Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling [0]
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available
Library of Congress Control Number: 2003102525
ISBN 0-439-35806-X
10 9 8 03 04 05 06 07
Printed in the U.S.A. 37
Second edition, August 2003
Contents
ONE - Dudley Demented
TWO - A Peck of Owls
THREE - The Advance Guard
FOUR - Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
FIVE - The Order of the Phoenix
SIX - The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black
SEVEN - The Ministry of Magic
EIGHT - The Hearing
NINE - The Woes of Mrs. Weasley
TEN - Luna Lovegood
ELEVEN - The Sorting Hat's New Song
TWELVE - Professor Umbridge
THIRTEEN - Detention with Dolores
FOURTEEN - Percy and Padfoot
FIFTEEN - The Hogwarts High Inquisitor
SIXTEEN - In the Hog's Head
SEVENTEEN - Educational Decree Number Twenty-four
EIGHTEEN - Dumbledore's Army
NINETEEN - The Lion and the Serpent
TWENTY - Hagrid's Tale
TWENTY-ONE - The Eye of the Snake
TWENTY-TWO - St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
TWENTY-THREE - Christmas on the Closed Ward
TWENTY-FOUR - Occlumency
TWENTY-FIVE - The Beetle at Bay
TWENTY-SIX - Seen and Unforeseen
TWENTY-SEVEN - The Centaur and the Sneak
TWENTY-EIGHT - Snape's Worst Memory
TWENTY-NINE - Career Advice
THIRTY - Grawp
THIRTY-ONE - O.W.L.s
THIRTY-TWO - Out of the Fire
THIRTY-THREE - Fight and Flight
THIRTY-FOUR - The Department of Mysteries
THIRTY-FIVE - Beyond the Veil
THIRTY-SIX - The Only One He Ever Feared
THIRTY-SEVEN - The Lost Prophecy
THIRTY-EIGHT - The Second War Begins
Dudley Demented
The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. Cars that were usually gleaming stood dusty in their drives and lawns that were once emerald green lay parched and yellowing; the use of hosepipes had been banned due to drought. Deprived of their usual car-washing and lawn-mowing pursuits, the inhabitants of Privet Drive had retreated into the shade of their cool houses, windows thrown wide in the hope of tempting in a nonexistent breeze. The only person left outdoors was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flower bed outside number four.
He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time. His jeans were torn and dirty, his T-shirt baggy and faded, and the soles of his trainers were peeling away from the uppers. Harry Potter’s appearance did not endear him to the neighbors, who were the sort of people who thought scruffiness ought to be punishable by law, but as he had hidden himself behind a large hydrangea bush this evening he was quite invisible to passersby. In fact, the only way he would be spotted was if his Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia stuck their heads out of the living room window and looked straight down into the flower bed below.
On the whole, Harry thought he was to be congratulated on his idea of hiding here. He was not, perhaps, very comfortable lying on the hot, hard earth, but on the other hand, nobody was glaring at him, grinding their teeth so loudly that he could not hear the news, or shooting nasty questions at him, as had happened every time he had tried