Resumo de Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoneix [part A]

After a fight with his aunt and uncle, Harry wanders about Little Whinging. He, and also his obnoxious cousin Dudley, are attacked by Dementors. Harry fends them off with a Patronus Charm, but Dudley is hurt. A neighbour, Arabella Figg, arrives to help. She reveals she is a squib (born to a magical family but is unmagical herself) and was asked by Albus Dumbledore to secretly watch over Harry when he came to live with the Durseleys. Back home, Harry receives an owl letter stating he has been expelled from Hogwarts for performing magic outside school and is ordered to appear at a Ministry of Magic hearing.Several Order of the Phoenix members arrive to escort Harry to their secret headquarters at the Black Family home, 12 Grimmauld Place in London. The Weasleys, Hermione, and Harry?s godfather Sirius Black are there. Harry is upset when he is denied detailed information regarding the Order's plans to fight Lord Voldemort, but he learns that Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge refuses to believe the Dark Lord has returned and has been discrediting Harry and Dumbledore through articles in The Daily Prophet.Arthur Weasley accompanies Harry to the hearing, but they arrive late, deliberately uninformed that the time and location were changed. Dumbledore arrives with Mrs. Figg, whose testimony that Harry acted in self-defense clears him. As he leaves the Ministry, Harry sees Lucius Malfoy, a known Death Eater, visiting Fudge.Harry and friends return to Hogwarts aboard the Hogwarts Express, sharing a compartment with the rather unusual Luna Lovegood. Back at Hogwarts, Hagrid is absent, and Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister, has been appointed by the Ministry as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. She is obviously there to spy on and take control of the school and refuses to teach students practical Defense Against the Dark Arts methods. She is soon appointed High Inquisitor, intimidating staff and students. She also harbors an immense dislike for half-breeds, Centaurs, and similar creatures.Ron is the new Keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The season starts well, but Umbridge bans Harry and Fred and George Weasley from the team. Ron's younger sister, Ginny, replaces Harry as the new seeker. Meanwhile, Hagrid returns to Hogwarts, revealing that he and Madam Maxine were on a failed secret mission for Dumbledore to recruit the giants against Voldemort. Hagrid's battered appearance alarms Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who discover Hagrid is hiding his giant (and still wild) half-brother, Grawp in the forest. Further complicating matters, both Hagrid and Professor Sybill Trelawney are heavily scrutinized by Umbridge, who views both incompetent. Umbridge's dislike for Hagrid is intensified by her prejudice towards "half-breeds" (Hagrid is half-giant). Umbridge sacks Trelawney, but Dumbledore allows her to remain in residence and replaces her with his own appointment, the centaur, Firenze.Harry starts having strange dreams, mostly about running down a hallway and attempting to open a door in the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries. In one nightmare, he dreams he is a snake attacking Ron's father, Arthur Weasley, who works at the Ministry. Waking up, Harry raises the alarm, believing he had a true vision, and Arthur is indeed discovered with venonmous snake bites. Harry wonders if he is being possessed and transported by Voldemort to do his bidding, but Dumbledore reassures him he is not. Dumbledore asks Severus Snape to give Harry lessons in the art of Occlumency, the ability to block one's mind from another.Threatening to expose her as an illegal animagus, Hermione blackmails hack journalist Rita Skeeter into writing an article about Harry and Voldemort's return. Luna Lovegood's father publishes the article in his newspaper The Quibbler. Furious, Umbridge bans the tabloid at the school, but the story spreads rapidly, garnering support for Harry.Hermione convinces Harry to secretly teats Defense Against the Dark Arts. They form the D.A. (Defense Association), but this eventually becomes Dumbledore's Army in retaliation against Umbridge. She discovers the secret meetings, and to protect the students, Dumbledore claims he organized the group. When confronted by two Ministry Aurors, Fudge, and Umbridge, Dumbledore spectacularly disapparates. Umbridge appoints herself Headmistress, although Dumbledore's office is now impenetrable. Meanwhile, the Weasley twins instigate a student revolt, causing mayhem throughout the school. The teachers pointedly do nothing to help the new Headmistress regain control. Fed up, the twins hop on their brooms, leaving the school for good to start their own joke shop. As a parting gesture, they leave a magical swamp inside the school.Harry receives a vision that Sirius is being tortured at the Department of Mysteries. He desperately attempts to contact Sirius via the fireplace in Umbridge's office but is caught. Umbridge reveals it was she who sent the Dementors to attack Harry during the summer. As she is about to use an Unforgivable Curse on him, Hermione tells her that Dumbledore has hidden a powerful weapon in the woods. In the forest, they come upon the centaurs, who Umbridge foolishly insults. Enraged, one carries her off screaming. The other centaurs are about to attack the students, but Hagrid's giant brother, Grawp, crashes onto the scene, scattering the herd.

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