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Bellatrix Lestrange kills Sirius by knocking him through a mysterious stone archway. Voldemort appears and tries to kill Harry, but Dumbledore arrives and thwarts him. Fudge and other Ministry of Magic employees arrive on the scene and witness Voldemort just before he flees.
- J. K Rowling
- 2003
- Overview
- History
- Affiliates of the Order
- Etymology
- Behind the scenes
- Appearances
- Notes and references
Harry Potter: "Is anyone going to bother telling me what the Order of the Phoenix — ?"
Hermione Granger: "It's a secret society. Dumbledore's in charge, he founded it. It's the people who fought against You-Know-Who last time."
— Description and history of the Order
The Order of the Phoenix was a secret society founded by Albus Dumbledore to oppose Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. The original Order was created in the 1970s. It was constructed after Voldemort returned to England from abroad and started his campaign to take over the Ministry of Magic and persecute Muggle-borns.
The Order worked with the Ministry to oppose the Dark Lord and his followers, and played a crucial role in the First Wizarding War. Their first victory came in 1981, with Voldemort's first defeat at the hands of Harry Potter. The victory came with the high cost of many of their members. Their casualties were overwhelming when compared to the Death Eaters.
The Order disbanded but was reconvened in 1995 after Harry Potter informed Dumbledore of Lord Voldemort's return. The Ministry refused to admit that the Dark Lord had returned, thus the Order alone worked to protect Harry Potter and the prophecy concerning him and Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. After an intense battle that occurred there on 18 June 1996 between the Order, Dumbledore's Army, and the Death Eaters, the Ministry finally admitted the truth.
First Wizarding WarSecond Wizarding WarSecond disbandment"Harry and Ron utterly revolutionised the Auror Department in — at the Ministry of Magic... And by the time — 19 years later — I would imagine that Harry is heading up that department, which is not corrupt in any way. It's — it's a really good place to be. And Hermione... I think she's now pretty high up in the Department for Magical Law Enforcement... So they're all at the ministry but this is a very new ministry. They made a new world." — The trio helping create a better Ministry and world After the final downfall of Voldemort, the Order was disbanded since their mission was complete. The surviving members resumed their lives, though hailed as war heroes and revered for their contributions to fighting the Dark Forces. Several young members (notably Harry and Ron) went on to become Aurors in order to track down the remaining followers of Voldemort who were still at large. Kingsley went on to be Minister for Magic and led a massive reform of the Ministry, weeding out corruption and making the Ministry a more enjoyable place to work. Enemy of the Order, Dolores Umbridge was sentenced to life in Azkaban for crimes against humanity. It can be assumed that Snatchers and Albert Runcorn were sentenced to Azkaban, as well. Snatchers were not Death Eaters but still committed many horrible acts during the height of the Second Wizarding War, such as murdering Muggle-born Ted Tonks. Runcorn also helped send many Muggle-borns to prison, by having their family trees examined. The dementors were removed from Azkaban and more humane ways of containing prisoners were put in place. Hermione Granger worked in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures and helped better the treatment of house-elves, before becoming deputy head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Hermione eventually rose to the position of Minister for Magic. Harry was promoted to Head Auror in 2007, at the age of 26 and then went on to be Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement by the summer of 2020.The CalamitySeveral of the surviving members of the Order were involved in helping members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force in various ways to prepare for the difficult task of containing The Calamity, including Arthur and Charlie Weasley, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Aberforth Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Rubeus Hagrid, Hestia Jones and Dedalus Diggle, though the latter only indirectly. This might imply that the Order were reconstituted, at least partially, in order to help coordinate the collaborated efforts made to address the The Calamity. Given the Order's activities and how the Calamity was believed to be closely linked to the London Five, it is possible that the Order was involved in Harry Potter's continued, off-the-record search for the missing individuals after the Ministry formally closed the case.Members
Molly Weasley: "You've given Harry plenty of information. Any more and you might just as well induct him into the Order straightaway." Harry Potter: "Why not? I'll join, I want to join, I want to fight —" Remus Lupin: "No. The Order is comprised only of overage wizards. Wizards who have left school. There are dangers involved of which you can have no idea, any of you... I think Molly's right, Sirius. We've said enough." — Discussion about the general membership of the Order
Allies
"Still... the prudent wizard keeps his head down in such times. All very well for Dumbledore to talk, but taking up a post at Hogwarts just now would be tantamount to declaring my public allegiance to the Order of the Phoenix! And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy the mortality rate —" — Horace Slughorn's reluctance to show his support for the Order During the First Wizarding War, the Order was allied with the Ministry of Magic. During the Second Wizarding War, however, the Ministry was at times sceptical of Lord Voldemort's return and later taken over by Voldemort's followers. The Order was allied with Dumbledore's Army, as well as various individuals, during that conflict and though many of them did not officially join the Order, many of the wizards and witches that believed Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore gave the anti-Voldemort movement their full support.
The Order of the Phoenix is named for the magical bird. The Order's founder and original leader, Albus Dumbledore, had a phoenix named Fawkes for a pet, and his Patronus also took the form of a phoenix. Fawkes gave two feathers to comprise the cores of the wands of Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort, key figures in the conflict between the Order and the Death Eaters. Fawkes also participated in the conflict at least twice: he came to Harry's aid against Slytherin's Basilisk, and later at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries to intercept a Killing Curse Voldemort aimed at Dumbledore.
In mythology, the phoenix often represents resurrection and life after death. This could allude to how the Order of the Phoenix was reborn after Voldemort returned to power, and how Harry Potter survived two Killing Curses. The Order's name thus symbolises their opposition to an organisation focused on causing death and finding unnatural, Dark methods of achieving immortality.
•While not confirmed, it is likely that the surviving members of the Order got celebrity status of sorts, just like the members of the, as of 2014, 'legendary' Dumbledore's Army, considering their considerably greater contributions to fighting Lord Voldemort and his forces than the aforementioned DADA club.
•It's implied that as with the Death Eaters, there are more members that haven't been seen. Ron and Hermione inform Harry that they believe there to be more than the twenty-something members that they've met, and Moody tells Harry of a rear Advance Guard that was to take over if the initial group were to be attacked, although more or less every identified member of the Order save Sirius Black and the extended Weasley family were in it. Furthermore, there are a few unknown members seen in the photograph of the original Order in the Order of the Phoenix film. Still, their numbers are significantly fewer than those of the Death Eaters.
•In the film adaptation of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, which differs significantly from the book version, the Order of the Phoenix members Apparate into the Department of Mysteries and save the Dumbledore's Army members by Apparating directly into the area where the Death Eaters holding them at wand-point.
•Also in the films, Order members are shown as Apparating in clouds of white smoke, while the Death Eaters Apparate in clouds of black smoke. This may be a reference to the Death Eaters' use and corruption by Dark Magic, causing them to apparate in black smoke, as opposed to the white smoke of the Order members.
•Molly Weasley is not stated to have been a member of the original Order, despite her brothers being members. This is likely due to the fact that she gave birth to, and took care of, seven children during the course of the First Wizarding War.
•If the list of members of the Order of the Phoenix, above, is complete, then the mortality rate (including permanent incapacitation) of members, during the First and Second Wizarding Wars combined, rivals that of the Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe. About 44% of members died during the First Wizarding War, and 26% were killed by Death Eaters during the course of the Second Wizarding War. Horace Slughorn refers to this in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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- J. K Rowling
- 2003
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