Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

by J.K. Rowling

In fact, he was so angry at them that he had thrown both their birthday presents of Honeydukes chocolates away unopened, though he had regretted this after eating the wilting salad Aunt Petunia had provided for dinner that night.

Aunt Petunia said nothing. Dudley was staring stupidly at his mother, his mouth hanging open. The silence spiraled horribly. Harry was watching his aunt, utterly bewildered, his head throbbing fit to burst.

The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London.

He pointed to another small round burn mark between two names, Bellatrix and Narcissa.

Bellatrix Black, which was connected by a double line to Rodolphus Lestrange.

Sometimes, however, the visitors stayed to help; Tonks joined them for a memorable afternoon in which they found a murderous old ghoul lurking in an upstairs toilet, and Lupin, who was staying in the house with Sirius but who left it for long periods to do mysterious work for the Order, helped them repair a grandfather clock that had developed the unpleasant habit of shooting heavy bolts at passersby.

“Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have,” said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again.

that judging from what he had just seen, his father had been every bit as arrogant as Snape had always told him.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young .

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.