In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that much of the wizarding community has been denied the truth about the teenagers recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort. Fearing that Hogwarts venerable Headmaster; Albus Dumbledore; is lying about Voldemorts return in order to undermine his power and take his job; the Minister for Magic; Cornelius Fudge appoints a new Defence3 Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over Dumbledore and the Hogwarts students. But Professor Dolores Umbridges Ministry-approved course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defendthemselves against the dark forces threatening them and the entire wizarding community so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron Harry takes matters into his own hands. Meeting secretly with a small group of studentswho name themselves Dumbledores Army Harry teaches them how to defend themselves

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