Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling I’ve read this, the fifth Harry Potter book, a couple of times before. I read it when first came out in 2003 and then again in 2007. I started a re-read of the whole series a couple of years ago but I struggled to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,13,50,49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-2","category-books","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-junior-fiction","category-rated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"order](\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/38983959_kidscover-97x150.jpg\")
<\/span>I’ve read this, the fifth Harry Potter book, a couple of times before. I read it when first came out in 2003<\/a> and then again in 2007<\/a>.
\nI started a re-read of the whole series<\/a> a couple of years ago but I struggled to get past the first few chapters of The Goblet of Fire. I recently discovered that you could borrow the audio book from Edinburgh’s online library service and thanks to Stephen Fry’s narration I finally finished it.
\nThe only problem with the audio book was the sheer length of time it took to listen to, so when it came to Order of the Phoenix I just picked up the physical book.
\nThe distinguishing feature of this particular volume is just how much of the plot relies on main characters being stupid and stubborn. I have to say it’s always a delight to get to hate on Umbridge again. Her selfish, mundane form of low grade evil is so reminiscent of people I’ve known over the years.
\nIf you’ve not read the Harry Potter books before now this review isn’t going to prompt you to start but I do recommend the series as a fine read.<\/p>\n