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Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

Book 5

by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling
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  • First Published:
  • Jun 1, 2003, 870 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Aug 2004, 870 pages
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Contents

1 Dudley Demented
2 A Peck of Owls
3 The Advance Guard
4 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
5 The Order of the Phoenix
6 The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black
7 The Ministry of Magic
8 The Hearing
9 The Woes of Mrs. Weasley
10 Luna Lovegood
11 The Sorting Hat's New Song
12 Professor Umbridge
13 Detention with Dolores
14 Percy and Padfoot
15 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor
16 In the Hog's Head
17 Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four
18 Dumbledore's Army
19 The Lion and the Serpent
20 Hagrid's Tale
21 The Eye of the Snake
22 St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
23 Christmas on the Closed Ward
24 Occlumency
25 The Beetle at Bay
26 Seen and Unforeseen
27 The Centaur and the Sneak
28 Snape's Worst Memory
29 Career Advice
30 Grawp
31 O.W.L.s
32 Out of the Fire
33 Fight and Flight
34 The Department of Mysteries
35 Beyond the Veil
36 The Only One He Ever Feared
37 The Lost Prophecy
38 The Second War Begins

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