
After being forced to defend himself from a unprovoked and inexplicable attack by two Dementors, Harry find himself on the verge of being expelled from Hogwarts for illegally using magic outside of school. (© Warner Bros)

Harry has been left feeling cut off from his closest friends, Ron and Hermione, who, inexplicably, have not written to him all summer (© Warner Bros)

Harry's uncle, Sirius Black has opened the Black family home as the meeting place for the Order of the Phoenix (© Warner Bros)

Arriving at number twelve Grimmauld Place - which, if you don't know is there, is not there - Harry is reunited with Ron and Hermione (© Warner Bros)

On arriving at Hogwarts, the students learn that Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, has appointed a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, the duplicitous Professor Dolores Umbridge (© Warner Bros)

At Harry's court hearing he is acquitted - thanks largely to the intervention of Hogwarts' venerable Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore (© Warner Bros)

Professor Umbridge's "Ministry-approved" course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the Dark Forces threatening them (© Warner Bros)

Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves "Dumbledore's Army", Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts (© Warner Bros)

Harry is a lot like his father, James, who was Sirius' best friend, and Sirius is Harry's godfather (© Warner Bros)

Feeling alone and ostracized, Harry even resists the overtures of Ron and Hermione to help and support him, believing that no one can understand what he is going through, including his closest friends (© Warner Bros)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix sees Harry's first kiss, with fellow student Cho Chang, over the Christmas holidays (© Warner Bros)

Despite his newfound confidence as a leader and his open defiance of Umbridge as a teacher, Harry is still plagued by nightmares. Even more terrifying, his nightmares now seem to be foretelling actual events (© Warner Bros)

Bellatrix Lestrange is a recent escapee from Azkaban Prison and a devoted follower of the Dark Lord (© Warner Bros)

Harry prepares himself and his friends for the coming of the Dark Lord Voldemort and the extraordinary battle that he knows lies ahead (© Warner Bros)

Harry Potter and Dumbledore's Army, the group of students that secretly form within Hogwarts (© Warner Bros)
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