哈利·波特与凤凰社

哈利·波特与凤凰社

《哈利·波特与凤凰社》（Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix）是英国女作家J.K.罗琳的系列魔幻文学作品“哈利·波特”总共七本中的第五本。这部小说的英文原版2003年6月21日在英国出版。中文简体版2003年9月出版，中文繁体版2003年出版。

凤凰会的密令

本书故事开头哈利·波特正在德思礼家为了某些事情忧虑。哈利感到相当挫折，因为他不晓得重获新生的佛地魔有什么计划，同时也因为他的朋友们，不肯透过猫头鹰信差告诉他任何消息。在和姨丈及阿姨吵了一架之后，哈利溜出门在小惠金区闲晃，却遇见他讨人厌的表哥达力。两人一起回家，摄魂怪却突然现身并且攻击他们。哈利召唤护法击退摄魂怪，虽然成功拯救达力不被吸走灵魂，但是达力还是呈现失去意识的状态。所幸他们的邻居费太太，及时赶到帮忙。费太太是一名有纯正巫师血统的爆竹，一直遵照邓不利多教授的命令照顾哈利。

哈利和达力到家后，弗农·德思礼|威农姨丈和佩妮阿姨看到达力失神的情况，狠狠责怪哈利。虽然哈利试图解释佛地魔的威胁，但威农姨丈仍旧要哈利滚出去，同一时间，哈利因为违法在校外用魔咒，收到学校来信，要将他从霍格华兹开除，但是哈利又随即收到好几封信。其中卫斯理先生还有天狼星，警告哈利绝对不要离开屋子。新的信件也取消了哈利的开除处分，但是要求他必须出席魔法部的听证会。最后一封信则是吼叫信，怒吼著说出“佩妮，记住我最后说过的”。一听到这句话，佩妮阿姨改口坚持哈利必须留下来。

After being locked in his room for several days, a menagerie of wizards and witches comes to rescue Harry, Professor Remus Lupin and Mad-Eye Moody among them. They take him to 12 Grimmauld Place, the home of the Black family, who have used various techniques to hide the building, making it an ideal headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix. The Weasleys, Hermione, and Sirius are all staying there. Sirius has been ordered not to leave the house because of the Ministry's continued search for him (see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). Harry finds himself angry and argumentative with those at Grimmauld Place, fueled by his feeling that, despite his trust, they have not been honest with him. He is also disappointed to learn that Ron and Hermione have been made school prefects, but he has not. They all maintain that Dumbledore ordered absolute secrecy, which is why Harry has not been made aware of events. Harry nonetheless manages to learn quite a bit about what has transpired since the end of the last school year.

Although both Harry and Dumbledore have told the world that Lord Voldemort has returned, no one believes them. Indeed, the complacent Ministry of Magic, keen to avoid panic, has been working to discredit them both, using the wizarding newspaper The Daily Prophet to suggest that Harry and Dumbledore are eccentric liars. Dumbledore's supporters, however, have reformed the Order of the Phoenix, which existed the last time that Lord Voldemort threatened the world. A number of new members are in the Order as well, and it is dedicated to saving everyone from the resurgence of Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

Harry on Trial

Cover of the US Edition, Scholastic

Harry's hearing for his possible expulsion from Hogwarts finally arrives. It fills much of the household with trepidation, but they are fairly confident that he will be acquitted -- he used the magic strictly in self-defence, which is permissible under the rules. However, upon arrival at the Ministry of Magic, Harry and Mr. Weasley find out that the hearing has been brought forward without their knowledge, and its location moved to the basement, near the Department of Mysteries. Luckily, they make it just in time, though when Harry arrives, he realises that a full trial has been called, with the entire Wizengamot assembled.

Although this appears to be an attempt to intimidate Harry and to keep Dumbledore from showing up as Harry's defence, the ancient wizard and headmaster of Hogwarts appears nonetheless. Mrs. Figg also appears as a witness, testifying that the Dementors were real, not mere figments of Harry's imagination or lies, and Harry is exonerated. However, something seems strange - Dumbledore scarcely pays any attention to Harry, and as the young boy leaves, he sees Lucius Malfoy conferring with Cornelius Fudge. This shocks Harry, as Malfoy is a known Death Eater, though Mr. Weasley alludes to bribery.

回到霍格华兹学校

Eventually, Harry and his companions return to school. On the Hogwarts Express they meet a girl named Luna Lovegood, who takes on a prominent role later in the book. At Hogwarts they discover shocking news: Hagrid has not yet returned from whatever task Dumbledore sent him on at the end of last term; and their new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is none other than Dolores Umbridge, one of the Wizengamot panel members at Harry's hearing. Umbridge refuses to allow the students to use actual magic in her classes, and it soon emerges that she works for the Ministry of Magic, which has installed her as a teacher at Hogwarts by decree, against Dumbledore's wishes, and in order to impose the Ministry's agenda on the school.

Once school starts, things happen at a rapid pace. The fifth year is when the O.W.L.s are taken, and the teachers push the students hard in preparation. Professor Umbridge gains more and more influence on the school, through a succession of further Decrees passed by the Ministry of Magic, culminating in her appointment as Hogwarts High Inquisitor, and begins to make intrusive and intimidating inspections of teachers and students alike. Ron is made the new keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. In a letter to Ron, Ron's older brother Percy, who is now working for Fudge, advises Ron to 'sever ties' with Harry because Harry is allegedly a very dangerous person to fraternize with. He also recommends that Ron report anything unusual to Umbridge, whom he calls 'a very lovely, helpful woman.' In addition, he hints that this might be Dumbledore's last year at Hogwarts.

Umbridge's Oppression

Umbridge, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, is a particularly unpleasant character. In light of her refusal to teach anything useful in her Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, Hermione convinces Harry to give secret lessons to a number of students who want to learn how Defence Against the Dark Arts really works; reluctantly, he agrees, and they all sign a paper stating their intent to never reveal the group to Umbridge.