Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Black Shirt]]: Filch and Malfoy's gang are happy to help Umbridge. Unfortunately for them, this makes them fair game when everyone starts rebelling against her.

* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Oddly averted, where Voldemort apparently has learned his lesson and tries to kill Harry quickly, only to be stopped by Dumbledore.

* [[Brick Joke]]: Trelawney's prediction that Umbridge would be in grave danger. {{spoiler|Fulfilled by a herd of angry centaurs}}.

** The remedy Harry uses on his hand, which he recommends to Lee Jordan, is the same thing ''Lee'' recommends to Fred and George for their [[Professor Guinea Pig]]-induced posterior boils.

* [[Close Call Haircut]]: Done by a centaur to Umbridge after she offends them -- not that it stops her from [[Too Dumb to Live|insulting them some more]].

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Who else? Luna "Loony" Lovegood.

* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]: Bellatrix.

* [[Commander Contrarian]]: Zacharias Smith.

** But it's okay because they're [[A Wizard Did It|magic]].

* [[Divided We Fall]]: The Ministry of Magic, due to the rivalry that Fudge believes to exist between him and Dumbledore.

** Hermione's suggestions of treating house elves better in Book 4 were mostly treated for comedy. In this book, the [[Fantastic Racism|inequalities between humans and centaurs, house elves and indeed any non-human sapient magical creature]] start getting ''much'' more spotlight, and a lot of it is reminiscent of real-world racism both historical and current: oh, the Ministry of Magic "permits" centaurs to live in "[[Injun Country|certain areas of land]]", hmmmm...

** The movie in particular emphasises how [[The War On Terror|the Ministry of Magic sees the reports of Voldemort's return as little more than fear-mongering, and interfere with Hogwarts' attempts at what they see as building an army in Dumbledore's name.]]

* [[Evil Plan]]: For this book, Voldemort {{spoiler|has his sights set on a prophecy stored in the Ministry of Magic that could give him an edge in killing Harry.}} Other than that he has to rebuild his organization.

* [[Evil Teacher]]: Dolores Umbridge.

* [[The Face]]: Dolores Umbridge exploited this trope. She doesn't want Hogwarts students trained in offensive magic so fills the Defense Against the Dark Arts class with lessons like 'negiotation' and 'non-retaliation' on the premise that these skills are just as important for future Auror teams as curses and counter-curses.

* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: Dolores Umbridge's introduction.

* [[The First Cut Is the Deepest]]: Cho has a lot of difficulty being able to have a relationship with Harry due to {{spoiler|Cedric's death}}. Harry also has to deal with this after Cho breaks up with him.

* [[First Kiss]]: Harry has this with Cho [[Under the Mistletoe]].

** [[The Hero]]: Harry

** [[The Lancer]]: Ron

* [[Golden Mean Fallacy]]: Umbridge uses this in her opening speech, suggesting that she represents a middle ground between tradition and change. If that's so, we'd hate to see what "change" looks like.

* [[Government Conspiracy]]: The Ministry of Magic's coverup of Voldemort's return.

* [[Hate Sink]]: Umbridge's character pretty much exists solely to be this.

* [[The Heavy]]: [[The Umbridge|Dolores Umbridge]] is this to Cornelius Fudge.

* [[Kissing Discretion Shot]]: In the book, Cho leans in to kiss Harry, and the paragraph ends, then cutting to a few minutes later.

* [[La Résistance]]: Dumbledore's Army, comprised of Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws.

** One fan once asked Rowling why Tonks didn't go by her middle name. Rowling's response was "Her middle name is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulpecula Vepucula]," which isn't much better.

* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]: Moody telling Vernon, "what you don't know could fill several books."

* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: The Inquisitorial Squad, which seems to be made up of entirely Slytherins.

* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: When Hermione demands to know what Ron thinks about Harry's plan to contact Sirius via Umbridge's fire, Harry is reminded of Molly and Arthur at the beginning of the book...

* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: Harry isn't allowed to attend the Order's meetings.

* [[Lured Into a Trap]]: {{spoiler|Despite Harry's vision, Voldemort isn't holding Sirius in the Department of Mysteries. Instead, it's a Death Eater ambush.}}

** The montage following Umbridge's promotion to High Inquisitor is played for laughs, especially the scenes where she mocks Snape and Trelawney on their teaching credentials. Cut to {{spoiler|Trelawney being fired and nearly thrown out of Hogwarts}}, which isn't funny at all.

** "Christmas on the Closed Ward". The chapter starts with Molly and Arthur bickering, moves on to {{spoiler|memoryless Gilderoy Lockhart}}, both of which are funny and/or heartwarming, then ends with the trio and Ginny meeting {{spoiler|Neville and his parents, who have been tortured into insanity, to the point they can't even recognise him.}}

* [[Nice to The Waiter]]: Sirius fails to live up to the advice he gave the trio in the last book. He has nothing against house-elves in general, but can't stand the way Kreacher constantly parrots the beliefs of the family he hated.

** [[Word of God]] herself stated this particular trait of Sirius in her official website.

* [[No Mere Windmill]]: People cling on to the belief that Voldemort can not have returned. Thus they let the dark lord grow in power undisturbed, while they accuse Harry of being a [[Windmill Crusader]] and Dumbledore of being a [[Manipulative Bastard]] using this [[Windmill Political]] for some shadowy political game.

* [[No Such Thing As Bad Publicity]]: In-universe. Umbridge's ban of Harry's interview with ''The Quibbler'' only ensures that everybody reads it. This could possibly be a [[Take That]] to all the [[Moral Guardians]] who've attacked the series, only ensuring it became more successful. This is a textbook example of the Streisand Effect.

* [[The Oathbreaker]]: Marietta; told the location of their secret hideout to Umbridge after signing a magical contract claiming she wouldn't do that. As a result she had the word "SNEAK" appear on her face in pimples and was shunned by her classmates.

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: [[Heroic BSOD|Harry destroying Dumbledore's office]] was cut out of [[The Film of the Book]].

* [[Our Founder]]: The statue at the Ministry of Magic.

* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: According to Nearly Headless Nick, only wizards in the HP-verse can become ghosts.

* [[Out Gambitted]]: Dumbledore, who acknowledges that his [[Poor Communication Kills|hiding of information made it considerably easier]] for Voldemort to trick Harry.

* [[Pair the Spares]]: [[Inverted]], in a piece of foreshadowing so indirect that it was probably put in by Rowling just to amuse herself. You ''start'' by asking yourself what exactly the purpose of Michael Corner and Cho Chang hooking up was...

* [[Pinball Protagonist]]: Harry. Due to a combination of [[Angst]]/[[Wangst]] and being [[Locked Out of the Loop]] Harry rarely does anything active unless Dumbledore orders him to do it (Occlumency) or Hermione convinces him that it's a good idea (Dumbledore's Army, the interview).

* [[Playing Sick]]: The Skiving Snackboxes (and joke candies contained within), invented by Fred and George, serve this purpose for their takers.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Basis of the plot really.

* [[Prison Break]]: Part of the plot when Voldemort {{spoiler|breaks a number of death eaters out of Azkaban}}. Most notably, Bellatrix Lestrange.

* [[Scotty Time]]: Umbridge apparently thinks brewing Veritaserum works this way. [[Subverted Trope|It doesn't,]] as it needs to be brewed under the light of a full moon, the nearest of which is several weeks away. In both the movie and book she depleted his stock herself; in the book by putting the entire vial in Harry's tea [[Genre Savvy|(which he is intelligent enough not to drink)]] while she's interrogating him, and in the movie by interrogating every student in the school. It's revealed in the movie that the reason that the DA is found out is that she uses it on Cho, forcing her to give up the location of the Room of Requirement.

* [[Shoot the Messenger]]: Averted. Voldemort does not punish Rookwood for informing him that his plan to retrieve {{spoiler|the prophecy}} could never have worked. The man who [[You Have Failed Me|gave him the wrong information in the first place, however...]]

* [[Single Tear]]: Dumbledore.

** The Head: Harry

** The Muscle: Ron

** Subverted with Lucius Malfoy, who is thrown into Azkaban at the end of this book.

* [[The War Has Just Begun]]

* [[Worlds Shortest Book]]: Inverted.

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