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* "Sorry, Professor. [[IronicEcho But I must not tell lies]]."" [[note]]To put it into context, Professor Umbridge is begging for her life, pleading to not be attacked by the centaurs she rather stupidly insulted to their faces. She pleads, "Potter, do something! Tell them I mean no harm!" Harry just glares at her (she did, after all, force him to carve "I must not tell lies" into his own hand for hours at a time as "punishment" for trying to get people to believe that Voldemort is back) and says the above line.[[note]]
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** This deserves come elaboration: Umbridge is constantly interrupting [=McGonagall=]'s less to harp on some trivial thing. Eventually, [=McGonagall=] turns to her and calmly, but with unmistakable [[DeadpanSnarker snark]], asks how she expects to learn anything about [=McGonnagall]'s teaching methods if she insists on interrupting, as talking during the Transfiguration lesson is not generally allowed.
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** This deserves come elaboration: Umbridge is constantly interrupting [=McGonagall=]'s less to harp on some trivial thing. Eventually, [=McGonagall=] turns to her and calmly, but with unmistakable [[DeadpanSnarker snark]], asks how she expects to learn anything about [=McGonnagall]'s [=McGonnagall=]'s teaching methods if she insists on interrupting, as talking during the Transfiguration lesson is not generally allowed.
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** This deserves come elaboration: Umbridge is constantly interrupting [=McGonagall=]'s less to harp on some trivial thing. Eventually, [=McGonagall=] turns to her and calmly, but with unmistakable [[DeadpanSnarker snark]], asks how she expects to learn anything about [=McGonnagall]]'s teaching methods if she insists on interrupting, as talking during the Transfiguration lesson is not generally allowed.
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** The whole chapter is a CMOA for Dumbledore and Voldemort. The two most powerful wizards in the world show us, definitively, how they earned their titles.
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-->'''Dawlish:''' "Be reasonable, Hagrid!"
-->'''Hagrid:''' "Reasonable be damned! Yeh'r not takin' me like this, Dawlish!"
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* Harry overcoming Voldemort's possession by recalling all his happy memories of Sirius, Ron, and Hermione, combined with him ''pitying'' the Dark Lord before [[RageAgainstTheReflection breaking the mirror in his mindscape containing Voldemort's reflection.]]
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'''[=McGonagall=]:''' There are '''several''' things I would like to say to you!
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'''[=McGonagall=]:''' There are '''several''' things I would like tosay to you!say!
'''[=McGonagall=]:''' There are '''several''' things I would like to
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** And he gets in a lovely little StealthInsult: "You surely didn't use it ''all''? I told you that three drops would suffice."
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*** Which is mildly degraded by the fact that this (''very'' inadvertantly) inadvertently) led to Dumbledore's death.death.
*** But [[spoiler: he would've died anyway due to wearing the Gaunt's ring later that summer. So this actually gave Dumbledore a quick and painless way out.]]
*** But [[spoiler: he would've died anyway due to wearing the Gaunt's ring later that summer. So this actually gave Dumbledore a quick and painless way out.]]
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* Luna's CMOA from ''Order'': during the fight in the Department of Mysteries, Luna (already bleeding from her lip) is confronted by a Death Eater flying towards her from a great height. The camera shows her from the Death Eater's POV as she looks up at him placidly, pulls out her wand and (with an expression of mild curiosity on her face) hits him with a Full-Body Bind curse that's so powerful ''it blasts him backwards into a shelf of prophecies''. Now, ''imagine what she could do if she was angry...''
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** Even better... Before the Aurors hit [=McGonagall=] and Fang, Hagrid was just defending himself and trying to reason. Them attacking [=McGonagall=] and Fang hit his BerserkButton, and ''only then'' he delivered a brutal CurbStompBattle in two seconds flat. He went in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge... Then saw they weren't worth the trouble, picked up his dog and quietly left.
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** [=McGonagall=]'s answer to Umbridge about Harry getting poor grades in her subject: "I should have made myself plainer: he has achieved high scores on exams applied by a ''competent'' teacher." which, at that point, pretty much meant [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lupin]]. [[FantasticRacism Umbridge must have loved that]].
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** [=McGonagall=]'s answer to Umbridge about Harry getting poor grades in her subject: "I should have made myself plainer: he has achieved high scores on exams applied by a ''competent'' teacher." which, at that point, pretty much meant the fake Moody from the previous year... and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lupin]]. [[FantasticRacism Umbridge must have loved that]].
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* "None of them had seen [[GentleGiant Hagrid]] in a [[UnstoppableRage real temper before...]]" Professor Umbridge has two teachers dismissed from Hogwarts during her reign as High Inquisitor: Professor Trelawney (Divination teacher) and Professor Hagrid (Care of Magical Creatures teacher), the former because she wasn't actually a prophet, prophet (or so she thought), the latter because [[FantasticRacism he was a half-giant]]. When Professor Trelawney is dismissed, she cries like a baby, ''begging'' Umbridge to let her stay, saying "Hogwarts is my home!" and generally being really pathetic, even though it was a sad scene nonetheless. When Hagrid is dismissed, does he cry? No. Does he beg to be allowed to stay? No. What does he do? He delivers an epic CurbStompBattle to the four Aurors (read: exceptionally powerful wizards) that came to take him away, with his ''bare hands'', '''''while holding his unconscious dog under his arm''''', while the whole time Stunning Spells are bouncing uselessly off him (which Hermione later explains is due to his giant's blood, giants being notoriously hard to Stun). Umbridge is freaking '''''terrified''''', two of the Aurors get knocked out cold by Hagrid (who as mentioned before, is not using any magic, and is facing a team of the most highly-skilled wizards there are), and it ends with Hagrid fleeing into the ''Forbidden Forest'', [[ShootingSuperman still being bombarded with spells that are doing absolutely nothing to him.him]].
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* One of Neville's better crowning moments of awesome is in when he's crippled, unable to cast spells, and still [[EyeScream sticks a Death Eater in the eye]] with Hermione's wand.
* The fact that Harry and his friends, a bunch of fifth-years and fourth-years, managed to [[spoiler:escape and defend themselves against about a dozen trained and deadly Death Eaters for quite some time]] was pretty amazing. As is the fact that Harry initially buys time by taunting them about Voldemort being half-blood.
* Fred and George Weasley get their moment when they leave the school.
** "''Give her hell from us, Peeves.''"
** It gets even better: not only does Peeves do as he was told, he saluted Fred and George as they left. Earning that amount of respect from Peeves, of all people...
** As well as everything that the mass of unnamed students who took up after the twins left did. Hexing Umbridge's minions, making themselves sick to get out of class, putting Nifflers in her room, the list goes on.
** And before that, the speech they give to Hermione declaring that they don't ''care'' about getting thrown out anymore; in fact, they're only staying at all to do their bit for Dumbledore.
** One of the Slytherins tries to use his Umbridge-given powers to bully Fred and George. He ends up stuck in Vanishing Cabinet limbo for weeks.
* Bellatrix overdid her share of amazing things during the series, but her crowning moment of awesome occurred in the end of ''The Order of the Phoenix'', where she [[spoiler:defeated Tonks, Sirius, and Kingsley, which were half of The Order of the Phoenix present at the battle. Not only that, but she deflected Dumbledore's spell, while all the other Death Eaters were easily caught by that same spell]]. None of this was shown during the movie, but Helena Bonham Carter's acting made up for that flaw. Of course, she was later owned by Dumbledore's enchanted statue, but still.
* Dumbledore ''destroying'' the Ministry's trumped-up charges against Harry and calling them out for their corruption, all while being completely calm and extremely polite.
* Damn near everything [=McGonagall=] does, period. Especially her response to being inspected by Umbridge in ''Order of the Phoenix''.
** "[[DoWrongRight It unscrews the other way.]]" That is all.
** On a similar note, her inability to join Peeves in chasing Umbridge from the school because she had allowed him to borrow her walking stick, which he used to whack Umbridge repeatedly upside the head.
** [=McGonagall=] railing all over Umbridge's attempts to crush Harry, saying she'll do everything she can to get him made an Auror even if she has to die in the process, all the while giving Umbridge the hate glare. Awesome.
** ''"You are raving," said [=McGonagall=], superbly disdainful.'' "Superbly disdainful". I mean, ''right''?
** ''Professor Umbridge stood up. Since she was so short, this didn't make much of a difference... Professor [=McGonagall=] stood up. In her case, the effect was much more impressive.''
** [=McGonagall=]'s answer to Umbridge about Harry getting poor grades in her subject: "I should have made myself plainer: he has achieved high scores on exams applied by a ''competent'' teacher." which, at that point, pretty much meant Lupin. [[FantasticRacism Umbridge must have loved that]].
** It may not have achieved anything, but she ran into battle against ''four Aurors'' to stop them arresting Hagrid. And taking four Stunners in the chest in the process. Madam Pomfrey assures Harry that none of those four Aurors, whom [=McGonagall=] herself earlier described as exceptionally talented elites who underwent three years of harsh training, would have stood a chance against [=McGonagall=] in a fair fight. They had to resort to suddenly whirling round to attack her without warning.
** [=McGonagall=] protecting ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Trelawney]]'' from Umbridge. She may disdain the woman's profession, but NO-ONE is throwing one of her teachers out but her. Her moment goes to Dumbledore in the movie, but Maggie Smith's ice-glare to Umbridge while standing in front of a sobbing Trelawney deserves a mention of its own.
-->'''Umbridge:''' Anything you'd like to say, Minerva?\\
'''[=McGonagall=]:''' There are '''several''' things I would like to say to you!
* Also, Snape's response to Umbridge.
-->'''Umbridge:''' You applied for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post?\\
'''Snape:''' Yes.\\
'''Umbridge:''' And you were unsuccessful?\\
'''Snape:''' ''(in a "[[DeadpanSnarker what the hell do you think]]" voice)'' Obviously.
:: ''Perfect'' delivery by Alan Rickman.
* Dumbledore vs. Voldemort, which is somehow made ''more'' awesome in the film. And while we're at it, Dumbledore's BigDamnHeroes moment.
* Harry and Neville are cornered and facing half a dozen Death Eaters. The Order of the Phoenix arrive, and things even out, until another few Death Eaters arrive. Things are now looking very bad for the heroes, and then Dumbledore arrives. Before the end of the page, [[CurbStompBattle all but two Death Eaters are disarmed and bound in the middle of the room]] -- and about half of that is Harry thinking, "awesome, Dumbledore's here! We're saved!"
* As a prefect at Hogwarts, and especially in her house, it was only a matter of time before Hermione had her authority challenged by the red-headed twins of chaos Fred and George. When she stands up to them, and they stand up to her, [[BringIt they taunt her with challenges to give them detention]]. But Hermione utterly terrifies them with the promise, "[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment I'm going to write a letter to your]] ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment mother]].''" Made even better, because the twins ''immediately'' complied, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness an act which was never seen before, or since.]]
* After Umbridge grabs one of the students in Dumbledore's office, shaking her very hard, before anyone can see him, Dumbledore pulls out his wand and says that he will not allow her to harm one of his students; it even mentions that it was one of the few times that anyone has ever seen Dumbledore angry. May also double as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming to see [[PapaWolf how much Dumbledore cares for his students.]] During that scene, Kingsley [[spoiler:modified that student's memory to make it seem like there were only two meetings of the DA. On the spot, without getting noticed.]]
* Dumbledore assures Fudge that he won't be taking on him, 2 Aurors and both his Senior and Junior Undersecretaries alone.... ''"unless [they were] foolish enough to force [him]".''
** "You have to admit, Minister, Dumbledore's got style."
** "You seem to be laboring under the delusion that I am going to -- what is the phrase? 'Come quietly.' I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing."
* In the Forbidden Forest: "I'm sorry, Professor. ''[[IronicEcho I must not tell lies]].''"
* Hermione showing just how much she owned Rita in the Three Broomsticks. Also [[KickTheSonOfABitch (while pretty cruel)]] that she had the foresight to see that one of DA might betray them and came up with a jinx that even Pomfrey couldn't remove to mark them -- and her spell incapacitated Marietta enough that she was prevented from spilling too much about the DA. ''Not to mention'' that she came up with a pretty good lie to keep Umbridge from torturing Harry.
* Snape, showing nothing but contempt to Umbridge when she catches Harry and the DA. Especially awesome when he's telling her to suck it using lame excuses when asked for Veritaserum, and you realize later on that he was the first to inform the Order of the situation.
* Hermione Granger vs. the Ministry of Magic's propaganda campaign. [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Hermione wins]].
* "None of them had seen [[GentleGiant Hagrid]] in a [[UnstoppableRage real temper before...]]" Professor Umbridge has two teachers dismissed from Hogwarts during her reign as High Inquisitor: Professor Trelawney (Divination teacher) and Professor Hagrid (Care of Magical Creatures teacher), the former because she wasn't actually a prophet, the latter because [[FantasticRacism he was a half-giant]]. When Professor Trelawney is dismissed, she cries like a baby, ''begging'' Umbridge to let her stay, saying "Hogwarts is my home!" and generally being really pathetic, even though it was a sad scene nonetheless. When Hagrid is dismissed, does he cry? No. Does he beg to be allowed to stay? No. What does he do? He delivers an epic CurbStompBattle to the four Aurors (read: exceptionally powerful wizards) that came to take him away, with his ''bare hands'', '''''while holding his unconscious dog under his arm''''', while the whole time Stunning Spells are bouncing uselessly off him (which Hermione later explains is due to his giant's blood, giants being notoriously hard to Stun). Umbridge is freaking '''''terrified''''', two of the Aurors get knocked out cold by Hagrid (who as mentioned before, is not using any magic, and is facing a team of the most highly-skilled wizards there are), and it ends with Hagrid fleeing into the ''Forbidden Forest'', still being bombarded with spells that are doing absolutely nothing to him.
* Neville in the Ministry of Magic standing up to Bellatrix. Keep in mind, this isn't some rent-a-cop Death Eater. This is ''Bellatrix freaking Lestrange'', arguably the most dangerous witch in the world, the one who tortured his parents into insanity. And not only does he meet her taunt ("Why, I've had the pleasure of meeting your parents, boy!") with pure, unadulterated rage as opposed to fear, he charged in to save Harry. Without a wand that didn't work properly for him. Unable to pronounce spells. His line "HE'S DOT ALONE! HE'S STILL GOD BE!" (Translation: "He's not alone! He's still got me!") qualifies as his first huge CMOA in the series. [[{{Foreshadowing}} It was just a taste of the awesome to come]].
** The YMMV part of the above line is that it definitely was NOT a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Harry at that time (who actually [[FacePalm Face Palms]] upon hearing it). At the time, Neville showing up was the worst possible thing that could have happened to Harry, given that for one, he couldn't use his wand properly (his nose was broken and it affected his speech, so he couldn't pronounce the incantations properly) and for two, he was, well, Neville, and they were fighting a massive group of Death Eaters.
** He was, in the DA, improving so rapidly that near the end of their lessons with Harry he was ''the second person after Hermione'' to master the spell they were learning. And even though he was injured, inarticulate and unable to perform magic, he still charged an armed Death Eater ''who could've killed him'' and stuck a wand in his eye to save Harry. Gryffindor, indeed.
* "Weasley Is Our King." That is all.
* The title of the 36th chapter (yes, a chapter title is a MoA) says everything you need to know about Voldemort's true view of Dumbledore: "The Only One He Ever Feared"
* Harry subdues Bellatrix while tracing her down, tapping into his UnstoppableRage. This is the woman known as Voldemort's Best Lieutenant. She's supposed to be Voldemort's most skilled Death Eater, except for Snape. Harry has only ever had one, maybe two, competent defense against the dark arts teachers and five years experience of fixing Hogwarts' problems on his side. Now imagine Harry with proper teaching or Auror training. He could very possibly approach Dumbledore's level in his adulthood if he is properly taught.
* Peeves is at his finest chasing off Umbridge and it is definitely one of the highlights of the book, especially for standing apart from the rest of the book.
* After a Quidditch match against Slytherin, Malfoy is being a poor sport and throwing his usual insults at the Weasleys and Harry. Harry is ushering the twins (Fred and George) away when Malfoy drops the [[BerserkButton bombshell]]: he insults Harry's '''deceased''' mother. A 3-on-1 [[CurbstompBattle brawl]] begins. Needless to say, it ended awesomely for the twins and Harry, despite the fact that Umbridge punished them.
** Two-on-one: Fred was being restrained by ''three people'' and later regrets not having been able to contribute.
* Peeves trying to invoke FallingChandelierOfDoom on Umbridge. Granted, it didn't work, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
* Snape concocting a ''fake'' veritaserum to Umbridge.
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* Sirius decking Lucius at the start of the fight in ''Order of the Phoenix''. "Get your filthy hands off my godson. *BAM!*" Malfoys seem to come off on the wrong end of [=CMoA=]'s.
* "Sorry, Professor. I must not tell lies."
* The Weasley twins destroying Umbridge's classroom... with '''fireworks'''... on ''brooms''... during an exam.
** The whole scene was kickass: And after destroying her classroom, they create a giant fiery ''dragon's head'', which chases after Umbridge. And after it clamps down on her, ''it splits off into '''hundreds''' of little rockets, smashing into every single one of her [[TyrantTakesTheHelm decrees]].'' They all fall off the wall, making a huge mess while the twins fly out of Hogwarts, with every single student cheering them on. The scene lingers on a [[CrazyAwesome giant W firework floating in the sky.]]
* When Dumbledore steps out of one of the fireplaces in the Ministry of Magic to fight Voldemort with one simple line. "You shouldn't have come here tonight, Tom."
* Voldemort is no slouch during the final battle, producing a huge serpent made of fire and an implosion that shatters everything that's made of glass, then sending every shard of glass Dumbledore's way. For someone who fears Dumbledore, he certainly held his own.
* Dumbledore's escape from an entire room of wizards, including Aurors, while basically taking them all down with one shot? ''That'' was when you first saw why Dumbledore had the rep he did.
* Ginny pulling off a [[StuffBlowingUp Reducto]] spell at the Department of Mysteries.
* Snape's responses to Umbridge. ''All'' of them, but especially, "...No idea."
* You can't forget:
-->'''Umbridge:''' You first applied for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post. Is that correct?\\
'''Snape:''' Yes...\\
'''Umbridge:''' But you were... unsuccessful?\\
'''Snape:''' ''(with unbelievable sarcasm)'' Obviously.
* Luna's CMOA from ''Order'': during the fight in the Department of Mysteries, Luna (already bleeding from her lip) is confronted by a Death Eater flying towards her from a great height. The camera shows her from the Death Eater's POV as she looks up at him placidly, pulls out her wand and (with an expression of mild curiosity on her face) hits him with a Full-Body Bind curse that's so powerful ''it blasts him backwards into a shelf of prophecies''. Now, ''imagine what she could do if she was angry...''
* This exchange:
-->'''Bellatrix:''' Neville Longbottom, is it? How's Mum and Dad?\\
'''Neville:''' Better, now that they're about to be avenged." ''(pulls out wand)''
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* After a Quidditch match against Slytherin, Malfoy is being a poor sport and throwing his usual insults at the Weasleys and Harry. Harry is ushering the twins (Fred and George) away when Malfoy drops the [[BerserkButton bombshell]]: he insults Harry's '''deceased''' mother. A 3-on-1 [[CurbstompBattle brawl]] begins. Needless to say, it ended awesomely for the twins and Harry, despite the fact that Umbridge punished them.
** Two-on-one: Fred was being restrained by ''three people'' and later regrets not having been able to contribute.
* The IronicEcho of "Weasley is our King."
* The twins leaving Hogwarts.
* Peeves trying to invoke FallingChandelierOfDoom on Umbridge. Granted, it didn't work, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
* After a Quidditch match against Slytherin, Malfoy is being a poor sport and throwing his usual insults at the Weasleys and Harry. Harry is ushering the twins (Fred and George) away when Malfoy drops the [[BerserkButton bombshell]]: he insults Harry's '''deceased''' mother. A 3-on-1 [[CurbstompBattle brawl]] begins. Needless to say, it ended awesomely for the twins and Harry, despite the fact that Umbridge punished them.
** Two-on-one: Fred was being restrained by ''three people'' and later regrets not having been able to contribute.
* The IronicEcho of "Weasley is our King."
* The twins leaving Hogwarts.
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* After a Quidditch match against Slytherin, Malfoy is being a poor sport and throwing his usual insults at the Weasleys and Harry. Harry is ushering the twins (Fred and George) away when Malfoy drops the [[BerserkButton bombshell]]: he insults Harry's '''deceased''' mother. A 3-on-1 [[CurbstompBattle brawl]] begins. Needless to say, it ended awesomely for the twins and Harry, despite the fact that Umbridge punished them.
** Two-on-one: Fred was being restrained by ''three people'' and later regrets not having been able to contribute.
* The IronicEcho of "Weasley is our King."
* The twins leaving Hogwarts.
* Peeves trying to invoke FallingChandelierOfDoom on Umbridge. Granted, it didn't work, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
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