History Fridge / HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix

** At first we think it's his worst memory because of the Marauders humiliating him in front of the all students. [[spoiler:It's actually because it's the day his pride cost him the girl he loved.]]

* Snape says "The Dark Lord almost always knows when someone is lying to him". He says "almost" because [[spoiler: Snape himself had been doing so for years to keep his cover of being a double agent]].

* Snape says "The Dark Lord almost always knows when someone is lying to him". He says "almost" because [[spoiler: Snape himself had been doing so for years to keep his cover of being a double agent.

** Alternatively, Umbridge's passing the law could have been the impetus for Dumbledore reaching out to Lupin, and then at the end of the year, Snape lets the cat out of the bag, thus not only ruining one of the very few chances for Lupin to have a stable job, but also making it that much harder for Lupin to find a job in future. Sure, "bravest man I've ever known."

* Voldemort laid a curse on the school that no teacher would teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, the job he was refused, for more than a year. Harry and his classes were no exception.

* According to Sirius, Umbridge sponsored some anti-werewolf legislation "two years ago," making it almost impossible for Lupin, and presumably other werewolves, to find jobs. Now, assuming that Sirius is rounding, what happened about two years before? Snape outed Lupin as a werewolf to the entire British Wizarding World. In other words, ''Snape is directly responsible for making the lives of every werewolf in Britain miserable, just to get petty revenge.''

** Movie Dumbledore seems to have planned that, too. Voldemort has a major tactical advantage in that only a few people will even acknowledge that he's back, with the Ministry and the Daily Prophet running interference for him (inadvertently). We're meant to think Dumbledore's line of "It was foolish of you to come here tonight, Tom" was meant to be a PreAssKickingOneLiner, but he could just as easily be referring to the fact that by coming out of hiding, Voldemort forfeited that advantage.
* Among the students whom showed up in the Hog's Head to become Dumbledore's Army, one of them was Dennis Creevey, who was in his second year at Hogwarts. Yet Hogsmeade visits are only allowed for students in the third year and up, so he would not be allowed to go. That is, unless he used one of the secret passageways, which Hermione and possibly Fred and George probably would have let him know about so he can meet up.

* During Harry's trial before the Wizengamot, Mrs. Figg is brought as a witness and describes the effects of the dementor attack, mentioning that they made her remember "dreadful things". One of them was most likely the day she learned that she was a Squib and would never be able to perform magic or attend Hogwarts. Also equally possible, she is known as 'Mrs.' Figg, signaling that she is - or at least was at one time - married. [[WidowWoman She now has several cats to keep her company, and nowhere in the story is a Mr. Figg ever mentioned...]]

* It's hard to feel sorry for Janus Thickey, who earned himself his woes. He's famous for pretending to have been eaten by a Lethifold so he could run off with his mistress, abandoning his wife and children. But the fact remains that in a hospital whose wards are named for high-profile patients, a ''long-term inpatient ward where most of the patients have spell-induced brain damage or other memory issues'' bears his name.

* Dolores Umbridge's eventual comeuppance at the hands of the centaurs. In their original mythology, centaurs were notorious rapists. When Dumbledore rescues her a few days later, she doesn't show any signs of physical injury, but she's temporarily catatonic from whatever she endured and panics at the sound of hoofbeats.