Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
ISBN 0-7475-5100-6 | | |
Preceded by | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | |
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Followed by | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won several awards, including the
Plot
During the summer,
The
One night, Harry dreams that
Harry's Occlumency lessons go poorly. During his
Harry, Ron, Hermione,
Harry chases Bellatrix into the atrium. Voldemort appears and tries to kill Harry, but Dumbledore appears and thwarts him. Fudge and other Ministry of Magic employees arrive on the scene and witness Voldemort just before he escapes. In his office, Dumbledore tells Harry the prophecy was made by
Publication and release
Potter fans waited three years between the releases of the fourth and fifth books.[2][3] Before the release of the fifth book, 200 million copies of the first four books had already been sold and translated into 55 languages in 200 countries.[4] As the series was already a global phenomenon, the book forged new pre-order records, with thousands of people queuing outside book stores on 20 June 2003 to secure copies at midnight.[4] Despite the security, thousands of copies were stolen from an Earlestown, Merseyside warehouse on 15 June 2003.[5]
Critical response
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was met with mostly positive reviews and received several awards.
Predecessors and sequels
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the
After the publishing of Order of the Phoenix, the sixth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was published on 16 July 2005 and sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release.[1][18] The seventh and final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published 21 July 2007.[19] The book sold 11 million copies within 24 hours of its release: 2.7 million copies in the UK and 8.3 million in the US.[18]
Adaptations
Film
In 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released in a film version directed by
Video games
A video game adaptation of the book and film versions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was made for
The book is also depicted in the 2011 video game Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7.
Translations
The first official foreign translation of the book appeared in Vietnamese on 21 July 2003, when the first of twenty-two instalments was released. The first official European translation appeared in Serbia and Montenegro in Serbian by the official publisher Narodna Knjiga in early September 2003. Other translations appeared later (e.g. in November 2003 in Dutch and German). The English-language version has topped the bestseller list in France, whereas in Germany and the Netherlands, an unofficial distributed translation process was started on the internet.[28]
See also
References
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