Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (by JK Rowling)

I was a huge fan of the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling when they were first published in the late 1990s and early part of the 21st century. I read most of them aloud to my teenage sons as soon as we acquired them, as we could not decide who would read them first. They were excellent books to read aloud - often for hours in a day - but I also enjoyed re-reading them myself just a few years later. And again, when the seventh book was published.

But I hadn’t read them for over ten years; so i...