What follows is a note from the Ministry of Magic, saying Harry has been expelled from school, due to practicing magic outside school premises. And then – one night, his cousin and he are attacked by Dementors, who he manages to drive away, using an advanced spell. Even worse, the letters he’s sent by his friends are superficial, with no real news about what’s going on. He subscribes to the newspaper, Daily Prophet, but the front page is always bland and doesn’t mention the return of Lord Voldemort at all. In Order of the Phoenix, Harry is stuck with his Muggle family, with no word from the wizarding world whatsoever. Harry battles him, and somehow manages to survive – again! He returns to Hogwarts, and breaks the news to everyone, before school ends for the summer holidays.
At the end of Goblet of Fire, The Dark Lord rises again, and his followers, the Death Eaters rush to serve him again. Order of the Phoenix takes off where Goblet of Fire ended, and the content of the book is much more mature, and significantly darker. Maybe reading the book helped with that, but, I was still impressed. What made the experience even better was, a couple of hours into the book, and I could actually pinpoint the voices, without having to wait for the “ Hermione said quietly“, or “ Harry groaned” which ends most of Rowling’s dialogues. My imagination was running wild with his narration, and I was totally floored. Stephen Fry narrated the story, and he did a marvellous job! He handled the emotions, the voices and the arias scenes incredibly, and actually brought J.K. Four times more for the audiobook? However, I did finish it in five days, and, I enjoyed every second of it. Needless to say, I was a tad bemused when I imported this to iTunes, and saw that the audio spanned twenty-eight hours. One of my friends insisted I hadn’t lived until I heard the Harry Potter audio books, and she proceeded to lend me six of the seven.
I’ve read the book thrice: when it first came out, before the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price, and of course, prior to the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, hitting the stores. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the popular Harry Potter series.