Monday, 18 June 2007

Monday 18th June – 33 days to go

Chapter 5: The Order Of the Phoenix
In this chapter...Harry discovers that 12 Grimmauld Place belongs to the Black family. It is also Headquarters to the Order of the Phoenix. Harry asks questions about the Order, after dinner. Mrs Weasley says he is too young to learn all about the Order, but Lupin and Sirius overrule her. Harry deserves to know what is going on – Fred and George stay too, as they are of age, and Hermione and Ron stay because Harry will only tell them what has been said, later. Ginny is sent to bed. Harry learns that the Order's goals are to try to stop Voldemort from recruiting followers, especially dark creatures. Voldemort is searching for a powerful weapon.
Professor Dumbledore is in trouble with the Ministry, seeming he believes Lord Voldemort is back – he's been voted off the Chairmanship of the International Confederation of Wizards, and demoted from Chief Warlock on the Wizengamot. Cornelius Fudge is convinced that Dumbledore is going to try to take over the Ministry with a private army. Molly puts her foot down and says that they must not reveal any more, and this time, the other adults agree. Realizing defeat, Harry trudges off to bed with his friends.

“But Dumbledore says he doesn’t care what they do as long as they don’t take him off the Chocolate Frog cards,” said Bill grinning.


What spell does Bill use to tidy up the scrolls in the kitchen? “Evaneso”

Chapter 6: The Noble And Most Ancient House Of Black

In this chapter... Harry and the rest of the Order are trying to keep the house clean, removing objects, which have dark spells on it, so the house can be lived in. They find a heavy locket that no-one seems able to open. Fred and George tell Harry that they haven’t had the time to buy their joke shop yet, but they have been developing Skiving Snackboxes, a range of sweets that make you ill enough to get out of class and magically better once you get out and eat the rest. Harry had given the Twins the gold he won, for winning the Triwizard Tournament.
Harry meets Kreacher, Sirius's crazy old house-elf. Kreacher is rude to everyone although Hermione tries hard to be nice to him. Kreacher does not approve of have the Order in the house, and having it full of blood-trators. Harry learns a little about Sirius’s family. Sirius and Harry look at the old Black family tapestry on the wall, and Harry is surprised to find out that Sirius is related to Tonks, but also the Malfoys, the Lestranges and the Weasley’s. Sirius also tells Harry that he left home at 16 and camped out at James's, and that he had a brother, Regulus, who joined the Death Eaters and diedSirius left home when he was old enough – he often stayed with Harry’s grandparents. Harry is full of trepidation when the night before his Disciplinary Hearing at the Ministry arrives and he finds out that Sirius is forbidden to accompany him.

“I love hearing Mum shouting at someone else,” said Fred, with a satisfied smile on his face as he opened the door an inch or so to allow Mrs Weasley’s voice to permeate the room better. “It makes such a nice change.”


What did Sirius' mother's cousin, Araminta Meliflua, try to make legal? Muggle hunting

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