Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Chapter Eighteen:
Dumbledore's Army

Synopsis by Maureen Knight
Notes and links by Michele L. Worley

U.S. hardcover edition: pages 374 - 396
U.K. hardcover edition: pages 332 - 351
U.K. paperback edition: pages 413 - 438
Timeframe: Tuesday and Wednesday, 8-9 October, 1995 [Y15]

In which Harry again dreams of the windowless corridor with the door at the end, Dobby tells Harry about the Room of Requirement, and Dumbledore's Army meets for the first time.

Interesting facts and notes about the text of chapter eighteen:

The chapter title reflects one of the main events of the chapter: the naming of the DA, which occurs during the first official meeting of the organization itself.

...by the end of dinner he was confident that the news had been passed to every one of the twenty-five people who had turned up in the Hog's Head.

At half-past seven Harry, Ron, and Hermione left the Gryffindor common room...

Fifth-years were allowed to be out in the corridors until nine o'clock...

Filch is on the second floor...

...and Mrs. Norris is on the fourth.

...an enormous tapestry depicting Barnabas the Barmy's foolish attempt to train trolls for the ballet.

...a spacious room with flickering torches like those that illuminated the dungeons eight floors below.

"Yeah, the DA's good," said Ginny. "Only let's make it stand for Dumbledore's Army, because that's the Ministry's worst fear, isn't it?"

"But if you think it's beneath you, you can leave," Harry said.

Predictably, Neville was left partnerless.
"You can practice with me," Harry told him.

...to see that they returned safely to their dormitories: the Hufflepuffs to the basement corridor that led to the kitchens; the Ravenclaws to a tower on the west side of the castle, and the Gryffindors along the corridor to the Fat Lady's portrait.

Characters introduced in this chapter:

• none

Characters returning in this chapter:

• Bell, Katie

• Boot, Terry

• Brown, Lavender

• Chang, Cho

• Corner, Michael

• Creevey, Colin

• Creevey, Dennis

• Crookshanks

• Dobby

• Edgecombe, Marietta

• Fat Lady, the

• Finch-Fletchley, Justin

• Flitwick, Professor

• Goldstein, Anthony

• Granger, Hermione

• Hedwig

• Johnson, Angelina

• Longbottom, Neville

• Lovegood, Luna

• Macmillan, Ernie

• Patil, Parvati

• Peeves

• Potter, Harry

• Smith, Zacharias

• Spinnet, Alicia

• Sprout, Pomona

• Thomas, Dean

• Weasley, Fred

• Weasley, George

• Weasley, Ginny

• Weasley, Ron

Characters mentioned in this chapter:

• Barnabas the Barmy

• Black, Sirius (as Snuffles)

• Crouch, Bartemius junior (as the fake Mad-Eye Moody)

• Diggory, Cedric

• Dumbledore, Albus

• Filch, Argus

• Fudge, Cornelius

• Grubbly-Plank, Wilhelmina

• Lovegood, Mr.

• McGonagall, Minerva

• Norris, Mrs.

• Riddle, Tom Marvolo (as You-Know-Who)

• Trelawney, Professor

• Umbridge, Dolores Jane

• Winky

• (unnamed student) first-year hit by one of Peeves' ink pellets

• (unnamed) the other Hogwarts house-elves

• (unnamed) trolls that Barnabas the Barmy tried to train for the ballet

Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:

• Hogwarts School of Witcraft and Wizardry

  • Charms classroom

  • greenhouses

  • Gryffindor Tower common room

  • Quidditch locker room

  • Quidditch pitch

  • Room of Requirement

  • unused first floor classroom

• Azkaban

• Hogsmeade: Hog's Head

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

  • Hufflepuff dormitories

  • kitchens

  • Ravenclaw Tower

Exceptional character moments:

• Dobby, who doesn't mind doing all the work of cleaning Gryffindor Tower - and accepting Hermione's elf-clothing.

• Hermione, whose doubts about the Room of Requirement vanish when she finds it full of hundreds of books.

• The Hogwarts house-elves, who find Hermione's continual efforts to give them clothes insulting.

Spells and Potions:

• Accio (Summoning Charm)

• Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts

• Expelliarmus (Disarming Charm)

• Impervius

• Silencio (Silencing Charm)

Links and Resources:

• Bestiary

  • goblin

  • house-elf

• books

  • Compendium of Common Curses and their Counter-Actions, A

  • Dark Arts Outsmarted, The

  • Jinxes for the Jinxed

  • Self-Defensive Spellwork

• Chocolate Frog Cards

• D.A., the

• Daily Prophet, the

• Department of Mysteries

• essay: Number Twelve, The

• Harry's dreams

• Hogwarts classes

  • Charms

  • Divination

• items and devices, magical

  • Dark Detectors

  • Dungbombs

  • Foe-Glass

  • Invisility Cloak

  • Marauder's Map

  • Secrecy Sensor

  • Sneakoscope

• passwords

• Mimbulus mimbletonia

• Quibbler, the

• Quidditch Handbook

Memorable lines:

• "I can't see any boils," said Ron, staring at the twins.
  "No, well, you wouldn't," said Fred darkly, "they're not in a place we generally display to the public."

Strictly British:

• cupboard

• pastille

Timelines/Calendar:

We know the previous chapter was Monday, 7 October. Since this chapter takes place over the next two days, it must be Tuesday and Wednesday, 8-9 October.