History Literature / HarryPotterandTheOrderOfThePhoenix

** [[spoiler:Dumbledore solemnly notes that Sirius suffered this fate since he treated Kreacher poorly, due to him being a living manifestation of his hated family and home, as Kreacher ended up seeking comfort with Narcissa and Bellatrix, the last living Blacks who he respected. He’s able to give them just enough information and cooperated with them enough to set up the gambit by Voldemort that results in Sirius’s death.]]

* HappyDance: "He got off, he got off, he got off..."

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Harry sees Neville and his grandmother at St. Mungo's and instantly realizes who they're there to visit he starts frantically thinking of a way to keep the rest of the group from seeing Neville. When this fails and Agnes invites them over, Harry is all but cringing at what's about to happen.

* ScottyTime: Umbridge apparently thinks brewing Veritaserum works this way. [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't]]: Snape informs her it needs a full cycle of the moon to brew and therefore would take at least a month. She depleted Snape's stock herself, by putting the entire vial in Harry's tea (which he is intelligent enough not to drink, and which in any case was fake) while she's interrogating him.

** Harry's escape from Voldemort at the end of the last novel is stated in-universe to be one for the Death Eaters. Nobody outside of their ranks was suppoused to learn what had happened to Harry during the final Task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament, or that Voldemort had come back to full life and power. The ''last'' person Voldemort wanted to learn of his return was Dumbledore, who wasted no time reactivating the Order of the Phoenix and preparing for the conflict ahead.

** Harry's escape from Voldemort at the end of the last novel is stated in-universe to be one for the Death Eaters. Nobody was suppoused to learn what had happened to Harry during the final Task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament, or that Voldemort had come back to full life nad power.

** PlayedForLaughs with Me. Weasley experimenting with medical treatments. He and his Healer agreed it would be a good idea to try out Muggle stitches. The kids conclude, after beating a hasty retreat to avoid Molly's subsequent lecture for Arthur, that Nagini's venom was so potent that it dissolved the sutures. That's why Mr. Weasley's bandages were changed and Mrs. Weasley noticed. Hermione ''does'' mention that stitches are pretty effective for non-magic injuries.

** Where did Dumbledore go after leaving the school? Mugglenet’s forum section had a thread on this that was still active by 2010!

* TakingTheBullet: Fawkes (a phoenix) can tale an ''Avada Kedavra'' curse, expire as a result, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal and then return to life as a chick]].

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Harry sees Neville and his grandmother at St. Mungo's and instantly realizes who they're there to visit he starts frantically thinking of a way to keep the rest of the group from seeing Neville. When this fails and Agnes invites them over, Harry is all but cringing at what's about to happen, although unlike most examples, it’s not for his own sake (in this case, it’s for Neville).

* TheWarHasJustBegun: There's a reason why the final chapter is entitled "The Second War Begins", despite it technically beginning with the return of Voldemort in the previous book. [[spoiler:And the war's first casualty is Sirius.]]

** Molly says witches and wizards can't join the order of the Phoenix until they're of age. Fred and George, who turned seventeen the previous April, protest in outrage, and Molly amends her statement to refer to witches and wizards who have left school. The twins end up leaving Hogwarts a few weeks early to start their own joke shop.

** In an effort to keep what becomes Dumbledore's Army a secret from Umbridge, Hermione has everyone meet at the Hog's Head, believing that since hardly anyone goes there they won't be overheard. As Sirius points out later, the bar is so sparsely crowded that anyone else who was there would hear everything they were discussing. The Three Broomsticks on the other hand would have been so loud and crowded that no one would be able to overhear them.
** PlayedForLaughs with Arthur experimenting with medical treatments. He and his Healer agreed it would be a good idea to try out Muggle stitches. The kids conclude, after beating a hasty retreat to avoid Molly's subsequent lecture for Arthur, that Nagini's venom was so potent that it dissolved the sutures. That's why Arthur's bandages were changed and Molly noticed. Hermione ''does'' mention that stitches are pretty effective for non-magic injuries.

* EgocentricTeamNaming: Invoked. When Harry's secret group of students are caught and brought before the headmaster, Dumbledore [[TakingTheHeat claims responsibility for the whole thing]], noting how their charter specifically reads "Dumbledore's Army, not ''Potter's'' Army."

* TakingTheBullet: Fawkes (a phoenix) can swallow an ''Avada Kedavra'' curse, expire as a result, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal and then return to life as a chick]].

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Harry sees Neville and his grandmother at St. Mungo's and instantly realizes who they're there to visit he starts frantically thinking of a way to keep the rest of the group from seeing Neville. When this fails and Agnes invites them over, Harry is all but cringing at what's about to happen.

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

* 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.

* LoveDoodles: Teenage James Potter writes Lily Evans' initials inside a drawing of a Golden Snitch. He's in love with her.

* PoorCommunicationKills: The basis of the plot, really. [[spoiler:If Dumbledore had actually warned Harry that Voldemort would try to lure him to the Department of Mysteries instead of having others give him cryptic advice and instructions, nothing would have happened that was nearly as bad.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Harry invokes this on Fudge's behalf after reading an article in ''[[WindmillCrusader The Quibbler]]'' accusing him of ordering the assassinations of goblins. Where he stops specifically is the accusation that "'he's had them cooked in pies.'"

* AbsurdlyPowerfulSchoolJurisdiction: Professor Umbridge bans Harry and the Weasley twins from playing Quidditch for life for fighting on the pitch, arguably an unenforceable mandate, though one that still seems to be within her power. She also confiscates their brooms. And that's not even getting into her unilaterally instating ObviousRulePatch policies (moreso in the movie than in the book) whenever anyone tries to undermine her authority; this is one of the main reasons that nearly everyone at Hogwarts, including the teachers, hate her.

** When forming their Defense Against the Dark Arts group in the face of Umbridge's insistence against practical knowledge, Hermione mentions that she put a spell on the paper they all signed so that they would know if anyone in the group ratted them out and, when asks, says that it would make Eloise Midgen's acne look like cute freckles. Eloise was mentioned a few times in the previous book as a student who was so desperate to get rid of her pimples that she tried to curse them off with magic. [[spoiler: Hermione's payback for when Marietta Edgecombe betrays them is for boils spelling out "SNEAK" to appear on her face.]]

Followed by Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Its film adaptation was released in 2007.]]

''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' is the fifth book in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series. Published June 21, 2003 after the longest gap between Potter books -- three years. Some impatient fans speculated that Creator/JKRowling was suffering from WritersBlock, but this was not the case -- she simply felt she needed a break after the breakneck pace of writing the first four books, and had to play catch-up to put in plot threads that ExecutiveMeddling had cut from earlier books. It was also due to her focusing on production of the first two films of the series that were released in 2001 and 2002 respectively. For the rest of the series there were only two-year gaps between books.

* AbsurdlyPowerfulSchoolJurisdiction: Professor Umbridge bans Harry and the Weasley twins from playing Quidditch for life for fighting on the pitch, arguably an unenforceable mandate, though one that still seems to be within her power. She also confiscates their brooms.

* CallBack: Molly says witches and wizards can't join the order of the Phoenix until they're of age. Fred and George, who turned seventeen the previous April, protest in outrage, and Molly amends her statement to refer to witches and wizards who have left school. The twins end up leaving Hogwarts a few weeks early to start their own joke shop.

* 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."

* {{Doorstopper}}: Over 750 pages in most editions and the ''longest'' book in the series; nearly a quarter of the word count of ''the entire series'' is contained in this one book, since it usually has smaller print than the others but ends up with the highest page count anyway. Fittingly, it has the longest gap between releases, coming three years after ''Goblet''. Magazines and newspapers pointed out that the book wouldn't fit through most mail slots if mail-ordered. Comedians had a field day joking that book 6 would be called ''Harry Potter and the End of Trees''.
-->'''Creator/StephenFry:''' So if any of you hear someone pronounce her name [[NoPronunciationGuide "Rohw-ling"]], you have my permission to hit them over the head with -- not with ''Order of the Phoenix'', [[InsultToRocks that would be cruel. Something smaller; like a fridge.]]
** The illustrated edition released in 2022 clocks in at a relatively slim 565 pages, but these pages are much taller and wider than those in other editions, with the end result being a single book that weighs over five pounds.

* 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."