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** Snape, when talking to Harry about Legilimency: "The Dark Lord, for instance, almost always knows when somebody is lying to him." [[spoiler: He says "almost" because Snape is the one who (for a while at least) manages to get away with lying to Voldemort in the final two installments.]]
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* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Used for MoodWhiplash when Harry, before seeing Mr. Weasley attacked by Nagini, has a dream in which Cho Chang finds him in the Room of Requirement and demands Chocolate Frog cards while he's trying to put up Christmas decorations shaped like Dobby's head. Also his dream of watching Neville and Professor Sprout waltz in the Room of Requirement while Professor [=McGonagall=] [[EverthingsLouderWithBagpipes plays the bagpipes]].
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* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Used for MoodWhiplash when Harry, before seeing Mr. Weasley attacked by Nagini, has a dream in which Cho Chang finds him in the Room of Requirement and demands Chocolate Frog cards while he's trying to put up Christmas decorations shaped like Dobby's head. Also his dream of watching Neville and Professor Sprout waltz in the Room of Requirement while Professor [=McGonagall=] [[EverthingsLouderWithBagpipes [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes plays the bagpipes]].
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* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Used for MoodWhiplash when Harry, before seeing Mr. Weasley attacked by Nagini, has a dream in which Cho Chang finds him in the Room of Requirement and demands Chocolate Frog cards while he's trying to put up Christmas decorations shaped like Dobby's head.
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* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Used for MoodWhiplash when Harry, before seeing Mr. Weasley attacked by Nagini, has a dream in which Cho Chang finds him in the Room of Requirement and demands Chocolate Frog cards while he's trying to put up Christmas decorations shaped like Dobby's head. Also his dream of watching Neville and Professor Sprout waltz in the Room of Requirement while Professor [=McGonagall=] [[EverthingsLouderWithBagpipes plays the bagpipes]].
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* EgocentricTeamNaming: Invoked. When Harry's secret group of students was caught and brought before the headmaster, Dumbledore claimed responsibility for the whole thing, noting how their charter specifically read "Dumbledore's Army, not ''Potter's'' Army".
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* EgocentricTeamNaming: Invoked. When Harry's secret group of students was caught and brought before the headmaster, Dumbledore claimed responsibility for the whole thing, noting how their charter specifically read "Dumbledore's Army, not ''Potter's'' Army". Army".
** In early drafts, "Dumbledore's Army" referred to what ended up as the Order of the Phoenix, and vice-versa.
** In early drafts, "Dumbledore's Army" referred to what ended up as the Order of the Phoenix, and vice-versa.
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* BigLittleBrother: [[spoiler:Grawp for Hagrid. Lampshaded when Hagrid ''says'' that Grawp is his "little brother" and the Trio gives him weird looks.]]
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* CareBearStare: How Voldemort was driven out of Harry's mind after possessing him. A really dark example, actually, considering what finally ousts Voldemort is [[spoiler:Harry wishing he could die, so that he could be with Sirius.]] And that itself is excellent FridgeBrilliance, [[spoiler:since we later find out that Voldemort's biggest goal is never to have to die, and Harry wishing to (and for the sake of a loved one) goes against Voldemort's very core.]]
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* CareBearStare: How Voldemort was driven out of Harry's mind after possessing him. A really dark example, actually, considering what finally ousts Voldemort is [[spoiler:Harry wishing he could die, so that he could be with Sirius.]] And that itself is excellent FridgeBrilliance, [[spoiler:since we later find out that Voldemort's biggest goal is never to have to die, and Harry wishing to (and for the sake of a loved one) goes against Voldemort's very core.]]
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* WhyDidntYouJustSaySo: Most of the ending of the book would have been avoided if it weren't for PoorCommunicationKills.
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* {{Protectorate}}: Dumbledore is this when he defends Harry from Voldemort, beyond question.
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* StopHelpingMe!: Even though Harry wholeheartedly appreciates their courage later and they eventually become more competent in later books, it’s rather hard to say exactly how much use his friends really were during the Department of Mysteries. Neville and Luna probably stumble the hardest, as the former accidentally disarms Harry during a fight and later unintentionally lands himself over as a hostage to force Harry into surrender (after Harry had bought them an opening to flee), and the latter breaks Ginny’s leg trying to help her, effectively knocking her out of the fight.
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* StopHelpingMe!: Even though Harry wholeheartedly appreciates their courage later and they eventually become more competent in later books, it’s rather hard to say exactly how much use his friends really were during the Department of Mysteries. Neville and Luna probably stumble the hardest, as the former accidentally disarms Harry during a fight and later unintentionally lands himself over as a hostage to force Harry into surrender (after Harry had bought them an opening to flee), and the latter breaks Ginny’s leg ankle trying to help her, effectively knocking her out of the fight.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Throughout the book, Harry feels this way because the adults tend to keep him in the dark about what is happening, not to mention that the Ministry spends most of its energy making sure Harry and Dumbledore shut up about Voldemort by any means necessary. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the end when its explained to him they had very, very good reasons for keeping him in the dark [[spoiler:-- namely, Voldemort has figured out how to read Harrys thoughts --]], and Harry's own plan backfired spectularly [[spoiler:because Voldemort had also figured out how to ''influence'' his thoughts]]. That said, Dumbledore concedes to Harry that he, Dumbledore, could have handled the situation better and allowed Harry to get more help, and misunderstood how Voldemort was trying to manipulate him.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Throughout the book, Harry feels this way because the adults tend to keep him in the dark about what is happening, not to mention that the Ministry spends most of its energy making sure Harry and Dumbledore shut up about Voldemort by any means necessary. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the end when its explained to him they had very, very good reasons for keeping him in the dark [[spoiler:-- namely, Voldemort has figured out how to read Harrys Harry's thoughts --]], and Harry's own plan backfired spectularly spectacularly [[spoiler:because Voldemort had also figured out how to ''influence'' his thoughts]]. That said, Dumbledore concedes to Harry that he, Dumbledore, could have handled the situation better and allowed Harry to get more help, and misunderstood how Voldemort was trying to manipulate him.
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* KarmaHoudini: Whilst he was an AssholeVictim, Fred and George never face any kind of punishment (nor do they show remorse) for forcing Montague into that vanishing cabinet, despite it seemingly [[AndIMustScream trapping him in a horrifying limbo]] for several weeks. This is reinforced in the next book, where Malfoy reveals that the experience ''almost killed him.''
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** Harry himself acts as one towards his friends throughout the book. However, this is mitigated by the fact that it was to cover up the inferiority complex he felt after being subjected to the blood quill torture by Umbridge.
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** Harry himself acts as one towards his friends throughout the book. However, this is mitigated by the fact that it was to cover up the inferiority complex he felt after being subjected to the blood quill torture by Umbridge. It doesn't help that he's SurroundedByIdiots who are in complete denial of Voldemort's return.
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''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' was in the works longer than any other book in the series besides the first one. In the three-year gap between ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' and ''Order of the Phoenix'', speculation flew, {{Fanfic}}s such as ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' reigned, the franchise took off as a global entertainment brand (including the film adaptations for the first two books released)... and expectations soared. After all, ''Goblet of Fire'' had ended with Voldemort finally regaining his powers. Surely the series would become way more awesome with Voldemort returned to his former glory.
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''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' was in the works longer than any other book in the series besides the first one. In the three-year gap between ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' and ''Order of the Phoenix'', speculation flew, {{Fanfic}}s such as ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' ''Fanfic/TheDracoTrilogy'' reigned, the franchise took off as a global entertainment brand (including the film adaptations for the first two books released)... and expectations soared. After all, ''Goblet of Fire'' had ended with Voldemort finally regaining his powers. Surely the series would become way more awesome with Voldemort returned to his former glory.
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** Montague as well - he is the victim of Fred and George's cruelest prank to date (one which almost kills him). If he hadn't been a dickhead then the Twins' actions (and almost sociopathic lack of remorse) would have sent them skimming over the moral event horizon.
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* KarmaHoudini: Whilst he was an AssholeVictim, Fred and George never face any kind of punishment (nor do they show remorse) for forcing Montague into that vanishing cabinet, despite it seemingly [[AndIMustScream trapping him in a horrifying limbo]] for several weeks. This is reinforced in the next book, where Malfoy reveals that the experience ''almost killed him.''
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* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Umbridge, again, who fits this trope to a T, combining it with SadistTeacher and CompleteMonster, while addressing the students like they're five-year-olds. ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' shows that she still acts this way outside of the classroom as well.
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* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Umbridge, again, who fits this trope to a T, combining it with SadistTeacher and CompleteMonster, SadistTeacher, while addressing the students like they're five-year-olds.5-year-olds. ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' shows that she still acts this way outside of the classroom as well.
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* StepfordSmiler: Again, Umbridge. This is one of the reasons she pulls off her CompleteMonster routine so effectively.
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* BigBadWannabe: Cornelius Fudge led the smear campaign against Harry and Dumbledore, true enough, and he gave Umbridge all her powers as Inquisitor, but it all goes to hell once Voldemort returns ''in full view of the Ministry''. Fudge has to resign as Minister and Umbridge was arrested for her abuses in power.
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** Kreacher. At the end, Dumbledore emphasises that Kreacher "is what he has been made by wizards" treating him as sub-human, that "he is to be pitied". A little reminiscent of Frankenstein's Monster -- or "creature" in [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} the original novel]].
** Detention with Dolores. "Dolores" means "pains" in Latin,
** Kreacher. At the end, Dumbledore emphasises that Kreacher "is what he has been made by wizards" treating him as sub-human, that "he is to be pitied". A little reminiscent of Frankenstein's Monster -- or "creature" in [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} the original novel]].
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* RememberedTooLate: Harry forgets a gift Siruis gave him that could have allowed him to see through a trap.
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* RememberedTooLate: Harry forgets a gift Siruis Sirius gave him that could have allowed him to see through a trap.
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* LaResistance: Dumbledore's Army,
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* ArrestedForHeroism: Harry is hit with this after the Dementor attack. The Ministry even declares him expelled from Hogwarts until Dumbledore reminds them that it's kind of ''his'' job to decide who's expelled from his own school.
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* ArrestedForHeroism: Harry is hit with this after the Dementor attack. The Ministry even declares him expelled from Hogwarts until Dumbledore reminds them that ''THEY'' had overstepped their authority and it's kind of ''his'' job to decide who's expelled from his own school.
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** Why would he have it removed when he can show it to a member of the Ministry when they ask him to do something he finds to be wrong...
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** Hogwarts is in the Highlands of Scotland, far enough north that during the month of June, it never gets completely dark. So how was the Astronomy OWL conducted as stated in the book?
** Orion, one of the constellations that the students have to find for the exam, is not visible in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months.
** But it's okay because there is [[AWizardDidIt magic]].
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** Orion, one of the constellations that the students have to find for the exam, is not visible in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months.
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->''"Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything."''
-->-- '''Albus Dumbledore''' (to Harry) and the Teaser for the book
The fifth book in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series. Published in 2003. Voldemort's back, but the [[TheGovernment Ministry of Magic]] is in denial, so they decide the best solution is to start a GovernmentConspiracy and cover up all the evidence. Then they send one of their own, Dolores Umbridge, to Hogwarts to [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over]]. At the end an even more major supporting character is KilledOffForReal, officially signaling that from now on AnyoneCanDie.
''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' was in the works longer than any other book in the series besides the first one. In the three-year gap between ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' and ''Order of the Phoenix'', speculation flew, {{Fanfic}}s such as ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' reigned, the franchise took off as a global entertainment brand (including the film adaptations for the first two books released)... and expectations soared. After all, ''Goblet of Fire'' had ended with Voldemort finally regaining his powers. Surely the series would become way more awesome with Voldemort returned to his former glory.
And oh boy, [[YMMV/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix did]] [[GrowingtheBeard it.]]
CharacterDevelopment for Ginny and Neville also contribute to the polarization. Harry also stops being a KnightInShiningArmor, as his moral flaws are brought to light.
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!!Tropes exclusive to this book or at least especially prominent:
* AdultsAreUseless: Throughout the book, Harry feels this way because the adults tend to keep him in the dark about what is happening, not to mention that the Ministry spends most of its energy making sure Harry and Dumbledore shut up about Voldemort by any means necessary. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the end when its explained to him they had very, very good reasons for keeping him in the dark [[spoiler:-- namely, Voldemort has figured out how to read Harrys thoughts --]], and Harry's own plan backfired spectularly [[spoiler:because Voldemort had also figured out how to ''influence'' his thoughts]]. That said, Dumbledore concedes to Harry that he, Dumbledore, could have handled the situation better and allowed Harry to get more help, and misunderstood how Voldemort was trying to manipulate him.
* AesopAmnesia: 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.
* AgentMulder: Luna Lovegood
* AnalogyBackfire: 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."
* AnchoredShip: 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 [[AnchoredShip Type 2A]]. Not to mention that Harry, at that point in time, didn't have the emotional maturity to try and work Cho through her problems -- instead, he gets angry at her for [[spoiler:always wanting to talk about Cedric]], which made things a lot more difficult for them. HarsherInHindsight, in that if they had both waited until they were both more stable emotionally, they could have gotten together and had a happy relationship.
* {{Angrish}}: Harry being unable to finish sentences while tearing apart Dumbledore's office after [[spoiler:Sirius is killed]].
* ArrestedForHeroism: Harry is hit with this after the Dementor attack. The Ministry even declares him expelled from Hogwarts until Dumbledore reminds them that it's kind of ''his'' job to decide who's expelled from his own school.
* AscendedExtra: Mrs. Figg, the CrazyCatLady glimpsed briefly in ''Philosopher's Stone'' turns out [[spoiler:to be a Squib -- a mundane child of magical parents, who retains the ability to see the magical world -- and to have been keeping an eye on Harry for years.)]]
* AssholeVictim: Umbridge becomes this when she is kidnapped by a pack of centaurs after foolishly insulting them to their faces. [[spoiler:They don't actually kill her, but whatever it is that they did was very nasty and the experience left Umbridge traumatized.]]
* {{Astrologer}}: Firenze and other centaurs.
* BadassGrandpa: Dumbledore. Although this is well known in the previous books, this is the book where he truly confirms it, as it's the first time he appears in combat when he battles with Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic.
* BadDreams: Harry, displaying symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
* BatmanGambit: Voldemort luring Harry to the Department of Mysteries by making it seem that Sirius was in danger. [[spoiler:He first attempted to lure him there by simply showing him the [=DoM=] and the Hall of Prophecy, counting on Harry's natural curiosity, but Harry had no idea there ''was'' a prophecy about him in the first place.]]
* BattleInterruptingShout: When Snape and Sirius are on the verge of dueling, Harry places himself between them, which makes little difference until the Weasley family walks in.
* BeefBandage: Hagrid does this using dragon meat.
* BerserkButton: Of a sort: badmouthing her father or ''The Quibbler'' appears to be one for Luna, although she isn't the type to fly into a rage. But it does cause a major change in demeanor, which, compared to her normal dreamy, imperturbable personality, is fairly noticeable.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "[[BadassGrandpa The Only One He Ever Feared]]."
* BigBadEnsemble: This time, the main (though separate) antagonists are [[EvilOverlord Voldemort]] (naturally), Dolores Umbridge and [[HeadInSandManagement Cornelius Fudge]]
* BigDamnHeroes
** Twice in a row: Harry and his friends are saved from the Death Eaters by members [[TheCavalry 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''.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Harry and Cho.
* BigEntrance: 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.
* BigLittleBrother: [[spoiler:Grawp for Hagrid. Lampshaded when Hagrid ''says'' that Grawp is his "little brother" and the Trio gives him weird looks.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dolores Umbridge defines this trope. Wearing all pink and having a sickeningly sweet façade doesn't change the fact that she's probably the biggest bitch in the history of written fiction.
* BlackShirt: Filch and Malfoy's gang are happy to help Umbridge. Unfortunately for them, this makes them fair game when everyone starts rebelling against her.
* BondVillainStupidity: Oddly averted, where Voldemort apparently has learned his lesson and tries to kill Harry quickly, only to be stopped by Dumbledore.
* BrainInAJar: "''Accio'' Brain!"
* BrickJoke
** Trelawney's prediction that Umbridge would be in grave danger. [[spoiler:Fulfilled by a herd of angry centaurs]].
** The remedy Harry uses on his hand, which he recommends to Lee Jordan, is the same thing ''Lee'' recommends to Fred and George for their ProfessorGuineaPig-induced posterior boils.
* BrokenPedestal: James Potter. [[spoiler:He was a bully when he was Harry's age.]]
* BrokenRecord / HappyDance: [[spoiler: "He got off, he got off, he got off..."]]
* ButtMonkey
** The Auror Dawlish appears twice in this book: The first time, he is [[spoiler:effortlessly knocked out by Dumbledore during the latter's attempted arrest.]] The second time, he is [[spoiler:beaten to a pulp by Hagrid during ''his'' attempted arrest.]]
** Umbridge also serves as this thanks to Peeves, the twins, and a pack of centaurs, but she deserves every bit of it.
* CardboardPrison: Voldemort manages to [[spoiler:turn Azkaban from TheAlcatraz to this]]. Of course it helps when every guard is not-so-secretly on his side.
* CareBearStare: How Voldemort was driven out of Harry's mind after possessing him. A really dark example, actually, considering what finally ousts Voldemort is [[spoiler:Harry wishing he could die, so that he could be with Sirius.]] And that itself is excellent FridgeBrilliance, [[spoiler:since we later find out that Voldemort's biggest goal is never to have to die, and Harry wishing to (and for the sake of a loved one) goes against Voldemort's very core.]]
* TheCassandra: Harry, with his claims that Voldemort has returned.
* CassandraTruth: Both Harry's claims of Voldemort returning and pretty much anything [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luna]] says. With Harry there's really no excuse given his track record; the Philosopher's Stone being stolen, not being the one petrifying Muggleborns, Sirius being innocent, etc. Though with Luna, it's really a toss up. Some of the stuff she claims turns out to be true. Others not so much.
* ChekhovsGun: The series [[ChekhovsGun/HarryPotter has its own page.]]
* CloseCallHaircut: Done by a centaur to Umbridge after she offends them -- not that it stops her from [[TooDumbToLive insulting them some more]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Who else? Luna "Loony" Lovegood.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Done by both Umbridge to the students and Voldemort to his followers.
* LesCollaborateurs: The Inquisitorial Squad, which seems to be made up of entirely Slytherins.
* CombatSadomasochist: Bellatrix
* CommanderContrarian: Zacharias Smith
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Dolores Umbridge [[spoiler:being [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19397_the-5-most-depraved-sex-scenes-implied-by-harry-potter.html gang-raped by the Centaurs]] in the Forbidden Forest]] should qualify. Also a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
* CoolTeacher: Harry
* CorporalPunishment: Umbridge does not hesitate to use it on "problematic" students... to the tune of WritingLines with a quill that ''carves the words into their hand and uses their own blood as ink''.
* CutHimselfShaving
** Hagrid attempts to pass off the injuries he got [[spoiler:from his younger full-blooded giant brother Grawp]] by telling Umbridge that he tripped.
** When Harry returns to the Gryffindor common room with a bleeding hand after his detention with Umbridge, Ron notices and Harry claims that "it's nothing." Ron, however, refuses to believe this.
* CrimeOfSelfDefense: The ministry tries to nail Harry for breaking the {{Masquerade}} after he defends himself from a dementor attack.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Tonks
* DarkActionGirl: Bellatrix
* DarkIsNotEvil: The [[HellishHorse Thestrals]].
* DeerInTheHeadlights: [[spoiler:Harry taunts Bellatrix over how Voldemort can't hear her frantic apologies for losing the prophecy. Then Voldemort appears right in front of him and announces that ''this'' time, he's just going to kill Harry without any more theatrics. OhCrap indeed.]]
* DeliberatelyBadExample: Dolores Umbridge's sadistic abuses of her position gave us one more reason to call into question whether Snape was really so villainous as he seemed; by comparison, he seemed almost a [[JerkassWoobie lovable grouch]].
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Phineas Nigellus Black basically means "Black Black Black".
* DerailingLoveInterests: While [[JustifiedTrope justified]], Cho becomes a ClingyJealousGirl after hooking up with Harry. They didn't last that long.
* DidNotDoTheResearch
** Hogwarts is in the Highlands of Scotland, far enough north that during the month of June, it never gets completely dark. So how was the Astronomy OWL conducted as stated in the book?
** Orion, one of the constellations that the students have to find for the exam, is not visible in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months.
** But it's okay because there is [[AWizardDidIt magic]].
* DividedWeFall: The Ministry of Magic, due to the rivalry that Fudge believes to exist between him and Dumbledore.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
** Umbridge's outright [[CorporalPunishment medieval torture]] of the children under her supervision, without any oversight or repercussion from anyone the students might tell, is very reminiscent of the Catholic schools/churches abuses of the past several decades.
** Hermione's suggestions of treating house elves better in Book 4 were mostly treated for comedy. In this book, the [[FantasticRacism 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 "[[InjunCountry certain areas of land]]", hmmmm...
** The movie in particular emphasises how [[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.]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: Over 750 pages no matter which edition.
* DoubleStandard: 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".
* DoWrongRight: When Peeves tries to do a FallingChandelierOfDoom to Umbridge...
--> '''[[spoiler:Professor [=McGonagall=]:]]''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It unscrews the other way.]]
* DreamSpying: Harry can sometimes see through Voldemort's mind, but the link is two-way.
* EgocentricTeamNaming: Invoked. When Harry's secret group of students was caught and brought before the headmaster, Dumbledore claimed responsibility for the whole thing, noting how their charter specifically read "Dumbledore's Army, not ''Potter's'' Army".
* EitherOrProphecy: A two-for-one deal, to boot.
* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement: In the Ministry of Magic, a voice describes the departments on each floor until Harry and Mr. Weasley get to the floor that has both the courtroom and the Department of Mysteries.
* EvilPlan: For this book, Voldemort [[spoiler:has his sights set on a prophecy stored in the Ministry of Magic that could give him an edge in killing Harry.]] Other than that he has to rebuild his organization.
* EvilTeacher: Dolores Umbridge
* [[ExitPursuedByABear Exit Pursued by a Poltergeist and a Mob of Cheering Students]]: Umbridge
* TheFace: Dolores Umbridge exploited this trope. She doesn't want Hogwarts students trained in offensive magic so fills the Defense Against the Dark Arts class with lessons like "negiotation" and "non-retaliation" on the premise that these skills are just as important for future Auror teams as curses and counter-curses.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Dolores Umbridge's introduction.
* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Peeves attempts to invoke this.
* FantasticRacism: Umbridge hates "filthy half-breeds". Bonus points to JKR, because in the seventh book [[spoiler:this turns out to be a very good theoretical reason for Umbridge's hatred of Muggle-borns]]. It can easily be taken as foreshadowing her later actions.
* FeedItWithFire: Fred & George's trick fireworks.
* FiredTeacher: Three examples. [[spoiler:Professor Trelawney and Hagrid]] during the story, and [[spoiler:Umbridge]] at the end.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Cho has a lot of difficulty being able to have a relationship with Harry due to [[spoiler:Cedric's death]]. Harry also has to deal with this after Cho breaks up with him.
* FirstKiss: Harry has this with Cho UnderTheMistletoe.
* FiveManBand: The best example in the series with the D.A. in the ministry.
** TheHero: Harry
** TheLancer: Ron
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Hermione
** TheBigGuy: Neville
** TheChick: Ginny [[spoiler:(although she gets more and more badass throughout the books.)]]
** TheSixthRanger: Luna
*** Given that (at least in the film), Neville uses ''[[StandardStatusEffects Petrificus Totalus]]'', while Ginny's preferred attack is ''[[StuffBlowingUp Reducto]]'', one could argue that she is TheBigGuy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** Ginny is more present in this book than in the previous four combined, and often [[DesignatedVillain makes Cho look bad.]]
** Neville also begins to show signs of life as well; notably, he's still fighting when all the other kids, who are notably better wizards than him, have already been defeated. Unfortunately, this just shows the danger in relying on FridgeBrilliance: Rowling did it all so subtly that a lot of people missed it.
** "Ginny got the Snitch right out from under [Cho's] nose" Could it be more obvious?
** Also, it's Ginny's idea of "Dumbledore's Army" that is used, instead of Cho's more generic "Defense Association".
** And she's usually the one who snaps Harry out of his numerous funks over the course of the book, including when he's convinced he's being possessed by Voldemort. She ''has'' been possessed by him, and could have told Harry exactly what it felt like, if he'd bothered to ask.
* GoldenMeanFallacy: Umbridge uses this in her opening speech, suggesting that she represents a middle ground between tradition and change. If that's so, we'd hate to see what "change" looks like.
* GovernmentConspiracy: The Ministry of Magic's coverup of Voldemort's return.
* HairTriggerTemper: Harry develops this in this book, providing more fuel for those who say he has post-traumatic stress disorder on account of the BadDreams he has of his encounter in the graveyard in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire the previous book]].
* HateSink: Umbridge's character pretty much exists solely to be this.
* TheHeavy: Dolores Umbridge is this to Cornelius Fudge.
* HeroicBSOD: Harry briefly experiences this when he [[spoiler:thinks Voldemort might be possessing him.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The spell James uses to make Snape hang upside down in the air? In the next book, we find out Snape invented it.]]
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Araminta Melliflua wanted this legalized.
* IdiotBall
** A minor example with major consequences: Harry forgetting Snape's membership in the Order. ([[GenreSavvy He calls himself on it too.]])
** Harry also forgets about the two-way mirror Sirius gave him after Christmas. He doesn't know exactly what it is, but he does know it's a communication device. This could be because he was determined not to use it before even finding out what it was, thinking that he didn't want to be the one to lure Sirius out of hiding (and look how well that works out for him!).
* IfWeSurviveThis: Before his trial, Harry mentally promises to add ten galleons to the charity fountain if he's found not guilty. He ends up emptying his whole money-bag.
* ISeeThemToo: Harry, Luna, and the Thestrals. She was also the only other character to hear the same murmuring from behind the veil that Harry did.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Though the concept of stitches had been around for years prior to the mid 90s (since at least 500 BCE), it had never been picked up by the wizarding world, where much better healing methods made stitches look primitive. As a result, Molly scoffs at Arthur for using stitches as a method to try to close his venom wound that magic couldn't close. Unfortunately for him, stitches don't work either.
-->'''Molly Weasley:''' Now Arthur, it sounds like you've been trying to sew your skin back together, but [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough even you wouldn't be that stupid...]]\\
'''Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Bill:''' [[INeedToGoIronMyDog [variations on "We're going to get a cup of tea."] ]]\\
'''Molly Weasley:''' ''WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THAT'S THE GENERAL IDEA?''
* {{Jerkass}}
** Umbridge is a pretty big one.
** Percy and Fudge, two characters who were mildly annoying at worst up until now, [[TookALevelInJerkass take a level in Jerkass]] in this book.
** Harry himself acts as one towards his friends throughout the book. However, this is mitigated by the fact that it was to cover up the inferiority complex he felt after being subjected to the blood quill torture by Umbridge.
* JerkassRealization: Harry acts as a jerk towards his friends throughout the book, especially near the beginning when he's seething at being left out of the loop 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.
* JerkJock: James Potter is revealed to have been this.
* JustAKid: Molly and Lupin invoke this when the Order withholds information from Harry.
* KangarooCourt: Fudge's attempt to discredit Harry is so biased that it's easy for Dumbledore to point out gaping holes in the court procedure.
* KickTheDog
** Mrs. Weasley telling Sirius that he was a poor godfather because he was in prison for 13 years. She was motivated out of concern for Harry, and they do make up at Christmas, but seriously: not cool, Mrs. Weasley.
** EVERYTHING Umbridge does. She can't walk down a hallway without finding a dog to kick.
* KissingDiscretionShot: In the book, Cho leans in to kiss Harry, and the paragraph ends, then cutting to a few minutes later.
* LastNameBasis / DoNotCallMePaul: Tonks, who hates her first name, Nymphadora (who can blame her, really?) and insists on being addressed only by her last. A fan once asked Rowling why Tonks didn't go by her middle name. Rowling's response was "Her middle name is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulpecula Vulpecula]]," which isn't much better.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Moody telling Vernon, "what you don't know could fill several books."
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: When Hermione demands to know what Ron thinks about Harry's plan to contact Sirius via Umbridge's fire, Harry is reminded of Molly and Arthur at the beginning of the book.
* LikeASonToMe: Molly about Harry, as if it wasn't clear already. Despite the huge fight going on when she says it, it's something of a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
* ListingTheFormsOfDegenerates: When a house-elf by the name of Kreacher rants about how Sirius Black is not as strict about the company he keeps as Walburga Black was.
-->'''Kreacher:''' Mudblood, werewolves, traitors, thieves. If my poor mistress knew the scum they let into her house, what would she say to old Kreacher?
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Harry isn't allowed to attend the Order's meetings.
* LuredIntoATrap: [[spoiler:Despite Harry's vision, Voldemort isn't holding Sirius in the Department of Mysteries. Instead, it's a Death Eater ambush.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: "Weasley is our King", doubles an IronicEcho to the Slytherins.
* MeaningfulName: Detention with Dolores. "Dolores" means "pains" in Latin, which was very true for this chapter.
* MildlyMilitary: 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 WordOfGod confirms is unreliable against a prepared dark wizard.
* MindRape: 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.]]
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Umbridge, again, who fits this trope to a T, combining it with SadistTeacher and CompleteMonster, while addressing the students like they're five-year-olds. ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' shows that she still acts this way outside of the classroom as well.
* MistakenForCheating: Cho gets this impression of Harry on their date, thanks to his poor choice of words in describing his meeting with Hermione later.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Kreacher and Marietta Edgecombe.]]
* MoodWhiplash
** Harry's rather humorous dream about him entering the Room of Requirement to put up some Christmas decoration shaped like Dobby's head abruptly changes into a vision about [[spoiler:Voldemort's serpent Nagini brutally wounding Mr Weasley.]]
** The montage following Umbridge's promotion to High Inquisitor is played for laughs, especially the scenes where she mocks Snape and Trelawney on their teaching credentials. Cut to [[spoiler:Trelawney being fired and nearly thrown out of Hogwarts]], which isn't funny at all.
** "Christmas on the Closed Ward". The chapter starts with Molly and Arthur bickering, moves on to [[spoiler:memoryless Gilderoy Lockhart]], both of which are funny and/or heartwarming, then ends with the trio and Ginny meeting [[spoiler: Neville and his parents, who have been tortured into insanity, to the point they can't even recognise him.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job [[spoiler:finding the prophecy so that the Death Eaters can take it and drawing Sirius out of hiding so that he's killed, Harry!]]
* NiceToTheWaiter: Sirius fails to live up to the advice he gave the trio in the last book. He has nothing against house-elves in general, but can't stand the way Kreacher constantly parrots the beliefs of the family he hated. WordofGod herself stated this particular trait of Sirius in her official website.
* NoHeroToHisValet: 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.
* NoMereWindmill: 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 WindmillCrusader and Dumbledore of being a ManipulativeBastard using this WindmillPolitical for some shadowy political game.
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-universe. Umbridge's ban of Harry's interview with ''The Quibbler'' only ensures that everybody reads it. This could possibly be a TakeThat to all the MoralGuardians who've attacked the series, only ensuring it became more successful. This is a textbook example of the Streisand Effect.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: Harry is punished for speaking out against Umbridge in class by being made to write lines... [[DisproportionateRetribution with a magic quill that cuts his skin and takes his own blood as ink.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: 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.
* TheOathBreaker: Marietta; told the location of their secret hideout to Umbridge after signing a magical contract claiming she wouldn't do that. As a result she had the word "SNEAK" appear on her face in pimples and was shunned by her classmates.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[HeroicBSOD Harry destroying Dumbledore's office]] was cut out of TheFilmOfTheBook. 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.
* OhCrap
** Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard on the planet, causes this reaction [[spoiler:when Fudge comes to arrest him]].
-->'''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".
** 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]].
* OnlySaneMan: Madame Bones compared to the rest of the Ministry. [[spoiler:Pity she's dead now.]]
* OurFounder: The statue at the Ministry of Magic.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: According to Nearly Headless Nick, only wizards in the HP-verse can become ghosts. Becoming a ghost is also explicitly stated to be [[WhoWantsToLiveForever a bad decision]] and considered [[FaceDeathWithDignity a show of cowardice]].
* OutGambitted: Dumbledore, who acknowledges that his [[PoorCommunicationKills hiding of information made it considerably easier]] for Voldemort to trick Harry.
* PairTheSpares: {{Inverted}}, in a piece of foreshadowing so indirect that it was probably put in by Rowling just to amuse herself. You ''start'' by asking yourself what exactly the purpose of Michael Corner and Cho Chang hooking up was...
* PapaWolf: When Umbridge goes rough on one of the students, we find out why Dumbledore is respected and feared. He drops the nice act and gives her a clear warning.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Ron suffers from this when playing Keeper -- he can't defend well when he knows that people are watching. He gets better, resulting in [[spoiler:Gryffindor winning the Quidditch Cup.]]
* PinballProtagonist: Harry. Due to a combination of {{Angst}}/{{Wangst}} and being LockedOutOfTheLoop, Harry rarely does anything active unless Dumbledore orders him to do it (Occlumency) or Hermione convinces him that it's a good idea (Dumbledore's Army, the interview).
* PlayingSick: The Skiving Snackboxes (and joke candies contained within), invented by Fred and George, serve this purpose for their takers.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Umbridge's FantasticRacism against non-humans and Muggle-borns is just one more of her many abhorrent character traits.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Basis of the plot really.
* PrisonBreak: Part of the plot when Voldemort [[spoiler:breaks a number of death eaters out of Azkaban]]. Most notably, Bellatrix Lestrange.
* {{Protectorate}}: Dumbledore is this when he defends Harry from Voldemort, beyond question.
* PublicSecretMessage: Harry alerts Snape while making it possible to convince Umbridge he was shouting gibberish, by yelling "He's got Padfoot at the place where it's hidden!" to the entire room. Snape understands that "Padfoot" was Sirius' old nickname and "the place" was a location that Snape knows Harry's been seeing in his dreams.
* RageAgainstTheMentor: Harry, at Dumbledore after [[spoiler:Sirius' death]].
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Used for MoodWhiplash when Harry, before seeing Mr. Weasley attacked by Nagini, has a dream in which Cho Chang finds him in the Room of Requirement and demands Chocolate Frog cards while he's trying to put up Christmas decorations shaped like Dobby's head.
* RememberedTooLate: Harry forgets a gift Siruis gave him that could have allowed him to see through a trap.
* LaResistance: Dumbledore's Army, comprised of Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws.
* RulesLawyer: Literally, as Dumbledore acts as Harry's lawyer...er, Witness for the Defense, during Harry's hearing. In a rather unusual take on this trope, Dumbledore is ''forced'' to play Rules Lawyer because the Wizengamot [[KangarooCourt are deliberately ignoring their own laws.]]
* SadistTeacher: Umbridge. Could be The Trope Namer.
* ScottyTime: Umbridge apparently thinks brewing Veritaserum works this way. [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't,]] as it needs to be brewed under the light of a full moon, the nearest of which is several weeks away. In both the movie and book she depleted his stock herself; in the book by putting the entire vial in Harry's tea [[GenreSavvy (which he is intelligent enough not to drink)]] while she's interrogating him, and in the movie by interrogating every student in the school. It's revealed in the movie that the reason that the DA is found out is that she uses it on Cho, forcing her to give up the location of the Room of Requirement.
* ShootTheMessenger: Averted. Voldemort does not punish Rookwood for informing him that his plan to retrieve [[spoiler:the prophecy]] could never have worked. The man who [[YouHaveFailedMe gave him the wrong information in the first place, however...]]
* ShutUpKirk / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Harry receives an ''epic'' one from Prof. Phineas Nigellus Black.
* SingleTear: Dumbledore
* SixStudentClique: In the Ministry of Magic scenes.
** The Head: Harry
** The Muscle: Ron
** The Smart One: Hermione
** The Quirk: Neville
** The Pretty One: Ginny
** The Wild One: Luna
** Also (according to WordOfGod) a double PowerTrio: [[TheKirk Harry / Neville]], [[TheSpock Hermione / Luna]], and [[TheMcCoy Weasleys]].
* SoapPunishment: 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.
* StepfordSmiler: Again, Umbridge. This is one of the reasons she pulls off her CompleteMonster routine so effectively.
* SurpriseWitness: [[spoiler:Mrs. Figg]] during Harry's trial.
* TantrumThrowing: 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 AwfulTruth.]]
* TastesLikeDiabetes: In-universe examples:
** Part of the reason Harry hates Umbridge's collection of porcelain plates with kittens painted on them is because he finds them sickeningly cute.
** Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, where Harry and Cho go to on Valentine's Day. Cho thinks the shop is cute; Harry finds it sickening.
* TemptingFate: Sirius, right before [[spoiler:Bellatrix kills him]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists
** Shouldn't Cho have someone to talk to about her boyfriend's death besides Harry? That could have spared them both a lot of pain.
** Not to mention Harry and his post-traumatic stress disorder after what happened in the graveyard.
* ThereShouldBeALaw: Played with twice by Fudge and Umbridge. During Harry's trial Dumbledore states that there is no law stating that the Ministry can hand out school punishment; Fudge murmurs "Laws can be changed". When Dumbledore over-rules Umbridge, forcing her to reform the Gryffindor Quidditch team, she calls up Fudge and receives a nice educational decree ([[LampshadeHanging "Oh not another one!"]]) giving her absolute power.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Sirius]]
* TookALevelInBadass
** Ginny, after having been DemotedToExtra for the two previous installments.
** Neville's {{Badass}} tendencies begin to show as well.
* TooDumbToLive
** Fudge thinks that ''[[BadassGrandpa Albus freakin' Dumbledore,]] the greatest wizard in the world, is going to come quietly.''
** Fudge's overall stupidity on Voldemort's return ends up being a subversion of this trope. Voldemort realizes that it's actually in his own best interst to leave Fudge alone and allow him to continue to misrule the Ministry and persecute the people who'd stand the best chance against Voldemort.
** Calling a group of centaurs armed with bows and arrows "filthy half-breeds"? Really, Umbridge, you've got no-one to blame but yourself for that one.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Dumbledore's Army.
* TraumaSwing: Harry does one of these at the start of the book.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Dolores Umbridge's horrible misrule. So much in fact, that she was the former TropeNamer.
* UnderTheMistletoe: Harry gets his first kiss with Cho in this manner. In the book, just prior to it, he's under it with Luna, who doesn't kiss him, much to the dismay of their shippers. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luna, however, doesn't even seem to understand what mistletoe is for.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
** As a high-ranking and distinguished Ministry official, Umbridge is held in high regard by many, including [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Percy Weasley and her boss, Cornelius Fudge]]. Because of this, her [[SadistTeacher child abuse]] and FantasticRacism are either overlooked or ignored.
** Subverted with Lucius Malfoy, who is thrown into Azkaban at the end of this book.
* TheWarHasJustBegun
* WhatTheHellHero
** 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.
** Phineas' portrait gives Harry the WhatTheHellHero treatment when he's about to flee at Christmas.
** Harry gives Hermione and Ron this (as a proxy to Dumbledore) in the form of a rant about how much he deserves to know whats going on considering that his life is just crap, especially considering the last book.
** One that ''might'' have been this was the first night in Hogwarts when Seamus tells Harry that his mother didn't want him to come back to Hogwarts because of him. Harry starts insulting her, which, even though it's pretty low on the "Hero" scale, would be justified to the readers because he's being called a liar for telling the truth.
* WhyDidntYouJustSaySo: Most of the ending of the book would have been avoided if it weren't for PoorCommunicationKills.
* WorldsShortestBook: Inverted.
-->''"I am not aware that it is any of your business what goes on in my house--"\\
"I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursley," growled Moody.''
* 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 finds to be wrong. Why he didn't have it removed is never really mentioned since it probably wasn't a curse scar, though since it is Umbrige anything could be possible.
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->''"Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything."''
-->-- '''Albus Dumbledore''' (to Harry) and the Teaser for the book
The fifth book in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series. Published in 2003. Voldemort's back, but the [[TheGovernment Ministry of Magic]] is in denial, so they decide the best solution is to start a GovernmentConspiracy and cover up all the evidence. Then they send one of their own, Dolores Umbridge, to Hogwarts to [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over]]. At the end an even more major supporting character is KilledOffForReal, officially signaling that from now on AnyoneCanDie.
''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' was in the works longer than any other book in the series besides the first one. In the three-year gap between ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' and ''Order of the Phoenix'', speculation flew, {{Fanfic}}s such as ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' reigned, the franchise took off as a global entertainment brand (including the film adaptations for the first two books released)... and expectations soared. After all, ''Goblet of Fire'' had ended with Voldemort finally regaining his powers. Surely the series would become way more awesome with Voldemort returned to his former glory.
And oh boy, [[YMMV/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix did]] [[GrowingtheBeard it.]]
CharacterDevelopment for Ginny and Neville also contribute to the polarization. Harry also stops being a KnightInShiningArmor, as his moral flaws are brought to light.
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!!Tropes exclusive to this book or at least especially prominent:
* AdultsAreUseless: Throughout the book, Harry feels this way because the adults tend to keep him in the dark about what is happening, not to mention that the Ministry spends most of its energy making sure Harry and Dumbledore shut up about Voldemort by any means necessary. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the end when its explained to him they had very, very good reasons for keeping him in the dark [[spoiler:-- namely, Voldemort has figured out how to read Harrys thoughts --]], and Harry's own plan backfired spectularly [[spoiler:because Voldemort had also figured out how to ''influence'' his thoughts]]. That said, Dumbledore concedes to Harry that he, Dumbledore, could have handled the situation better and allowed Harry to get more help, and misunderstood how Voldemort was trying to manipulate him.
* AesopAmnesia: 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.
* AgentMulder: Luna Lovegood
* AnalogyBackfire: 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."
* AnchoredShip: 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 [[AnchoredShip Type 2A]]. Not to mention that Harry, at that point in time, didn't have the emotional maturity to try and work Cho through her problems -- instead, he gets angry at her for [[spoiler:always wanting to talk about Cedric]], which made things a lot more difficult for them. HarsherInHindsight, in that if they had both waited until they were both more stable emotionally, they could have gotten together and had a happy relationship.
* {{Angrish}}: Harry being unable to finish sentences while tearing apart Dumbledore's office after [[spoiler:Sirius is killed]].
* ArrestedForHeroism: Harry is hit with this after the Dementor attack. The Ministry even declares him expelled from Hogwarts until Dumbledore reminds them that it's kind of ''his'' job to decide who's expelled from his own school.
* AscendedExtra: Mrs. Figg, the CrazyCatLady glimpsed briefly in ''Philosopher's Stone'' turns out [[spoiler:to be a Squib -- a mundane child of magical parents, who retains the ability to see the magical world -- and to have been keeping an eye on Harry for years.)]]
* AssholeVictim: Umbridge becomes this when she is kidnapped by a pack of centaurs after foolishly insulting them to their faces. [[spoiler:They don't actually kill her, but whatever it is that they did was very nasty and the experience left Umbridge traumatized.]]
* {{Astrologer}}: Firenze and other centaurs.
* BadassGrandpa: Dumbledore. Although this is well known in the previous books, this is the book where he truly confirms it, as it's the first time he appears in combat when he battles with Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic.
* BadDreams: Harry, displaying symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
* BatmanGambit: Voldemort luring Harry to the Department of Mysteries by making it seem that Sirius was in danger. [[spoiler:He first attempted to lure him there by simply showing him the [=DoM=] and the Hall of Prophecy, counting on Harry's natural curiosity, but Harry had no idea there ''was'' a prophecy about him in the first place.]]
* BattleInterruptingShout: When Snape and Sirius are on the verge of dueling, Harry places himself between them, which makes little difference until the Weasley family walks in.
* BeefBandage: Hagrid does this using dragon meat.
* BerserkButton: Of a sort: badmouthing her father or ''The Quibbler'' appears to be one for Luna, although she isn't the type to fly into a rage. But it does cause a major change in demeanor, which, compared to her normal dreamy, imperturbable personality, is fairly noticeable.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "[[BadassGrandpa The Only One He Ever Feared]]."
* BigBadEnsemble: This time, the main (though separate) antagonists are [[EvilOverlord Voldemort]] (naturally), Dolores Umbridge and [[HeadInSandManagement Cornelius Fudge]]
* BigDamnHeroes
** Twice in a row: Harry and his friends are saved from the Death Eaters by members [[TheCavalry 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''.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Harry and Cho.
* BigEntrance: 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.
* BigLittleBrother: [[spoiler:Grawp for Hagrid. Lampshaded when Hagrid ''says'' that Grawp is his "little brother" and the Trio gives him weird looks.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dolores Umbridge defines this trope. Wearing all pink and having a sickeningly sweet façade doesn't change the fact that she's probably the biggest bitch in the history of written fiction.
* BlackShirt: Filch and Malfoy's gang are happy to help Umbridge. Unfortunately for them, this makes them fair game when everyone starts rebelling against her.
* BondVillainStupidity: Oddly averted, where Voldemort apparently has learned his lesson and tries to kill Harry quickly, only to be stopped by Dumbledore.
* BrainInAJar: "''Accio'' Brain!"
* BrickJoke
** Trelawney's prediction that Umbridge would be in grave danger. [[spoiler:Fulfilled by a herd of angry centaurs]].
** The remedy Harry uses on his hand, which he recommends to Lee Jordan, is the same thing ''Lee'' recommends to Fred and George for their ProfessorGuineaPig-induced posterior boils.
* BrokenPedestal: James Potter. [[spoiler:He was a bully when he was Harry's age.]]
* BrokenRecord / HappyDance: [[spoiler: "He got off, he got off, he got off..."]]
* ButtMonkey
** The Auror Dawlish appears twice in this book: The first time, he is [[spoiler:effortlessly knocked out by Dumbledore during the latter's attempted arrest.]] The second time, he is [[spoiler:beaten to a pulp by Hagrid during ''his'' attempted arrest.]]
** Umbridge also serves as this thanks to Peeves, the twins, and a pack of centaurs, but she deserves every bit of it.
* CardboardPrison: Voldemort manages to [[spoiler:turn Azkaban from TheAlcatraz to this]]. Of course it helps when every guard is not-so-secretly on his side.
* CareBearStare: How Voldemort was driven out of Harry's mind after possessing him. A really dark example, actually, considering what finally ousts Voldemort is [[spoiler:Harry wishing he could die, so that he could be with Sirius.]] And that itself is excellent FridgeBrilliance, [[spoiler:since we later find out that Voldemort's biggest goal is never to have to die, and Harry wishing to (and for the sake of a loved one) goes against Voldemort's very core.]]
* TheCassandra: Harry, with his claims that Voldemort has returned.
* CassandraTruth: Both Harry's claims of Voldemort returning and pretty much anything [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luna]] says. With Harry there's really no excuse given his track record; the Philosopher's Stone being stolen, not being the one petrifying Muggleborns, Sirius being innocent, etc. Though with Luna, it's really a toss up. Some of the stuff she claims turns out to be true. Others not so much.
* ChekhovsGun: The series [[ChekhovsGun/HarryPotter has its own page.]]
* CloseCallHaircut: Done by a centaur to Umbridge after she offends them -- not that it stops her from [[TooDumbToLive insulting them some more]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Who else? Luna "Loony" Lovegood.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Done by both Umbridge to the students and Voldemort to his followers.
* LesCollaborateurs: The Inquisitorial Squad, which seems to be made up of entirely Slytherins.
* CombatSadomasochist: Bellatrix
* CommanderContrarian: Zacharias Smith
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Dolores Umbridge [[spoiler:being [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19397_the-5-most-depraved-sex-scenes-implied-by-harry-potter.html gang-raped by the Centaurs]] in the Forbidden Forest]] should qualify. Also a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
* CoolTeacher: Harry
* CorporalPunishment: Umbridge does not hesitate to use it on "problematic" students... to the tune of WritingLines with a quill that ''carves the words into their hand and uses their own blood as ink''.
* CutHimselfShaving
** Hagrid attempts to pass off the injuries he got [[spoiler:from his younger full-blooded giant brother Grawp]] by telling Umbridge that he tripped.
** When Harry returns to the Gryffindor common room with a bleeding hand after his detention with Umbridge, Ron notices and Harry claims that "it's nothing." Ron, however, refuses to believe this.
* CrimeOfSelfDefense: The ministry tries to nail Harry for breaking the {{Masquerade}} after he defends himself from a dementor attack.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Tonks
* DarkActionGirl: Bellatrix
* DarkIsNotEvil: The [[HellishHorse Thestrals]].
* DeerInTheHeadlights: [[spoiler:Harry taunts Bellatrix over how Voldemort can't hear her frantic apologies for losing the prophecy. Then Voldemort appears right in front of him and announces that ''this'' time, he's just going to kill Harry without any more theatrics. OhCrap indeed.]]
* DeliberatelyBadExample: Dolores Umbridge's sadistic abuses of her position gave us one more reason to call into question whether Snape was really so villainous as he seemed; by comparison, he seemed almost a [[JerkassWoobie lovable grouch]].
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Phineas Nigellus Black basically means "Black Black Black".
* DerailingLoveInterests: While [[JustifiedTrope justified]], Cho becomes a ClingyJealousGirl after hooking up with Harry. They didn't last that long.
* DidNotDoTheResearch
** Hogwarts is in the Highlands of Scotland, far enough north that during the month of June, it never gets completely dark. So how was the Astronomy OWL conducted as stated in the book?
** Orion, one of the constellations that the students have to find for the exam, is not visible in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months.
** But it's okay because there is [[AWizardDidIt magic]].
* DividedWeFall: The Ministry of Magic, due to the rivalry that Fudge believes to exist between him and Dumbledore.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
** Umbridge's outright [[CorporalPunishment medieval torture]] of the children under her supervision, without any oversight or repercussion from anyone the students might tell, is very reminiscent of the Catholic schools/churches abuses of the past several decades.
** Hermione's suggestions of treating house elves better in Book 4 were mostly treated for comedy. In this book, the [[FantasticRacism 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 "[[InjunCountry certain areas of land]]", hmmmm...
** The movie in particular emphasises how [[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.]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: Over 750 pages no matter which edition.
* DoubleStandard: 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".
* DoWrongRight: When Peeves tries to do a FallingChandelierOfDoom to Umbridge...
--> '''[[spoiler:Professor [=McGonagall=]:]]''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It unscrews the other way.]]
* DreamSpying: Harry can sometimes see through Voldemort's mind, but the link is two-way.
* EgocentricTeamNaming: Invoked. When Harry's secret group of students was caught and brought before the headmaster, Dumbledore claimed responsibility for the whole thing, noting how their charter specifically read "Dumbledore's Army, not ''Potter's'' Army".
* EitherOrProphecy: A two-for-one deal, to boot.
* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement: In the Ministry of Magic, a voice describes the departments on each floor until Harry and Mr. Weasley get to the floor that has both the courtroom and the Department of Mysteries.
* EvilPlan: For this book, Voldemort [[spoiler:has his sights set on a prophecy stored in the Ministry of Magic that could give him an edge in killing Harry.]] Other than that he has to rebuild his organization.
* EvilTeacher: Dolores Umbridge
* [[ExitPursuedByABear Exit Pursued by a Poltergeist and a Mob of Cheering Students]]: Umbridge
* TheFace: Dolores Umbridge exploited this trope. She doesn't want Hogwarts students trained in offensive magic so fills the Defense Against the Dark Arts class with lessons like "negiotation" and "non-retaliation" on the premise that these skills are just as important for future Auror teams as curses and counter-curses.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Dolores Umbridge's introduction.
* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Peeves attempts to invoke this.
* FantasticRacism: Umbridge hates "filthy half-breeds". Bonus points to JKR, because in the seventh book [[spoiler:this turns out to be a very good theoretical reason for Umbridge's hatred of Muggle-borns]]. It can easily be taken as foreshadowing her later actions.
* FeedItWithFire: Fred & George's trick fireworks.
* FiredTeacher: Three examples. [[spoiler:Professor Trelawney and Hagrid]] during the story, and [[spoiler:Umbridge]] at the end.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Cho has a lot of difficulty being able to have a relationship with Harry due to [[spoiler:Cedric's death]]. Harry also has to deal with this after Cho breaks up with him.
* FirstKiss: Harry has this with Cho UnderTheMistletoe.
* FiveManBand: The best example in the series with the D.A. in the ministry.
** TheHero: Harry
** TheLancer: Ron
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Hermione
** TheBigGuy: Neville
** TheChick: Ginny [[spoiler:(although she gets more and more badass throughout the books.)]]
** TheSixthRanger: Luna
*** Given that (at least in the film), Neville uses ''[[StandardStatusEffects Petrificus Totalus]]'', while Ginny's preferred attack is ''[[StuffBlowingUp Reducto]]'', one could argue that she is TheBigGuy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** Ginny is more present in this book than in the previous four combined, and often [[DesignatedVillain makes Cho look bad.]]
** Neville also begins to show signs of life as well; notably, he's still fighting when all the other kids, who are notably better wizards than him, have already been defeated. Unfortunately, this just shows the danger in relying on FridgeBrilliance: Rowling did it all so subtly that a lot of people missed it.
** "Ginny got the Snitch right out from under [Cho's] nose" Could it be more obvious?
** Also, it's Ginny's idea of "Dumbledore's Army" that is used, instead of Cho's more generic "Defense Association".
** And she's usually the one who snaps Harry out of his numerous funks over the course of the book, including when he's convinced he's being possessed by Voldemort. She ''has'' been possessed by him, and could have told Harry exactly what it felt like, if he'd bothered to ask.
* GoldenMeanFallacy: Umbridge uses this in her opening speech, suggesting that she represents a middle ground between tradition and change. If that's so, we'd hate to see what "change" looks like.
* GovernmentConspiracy: The Ministry of Magic's coverup of Voldemort's return.
* HairTriggerTemper: Harry develops this in this book, providing more fuel for those who say he has post-traumatic stress disorder on account of the BadDreams he has of his encounter in the graveyard in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire the previous book]].
* HateSink: Umbridge's character pretty much exists solely to be this.
* TheHeavy: Dolores Umbridge is this to Cornelius Fudge.
* HeroicBSOD: Harry briefly experiences this when he [[spoiler:thinks Voldemort might be possessing him.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The spell James uses to make Snape hang upside down in the air? In the next book, we find out Snape invented it.]]
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Araminta Melliflua wanted this legalized.
* IdiotBall
** A minor example with major consequences: Harry forgetting Snape's membership in the Order. ([[GenreSavvy He calls himself on it too.]])
** Harry also forgets about the two-way mirror Sirius gave him after Christmas. He doesn't know exactly what it is, but he does know it's a communication device. This could be because he was determined not to use it before even finding out what it was, thinking that he didn't want to be the one to lure Sirius out of hiding (and look how well that works out for him!).
* IfWeSurviveThis: Before his trial, Harry mentally promises to add ten galleons to the charity fountain if he's found not guilty. He ends up emptying his whole money-bag.
* ISeeThemToo: Harry, Luna, and the Thestrals. She was also the only other character to hear the same murmuring from behind the veil that Harry did.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Though the concept of stitches had been around for years prior to the mid 90s (since at least 500 BCE), it had never been picked up by the wizarding world, where much better healing methods made stitches look primitive. As a result, Molly scoffs at Arthur for using stitches as a method to try to close his venom wound that magic couldn't close. Unfortunately for him, stitches don't work either.
-->'''Molly Weasley:''' Now Arthur, it sounds like you've been trying to sew your skin back together, but [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough even you wouldn't be that stupid...]]\\
'''Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Bill:''' [[INeedToGoIronMyDog [variations on "We're going to get a cup of tea."] ]]\\
'''Molly Weasley:''' ''WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THAT'S THE GENERAL IDEA?''
* {{Jerkass}}
** Umbridge is a pretty big one.
** Percy and Fudge, two characters who were mildly annoying at worst up until now, [[TookALevelInJerkass take a level in Jerkass]] in this book.
** Harry himself acts as one towards his friends throughout the book. However, this is mitigated by the fact that it was to cover up the inferiority complex he felt after being subjected to the blood quill torture by Umbridge.
* JerkassRealization: Harry acts as a jerk towards his friends throughout the book, especially near the beginning when he's seething at being left out of the loop 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.
* JerkJock: James Potter is revealed to have been this.
* JustAKid: Molly and Lupin invoke this when the Order withholds information from Harry.
* KangarooCourt: Fudge's attempt to discredit Harry is so biased that it's easy for Dumbledore to point out gaping holes in the court procedure.
* KickTheDog
** Mrs. Weasley telling Sirius that he was a poor godfather because he was in prison for 13 years. She was motivated out of concern for Harry, and they do make up at Christmas, but seriously: not cool, Mrs. Weasley.
** EVERYTHING Umbridge does. She can't walk down a hallway without finding a dog to kick.
* KissingDiscretionShot: In the book, Cho leans in to kiss Harry, and the paragraph ends, then cutting to a few minutes later.
* LastNameBasis / DoNotCallMePaul: Tonks, who hates her first name, Nymphadora (who can blame her, really?) and insists on being addressed only by her last. A fan once asked Rowling why Tonks didn't go by her middle name. Rowling's response was "Her middle name is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulpecula Vulpecula]]," which isn't much better.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Moody telling Vernon, "what you don't know could fill several books."
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: When Hermione demands to know what Ron thinks about Harry's plan to contact Sirius via Umbridge's fire, Harry is reminded of Molly and Arthur at the beginning of the book.
* LikeASonToMe: Molly about Harry, as if it wasn't clear already. Despite the huge fight going on when she says it, it's something of a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
* ListingTheFormsOfDegenerates: When a house-elf by the name of Kreacher rants about how Sirius Black is not as strict about the company he keeps as Walburga Black was.
-->'''Kreacher:''' Mudblood, werewolves, traitors, thieves. If my poor mistress knew the scum they let into her house, what would she say to old Kreacher?
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Harry isn't allowed to attend the Order's meetings.
* LuredIntoATrap: [[spoiler:Despite Harry's vision, Voldemort isn't holding Sirius in the Department of Mysteries. Instead, it's a Death Eater ambush.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: "Weasley is our King", doubles an IronicEcho to the Slytherins.
* MeaningfulName: Detention with Dolores. "Dolores" means "pains" in Latin, which was very true for this chapter.
* MildlyMilitary: 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 WordOfGod confirms is unreliable against a prepared dark wizard.
* MindRape: 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.]]
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Umbridge, again, who fits this trope to a T, combining it with SadistTeacher and CompleteMonster, while addressing the students like they're five-year-olds. ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' shows that she still acts this way outside of the classroom as well.
* MistakenForCheating: Cho gets this impression of Harry on their date, thanks to his poor choice of words in describing his meeting with Hermione later.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Kreacher and Marietta Edgecombe.]]
* MoodWhiplash
** Harry's rather humorous dream about him entering the Room of Requirement to put up some Christmas decoration shaped like Dobby's head abruptly changes into a vision about [[spoiler:Voldemort's serpent Nagini brutally wounding Mr Weasley.]]
** The montage following Umbridge's promotion to High Inquisitor is played for laughs, especially the scenes where she mocks Snape and Trelawney on their teaching credentials. Cut to [[spoiler:Trelawney being fired and nearly thrown out of Hogwarts]], which isn't funny at all.
** "Christmas on the Closed Ward". The chapter starts with Molly and Arthur bickering, moves on to [[spoiler:memoryless Gilderoy Lockhart]], both of which are funny and/or heartwarming, then ends with the trio and Ginny meeting [[spoiler: Neville and his parents, who have been tortured into insanity, to the point they can't even recognise him.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job [[spoiler:finding the prophecy so that the Death Eaters can take it and drawing Sirius out of hiding so that he's killed, Harry!]]
* NiceToTheWaiter: Sirius fails to live up to the advice he gave the trio in the last book. He has nothing against house-elves in general, but can't stand the way Kreacher constantly parrots the beliefs of the family he hated. WordofGod herself stated this particular trait of Sirius in her official website.
* NoHeroToHisValet: 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.
* NoMereWindmill: 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 WindmillCrusader and Dumbledore of being a ManipulativeBastard using this WindmillPolitical for some shadowy political game.
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-universe. Umbridge's ban of Harry's interview with ''The Quibbler'' only ensures that everybody reads it. This could possibly be a TakeThat to all the MoralGuardians who've attacked the series, only ensuring it became more successful. This is a textbook example of the Streisand Effect.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: Harry is punished for speaking out against Umbridge in class by being made to write lines... [[DisproportionateRetribution with a magic quill that cuts his skin and takes his own blood as ink.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: 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.
* TheOathBreaker: Marietta; told the location of their secret hideout to Umbridge after signing a magical contract claiming she wouldn't do that. As a result she had the word "SNEAK" appear on her face in pimples and was shunned by her classmates.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[HeroicBSOD Harry destroying Dumbledore's office]] was cut out of TheFilmOfTheBook. 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.
* OhCrap
** Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard on the planet, causes this reaction [[spoiler:when Fudge comes to arrest him]].
-->'''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".
** 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]].
* OnlySaneMan: Madame Bones compared to the rest of the Ministry. [[spoiler:Pity she's dead now.]]
* OurFounder: The statue at the Ministry of Magic.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: According to Nearly Headless Nick, only wizards in the HP-verse can become ghosts. Becoming a ghost is also explicitly stated to be [[WhoWantsToLiveForever a bad decision]] and considered [[FaceDeathWithDignity a show of cowardice]].
* OutGambitted: Dumbledore, who acknowledges that his [[PoorCommunicationKills hiding of information made it considerably easier]] for Voldemort to trick Harry.
* PairTheSpares: {{Inverted}}, in a piece of foreshadowing so indirect that it was probably put in by Rowling just to amuse herself. You ''start'' by asking yourself what exactly the purpose of Michael Corner and Cho Chang hooking up was...
* PapaWolf: When Umbridge goes rough on one of the students, we find out why Dumbledore is respected and feared. He drops the nice act and gives her a clear warning.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Ron suffers from this when playing Keeper -- he can't defend well when he knows that people are watching. He gets better, resulting in [[spoiler:Gryffindor winning the Quidditch Cup.]]
* PinballProtagonist: Harry. Due to a combination of {{Angst}}/{{Wangst}} and being LockedOutOfTheLoop, Harry rarely does anything active unless Dumbledore orders him to do it (Occlumency) or Hermione convinces him that it's a good idea (Dumbledore's Army, the interview).
* PlayingSick: The Skiving Snackboxes (and joke candies contained within), invented by Fred and George, serve this purpose for their takers.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Umbridge's FantasticRacism against non-humans and Muggle-borns is just one more of her many abhorrent character traits.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Basis of the plot really.
* PrisonBreak: Part of the plot when Voldemort [[spoiler:breaks a number of death eaters out of Azkaban]]. Most notably, Bellatrix Lestrange.
* {{Protectorate}}: Dumbledore is this when he defends Harry from Voldemort, beyond question.
* PublicSecretMessage: Harry alerts Snape while making it possible to convince Umbridge he was shouting gibberish, by yelling "He's got Padfoot at the place where it's hidden!" to the entire room. Snape understands that "Padfoot" was Sirius' old nickname and "the place" was a location that Snape knows Harry's been seeing in his dreams.
* RageAgainstTheMentor: Harry, at Dumbledore after [[spoiler:Sirius' death]].
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Used for MoodWhiplash when Harry, before seeing Mr. Weasley attacked by Nagini, has a dream in which Cho Chang finds him in the Room of Requirement and demands Chocolate Frog cards while he's trying to put up Christmas decorations shaped like Dobby's head.
* RememberedTooLate: Harry forgets a gift Siruis gave him that could have allowed him to see through a trap.
* LaResistance: Dumbledore's Army, comprised of Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws.
* RulesLawyer: Literally, as Dumbledore acts as Harry's lawyer...er, Witness for the Defense, during Harry's hearing. In a rather unusual take on this trope, Dumbledore is ''forced'' to play Rules Lawyer because the Wizengamot [[KangarooCourt are deliberately ignoring their own laws.]]
* SadistTeacher: Umbridge. Could be The Trope Namer.
* ScottyTime: Umbridge apparently thinks brewing Veritaserum works this way. [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't,]] as it needs to be brewed under the light of a full moon, the nearest of which is several weeks away. In both the movie and book she depleted his stock herself; in the book by putting the entire vial in Harry's tea [[GenreSavvy (which he is intelligent enough not to drink)]] while she's interrogating him, and in the movie by interrogating every student in the school. It's revealed in the movie that the reason that the DA is found out is that she uses it on Cho, forcing her to give up the location of the Room of Requirement.
* ShootTheMessenger: Averted. Voldemort does not punish Rookwood for informing him that his plan to retrieve [[spoiler:the prophecy]] could never have worked. The man who [[YouHaveFailedMe gave him the wrong information in the first place, however...]]
* ShutUpKirk / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Harry receives an ''epic'' one from Prof. Phineas Nigellus Black.
* SingleTear: Dumbledore
* SixStudentClique: In the Ministry of Magic scenes.
** The Head: Harry
** The Muscle: Ron
** The Smart One: Hermione
** The Quirk: Neville
** The Pretty One: Ginny
** The Wild One: Luna
** Also (according to WordOfGod) a double PowerTrio: [[TheKirk Harry / Neville]], [[TheSpock Hermione / Luna]], and [[TheMcCoy Weasleys]].
* SoapPunishment: 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.
* StepfordSmiler: Again, Umbridge. This is one of the reasons she pulls off her CompleteMonster routine so effectively.
* SurpriseWitness: [[spoiler:Mrs. Figg]] during Harry's trial.
* TantrumThrowing: 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 AwfulTruth.]]
* TastesLikeDiabetes: In-universe examples:
** Part of the reason Harry hates Umbridge's collection of porcelain plates with kittens painted on them is because he finds them sickeningly cute.
** Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, where Harry and Cho go to on Valentine's Day. Cho thinks the shop is cute; Harry finds it sickening.
* TemptingFate: Sirius, right before [[spoiler:Bellatrix kills him]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists
** Shouldn't Cho have someone to talk to about her boyfriend's death besides Harry? That could have spared them both a lot of pain.
** Not to mention Harry and his post-traumatic stress disorder after what happened in the graveyard.
* ThereShouldBeALaw: Played with twice by Fudge and Umbridge. During Harry's trial Dumbledore states that there is no law stating that the Ministry can hand out school punishment; Fudge murmurs "Laws can be changed". When Dumbledore over-rules Umbridge, forcing her to reform the Gryffindor Quidditch team, she calls up Fudge and receives a nice educational decree ([[LampshadeHanging "Oh not another one!"]]) giving her absolute power.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Sirius]]
* TookALevelInBadass
** Ginny, after having been DemotedToExtra for the two previous installments.
** Neville's {{Badass}} tendencies begin to show as well.
* TooDumbToLive
** Fudge thinks that ''[[BadassGrandpa Albus freakin' Dumbledore,]] the greatest wizard in the world, is going to come quietly.''
** Fudge's overall stupidity on Voldemort's return ends up being a subversion of this trope. Voldemort realizes that it's actually in his own best interst to leave Fudge alone and allow him to continue to misrule the Ministry and persecute the people who'd stand the best chance against Voldemort.
** Calling a group of centaurs armed with bows and arrows "filthy half-breeds"? Really, Umbridge, you've got no-one to blame but yourself for that one.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Dumbledore's Army.
* TraumaSwing: Harry does one of these at the start of the book.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Dolores Umbridge's horrible misrule. So much in fact, that she was the former TropeNamer.
* UnderTheMistletoe: Harry gets his first kiss with Cho in this manner. In the book, just prior to it, he's under it with Luna, who doesn't kiss him, much to the dismay of their shippers. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luna, however, doesn't even seem to understand what mistletoe is for.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
** As a high-ranking and distinguished Ministry official, Umbridge is held in high regard by many, including [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Percy Weasley and her boss, Cornelius Fudge]]. Because of this, her [[SadistTeacher child abuse]] and FantasticRacism are either overlooked or ignored.
** Subverted with Lucius Malfoy, who is thrown into Azkaban at the end of this book.
* TheWarHasJustBegun
* WhatTheHellHero
** 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.
** Phineas' portrait gives Harry the WhatTheHellHero treatment when he's about to flee at Christmas.
** Harry gives Hermione and Ron this (as a proxy to Dumbledore) in the form of a rant about how much he deserves to know whats going on considering that his life is just crap, especially considering the last book.
** One that ''might'' have been this was the first night in Hogwarts when Seamus tells Harry that his mother didn't want him to come back to Hogwarts because of him. Harry starts insulting her, which, even though it's pretty low on the "Hero" scale, would be justified to the readers because he's being called a liar for telling the truth.
* WhyDidntYouJustSaySo: Most of the ending of the book would have been avoided if it weren't for PoorCommunicationKills.
* WorldsShortestBook: Inverted.
-->''"I am not aware that it is any of your business what goes on in my house--"\\
"I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursley," growled Moody.''
* 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 finds to be wrong. Why he didn't have it removed is never really mentioned since it probably wasn't a curse scar, though since it is Umbrige anything could be possible.
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