I thought I had already wrote this post, but I guess I didn’t! I finished The Order of the Phoenix a month ago and I forgot how much information was jammed into the book. Most of it is filler information to help string together the story that the movie removes. I thought the Order of the Phoenix would be a pain to read due to it’s length, but it was more enjoyable than I remember despite Umbridge being a main character. Here is everything I forgot from the Order of the Phoenix

• Poor Dudley puked on the floor from the Dementor encounter.
• Aunt Petunia knew what Dementors were.
• Uncle Vernon recognizes Lore Voldemort’s name and how he was gone. When Harry tells Vernon that Voldemort is back, Vernon actually looks scared. He should be.
• “Remember My Last Petunia.” That was a great howler.
• Eight or Nine people show up to “rescue” Harry from the Dursley’s.
• Tonks sent out a letter to the Dursley’s saying they won, “best kept lawn.” The Dursley’s are cashing in on their prize leaving Harry home alone.
• Elphias Doge, Dedalus Diggle, Emmeline Vance, Sturgis Podmore and Hestia Jones are all witches and wizards who show up to escort Harry out of the Dursley’s home.
• Tonks got top marks as an Auror for her being able to change her appearance. It was the “conceal & disguise” test as an Auror. She just passed this test recently.
• Metamorphmagus are born, not made. Very rare.
• Harry became “disillusioned” when he flew to 12 Grimmauld Place. This meant Harry became a human chameleon.
• Percy was hired up into the Ministry to act as a spy for Arthur since Arthur is working with Dumbledore. This is punishment for Percy because he couldn’t see that Barty Crouch was under the Imperius Curse. Percy moves out from the Weasley’s home and doesn’t speak to his family.
• Evanesco makes things disappear. Used on the Order of the Phoenix’s plans to make them disappear, so Harry couldn’t see them.
• Sirius is stuck in Grimmauld Place because Wormtail revealed Voldemort’s return and told the Ministry of Sirius being an animagus. They ministry would be looking for a Black Dog wandering around.
• Sirius and Molly debate surrounding whether Harry should know what the Order is discussing. Molly says Sirius isn’t a great role model and wants to protect Harry. Sirius reminds Molly that Harry isn’t her biological son.
• Molly makes a good point. Harry isn’t an adult. He is only 15 years old. Being older reading this book, Sirius does come across as a bit immature.
• Kingsley Shacklebolt has been feeding false information to the Ministry such as strange places Sirius Black has been spotted.
• Dumbledore’s been demoted from Chief Warlock on the Wizengamot because of his announcement of Voldemort’s return. They also debated taking away his Order of Merlin, First Class.
• Didn’t know “breakfasted” was a word. Harry and his friends “breakfasted” rather quickly. Page 101
• Buckbeak is hiding out at 12 Grimmauld Place upstairs in Sirius’s mom’s bedroom.
• Sirius was a disappointment to his mom “broke her heart”. According to Kreacher.
• Sirius can’t “release” Kreacher because he knows too much about the Order.
• Sirius’s Uncle Alphard left him gold. Helped him get his own place at age 17 and allowed him to escape his insufferable family.
• Sirius’s family suffered from “pure-blood mania” where they wouldn’t look at a person who wasn’t “pure-blood.” The Black family thought they were royalty.
• Regulus became a Death Eater (first mention of his brother) and was killed by Voldemort (we find out that’s not entirely accurate).
• Sirius’s family originally supported Voldemort’s ideology. Once they realized what Voldemort would do to get that power, his family started to fear him.
• Nigellus was Sirius Black’s great-great- grandfather who was the most hated head master at Hogwarts.
• Araminta Meliflua was a relative who wanted Muggle Hunting legalized.
• Aunt Elladora would behead her house elves when they couldn’t lift tea anymore.
• Tonks is related to Sirius and she’s also a half blood, her mom being a witch and her dad being a muggle named Ted.
• Sirius is technically related to the Weasley’s and Draco Malfoy.
• Sirius yells at Harry when Harry said Sirius didn’t mention he was related to Bellatrix.
• 12 Grimmauld Place is unplottable (mentioned in the Goblet of Fire) can’t be located on a map.
• Kreacher actually cried when Sirius threw out a golden ring with the family crest on it.
• Dumbledore ordered Sirius to stay at the Order while Harry went to his trial [much to Sirius’s chagrin]
• Sirius seems angrier in the book than the movie. Being stuck in his house and not being able to go outside is taking a toll on him.
• Harry and Mr. Weasley entered through a red telephone booth, I can’t remember if that happened in the movie or not.
• Harry is on level #2 in the Ministry of Magic, that’s one of the top floors I believe. In the movie, it makes it seem like Harry is going underground.
• Harry enters the same courtroom used in Dumbledore’s memories with Barty Crouch Jr.
• Fudge keeps saying he, “wants this over with.” Meaning Fudge wants to quickly expel Harry because of what he’s been saying about Voldemort’s return. That’s really gross.
• Harry donates his galleons to Mungo’s after being cleared of all charges.
• Hermione makes a comment about how Sirius isn’t sure if Harry is Harry or James. Imagine how Sirius must feel. His best friend is murdered, he’s imprisoned wrongly and he sees his best friend’s son who looks exactly like him. That much be tough for him.
• Ron becomes a prefect and Mrs. Weasley is so excited.
• Harry felt he should have gotten the prefect badge because of everything he’s done. For once, Ron has beaten Harry in something and it makes Harry say some awful comments. This is definitely a toxic side to Harry.
• Lupin was the prefect when James and Sirius were in school.
• Moody gives Harry the picture of the original Order of the Phoenix.
• Marlene McKinnon is a witch in the picture and her whole family was murdered two weeks after the picture was taken
• Benjy Fenwick is a wizard in the Order of the Phoenix who was also killed after the photo was taken.
• Edgar Bones was also killed after the photo was taken.
• Caradoc Dearborn vanished 6 months later never to be seen again
• Hagrid was also in the Order of the Phoenix
• It took 5 Death Eaters to kill Gideon Prewett and his brother Fabian
• Aberforth Dumbledore was also in the Order of the Phoenix
• Dorcas Meadowes was murdered by Voldemort himself
• Harry found the photograph to be disturbing and after Moody shows it to Harry, he runs off. Their happy faces in the picture without knowing their demise. I feel for Harry as I would probably be disturbed looking at this photograph as well
• Molly seeing her dead family members as her boggart was really sad.
• Seeing the photograph, Harry was forced to grow up. This is what Molly was referring to, he is still a 15-year-old kid.
• Luna is a 4^{th year student}  I assumed she was in the same year as Harry, Ron and Hermione.
• Neville brings his mimbulus mimbletonia on the Hogwarts Express. It squirts dark green liquid that smells terrible. Poor Harry gets a face full of it.
• Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson are the prefects for Slytherin house.
• Ron and Hermione initially don’t know that Harry gave the twins his triwizard tournament money.
• Ron wants to be an auror!
• Draught of Peace is a potion that’s supposed to decrease anxiety. It’s super complicated to make.
• Ron and Hermione call Harry out for his rude behavior. [Harry is constantly yelling at Ron and Hermione]
• I can sympathize with Harry. He’s sent to McGonagall’s office and she tells him to keep his temper under control.
• Bowtruckles are taught in their lesson.
• Hermione is initially super rude to Luna and Harry puts her in her place.
• Sturgis Podmore (member of the Order of the Phoenix & who picked up Harry in the beginning) was arrested and sentenced to Azkaban for 6 months. He was convicted of stealing from the Ministry of Magic. Was this a lure by the Ministry to take down allies of Dumbledore?
• Fred & George accidentally gave Katie Bell a blood blisterpod and now she has to go to the hospital wing.
• Percy writes to Ron letting him know he should cut ties with Harry. What an idiot.
• Umbridge is proposing policies to discriminate against werewolves and mer-people. It’s also made it difficult for Remus to get a job.
• Sirius made a comment “you’re less like your father than I thought.” As far as Sirius risking his safety to see Harry. It’s not Harry’s responsibility to be exactly like his father. That’s an unfair statement for Sirius to make.
• Hog’s Head is where Harry meets the soon to be members of Dumbledore’s Army. It’s also the same place where Hagrid won Norbert.
• The people who showed up were. . .
  • Neville
  • Dean Thomas
  • Lavender Brown
  • Parvati and Padma Patil
  • Cho & one of her friends
  • Luna
  • Katie Bell
  • Alicia Spinnet
  • Angelina Johnson
  • Colin Creevy & his brother Dennis
  • Ernie Macmillian
  • Justin Finch Fletchley
  • Hannah Abbott
  • Random Ravenclaw students
  • Fred & George Weasley
  • Lee Jordan
  • Ginny Weasley
• Foreshadowing! Cho’s friend shows up and she doesn’t look happy to be there. This is the same friend who rats out Dumbledore’s army to Umbridge
• Susan Bones, a Hufflepuff student who’s aunt served on Harry’s trial also showed up to Hog’s Head
• Random fact: if a boy goes up to the girl’s dormitory, the stairs turn into a slide.
• Umbridge rule of “no clubs.” Also includes Quidditch. The Gryffindor team had to reapply to be able to play Quidditch. What an evil person.
• Sirius finds out about Dumbledore’s Army from Mundungus who was in the Hog’s Head listening and following Harry. Sirius feels a sense of pride with Harry acting more like James.
• Sirius contacts Harry through the flames and Umbridge’s hand arises from the ashes to squish out the flames. Another reason why she sucks.
• Dobby is the one who tells Harry about the Room of Requirement in the book.
• Dumbledore’s Army completes their first lesson on practicing expellarimus.
• Hermione gives all the members of the Army a coin that’s been put under the Protean Charm. Any time Harry changes the meeting, the coins grow hot and change to the date on the other member’s coins. That’s awesome.
• Crabbe & Goyle are Slytherin Beater’s this year.
• Harry beats Malfoy AGAIN in Quidditch. Unfortunately, Ron let in most of the goals as Keeper.
• Umbridge gives Harry and George a lifetime ban from playing Quidditch after Fred & George pummel Malfoy after he throws insults about their mom.
• Hagrid goes to find the giants with Madame Maxine unlike in the movie it appears he goes by himself.
• Hagrid was negotiating with a giant named Karkus except he was killed by another giant named Golgomath. Gologomath was the giant who injured Hagrid. Hagrid saw Death Eater’s approaching the giants.
• Hagrid teaches about thestrals in his first lesson back at Hogwarts. Meanwhile, Umbridge is super racist and rudely asks students if they can hear him because he’s a giant.
• Umbridge announces that thestrals are classified by the Ministry as dangerous. The Ministry of Magic is a corrupt government society.
• Dobby decorated the Room of Requirement for Christmas, how cute.
• Ginny replaces Harry as the Gryffindor seeker.
• Dumbledore’s headmaster portraits are displayed in other areas, so they can go to and from the Ministry and St. Mungo’s as needed.
• Dumbledore starts ordering Phineas to send a message to the Order. This is the same Phineas that’s related to Sirius Black who was also one of the worst Headmaster’s in Hogwart’s history.
• Immediately after meeting with Dumbledore, Harry & the Weasley’s use a portkey to go back to Grimmauld Place. McGonagall has to distract Umbridge from finding out the boys were walking around Hogwarts late at night.
• There’s an argument about whether or not the Weasley kids can go see their father. The Order doesn’t want the Ministry to know Harry is having visions. It would look rather suspicious if they showed up to the hospital without anyone telling them about Arthur’s attack.
• Mungo’s is disguised as a red brick building titled Purge and Dowse LtD.
• The logo of St. Mungo’s was a wand and a bone crossed together.
• Dilys Derwint was a former healer (not doctor) and she was one of the headmaster portraits in Dumbledore’s office.
• The floors of St. Mungo’s are as follows:
  • Ground Floor – Artifact Accidents (wand backfiring, broom crashes)
  • First Floor – Creature Induced Injuries
  • Second Floor – Magical Bugs (Dragon Pox or Scrofungulus)
  • Third Floor – Potions (rashes, uncontrollable giggling)
  • Fourth Floor – Spell Damage (jinxes, hexes etc.)
  • Fifth Floor – Visitor’s Tea Room and Hospital Gift Shop
• Arthur says every time they take off his bandages, he keeps bleeding. Must be with the snake’s poison that’s preventing him from being able to stop the bleeding.
• Next to Arthur is a man who was bitten by a werewolf and there’s no cure for that.
• Harry thinks about leaving Grimmauld Place after hearing about how he could be possessed by Voldemort.
• Phineas Nigellus tells Harry a message from Dumbledore instructing him not to leave Grimmauld Place.
• Ginny is much better in the books than the movies. Ginny reminds Harry she knows what it’s like to be possessed by Voldemort. Ginny couldn’t remember where she was when she was possessed by Voldemort. Since Harry has been in control of his thoughts, it’s clear he isn’t being possessed.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny see Professor Lockhart and the healer accompanying him is impressed he has “visitors.” Apparently no one has visited Lockhart since being admitted to St. Mungo’s.
• I forgot how terrible Neville’s grandmother is. She says how Neville doesn’t have his father’s talents.
• Neville’s grandmother accuses Neville of being ashamed of his parents. She proceeds to tell the group how they were Aurors and they were tortured.
• Alice Longbottom gives Neville one of her bubblegum wrappers to which Neville sadly puts the wrapper in his pocket.
• Sirius and Snape have a huge fight which leads to Sirius pulling out his wand and Harry getting in the middle. It’s rather immature that a fifteen-year-old boy has to get between them.
• Legilimency is the ability to extract feelings and memories from another person’s mind. Occlumency helps protect someone from that.
• Being skilled in legilimency doesn’t mean someone can read minds, but rather know if someone is lying to them.
• Someone usually has to make eye contact with them in order to use Legilimency.
• Hogwarts has protections that protect student’s minds from outside sources.
• Resisting Legilimency is similar to resisting the Imperious Curse.
• The spell is Legilimens.
• Harry starts randomly laughing as he is on his way to his bed. It’s because Voldemort is really happy and it caused Harry to feel that way too.
• There was the murder of Broderick Bode. He was injured at the Department of Mysteries, someone delivered him Devi’s Snare to his bedside where it strangled him. Harry met him talking to Arthur Weasley and Ron remembers his dad talking about him.
• The prisoners breaking out of Azkaban has swayed how people view Harry’s story of Voldemort’s return. The Ministry seems unorganized with how they are dealing with the prison break out.
• The breakout motivates Neville to improve on his spells. He is the one who learns the spells the quickest aside from Hermione.
• Wood was recruited into professional Quidditch by Puddlemore United.
• Cho always wants to talk about Cedric and she asks Harry about whether he asked about her before he died.
• Hermione writes to Rita Skeeter and brings Luna with her. They plan on writing Harry’s side of the story in the Quibbler (I forgot about that.)
• Ginny would steal Fred and George’s brooms when she was six.
• Ginny caught the snitch in their game against Hufflepuff, but they still lost because Ron let in so many goals. Angelina was hit in the mouth with a bludger.
• Harry in the Quibbler article named Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle’s father’s as current Death Eaters.
• Bode (the man who was murdered from St. Mungo’s was under the Imperious Curse by Lucius Malfoy (I believe he learns this from a dream by Voldemort)
• Dumbledore hires Firenze, a centaur, to replace Trelawny after she’s sacked by Umbridge.
• Dobby warns Harry that Umbridge knows about Dumbledore’s Army. In the book, only Harry is caught instead of the whole DA.
• Marietta was the snitch and she was horribly disfigured from these purple pus filled blemishes on her skin.
• Umbridge grabs Marietta and shakes her which prompts Dumbledore to pull out his wand. Go Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore gloating Fudge “I could break out, of course, but what a waste of time.” This is a reference to being put away in Azkaban.
• I wish in the movie they kept the part where Dumbledore hexed Fudge and Umbridge.
• Umbridge invites Harry up to her office to ask about Sirius Black. She makes it very clear he knows where he is.
• Harry makes it clear to Cho that he doesn’t have any sympathy for Marietta and what Hermione did was justified.
• When James Potter curses Snape, Snape cursed back at James causing a huge gash to leak with blood.
• James says he will stop bullying Snape if Lily goes out with him (which is really gross manipulation).
• Snape calls Lily a mudblood after she defends him.
• Harry uses Umbridge’s floo powder fire place after Fred and George cause a distraction. This allows Harry to talk to Sirius and Lupin about his father.
• Lily dated James in their seventh year.
• Both Lupin and Sirius are upset that Snape discontinued Occlumency lessons.
• Fred and George were going to be whipped by Umbridge and this was the moment they leave school (not during exams like in the movie.)
• OMG someone let a hairy sprouted Niffler into Umbridge’s office where it tried to eat her rings.
• Students would use Fred and George’s stuff to vomit to get out of Umbridge’s classroom.
• Peeves even starts wreaking havoc and the professors do nothing to stop him.
• Harry (after Fred and George leave Hogwarts) admits to Ron and Hermione he gave them the gold to open the shop.
• During the Quidditch match with Ravenclaw vs. Gryffindor is when Hagrid allows Harry and Hermione to meet Grawp.
• Umbridge thinks Hagrid put the Niffler in her office (which he didn’t).
• Hagrid ended up saving Firenze’s life from the other centaurs, therefore he is not welcomed in the Forbidden Forest.
• Ron won the Gryffindor Quidditch Cup in their fifth year.
• A second niffler was let into Umbridge’s office, lovely.
• While taking their astronomy exam, Umbridge brings people to Hagrid’s cabin where they attempt to hex him. They also hex Fang. When McGonagall comes to Hagrid’s aid, they hex her too.
• A Giant’s blood makes it tough to stun them.
• Lee Jordan admits he was the one who put the Niffler’s in Umbridge’s office (not Hagrid). He admits it because he felt bad that Hagrid took the fall for that.
• After Harry’s first Sirius dream, he tries to find Professor McGonagall, but she is at St. Mungo’s recovering from the stunning spells she received trying to come to Hagrid’s aid.
• Before they go to the Department of Mysteries, they attempt to contact Sirius in Umbridge’s office.
• When they get in trouble in the book, it’s because Harry tries to contact Sirius. In the movie, it’s when they are all caught after their Dumbledore’s Army meeting.
• Umbridge puts Snape on probation because he doesn’t have any more veritaserum.
• Umbridge called the Dementor’s to Harry’s place at the Dursley’s
• Incarcerous is the spell Umbridge uses to tie up one of the centaurs. As an added slap in the face, they break her wand too.
• In the book, Grawp rescues Harry and Hermione from the centaurs, not from Umbridge. In the book, Grawp is injured as one of his blood droplets drops on Harry.
• The thestrals come to their aid because they smell the giant blood off of Harry and partially on Hermione.
• When the group enters the Ministry of Magic, there was no security person to scan their wands.
• When they enter the Department of Mysteries, the doors rotate, so they have no idea which door they entered from.
• In one room they find a tank filled with brains (becomes important later).
• Harry discovers the arch way in a pit similar to an amphitheater. This is where one of the main battles takes place.
• The Death Eaters who come to the Department of Mysteries include:
  • Nott * stunned by Hermione early on in the battle*
  • Jugson
  • Bellatrix – Tortures Neville, Stuns Tonks, Kills Sirius, Injures Kingsley later escapes with Voldemort.
  • Rodolphus
  • Crabbe
  • Rabastian
  • Dolohov – injuries Hermione, Hermione also removes his speech, so they can’t give away their position. Also kicks Neville in the face and breaks his wand. Stunned by Harry. Revives himself, injures Moody causing his eye to roll around in the amphitheater with the arch. Sirius begins dueling with Dolohov after he tries yet again to go after Harry.
  • MacNair – attempts to strangle Harry. Poked in the eye by Neville where Harry is able to stun him.
  • Avery
  • Rookwood
  • Mulciber
  • Lucius Malfoy – attempts to steal the prophecy from Harry, is stunned by Harry and duels with Lupin.
• One unnamed Death Eater was stunned by Harry.
• There’s a Death Eater who puts his head in a jar and it turns into a baby’s head. This Death Eater is also unnamed.
• Dolohov releases purple flame across Hermione’s chest which causes her to fall unconscious.
• Neville’s wand that broke (caused by Dolohov) was his father’s old wand. To be fair, his dad would be so proud that Neville came to the Department of Mysteries and he partook in a battle that his father started.
• The room with time was where all the Time Turners are kept.
• Ron was hit with a curse that makes him laugh whereas Ginny’s ankle is broken after Luna uses a curse nearby her.
• Luna was hit with a stunning spell after trying to seal the doors they’re in.
• Ginny shouts a warning to Harry, but is stunned immediately after.
• Harry trips and falls into the room with the arch.
• Neville tries to come to his aid, but he’s tortured by Bellatrix with the Cruciatius Curse. This is so infuriating to me.
• As Harry begins to hand over the prophecy to Malfoy, this is when the Order shows up.
• Lucius Malfoy attempts to steal the prophecy from Harry, but after throwing the prophecy to Neville, stuns Lucius.
• Lupin jumps in between them to duel with Lucius.
• The prophecy finally breaks after Neville drops it as they try to escape.
• Dumbledore arrives looking “white and furious.” Dumbledore is mad as hell and I’m here for it.
• Sirius is killed when he battles Bellatrix after making fun of her. His death scene in the book is more quick than I expected. I thought I would be more emotional reading about it, but honestly, I was angrier at Bellatrix and what she is capable of with dark magic.
• Kingsley continues to duel with Bellatrix.
• Dumbledore groups the other Death Eaters with white ropes.
• As Harry is dueling Bellatrix, Harry taunts her about the prophecy breaking and how Voldemort will be angry. Bellatrix begs for Voldemort not to punish her.
• As Voldemort attempts to kill Harry, the statue in the fountain springs to life and wraps itself around Harry and drags him away from the battle.
• One statue goes after Bellatrix and pins her to the floor.
• Fawkes comes to Dumbledore’s aid and swallows one of Voldemort’s kill spells killing the phoenix.
• Portus is the spell used to create a portkey
• The real reason Dumbledore didn’t speak to Harry was his fear of Voldemort using Harry to spy on him.
• Kreacher lied to Harry about Sirius being at home when he originally contacted him. Kreacher purposefully injured Buckbeak which caused Sirius to come to his aid. Kreacher left after Sirius told him to “get out” during the Holiday break. There he traveled to Narcissa Malfoy’s home where he revealed how Harry would do anything to protect Sirius if he were to be “in danger.”
• Snape became worried when Harry and Hermione didn’t come back to the school, so he called the Order. Snape knew about Sirius being at the Department of Mysteries because Harry had told Snape earlier.
• The reason Harry is protected at the Dursley’s is because of his Aunt Petunia’s blood bound to Lily. This is the same magic that protected Harry from Voldemort as a baby.
• Hermione had to take ten different potions to recover from Dolohov’s magic.
• Dumbledore rescues Umbridge by himself from the centaurs.
• Towards the end of the book, Moody, Tonks, Lupin and Mr. Weasley basically threaten the Dursley’s to take care of Harry this summer. Moody even shows them his eye to properly scare them. What a way to end the book.

As I mentioned the Order of the Phoenix has many details that are important to the story, but are left out of the movie. For example, when Harry has his dream with Sirius in the Department of Mysteries, he tries to go to McGonagall, except she’s hexed by Umbridge and is in St. Mungo’s. Harry can’t go to Dumbledore as he’s been banished. Harry even uses floo powder to go to Sirius at 12 Grimmauld Place, except he can’t find him before he’s caught by Umbridge. Harry isn’t as impulsive as the movie would make it seem.

Another point I wanted to make about the Order of the Phoenix is the deterioration of Sirius Black’s mental health. Sirius wants Harry to be like James that it’s become unhealthy. Molly is right when she argues with Sirius especially about whether to give Harry the original “Order of the Phoenix” photograph. Harry becomes revolted as Moody reveals that many of those members were murdered shortly thereafter. Harry is only fifteen years old, he’s still a child. 

The Order of the Phoenix is one of my least favorite books because of Umbridge’s presence. She’s one of the worst book villains I have ever read about. I’m glad I can move on from her “teachings” and read my favorite Harry Potter book and that’s The Half Blood Prince.