Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (2004)

My son loves the series and this book is a good read. We can't say enough about how much the boys love spending time with their Harry Potter books.

lOVE THE BOOK, WHAT'S NOT TOO LOVE ABOUT IT??? I WOULD READ IT AGAIN IF I HAVE TO. I WOULD DEFINITELY PURCHASE BOOKS FROM THIS SELLER AGAIN.

Once again this book carries the reader right along with a very descriptive story that leaves you wanting more. I am looking forward to the next book and am pacing myself as I am sure to miss Harry Potter when I get through book 7. This is one of the best series I've read.

This book was the turning point. I liked this one, but I thought it drag a little in the middle of the book. I have read 1-5 so far. I am waiting for book 6. I love all of the books so far. There much better than the movies. If your a Harry Potter fan you'll love this book. It's one you don't want to put down.

I thought this was the best out of the first 5 books, I really enjoyed it and look forward to seeing the movie.

Excellent story. The most frustrating of all the Harry Potter books because of the injustices occurring, but worthy of the series.

This was the only book in the Harry Potter Series that I would not rate Excellent. I feel that she finally fell into the "middle book funk" that plagues so many other book writers and movie producers.

My theory on avoiding the "funk" is to provide the characters a few clues they can work for and give them some small victories to show they are at least making progress for their pain. It worked in JK's other books, so why she chose to change her formula here is beyond me. The only "victory" won here is that the wizarding community finally knows Voldermort is back. Small consolation, since those that can do anything about it (the Order of the Pheonix) already believed Harry.

The Mininstry of Magic, in an attempt to keep Harry Potter quiet, assign Delores Umbridge to the school. I would call Umbridge worse than Voldermort in many respects. Voldermort kills for the pleasure of killing, but is generally quick and painless about it. Once he sees the fear in his victim's eyes, he is satisfied and finishes them off. Torture is used to either get information from his victim or to make a point to his underlings. Inflicting pain for sport was something his underlings did.

Although Umbridge is never specifically mentioned as being a Death Eater, loves to leave people in perpetual misery. In particular, she bans Harry Potter (and the Weasley twins) from Quiddich and locks their brooms up. She also has a magic pen that, when used, prints the words in blood on the paper and etches the words on the writer's hand. These scars remain on Harry at least to the end of the 7th book. Just to keep people on edge between these major attacks, she produces an endless array of Ministry approved prohibitions and takes it upon herself to micromanage every teacher in Hogwarts. She threatened firing just about every staff member at Hogwarts at one time or another, except for Filtch (who loves her changes).

What Voldermort and Umbridge do have in common is a desire to impress their idea of a perfect society on others. The fact that their ideals are based on the genetic makeup of people, and therefore impossible to change, does not phase them at all. The obvious solution is to banish or kill those who don't measure up.

But this evil is not why I gave this book a low rating. The heroes, Harry in particular, never fully grasp what what is happening and are completely unable to stop it. Figuratively speaking, they are little more than test dummies and take whatever is given to them.

There were only two times that Harry and Co took a stand and the both backfired disasterously (three if you count the Weasley twins revenge, but that was short lived and had no lasting affect). The first was when Harry formed Dumbledore's Army, which resulted in Dumbledore being fired. The second was when Harry rushed to save Sirious Black from Voldermort. I won't say how that one ended for the sake of those that haven't read it yet, but suffice to say it caused the only regret Harry had in any of the seven books.

There is a difference between suffering and sacrafice, and this book was all suffering. No good came out of what Harry went through, either in this book or the sequels. However, in order to get the full effect of her last two Harry Potter books (which I think are the best in the series), reading this book is a must.

John Holland-author of The Necklace of Terrersylvanous

The book was in excellent condition and I received it right away!!! I decided to buy this particular item because of its excellent condition as well as the good price, it was a win-win situation, I couldn't pass it up!

My son loves the Harry Potter series. He can never wait until we finish one and move onto the next book. Very well written, and is a great book for parents to read to their children.

I love the Harry Potter movies, but never read any of the books. And even tho the Order of the Phoenix is coming out this summer, I'm hoping to get far enough in the book to find out what happens next!! Very thick book...wow. This will take a while. But people say that the books are different from the movies...so I'd like to try and find out why.

I LOVE TO READ AND THE EBAY SELLER MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO BUY IT WITHIN MY BUDGET. BESIDES I AM A 51 YEAR OLD KID AT HEART. THKS ALOT, ELVA

Well first of all I like all of the Harry Potter books. However this book was written very differently then the ones previous. There was no real action throught the book. It was all explanation and conversations. There was no action and suspense. However there were many twists and turns which kept me interested but there was no real suspense.

I decided to buy this book since i had just finished reading the others. I hate to say it but i think I have become a Potter Fan. I liked how the writer really gets all the changings from young adolescant to a teenager and the mood swings they continue to have. Through it all they are friends who get through the tons of action. Through all the action still gets improtant stuff done. :)