they still thought he had the right idea about purging Wizarding Britain of Muggle-borns and placing the pure-bloods in charge. However, they got cold feet when they realized the lengths to which he was willing to go to seize power.

** Ron goes into great detail about seeing an ugly man with a wart on his nose in a crystal ball during his Divination O.W.L. exam, only to look up and realize he's been describing the reflection of his examiner.

** She blackmails [[spoiler:Rita Skeeter]] into writing positive articles about Harry for ''the Quibbler'', gleefully threatening to reveal her [[VoluntaryShapeshifting secret]] if she doesn't comply.

* GreenEyedMonster: Harry is initially jealous that Dumbledore appointed Ron as Prefect instead of him. Once he's by himself however, he realizes that he and Ron are almost equals academically, and that it does no one any good for him to harbor resentment about Ron finally receiving some acclaim. When he and Ron meet again, Harry sincerely congratulates him. At the end of the novel, Dumbledore finally gives Harry his perfectly justified reason: [[spoiler:he thought Harry had enough to deal with in his world without another responsibility to bear, and it's at this point, Albus breaks into a tearshed to end the emotional chapter.]]

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Araminta Melliflua (a member of the House of Black) wanted this legalized. On Muggles, of course.
* HypocriticalHumour: While Harry is listening to the television at Privet Drive, there is a mention of a socialite, and Petunia says "As if we were going to be interested in her sordid affairs", while Harry internally notes that Petunia has been following said "sordid affairs" with great interest.

* IncapableOfDisobeying: Kreacher was able to [[spoiler:betray Sirius and, by extension, the Order of the Phoenix]] by utilizing ExactWords. As Dumbledore explains at the end of the book, he took advantage of an angry command by Sirius to "GetOut" to [[spoiler:leave his home for the first time in years, ran straight to a member of the extended Black family, and spilled what he could]]. Fortunately, his ability to do so was hampered by being unable to [[spoiler:reveal anything Sirius had specifically forbidden him to speak of]], but he was still able to do irreparable damage with what little he ''could'', as it led directly to [[spoiler:Sirius' death]].
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Averted. Harry feels uncomfortable and wants to leave the room after Moody shows him a picture of the original Order of the Phoenix, many of whose members (including Lily and James, his own parents, whom Mad-Eye was keenest to show him) had died shortly after the photo was taken. He starts to pretend that he forgot to pack something (the school year started the next day), but Sirius comes in just as Harry is trying to think up an item he forgot, and Moody turns away before he finishes his sentence.

** After Ron and Hermione begin suspecting Fred and George may have done something illegal to get their funding for their joke shop, Harry finally tells them he gave them his Triwizard Tournament winnings.

* IRejectYourReality: Fudge tenaciously refuses to believe Harry and Dumbledore's pleas that Voldemort is back for three reasons. First, he thinks Harry is a glory hound after reading Rita Skeeter from the last book. Second, he thinks Dumbledore is after his job even though he turned down the position of Minister. Third, he believes they are trying to cause a panic that will destabilize the Ministry after thirteen years of maintaining the peace. While it's understandable, given that Voldemort gave the Ministry a lot of grief during the First Wizarding War, his wilful ignorance serves as the main driving force behind the story's conflict and why Harry must form Dumbledore's Army after putting up with the more detestable Umbridge. It isn't until the end that Fudge finally sees Voldemort for himself and karma comes back to bite him hard when we learn he got fired in the following book.
* IronicEcho: At his trial, Harry is asked by one of the Wizengamot (Madam Bones) if his use of underage magic involved a "corporeal" Patronus, which at first confused him. And during the first meeting of what becomes Dumbledore's Army at the Hog's Head, her niece Susan Bones is one of the students who comes, and she asks him if he can do a "corporeal" Patronus as well, with their exchange almost exactly identical. However, Madam Bones' questioning comes during a trial prosecuting Harry, while Susan's questioning comes in support of Harry. [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Harry instantly makes the connection between those two, and deduces that the two are related, which she confirms.]]

** Although Harry acts like a {{Jerkass}} for most of the book, a lot of his anger is warranted.

* JerkassRealization: Harry acts as a jerk towards his friends throughout the book, especially near the beginning when he's seething at being LockedOutOfTheLoop after nearly dying to let everyone know Voldemort's back. When he realizes what a moody person he was, he tries to reel himself in.

** Moody telling Vernon, "I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books."
* LendingABackhand: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Snape trains Harry in Occlumency and Ron theorizes that he's actually trying to weaken Harry's mind to make it easier for Voldemort to read it. This is quickly refuted by Hermione, who points out that they've made similar accusations against Snape every year, only to realize Snape was trying to help them all along.

-->'''Lucius''': Leave Nott, leave him I say! The Dark Lord will not care for Nott's injuries as much as losing that prophecy. Jugson, come back here, we need to organize. We'll split into pairs and search and remember, be gentle with Potter until we've got the prophecy, you can kill the others if necessary. Bellatrix, Rodolphus, you take the left; Crabbe, Rabastan, go right; Jugson, Dolohov, the door straight ahead; Macnair and Avery, through here; Rookwood, over there; Mulciber, come with me!

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Becomes an issue with Harry's father. Up until now, Harry has only been exposed to a spotless, eulogized version of James. When he witnesses some of his father's very human flaws such as his arrogance and tendency towards bullying, Harry goes into an emotional tailspin.

* NotMeThisTime: After Harry and Dudley are attacked by Dementors in Little Whinging, everyone suspects Voldemort has secretly persuaded them to his side and ordered the attack. [[spoiler:It turns out it was actually Umbridge who secretly ordered the attack behind her superiors' backs, as Fudge was looking for a way to keep Harry quiet and Umbridge figured the attack would either result in a Kiss or Harry being expelled for performing underage magic.]]

* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping: As the Power Trio and the rest of the students that will eventually take Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons with Harry meet at the Hog's Head, the bartender is described as clearly listening in, and continually scrubbing a glass with a dirty rag, which is actually making the glass dirtier. Harry notes he looks familiar but doesn't know he's Dumbledore's brother who tells him what they're up to and that they need help.

** Peeves chases out Umbridge using a bag of chalk and Minerva's walking stick. We don't see it, but Minerva snarkily remarked she would have stopped Peeves if the latter hadn't taken her cane.

** Also, Bellatrix, described continuously as extremely evil and sadistic and seemingly not afraid of anything, has this reaction when Harry reveals to her that [[spoiler:the prophecy Voldemort sent her to retrieve has been destroyed]].

** When Ron receives a congratulatory letter from Percy (due to Ron being made Prefect) and realizes that the letter contained an advice to sever ties with Harry in order to not jeopardize his own career outlook, Ron tears the letter into pieces and throws said pieces into the fire, muttering as he does so:

** Early on we are led to believe that Umbridge is a Death Eater. Subverted when we learn that she was responsible for many of the events early in the book, but under her own agenda.
** An unintentional one that demonstrates what happens when you train readers to spot a ChekhovsGunman. Early on in the book, Harry notes that Dudley bragged about having beat up a boy called Mark Evans. Later, "Evans" is revealed to be the maiden name of Harry's mother, Lily. Rowling states that she made up a name on the fly for the less-important character and didn't notice the issue until fans started trying to connect the two.

** A minor one shows up later; when Hermione takes Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest, Harry realizes that she's blindly wandering straight to Aragog's lair. "Luckily", the centaurs catch them before the spiders can.

* SoProudOfYou: When the Order briefs Harry on what Voldemort has been doing over the summer, Sirius tells Harry that Voldemort messed up his resurrection plan. Lupin, with a satisfied smile, immediately corrects him: "Or rather, you messed it up for him."

** He's then attacked and nearly has his soul sucked out by Dementors, barely manages to survive and is then nearly expelled on the spot for performing magic. He's brought to Grimmauld Place where he's further kept in the dark by the Order despite how much he's fought against Voldemort in the past. He does manage to be cleared of his charges at the hearing but Dumbledore ignores him and refuses to look at him. Once he returns to Grimmauld Place, he has to watch on in horror as a boggart turns into the corpses of the Weasley children and [[LikeASonToMe Harry]] while Molly Weasley sobs uncontrollably and Lupin has to deal with it. Umbridge tortures Harry during multiple detentions using a blood-quill that scars him, and Harry becomes more and more isolated from his peers as they ostracize him for not believing his claims, and Umbridge continues to gain more power. Harry then finds that [[spoiler:he has a psychic link with Voldemort that can make him peer into his mind and influence him, making Harry fear that Voldemort has somewhat poisoned him mentally and might lash out at his closest peers.]] Things continue to keep escalating (Harry and Cho fall out, [[spoiler:the DA is forcibly disbanded, and Dumbledore is exiled from Hogwarts]]), until it finally reaches a climax with [[spoiler:Harry receiving a vision of Sirius being kidnapped at the Department of Mysteries, which prompts him and his friends to go there to save him. However, it was really a trap by Voldemort to have Harry retrieve the prophecy and causes him and his friends to fight for their lives against Death Eaters (which gets most of Harry's classmates wounded and knocked out), spiralling into an all-out battle between them and the Order that puts all of them in grave peril, and culminates in the death of Sirius, Harry's only real family. Harry chases Sirius' killer in anger, only to run into Voldemort, who immediately tries to kill him, though Dumbledore rescues him by a hairsbreadth. Minutes after, Voldemort manages to possess Harry and tries to kill him, nearly succeeding until Harry's love for Sirius drives him out. Naturally, when Dumbledore tries to talk to him later, Harry is absolutely livid and throws a tantrum after everything he's been through, destroying much of his office. But it's still not over: Dumbledore then tells Harry (some of) the truth behind his circumstances, that he's the Chosen One destined to oppose Voldemort and that as a result, one of them will kill the other eventually as a result. And as if ''all that'' wasn't enough, Nearly Headless Nick tells him Sirius not only has boarded the train and gone into the afterlife, but if he didn't, he'd be a coward for not accepting his death and clinging to an imperfect imitation of life forever.]] The poor boy really has the weight of the world on his shoulders.

--> '''Harry:''' Umbridge has passed a decree, meaning we're not allowed to have Quidditch teams.
--> '''Sirius:''' Or secret Defence Against the Dark Arts groups?

** Mrs. Figg's response when Harry tries to conceal his wand after she sees him with it is to tell him to keep it out in case more Dementors arrive, revealing she's not all she appears to be...
** ''Petunia Dursley'', who spent nearly ten years doing everything in her powers hiding magic from Harry Potter, explaining what Dementors are.

--->[[spoiler:'''Lucius Malfoy]]:''' [[spoiler:Very good, Potter. Now turn around, nice and slowly, and give that to me.]]

** Ginny calls Harry out for forgetting she was possessed by Voldemort, and thus knows what it feels like, while he was trying to hide from his friends. This ends up comforting him, as he realizes that he's not the weapon and he won't be used against them.

** The centaurs give one to Hermione after they correctly guessed she used them to get rid of Umbridge. Turns out a proud race of magical beings already mistrustful of wizards don't like being used as {{Unwitting Pawn}}s in their affairs.
** Dumbledore makes a barbed comment about how the highest court in the wizarding world was called in to judge what is normally a mild misdemeanor, causing many of the court's members to shift uncomfortably in their seats.

* WritersCannotDoMath: Snape's worst memory is from when he, Lily, the Marauders, and others in their year sat their [=OWLs=], which was in late spring 1976. Although the students would have been fifteen years old when they began that year, James Potter is said to have been fifteen years old at the time of the memory, both in narration and in dialogue -- though his joint gravestone with Lily in ''The Deathly Hallows'' reveals his date of birth as 27 March 1960.
* WritingLines: Umbridge forces Harry to do this every day for a week, with a [[CorporalPunishment painful twist]] -- the quill magically carves the words being written into his hand, and the ink is ''his own blood''. It leaves a permanent scar on the back of his hand that is mentioned multiple times throughout the rest of the series, usually when a member of the Ministry asks Harry to do something that he believes to be wrong.

* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: {{Downplayed}} -- Harry's a fifth-year student at this point, but his role as leader of Dumbledore's Army has him teaching older students like seventh-year students Fred and George Weasley.
* YoureNotMyFather:

* TheWarHasJustBegun: There's a reason why the final chapter is entitled "The Second War Begins". [[spoiler:And the war's first casualty is Sirius.]]

*** When he ends up snapping at Ron and Hermione for constantly bickering, he points they are always [[BelligerentSexualTension arguing with each other]], and have been for the past four years since becoming friends. No matter how good a friend one is to the other, Harry has every right to get sick and tired of them fighting, especially since ''he'' often bears the consequence of being stuck in the middle of it.
*** His outburst at Ron and Hermione when they suggest that he teach them Defence Against the Dark Arts starts with him thinking it's a joke, but he gets increasingly angry as they smirk at him when he honestly admits that a large measure of luck and help were necessary for him to prevail. It finally culminates in Harry flat-out shouting at both his friends that they have no idea what it's like to be in his position, to have to face the horrors he's faced alone in most cases, moments away from being murdered, tortured or witnessing someone's death.

** Although Harry acts like a Jerkass for most of the book, a lot of his anger is warranted.

*** When he ends up snapping at Ron and Hermione for constantly bickering, he brings up a very valid point: they are always [[BelligerentSexualTension arguing with each other]], and have been for the past four years since becoming friends. No matter how good a friend one is to the other, Harry has every right to get sick and tired of them fighting, especially since ''he'' often bears the consequence of being stuck in the middle of it.

* BrokenPedestal: Harry does not take it well when he discovers his father was a bully in ''his'' fifth year.

* FriendInThePress: Features as a plot point. When the mainstream wizarding press refuses to print Harry's side of the story, Hermione turns to Luna Lovegood, whose father owns ''The Quibbler'', the Wizarding World's equivalent to the ''Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews'', to get Harry's story printed. This is highly successful for both Harry and Luna, as it gets Harry's interview widely circulated and is the highest-selling issue of ''The Quibbler'' ever.

** Harry tells everyone he knew about Neville’s parents for quite some time after a chance encounter with him and his grandmother, Augusta, visiting them at the hospital.

** Harry during his fight with Cho, while [[KickTheDog he tells her not to run off crying]], points out several facts: [[spoiler:Marietta sold out everyone, including ''Cho'', to Umbridge, who would have expelled them all. Also, her wanting to save her mother's job is a terrible excuse; Arthur Weasley works for the Ministry as well and Fred, George, Ginny and Ron didn't feel the need to betray anyone. He doesn't even have to bring up Susan Bones and her aunt Amelia.]]

** Although not shown, all of Harry's detractors no doubt got a very nasty shock when they realized that he and Dumbledore had been right all along. This is especially true for Percy Weasley, who now had to face the reality that the family he had deserted for siding with Dumbledore against the Ministry were right and he wasn't.