She is really a mole from the Ministry of Magic, which is in a state of denial about Voldemort's return and determined to get rid of Headmaster Dumbledore. She is supposed to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. That High Inquisitor? Her name is Dolores Umbridge. And the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts has banned him from ever again playing Quidditch.īut the boombox terrors of childhood and adolescence are as pips and squeaks compared with the thunderous corruptions of adult power and adult greed. His first kiss can only be described as ''wet.'' He learns things he'd prefer not to know about his dead father. The daily wizard paper keeps insinuating that he's a ''lying weirdo.'' Hermione wonders if maybe he loves playing the hero a bit too much. levels, he's not getting enough shut-eye. Between dreams of serpents and anxieties about his O.W.L. Imagine being tried by a criminal court for under-age magic. He is 15 years old, and so naturally he feels sullen, resentful, self-pitying, whispered about and put upon. While the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters are out to destroy Our Gang, another part of Harry's problem is hormonal. Still, ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' is an angry book, a lamentation and a thanatopsis, a ''Song of Roland'' and an ''Epic of Gilgamesh,'' with the usual chorus of doxies, puffskins, bowtruckles, spattergroits and thestrals, not to mention a crumple-horned snorkack.

Its nine golden hands, rather than pointing at numerals, stopped instead to suggest a location where each of Ron Weasley's family members might be found: '' 'Home,' 'school' and 'work' were there, but there was also 'lost,' 'hospital,' 'prison' and, in the position where the number 12 would be on a normal clock, 'mortal peril.' '' Mortal peril! By the time this wonderful clock reappears in Book Five, the witching hour will have arrived for almost everybody we care about. We first met the Weasley whereabouts grandfather clock in Book Four of Potter's Progress.

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