Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Summary IV
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Summary IV
Professor Dumbledore arrives at the Department of Mysteries around the same
time that Voldemort did. The two had a showdown that ended in Voldemort trying
to possess Harry to force Dumbledore to kill the boy. But Harry's heart was too
full of emotion for Voldemort to keep control, and he scurried off. But
Voldemort did not disappear before Cornelius Fudge and a whole bunch of
Ministry employees saw old Voldy with their own eyes. So Fudge could not longer
deny that Harry and Professor Dumbledore had been telling the truth and
Voldemort was back. He removed Professor Umbridge from power and placed
Professor Dumbledore as Headmaster of Hogwarts once again.
Back at Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore apologized to Harry for keeping him
in the dark for all of this year. Dumbledore explained that he was trying to
protect Harry, the same way he tried to protect Sirius by leaving him in Number
Twelve, Grimmauld Place. Now, Professor Dumbledore could see that leaving an
active man to rot in a house by himself might not have been the best plan. But
he had the best of intentions. Harry raged at Professor Dumbledore, but his
anger was also a cover for his own guilt; why did he have to fall for
Voldemort's trap and blunder into the Department of Mysteries in the first
place?
Professor Dumbledore explained the prophecy to Harry. It was made in the
year Harry was born, and it stated that a boy born at the end of July to
parents who had defied Voldemort three times would arrive with power that
Voldemort dis not have. There were two candidates to fill the prophecy, Harry
and Neville Longbottom. But by attacking Harry when he was a baby and leaving
Harry with his curse scar and magical connection to the Dark Lord, it was
Voldemort who selected Harry to be the boy of prophecy. Now Harry must kill Voldemort
or else be killed by him.
So now Harry knew why Voldemort had been coming after him. Because
Voldemort believed that Harry continued to present a danger to his rise to
power. And it was Harry's fate to keep facing Voldemort until one or the other
of them was dead. With this understanding of his fate, and with his guilt and sorrow
over Sirius' death, Harry felt much less anger towards his friends. They all
know that war was coming soon, and that the time for emo brooding was over.
Harry had to start acting like an adult to face the challenges that were coming
on his way.