History Literature / HarryPotterandTheOrderOfThePhoenix

* TheWarHasJustBegun

** EVERYTHING Umbridge does. She can't walk down a hallway without finding a dog to kick.

* 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.

** Used to tragic effect when [[spoiler: Sirius orders Kreacher to "Get out" when Harry and the Weasleys arrive at Christmas. Kreacher. While he was ordering the House Elf to get out of the kitchen, Kreacher deliberately interprets it as "Get out of the house." It allows him to leave 12 Grimmauld Place and make contact with Narcissa Malfoy -- thus granting Voldemort an agent in the Order of the Phoenix's HQ..]]

* IWarnedYou: [[spoiler: While we don't see it actually happen, Dumbledore warned Sirius Kreacher needed to be treated with kidness and to be careful with him. He was afraid something like Kreacher's betrayal would happen, but Sirius ignored Dumbledore.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: As noted in Exact Words, [[spoiler: Kreacher deliberately misinterprets Sirius' command of "Get out" at Christmas to leave Order HQ and make contact with Narcissa Malfoy. While Sirius' orders prevent Kreacher from relaying intel on the Order to Voldemort, he;s able to pass on intel that Sirius didn't consider important enough to classify: that Harry loves his Godfather and would go to any length to rescue him. This is key to the trap Voldemort lays in the Department of Mysteries.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Whatever that mysterious spell Dumbledore fired was, it causes no damage to a shield but produces a "chilling", gong-like sound. Voldemort mocks him for not going straight for the kill, but Dumbledore calmly replies that there are other ways of destroying a person.

* JerkassHasAPoint: The way she did it was completely unjustified and just goes to show how horrible she is, but Umbridge [[spoiler:sacking Trelawney made sense. Practically everybody knew that she was a bad teacher. The only reason she was appointed in the first place because she made one accurate prophecy (that she wasn't even aware of making).]]

* 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.

* TonightSomeoneDies: There was a lot of speculation about this before the book's release, with many in the media suggesting that Ron would die. Rowling may have been playing with this expectation in an early chapter when Harry walks in on Ron's bloodied corpse as though it's a SurprisinglySuddenDeath (in reality it was Mrs Weasley's worst fear made manifest by a Boggart). When the actual death turned out to be [[spoiler:the comparatively minor character of Sirius Black, many decided to take a LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt attitude to any future claims that a main character would be killed off, only to be shocked by Book 6]].

* 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.
** 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...

* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Sirius]]

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 ''[[Literature/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.

** 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.

* 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=] [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes plays the bagpipes]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: The way she did it was completely unjustified and just goes to show how horrible she is, but Umbridge sacking Trelawney made sense. Practically everybody knew that she was a bad teacher. The only reason she was appointed in the first place because she made one accurate prophecy (that she wasn't even aware of making).

* BrokenAesop: Harry is briefly distraught over the Prefect Badge going to Ron, rather than himself, but even more distraught over the fact that he ''is'' distraught. Does he really think he's ''better'' than other people? Maybe Ron's got something he hasn't, and Dumbledore can see it. Oh wait no, turns out it's just because Dumbledore thought Harry was too busy to be prefect, not because he wasn't special. Nevermind.

* LuredIntoATrap: [[spoiler:Despite Harry's vision, isn't holding Sirius in the Department of Mysteries. Instead, it's a Death Eater ambush.]]

* LuredIntoATrap: [[spoiler:Despite Harry's vision, Voldemort isn't holding Sirius in the Department of Mysteries. Instead, it's a Death Eater ambush.]]

CharacterDevelopment for Ginny and Neville also contribute to the polarization. Harry also stops being a KnightInShiningArmor, as his moral flaws are brought to light.