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There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?
Here are just a few things on Harry's mind:
* A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey.
* A venomous, disgruntled house-elf
* Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team
* The looming terror of the end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams
. . . and of course, the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowling's seven-part story, Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts.
Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew, boundless loyalty; and unbearable sacrifice.
Though thick runs the plot, listeners will race through these tapes and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.
Critiques (6)
Critique de School Library Journal
Gr 4 Up-Harry has just returned to Hogwarts after a lonely summer. Dumbledore is uncommunicative and most of the students seem to think Harry is either conceited or crazy for insisting that Voldemort is back and as evil as ever. Angry, scared, and unable to confide in his godfather, Sirius, the teen wizard lashes out at his friends and enemies alike. The head of the Ministry of Magic is determined to discredit Dumbledore and undermine his leadership of Hogwarts, and he appoints nasty, pink-cardigan-clad Professor Umbridge as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and High Inquisitor of the school, bringing misery upon staff and students alike. This bureaucratic nightmare, added to Harry's certain knowledge that Voldemort is becoming more powerful, creates a desperate, Kafkaesque feeling during Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. The adults all seem evil, misguided, or simply powerless, so the students must take matters into their own hands. Harry's confusion about his godfather and father, and his apparent rejection by Dumbledore make him question his own motives and the condition of his soul. Also, Harry is now 15, and the hormones are beginning to kick in. There are a lot of secret doings, a little romance, and very little Quidditch or Hagrid (more reasons for Harry's gloom), but the power of this book comes from the young magician's struggles with his emotions and identity. Particularly moving is the unveiling, after a final devastating tragedy, of Dumbledore's very strong feelings of attachment and responsibility toward Harry. Children will enjoy the magic and the Hogwarts mystique, and young adult readers will find a rich and compelling coming-of-age story as well.-Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Critique du Publishers Weekly
Year five at Hogwarts is no fun for Harry. Rowling may be relying upon readers to have solidified their liking for her hero in the first four books, because the 15-year-old Harry Potter they meet here is quite dour after a summer at the Dursleys' house on Privet Drive, with no word from pals Hermione or Ron. When he reunites with them at last, he learns that The Daily Prophet has launched a smear campaign to discredit Harry's and Dumbledore's report of Voldemort's reappearance at the end of book four, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Aside from an early skirmish with a pair of dementors, in which Harry finds himself in the position of defending not only himself but his dreaded cousin, Dudley, there is little action until the end of these nearly 900 pages. A hateful woman from the Ministry of Magic, Dolores Umbridge (who, along with minister Cornelius Fudge nearly succeeds in expelling Harry from Hogwarts before the start of the school year) overtakes Hogwarts-GrandPrE's toadlike portrait of her is priceless-and makes life even more miserable for him. She bans him from the Quidditch team (resulting in minimal action on the pitch) and keeps a tight watch on him. And Harry's romance when his crush from the last book, Cho Chang, turns out to be a major waterworks (she cries when she's happy, she cries shen she's sad). Readers get to discover the purpose behind the Order of the Phoenix and more is revealed of the connection between Harry and You-Know-Who. But the showdown between Harry and Voldemort feels curiously anticlimactic after the stunning clash at the close of book four. Rowling favors psychological development over plot development here, skillfully exploring the effects of Harry's fall from popularity and the often isolating feelings of adolescence. Harry suffers a loss and learns some unpleasant truths about his father, which result in his compassion for some unlikely characters. (The author also draws some insightful parallels between the Ministry's exercise of power and the current political climate.) As hope blooms at story's end, those who have followed Harry thus far will be every bit as eager to discover what happens to him in his sixth and seventh years. Ages 9-12. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Critique de Horn Book
(Intermediate, Middle School) This review is much like the proverbial tree falling in an uninhabited forest: unlikely to make a sound. But for the record, HP5 is the best in the series since Azkaban, and far superior to the turgid HP4. With Rowling once again following the formula of giving Harry's day-to-day troubles and preoccupations the same weight as the larger battle of good vs. evil, Harry, now a sullen fifteen, finds himself in the role of outsider. The adult wizards in the Order of the Phoenix prepare for the return of Voldemort without him; at Hogwarts, he is ignored by Dumbledore, banned from Quidditch, and--thanks to slanted press coverage--generally regarded as a liar and a ""weirdo."" A new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, backed by a Ministry of Magic in Voldemort-denial, begins taking over Hogwarts one repressive educational decree at a time, providing Rowling with the opportunity for some sharp-edged satire. This is one of the funniest of the books, with comic set pieces starring Uncle Vernon and Hagrid, and with Fred and George Weasley outdoing themselves in wickedly funny asides. But it is also one of the most unpleasantly aggressive: adults snarl at one another; Slytherins and Gryffindors seem perpetually to be insulting each other, and even come to blows. The plot doesn't bear close scrutiny, and the climactic confrontation between ""Dumbledore's Army"" (a group of Hogwarts students led by Harry) and a horde of Death Eaters is a banal shoot-'em-up scene with a little magic thrown in. The concluding wrap-up, though, in which Dumbledore explains it all to Harry (and to us), contains a revelation regarding Neville Longbottom that should keep fans fizzing with wild surmise until the next installment. HP5 remains a highly passive reading experience, with all the work done by the author and none required of the reader (viz. those omnipresent, ambiguity-leaching adverbs: ""'I'm not staying behind!' said Hermione furiously""). But tally the book's strengths and weaknesses as you may, the fact remains that Rowling has once again created a fully-fledged world, and for the experience of being there with Harry, HP5 can't be beat. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Critique du Guardian
So, is this a childish phenomenon or an adult one? One may be arrested, as I was, by the image, during a break in the TV coverage of a cricket match, of an MCC member about a third of the way through The Order of the Phoenix (this some 12 hours after the book's publication); but the truly extraordinary thing about it is that it is not all that extraordinary. One became used, long ago, to the spectacle of adults reading JK Rowling's work in all kinds of public places, unembarrassed about being seen immersing themselves in a world of spells. It is a phenomenon that one struggles to imagine the more austere cultural critics commentating on without perplexity. What would Walter Benjamin have had to say about it? Or Karl Kraus? That its popularity was a symptom of a mass regression to infancy, perhaps? It may constitute a desire for a temporary flight from adulthood, but that isn't exactly the same thing. And besides, what highbrow critic ever dismissed Wagner because of his use of magical elements? (" Tristan is rubbish because it has a love- potion in it. Discuss.") Still, much of the criticism levelled against Rowling does seem to fall under the heading "category error". To complain about her, shall we say, conservative imagination, her somewhat stilted dialogue, or, as one critic cruelly put it, her "mumsy and artless prose", is in a sense to miss the point. The target audience, semi- officially, is in the nine-to-12 age range, and on those terms, the books are infallible. They deliver. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix also delivers more of the same, a shade more grown up, with extra explanation of the back story. I can't imagine anyone who is already happy with Rowling's world being disappointed with its latest manifestation (quidditch has never done it for me, but the kids seem happy enough with it). Rowling has not been asleep at the wheel in the three years since the last Potter novel, and I am pleased to report that she has not confused sheer length with inspiration. The book's prodigious size has proved an asset rather than a handicap. Aalthough my heart does go out to all those parents who will be obliged to read the book aloud, Phoenix can be raced through fairly quickly by the solitary reader, which is itself a testament to the fluency of Rowling's narrative. As for "mumsy and artless" -that was my line, in this paper, when I compared Rowling unfavourably with Ursula Le Guin, who also wrote a series of books beginning with a young would-be adept being sent to wizard school in order for him to enhance and discipline his power, and learn to confront his destiny. But reading this book has made me now realise that the comparison is specious - the two authors are barely involved in the same process at all. All children's authors have to take their worlds immensely seriously, and that is about all that Rowling and Le Guin have in common, once you have noted the superficial similarities. Le Guin writes seriously; Rowling writes just the way an 11-year-old would ideally like to write. That said, the learning process throughout Potter is slow. We have lapsed behind real time now; Harry is 15, in the fifth year, while his readers have aged two extra years since his last appear ance; and one may wonder at Harry's continuing amazement when an abandoned phone box turns out to be a lift leading to the Ministry of Magic, or a derelict department store turns out to be a front for the wizards' hospital, St Mungo's. (Would that, incidentally, be the Muggle St Mungo, also known as the apostle of Cumbria, or a magical Saint Mungo? And who ordains sanctity? And, while we're at it, is anyone's birth celebrated when Hogwarts celebrates Christmas? How does the carol "God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriffs" go on? And is this getting too picky?) Harry's amazement is Rowling's anticipation of her ideal reader's, and so as such, seems a little too voulu , a self-conscious attempt to work up our awe. It is one of the curious features of the series that Harry's speeches almost always sound stilted and gawky. There is an unavoidable element of redundancy to them, as the whole sequence is already chiefly about the processes of his mind. The people to watch out for and relish are Harry's friends the Weasley twins and Hogwarts' headmaster, Dumbledore. The twins' appetite for practical jokes has neither diminished nor - to my surprise - become tiresome. "I think we've outgrown full- time education," says Fred, at a moment of supremely conceived anarchy in Phoenix , and only the extremely churlish would fail to be delighted at the manner of their departure from the school (as this happens near the 600th page, the churls would anyway have parted company with the book long before). If one pole of Rowling's imagination is the comic mayhem of the Weasleys, the other is Dum-bledore. She has to be very careful with what he does and says. On his authority rests the authority of her entire structure, just as is the case with Aslan in the Narnia books, or Gandalf in Tolkien's world. It is important for such characters to be like ideal fathers: they are by no means without a sense of fun, but their word is ultimately law - even when the world turns against them. Dumbledore spends a good deal of time in The Order of the Phoenix as a fugitive - he is sacked as headmaster - and this expulsion from Eden is an almost inevitable development for Rowling, as it is for Potter and the reader. Tellingly, Hagrid, the half-giant who teaches "care of magical creatures", is absent for much of the novel, and it occurred to me that one of the conditions of maturity is having to leave such lovable grotesques behind. The Potter books are already stacked with Pucks and Calibans; and Dumbledore is a Prospero figure if ever I saw one. Something quite upsettingly dramatic is going to have to happen to him by the time the seventh book is over, you mark my words. One of the matters that Rowling addresses here is the establishment of first principles, as important as plot-lines in magical worlds. When you have magic in operation, and non- metaphorical magic at that, the attentive child is going to be very keen to ask: "If they can do X, then why can't they do Y?" and expect a satisfactory answer. Le Guin, Tolkien and CS Lewis all ultimately had to connive in the dismantling of their own magical worlds, but this may not be an option open to Rowling. We do, though, get good enough explanations as to why some people die and never return, and some do return, but as ghosts, and why Harry still lives with the Dursleys. One question that had bothered me as much as anything else was whether these Muggle relatives were ever going to be granted a shred of humanity. In this book one of them is, if fleetingly; and so, interestingly, is Snape, whose cinematic incar-nation in the supremely charismatic form of Alan Rickman tells against his charmlessness in the novels. So Rowling is pacing herself very well, then, and on her own terms. She may be taking a swipe at the media with her depiction of the muck-racking Daily Prophet, but she still has time for the alternative press - Hermione's cunning manipulation of Harry's fame saves the day at one point. The pressures Rowling is under, both to deliver and not to crack up, are almost inconceivable. This may give her a sympathetic push when describing Harry's trials. (The critic Robert Winder suggested to me that one of Harry's punishments in Phoenix is strikingly reminiscent of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony". I won't spoil either story for you by saying which.) But however she's managed it, she's still on form. You have to hand it to her. To order Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for pounds 14.99 plus p&p call Guardian book service on 0870 066 7979. More on the Harry Potter books at guardian.co.uk/books/harrypotter Caption: article-potter.1 As for "mumsy and artless" -that was my line, in this paper, when I compared [JK Rowling] unfavourably with Ursula Le Guin, who also wrote a series of books beginning with a young would-be adept being sent to wizard school in order for him to enhance and discipline his power, and learn to confront his destiny. But reading this book has made me now realise that the comparison is specious - the two authors are barely involved in the same process at all. All children's authors have to take their worlds immensely seriously, and that is about all that Rowling and Le Guin have in common, once you have noted the superficial similarities. Le Guin writes seriously; Rowling writes just the way an 11-year-old would ideally like to write. If one pole of Rowling's imagination is the comic mayhem of the Weasleys, the other is Dum-bledore. She has to be very careful with what he does and says. On his authority rests the authority of her entire structure, just as is the case with Aslan in the Narnia books, or Gandalf in Tolkien's world. It is important for such characters to be like ideal fathers: they are by no means without a sense of fun, but their word is ultimately law - even when the world turns against them. Dumbledore spends a good deal of time in The Order of the Phoenix as a fugitive - he is sacked as headmaster - and this expulsion from Eden is an almost inevitable development for Rowling, as it is for [Harry Potter] and the reader. So Rowling is pacing herself very well, then, and on her own terms. She may be taking a swipe at the media with her depiction of the muck-racking Daily Prophet, but she still has time for the alternative press - Hermione's cunning manipulation of Harry's fame saves the day at one point. The pressures Rowling is under, both to deliver and not to crack up, are almost inconceivable. This may give her a sympathetic push when describing Harry's trials. (The critic Robert Winder suggested to me that one of Harry's punishments in Phoenix is strikingly reminiscent of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony". I won't spoil either story for you by saying which.) But however she's managed it, she's still on form. You have to hand it to her. - Nicholas Lezard.
Critique de Booklist
No, you can't put it down, but believe me, you'll wish you could. This is not an easy book to lug around. Its worldwide hype aside, the fifth installment in Harry Potter's saga should be judged on the usual factors: plot, characters, and the quality of the writing. So how does it fare? One thing emerges quickly: Rowling has not lost her flair as a storyteller or her ability to keep coming up with new gimcracks to astound her readers. But her true skills lie in the way she ages Harry, successfully evolving him from the once downtrodden yet hopeful young boy to this new, gangly teenager showing all the symptoms of adolescence--he is sullen, rude, and contemptuous of adult behavior, especially hypocrisy. This last symptom of the maturing Harry fits especially well into the plot, which finds almost all of the grown-ups in the young wizard's life saying one thing and doing another, especially those at the Ministry of Magic, who discredit Harry in the media to convince the citizenry that Voldemort is not alive. Rowling effectively uses this plot strand as a way of introducing a kind of subtext in which she takes on such issues as governmental lying and the politics of personal destruction, but she makes her points in ways that will be clearly understood by young readers. To fight for truth and justice--and to protect Harry--the Order of the Phoenix has been reconstituted, but young Potter finds squabbling and hypocrisy among even this august group. And in a stunning and bold move, Rowling also allows Harry (and readers) to view an incident from the life of a teenage James Potter that shows him to be an insensitive bully, smashing the iconic view Harry has always had of his father. Are there problems with the book? Sure. Even though children, especially, won't protest, it could be shorter, particularly since Rowling is repetitious with descriptions (Harry is always angry ; ultimate bureaucrat Doris Umbridge always looks like a toad). But these are quibbles about a rich, worthy effort that meets the very high expectations of a world of readers. --Ilene Cooper Copyright 2003 Booklist
Critique du Library Journal
Just in case you missed it in all the media, the fifth installment of the Harry Potter series is flying your way on June 21. It's one-third longer than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Dumbledore promises to tell all. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
