Symbols, Imagery, Allegory
Phoenixes are magical birds that age, die, and are reborn from their own ashes. They symbolize endurance and new beginnings. Professor Dumbledore has an actual phoenix, Fawkes, who swallows an Avad...
Setting
Little Whinging, Surrey; Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place; Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and WizardryIn Book 1, when we first encounter the setting of the Harry Potter novels, the worlds of the Muggl...
What's Up With the Title?
By the time J.K. Rowling published Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in June 2003, she was on the fifth Harry Potter book. So by then, we all knew the drill: it would be called Harry Potter...
What's Up With the Ending?
One of the things we truly admire about J.K. Rowling is her knack for endings. As the fifth book in a seven-book series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has to tie off all of the major pl...