"Is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as good as the other Harry Potterbooks? No. This one is actually quite a bit better. The tone is darker, andthis has the unexpected -- but very pleasing -- effect of making Rowling's witand playful black humor shine all the brighter.... Will kids (and adults as well)still be wild about Harry 100 years from now, or 200? My best guess is thathe will indeed stand time's test and wind up on a shelf where only the best arekept; I think Harry will take his place with Alice, Huck, Frodo, and Dorothy,and this is one series not just for the decade, but for the ages."-- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

"J. K. Rowling is the real magician Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is rich and satisfying in almost every respect."-- lohn Leonard, The New York Times Book Review

There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it"s haunting Harry Potter"s dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?

Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale next to the growing threat ofHe-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-a threat that neither the magical government nor the authorities at Hogwarts can stop.

As the grasp of darkness tightens, Harry must discover the true depth and strength of his friend importance of boundless loyalty, and the shocking price of unbearable sacrifice.

His fate depends on them all.

Dudley Demented

A Peck of Owls

The Advance Guard

Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place

The Order of the Phoenix

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

The Ministry of Magic

The Hearing

The Woes of Mrs. Weasley

Luna Lovegood

The Sorting Hat"s New Song

Professor Umbridge

Detention with Dolores

Percy and Padfoot

The Hogwarts High Inquisitor

In the Hog"s Head

Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four

Dumbledore"s Army

The Lion and the Serpent

Hagrid"s Tale

The Eye of the Snake

St. Mungo"s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

Christmas on the Closed Ward

Occlumency

The Beetle at Bay

Seen and Unforeseen

The Centaur and the Sneak

Snape"s Worst Memory

Career Advice

Grawp

O.W.L.s

Out of the Fire

Fight and Flight

The Department of Mysteries

Beyond the Veil

The Only One He Ever Feared

The Lost Prophecy

The Second War Begins