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“‘You are sharing the Dark Lord’s thoughts and emotions. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord.'”
Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors’ attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord’s return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort’s savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time….
Unbelievably fantastic and completely absorbing Having just reread the entire Harry Potter series in preparation for Book Six, it seems like the time is now right for me to finally review Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. To call the book fantastic is a gross understatement. Without doubt, it is the most absorbing novel I’ve ever read – even on multiple readings. It may be well over 800 pages, but it’s still a quick read. I’m betting most fans read this book in two days or less – you just can’t put it down. There were times…
Realms beyond our own, the final visit to the world Rowling made. This is the last book in a seven book series that reads as one long fabulous story, a fantasy classic for all ages. It stands with JRR Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” in that it started out as a children’s book: “The Hobbit” in Tolkien’s case; “The Sorcerer’s Stone” in Rowling’s case, and both moved on quickly, as if of their own volition, to proceed away from a simple child’s story and become a real world in fact, with humor, tragedy, love, and loss and a great overwhelming evil that the decent…
Third year We find out more about Harry’s parents and their friends. The man who was convicted of betraying Harry’s parents escaped from Azkaban. They thought he was heading to Hogwarts to kill Harry. The adults felt it was better to not tell Harry.Another interesting book. Very easy to read. Very hard to put down.