History Awesome / HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix

** Dumbledore vs Voldemort need some elaboration: after their initial beam-o-war, every spell they unleash is essentially a counter to the other. Voldemort conjures a fire snake? Dumbledore traps him in a bubble of water. Voldemort shatters all the glass and flings the shards at Dumbledore? Dumbledore turns them into a fine powder with a shield spell. Whats more, there's no music so you focus entirely on the action.

* 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.

*** While the students were still cheering, when David Yates yelled "Cut! That's a wrap!", everyone explodes into celebration. Now that's a big finish.

* The fact that Harry was able to teach the DA members, some of them older than him, and do a pretty good job at it despite having had only 2 competent teachers (one of whom was not actually a teacher at all) teaching him before counts as one. And the fact that [[spoiler:his training really pays off for them in the next two books]].

* 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.

*** Which is mildly degraded by the fact that this (''very'' inadvertently) [[spoiler: led to Dumbledore's death.]]
*** But [[spoiler: Dumbledore would've died anyway due to wearing Gaunt's ring later that summer. So this actually gave Dumbledore a quick and painless way out, ''and'' prevented Voldemort from gaining full control of the Elder Wand, even if his plan didn't quite go right.]]

* 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]]. She also delivered a CurbStompBattle with Harry when he tries attacking her. 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, it took ''Dumbledore'' to defeat her.

* 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.]] So either he had his wand hidden up his sleeve, or he did an excellent Memory Charm, on the fly, ''wandlessly.''

** The fact that Harry [[spoiler:after noticed Kingsley's spell, is capable to recognize the effects of the Memory Charm in Marietta and links the two facts in about five seconds.]]

* An off-page one for [[BewareTheNiceOnes Lupin]], who is the only Order member bar [[BigGood Dumbledore]] to escape the battle in the Department of Mysteries unscathed, even taking down Lucius Malfoy relatively quickly in a duel. Bear in mind that this same battle ended with Tonks (a junior Auror) unconscious, Moody (a hugely experienced Auror) pretty much incapacitated, Kingsley (another experienced Auror) injured and [[spoiler: Sirius]] dead. Not bad for a [[BadassBookworm geeky]] [[CoolTeacher teacher]].

* Dumbledore is about to be arrested by Fudge, Umbridge and Kingsley... and down comes Fawkes. Dumbledore's hands grasp Fawkes's tail, Fawkes goes boom, and an enormous shockwave hits the room. Fawkes and Dumbledore are gone immediately. ''That'' was when you saw why Dumbledore had the rep he did; even his ''pets'' are dangerous.

** It gets better: the shock-wave slammed into everyone ''but'' Harry + Cho, ''and didn't affect anything else in the room.'' The level of control that would require is just as awesome, if not moreso, than the display of power itself.

** "''Give her hell from us, Peeves.''"

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* 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]]. She also delivered a KerbStompBattle with Harry when he tries attacking her. 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, it took ''Dumbledore'' to defeat her.

-->'''Umbridge:''' Something you'd like to say, dear?\\

* "None of them had seen [[GentleGiant Hagrid]] in a [[UnstoppableRage real temper]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes before...]]" 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 (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 KerbStompBattle 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 [[NoSell bouncing uselessly off him]] (which Hermione later explains is due to his giant's blood, giants being notoriously hard to Stun). [[DirtyCoward Umbridge]] is [[OhCrap freaking]] '''''[[VillainousBreakdown 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]].
-->'''Dawlish:''' "Be reasonable, Hagrid!"\\
'''Hagrid:''' "Reasonable be damned! Yeh'r not takin' me like this, Dawlish!"
** 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 KerbStompBattle in two seconds flat. He went in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge... then saw they weren't worth the trouble, picked up his dog and quietly left.

* Small one for Cho. When Filch is antagonizing Harry about a letter, trying to meddle in his private business, Cho backs him up - and in the audiobooks, Stephen Fry gives her a tone that's daring Filch to try anything

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*** What makes it even more awesome, is how the Cruciatus is used, it gets ''stronger'' the more you ''want'' to use it, and Bellatrix is a complete sadist, which would make her use of it a million times worse than anyone barring Voldemorts, a normal person would probably have said anything to make them stop.

* Honestly, Lily calling Snape "Snivellus" retroactively becomes this. Sure it's Snape's worst memory, but it shows Lily reaching her wit's end at sticking up for a boy who's been cruel to her sister, tries to control who she sees and hangs around with people who use dark magic on others for fun. She intervenes to stop James from bullying him...and the thanks she gets is to be called a slur by her best friend. She fires back with an epic "fuck you", and it's established she refuses to have anything to do with him.

* The one thing that ''each and every'' teacher agrees on: Umbridge must go.

* Hagrid also gets one earlier on when he saved Firenze from about a dozen centaurs in the woods. Though we don't get to see this, it really shows that you do not mess with Hagrid. Later on when Hagrid is in the woods with Harry and Hermione, the centaurs attempt to threaten them only for Hagrid to put them in their places. Though the centaurs let them off with a warning because he is with "foals" it's possible that they were simply too wary of Hagrid after the last time.

* After suffering {{Wimpification}} in the previous films, this one gave Ron his due.

** When Umbridge says she'll cast the Cruciatus Curse on Harry, Ron flips out and gives Umbridge a DeathGlare that tells her if he wasn't being restrained, she wouldn't be conscious.

*** And there are four assaulters. Remember how was it like when Harry is Crucio-ed? ''It was pain beyond anything Harry had ever experienced; his very bones were on fire; his head was surely splitting along his scar... he wanted it to end... to black out... to die.'' It is not written specifically but it is perfectly plausible that poor Frank and Alice suffered from [[ColdBloodedTorture multiple Crucios]] at the same time. Damn.

*** And there are four assaulters. Remember Harry's inner dialogue when he is being Cruio-ed: ''It was pain beyond anything Harry had ever experienced; his very bones were on fire; his head was surely splitting along his scar... he wanted it to end... to black out... to die.'' It is not written specifically but it is perfectly plausible that poor Frank and Alice suffered from [[ColdBloodedTorture multiple Crucios]] at the same time. Damn.

*** And there are four assaulters. Remember Harry's inner dialogue when he is being Cruio-ed: "It was pain beyond anything Harry had ever experienced; his very bones were on fire; his head was surely splitting along his scar... he wanted it to end... to black out... to die." It is not written specifically but it is perfectly plausible that poor Frank and Alice suffered from [[ColdBloodedTorture multiple Crucios]] at the same time. Damn.

* 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]]. She also delivered a CurbStompBattle with Harry when he tries attacking her. 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, it took ''Dumbledore'' to defeat her.

** Dumbledore vs. Voldemort. Here we have the two best wizards in the series dueling and showing Harry why exactly everyone shows such fear and awe towards them.

* "None of them had seen [[GentleGiant Hagrid]] in a [[UnstoppableRage real temper]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes before...]]" 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 (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 [[NoSell bouncing uselessly off him]] (which Hermione later explains is due to his giant's blood, giants being notoriously hard to Stun). [[DirtyCoward Umbridge]] is [[OhCrap freaking]] '''''[[VillainousBreakdown 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]].

** 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.

** It should be noted that he only "subdues" her for about two seconds. Once she gets up and starts getting serious Harry [[CurbStompBattle clearly finds himself outmatched]]. Still once he realizes how out of his league she is dueling wise he opts to taunt her by telling her the prophecy broke and that even if she kills him Voldemort will be furious with her for failing the mission. It works.

** Similarly, Harry and Sirius double-dueling with Lucius and Dolohov showcases how awesome our heroes are. Harry, whose only duels have been against [[HarmlessVillain Malfoy]] and [[BigBad Voldemort himself]], manages to hold his own just as well as the experienced duelists with decades more experience. Sirius, for his part, seems to be simply [[BloodKnight enjoying himself.]]

* While Mad-Eye Moody's magical ability is somewhat implied to have atrophied with age in the books (where he is defeated by Dolohov at the Department of Mysteries), he proves himself still formidable by instantly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] two Death Eaters by slamming his staff onto the ground, especially when the other members of the Order have more trouble with their opponents.

* 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]]. She also delivered a KerbStompBattle with Harry when he tries attacking her. 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, it took ''Dumbledore'' to defeat her.

** Dumbledore vs. Voldemort. Here we have the two best wizards in the series duelling and showing Harry why exactly everyone shows such fear and awe towards them.

* "None of them had seen [[GentleGiant Hagrid]] in a [[UnstoppableRage real temper]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes before...]]" 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 (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 KerbStompBattle 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 [[NoSell bouncing uselessly off him]] (which Hermione later explains is due to his giant's blood, giants being notoriously hard to Stun). [[DirtyCoward Umbridge]] is [[OhCrap freaking]] '''''[[VillainousBreakdown 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]].

** 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 KerbStompBattle in two seconds flat. He went in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge... then saw they weren't worth the trouble, picked up his dog and quietly left.

** It should be noted that he only "subdues" her for about two seconds. Once she gets up and starts getting serious Harry [[CurbStompBattle clearly finds himself outmatched]]. Still once he realizes how out of his league she is duelling wise he opts to taunt her by telling her the prophecy broke and that even if she kills him Voldemort will be furious with her for failing the mission. It works.

** Similarly, Harry and Sirius double-duelling with Lucius and Dolohov showcases how awesome our heroes are. Harry, whose only duels have been against [[HarmlessVillain Malfoy]] and [[BigBad Voldemort himself]], manages to hold his own just as well as the experienced duelists with decades more experience. Sirius, for his part, seems to be simply [[BloodKnight enjoying himself.]]

* While Mad-Eye Moody's magical ability is somewhat implied to have atrophied with age in the books (where he is defeated by Dolohov at the Department of Mysteries), he proves himself still formidable by instantly [[CurbStompBattle kerb-stomping]] two Death Eaters by slamming his staff onto the ground, especially when the other members of the Order have more trouble with their opponents.

** Dumbledore vs. Voldemort. Here we have the two best wizards in the series dueling and showing Harry why exactly everyone shows such fear and awe towards them.

** It should be noted that he only "subdues" her for about two seconds. Once she gets up and starts getting serious Harry [[CurbStompBattle clearly finds himself outmatched]]. Still once he realizes how out of his league she is dueling wise he opts to taunt her by telling her the prophecy broke and that even if she kills him Voldemort will be furious with her for failing the mission. It works.

** Similarly, Harry and Sirius double-dueling with Lucius and Dolohov showcases how awesome our heroes are. Harry, whose only duels have been against [[HarmlessVillain Malfoy]] and [[BigBad Voldemort himself]], manages to hold his own just as well as the experienced duelists with decades more experience. Sirius, for his part, seems to be simply [[BloodKnight enjoying himself.]]

* 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]]. She also delivered a CurbStompBattle with Harry when he tries attacking her. 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, it took ''Dumbledore'' to defeat her.

* "None of them had seen [[GentleGiant Hagrid]] in a [[UnstoppableRage real temper]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes before...]]" 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 (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 [[NoSell bouncing uselessly off him]] (which Hermione later explains is due to his giant's blood, giants being notoriously hard to Stun). [[DirtyCoward Umbridge]] is [[OhCrap freaking]] '''''[[VillainousBreakdown 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]].

** 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.

* While Mad-Eye Moody's magical ability is somewhat implied to have atrophied with age in the books (where he is defeated by Dolohov at the Department of Mysteries), he proves himself still formidable by instantly [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping]] two Death Eaters by slamming his staff onto the ground, especially when the other members of the Order have more trouble with their opponents.

** [=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 icy glare to Umbridge while standing in front of a sobbing Trelawney deserves a mention of its own.

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** As noted above, Dumbledore was barely even ''trying'' to win. If he'd really gone all-out, they probably would've been picking pieces of Voldemort out of the walls.

** Even more awesome. When Umbridge becomes Headmistress, the gargoyle protecting the headmaster's office refuse to let her in, which means that the castle itself refuses to acknowledge her as a headmistress. It's official, even Hogwarts building itself hate Umbridge.