Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2003 • 896 pages

Ratings2,876

Average rating4.3

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Sirius's death is always difficult to deal with, through text, movies or audio.

Re-read this one after so long, had nearly forgotten how the occlumency lessons ended. Not with Harry performing the legilimens spell on Snape (As shown in the movie), but in fact seeing them in the pensive.

Dumbledore assuring Harry that Snape was trying to help, that he verified whether Sirius was at Grimmauld Place, killed me. Also, him silently correcting Harry to say Professor Snape instead of just Snape, is just heart breaking.

For a while, I was contemplating whether Sirius's death was Harry's fault. Until Dumbledore's explanation, it seemed like a viable option. But if you think about it, 6 teenagers fly to London, into the ministry of magic, get attacked by a dozen of death eaters, what was he thinking?
Sure, it was Sirius he was trying to save. Also, why avoid occlumency lessons when Sirius, Lupin, Hermione had so urgently told him to continue them.

Just so angry at Harry in this book for some reason!

Loved the fact we got to see some of Snape's memories, a crucial one at that.
As we later find out, that him calling Lilly a you - know - what, created a rift between them, causing her to get closer to James as he comforted her.

We don't deserve snape do we?

January 5, 2020