Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Chapter Fourteen:
Percy and Padfoot

Synopsis by Maureen Knight
Notes and links by Steve Vander Ark and Michele L. Worley

U.S. hardcover edition: pages 279 - 305
U.K. hardcover edition: pages 251 - 273
U.K. paperback edition: pages 310 - 339
Timeframe: 7-8 September, 1995 [Y15]

In which Harry sends a letter to Sirius, he encounters Cho Chang and she calls him brave, and the Gryffindor team's first practice is less than spectacular.  Percy sends Ron a letter warning him against continuing his friendship with Harry, and Sirius communicates with Harry through the common room fire.

Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:

Still to come....

Characters introduced in this chapter:

• None
  

Characters returning in this chapter:

• Bell, Katie

• Black, Sirius

• Chang, Cho

• Crabbe, Vincent

• Crookshanks

• de Mimsy-Porpington, Sir Nicholas (Nearly-Headless Nick)

• Filch, Argus

• Goyle, Gregory

• Granger, Hermione

• Hedwig

• Hermes

• Johnson, Angelina

• Malfoy, Draco

• Norris, Mrs.

• Parkinson, Pansy

• Potter, Harry

• Spinnet, Alicia

• Weasley, Fred

• Weasley, George

• Weasley, Ginny

• Weasley, Ron

• (unnamed) members of the Slytherin Quidditch Team

Characters mentioned in this chapter:

• Black, Mrs.

• Bloody Baron, the

• Diggory, Cedric

• Dumbledore, Albus

• Finnigan, Seamus (as "fellow Gryffindor")

• Fudge, Cornelius

• Hagrid, Rubeus

• Kreacher

• Longbottom, Neville (as "fellow Gryffindor")

• Lupin, Remus

• Malfoy, Lucius

• Malkin, Madame

• Maxime, Olympe

• McGonagall, Minerva

• Moody, Alastor (Mad-Eye)

• Munch, Eric

• Paracelsus

• Peeves

• Podmore, Sturgis

• Potter, James

• Riddle, Tom Marvolo (as Voldemort)

• Sinistra, Professor

• Sprout, Pomona

• Thomas, Dean (as "fellow Gryffindor")

• Tremlet, Donaghan (Bass player for the Weird Sisters)

• Umbridge, Dolores

• Weasley, Arthur

• Weasley, Molly

• Weasley, Percy (as "the world's biggest git")

• Wilfred the Wistful

• Wood, Oliver

• Hogwarts house-elves

Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

  • Great Hall

  • Gryffindor Tower

    • Common Room

    • Harry's dormitory

  • Owlery

  • Quidditch Locker Room

  • Quidditch Pitch

Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:

• Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions

• Forbidden Forest

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

  • Corridor with the bust of Paracelsus
  • Hagrid's hut
  • Hospital Wing
  • West Wing of the castle, and a corridor leading to it
• Laburnum Gardens, Clapham
• London

Exceptional character moments:

• Still to come....

Spells:

• Flying Charm

• Inanimatus Conjurus

Links and Resources:

• Bestiary

  • thestral

  • werewolf

• blood status

• Wizengamot

Memorable lines:

• Harry looked up at Ron. "Well," he said, trying to sound as though he found the whole thing a joke, "if you want to - er - what is it?" (He checked Percy's letter.) "Oh yeah - 'sever ties' with me, I swear I won't get violent."

• "That's exactly what [Fudge] thinks you're doing," said Sirius, "or rather, that's exactly what he's afraid Dumbledore's doing - forming his own private army, with which he will be able to take on the Ministry of Magic." There was a pause at this, then Ron said, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, including all the stuff that Luna Lovegood comes out with."

Strictly British:

• git

• toerag

Timelines/Calendar:

The chapter takes place over the course of the first weekend of fall term. Since classes began on Monday, 2 September, these two days must be Saturday and Sunday, 7-8 September.