Order of the Phoenix (organisation)

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Some Order of the Phoenix members in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, from left to right: "Mad-Eye" Moody, Tonks, Sirius, Lupin, and Dumbledore
Order of the Phoenix
Headquarters	12 Grimmauld Place [HP5][HP6] The Burrow [HP7]
Leader(s)	Albus Dumbledore
Intentions	To prevent Lord Voldemort from carrying out his plans for world conquest
Enemies	Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters; Previously: Ministry of Magic
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Order of the Phoenix is a fictional organisation in the Harry Potter series of books written by J. K. Rowling. Founded by Albus Dumbledore to fight Lord Voldemort and his followers, the Death Eaters, the Order lends its name to the fifth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Contents 1 Synopsis 1.1 Relations with the Ministry 2 Members of the Order 2.1 Original 2.2 Members of the Reconstituted Order 3 Notable Order members 3.1 Fleur Delacour 3.2 Aberforth Dumbledore 3.3 Arabella Figg 3.4 Mundungus Fletcher 3.5 Remus Lupin 3.6 Alastor Moody 3.7 Kingsley Shacklebolt 3.8 Nymphadora Tonks 3.9 Arthur Weasley 3.10 Molly Weasley 3.11 Bill Weasley 3.12 Charlie Weasley 4 References 5 External links

Synopsis

When the character of Tom Riddle began to use the name of Lord Voldemort and declared war on the wizarding world, Dumbledore attempted to take control of the situation by founding the Order of the Phoenix. Several characters joined the organisation, seeking with this to prevent Voldemort taking over the wizarding world and establish a new world order. During this time, prior to the events of the first Harry Potter book, the Order sustained heavy losses, including the murders of the Prewetts, the Bones, and the McKinnons, and the permanent incapacitation of the Longbottoms at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange and other Death Eaters. Voldemort's first reign of terror ended with the murders of James and Lily Potter, and the unsuccessful attempt to murder Harry Potter at the beginning of the series. This severely diminished Voldemort's powers, and thus the Order was disbanded.

However, towards the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore called for its reinstitution due to Voldemort's return. Many of the original members returned; they were soon joined by new recruits who effectively replaced those who had died in service during the first war. The Order established their headquarters at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black's family home, during the interval between the fourth and fifth books in the series. Dumbledore was the Secret-Keeper for the Order, meaning that only he could reveal the location of the Order’s headquarters at Grimmauld Place to others. Dumbledore's death at the hands of Severus Snape in book six made the location vulnerable and it was abandoned in favour of The Burrow.^[HP7]

The Order led the fight against Voldemort during the fifth instalment as the Ministry of Magic first refused to accept that the Dark Lord had returned. In the fifth book, some Order members took turns guarding Sybill Trelawney's prophecy, referring to Voldemort's downfall and Harry's role in defeating him. Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts Grounds Keeper and an original Member of the Order, was accompanied by Olympe Maxime in an attempt to recruit the giants to the Order's cause. Some members also participated in a battle at the Department of Mysteries near the end of the fifth book. Order members also patrolled Hogwarts, the fictional Wizarding school, on the night of Dumbledore's death in Half-Blood Prince, fighting the Death Eaters who managed to enter the castle.

In the series finale, attention turned to escorting the Death Eaters' main target, Harry Potter, from the Dursleys' home to the Burrow. Later in the novel, some Order members hosted "Potterwatch", a secretive radio program providing news on the Wizarding World that Voldemort's regime did not want the people to know. During the climax of the book, most of the Order, aided by Dumbledore's Army, the Hogwarts staff and the elder students, fought against the Death Eaters in the Battle of Hogwarts, in which several Order members and other allies were killed. As the Order was created primarily to combat Voldemort and his Death Eaters, it is unknown if the Order stayed together after Voldemort's death at the end of the story, or whether it disbanded as it had after Voldemort's first fall.

Relations with the Ministry

Although Dumbledore and the original members of the Order had, for some time, anticipated the return of Voldemort, members of the Ministry of Magic - most notably the Minister for Magic himself, Cornelius Fudge - were not convinced. Fudge believed that Dumbledore was spreading rumours in an attempt to undermine his authority. It is noted that Fudge became increasingly jealous of Dumbledore's popularity in the Wizarding World, and came to believe that Dumbledore sought the position of Minister for Magic.

Dumbledore, however, was vindicated when Voldemort was finally seen in the Ministry of Magic itself. Fudge was replaced as Minister for Magic by Rufus Scrimgeour, former head of the Auror Department, three days before the beginning of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Members of the Order

Original

The following characters were members of the Order of the Phoenix during Lord Voldemort's initial rise to power and several years prior to the main events of the Harry Potter series. Many of these characters later served as members of the revived Order.

Character	Accomplishments and Operations
Sirius Black	Escaped from Azkaban and proceeded to serve in the revived Order. Helped defeat two Death Eaters in battle. Killed by his infamous cousin Bellatrix Lestrange, in a battle within the Department of Mysteries.
Edgar Bones	Murdered along with his wife and children by Death Eaters during the first Wizarding War. Edgar Bones was the brother of the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement Amelia Bones. His niece, Susan Bones, is a Hufflepuff student in Harry Potter's year.
Caradoc Dearborn	Went missing during the First Wizarding War, presumably killed by Death Eaters.
Dedalus Diggle	Met Harry Potter several times before it was revealed that he was a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Diggle was part of the Advance Guard who helped Harry escape from the Dursleys' house in the fifth book. In the final instalment of the series, he helped take the Dursleys to a protected area. The Death Eaters later burned his house in a raid. Diggle was unharmed.
Elphias Doge	Dumbledore's schoolmate. He wrote an obituary of Dumbledore for The Daily Prophet and openly defended Dumbledore's integrity during the final instalment of the series.
Aberforth Dumbledore	Bartender of the The Hog's Head in Hogsmeade village and member of the revived Order. Able to obtain useful information for the Order due to his post. Assisted Harry in avoiding Death Eaters and entering Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows. Sent Dobby to rescue Harry and other prisoners from the cellar of Malfoy Manor. He also helped defend the school during the Battle of Hogwarts, defeating Augustus Rookwood.
Albus Dumbledore	Founder of the original Order and revived it following Voldemort's return to power.
Benjy Fenwick	Blasted to pieces by Death Eaters. Only "bits of him" were recovered.
Arabella Figg	An elderly female Squib, who was enlisted by Dumbledore to watch over Harry during his childhood from her home in his neighbourhood. She later told Harry that she regretted treating him poorly when he visited her, but that she had to keep the Dursleys from suspecting anything. Served in the revived Order.
Mundungus Fletcher	Thief and con man who Dumbledore once helped "out of a tight spot" and in return kept Dumbledore notified of things he would hear from the criminal element of the Wizarding World. He was a reluctant member of the group sent to retrieve Harry in Deathly Hallows and panicked when Voldemort pursued him, dis-apparating to an unknown location and leaving Alastor Moody to be killed by Voldemort.
Rubeus Hagrid	Care of Magical Creatures Teacher at Hogwarts as well as Keeper of Keys and Grounds. Served in the revived Order. During the escape from the Dursleys, the real Harry and Hagrid were both nearly killed in the crash of the flying motorcycle.
Frank and Alice Longbottom	Tortured to insanity by a group of Death Eaters led by Bellatrix Lestrange after Voldemort was first defeated. They are revealed to be under treatment in the wizarding hospital, St Mungo's, in the fourth book.
Remus Lupin	A member of the first order, also served in the revived Order as an integral part of the Advance Guard sent to safeguard Harry Potter, as he was someone whom Harry would recognize and instantly trust. Later went underground to infiltrate the Werewolf community, to see whose side they would take in the war. Killed by Antonin Dolohov in the Battle of Hogwarts.[1]
Minerva McGonagall	Deputy Headmistress, Transfiguration professor, and Head of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts. Also served in the revived Order. Extremely supportive of Dumbledore and his ideals. Led the defence of the castle during the Battle of Hogwarts, and near the end, fought Voldemort along with Kingsley Shacklebolt and Horace Slughorn.
Marlene McKinnon	Killed by Death Eaters (among them Travers, according to Igor Karkaroff) together with her whole family.
Dorcas Meadowes	The only known member of the Order apart from James and Lily Potter who was personally killed by Lord Voldemort during the first War.
Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody	A member of the original Order during the first Wizarding War. Also rejoined to serve in the revived Order. Killed by Voldemort as he accompanied a fake Harry Potter to a safehouse.
Peter Pettigrew	Defected to the Death Eaters and betrayed James and Lily Potter, which resulted in their deaths. Killed by his own magical hand, which had been fashioned for him by Voldemort, for showing mercy to Harry and Ron.
Sturgis Podmore	A member of the Ministry of Magic who guarded the Prophecy until he was arrested by a Ministry security guard for trying to break into the Department of Mysteries. For this, he was sentenced to Azkaban for six months. Harry, Ron and Hermione speculated that Lucius Malfoy had placed him under the Imperius Curse.
James and Lily Potter	Killed by Voldemort, who was attempting to kill their one year old son Harry.
Fabian & Gideon Prewett	Molly Weasley's brothers, killed during the First War. It took five Death Eaters (including Antonin Dolohov) to kill the two of them. Molly gave Harry Fabian's watch as his seventeenth birthday gift.
Severus Snape	Served in the revived Order acting as a spy. Killed in the Battle of Hogwarts by Nagini because Voldemort believed Snape to be the rightful owner of the Elder Wand.[2]
Emmeline Vance	Part of the Advance Guard that helped Harry in his escape from the Dursleys in the fifth book. Death Eaters killed her in the summer of 1996 on information Snape claims to have given, as described in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. However, as Snape was revealed to have been working on Dumbledore's side all along in Deathly Hallows, it raises doubts as to whether he really did provide information that could have been used to kill her.

Members of the Reconstituted Order

These characters joined the Order when Dumbledore revived it after Lord Voldemort's return at the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Character	Accomplishments and Operations
Fleur Delacour	Helped move Harry from the Dursleys' to The Burrow in Deathly Hallows. Fought in the Battle of Hogwarts.
Hestia Jones	Part of the advance guard that helped Harry in his escape from the Dursleys in the fifth book. She then escorts the Dursleys into hiding at the beginning of the final book, along with Dedalus Diggle. Hestia is surprised to know that the Dursleys are unaware of Harry's importance in the anti-Voldemort movement, and later confronts them for the treatment they give to the boy.
Kingsley Shacklebolt	An Auror, member of The Advance Guard, secretary/bodyguard for the Muggle Prime Minister, and part of the group that battled the Death Eaters in the Ministry at the end of Order of the Phoenix. Helped organise the Order members and students and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, near the end of the battle fighting Voldemort himself. After Voldemort's death, he became the acting Minister of Magic.
Nymphadora Tonks	Was a member of the Advance Guard, and a part of the group that battled the Death Eaters in the Ministry at the end of Order of the Phoenix. Later fought Death Eaters during the first attack on Hogwarts. Helped move Harry from the Dursleys to The Burrow in Deathly Hallows. Finally killed during the Battle of Hogwarts by her aunt, Bellatrix Lestrange.
Arthur Weasley	Assisted the Order by helping contact people who would believe Dumbledore and Harry's story in Order of the Phoenix. Bitten by Nagini while guarding the door to the Department of Mysteries in Order of the Phoenix. Helped move Harry from the Dursleys to The Burrow in Deathly Hallows. Fought against Pius Thicknesse, alongside his third son, Percy Weasley, in the Second Battle of Hogwarts.
Molly Weasley	Helped guard the Department of Mysteries in Order of the Phoenix; allowed the Order to use her house as headquarters in Deathly Hallows, and killed Bellatrix in the Battle of Hogwarts.[3]
Bill Weasley	Curse-breaker for Gringotts Wizarding Bank, thus becoming a go-between for the Order and the Goblin community. Attacked and scarred by Fenrir Greyback during first Battle of Hogwarts. Helped move Harry from the Dursleys to The Burrow in Deathly Hallows. Fought in the Battle of Hogwarts.
Charlie Weasley	Assigned to recruit foreign Order members during the summer of 1996. Led reinforcements, along with Horace Slughorn, in the Battle of Hogwarts.
Fred Weasley	Helped move Harry from the Dursleys' to The Burrow in Deathly Hallows. Radio contributor on "Potterwatch" under the nom de guerre Rapier. Killed during the Battle of Hogwarts.
George Weasley	Helped move Harry from the Dursleys' to The Burrow in Deathly Hallows. Was wounded, by accident, by Severus Snape while on a broomstick; his ear was severed. Fought in the Battle of Hogwarts and defeated Yaxley alongside Lee Jordan.

Notable Order members

This is a list of notable members of the Order of the Phoenix. Albus Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Rubeus Hagrid, and Severus Snape have their own pages. Minerva McGonagall is listed under Hogwarts staff. James and Lily Potter are listed under Potter family.

Fleur Delacour

Fleur Isabelle Delacour is a student of Beauxbatons Academy in France, and is selected as a champion in the prestigious Triwizard Tournament. Her mother is the daughter of a Veela, from whom Fleur and her younger sister, Gabrielle Delacour, inherited their silvery-blonde hair, pale eyes, good looks, and ability to entrance men. During the Triwizard Tournament, Fleur is initially aloof and unfriendly. During the second task of the Tournament, she attempts to rescue her sister from the lake, but fails. When Harry rescues Gabrielle instead, Fleur becomes much warmer towards both Harry and Hogwarts in general. Fleur takes last place in the Triwizard Tournament, due to disguised Death Eater Barty Crouch Jr stunning her when she passes by the area of the maze that he is watching. It is during the Triwizard Tournament when Fleur meets Bill Weasley, to whom she later becomes engaged after working together during the next year in Gringotts. Bill is attacked by werewolf Fenrir Greyback near the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. However, since Greyback is in his human form at the time of the attack, Bill suffers only partial lycanthropy contamination. The wedding plans, however, remained unchanged; this attitude earns her a lot of respect from Bill's otherwise disapproving family.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Fleur and Bill take part in the operation to escort Harry safely to the Burrow, and they witness Mad-Eye Moody being killed by Voldemort himself. The couple have their wedding at the Burrow, but the event is interrupted when Death Eaters attack at the wedding reception after the fall of the Ministry of Magic. The newlyweds later provide a safe haven for the trio and some others in Shell Cottage, their home, after the refugees narrowly escape Malfoy Manor. Both Bill and Fleur are combatants for the Order during the Battle of Hogwarts, and survive the battle. The couple have three children: Victoire, Dominique and Louis.^[4]

Clémence Poésy appeared as Fleur in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Aberforth Dumbledore

Aberforth Dumbledore is Albus Dumbledore's brother. He is the younger by some three years, and the less skilled of the two; as such, he is usually left in the background while his brother basks in glory. He is known for his strong affinity for goats. After his parents' death, he becomes the caretaker of his younger sister Ariana. On one occasion, Aberforth gets into an argument with his brother and his brother's friend, Gellert Grindelwald, which results in Ariana's accidental death. At Ariana's funeral, he publicly confronts Albus and breaks his nose by punching him.

Rowling admitted in an interview, in response to a question by a reader, that Aberforth is the bartender Harry saw at the Hog's Head pub in Hogsmeade.^[5] There are hints that Aberforth is the bartender appearing in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Harry notes a "strong odour of goats" in the Hog's Head Inn (in the film version the bartender was seen with a goat), and that the barman looked familiar. Harry has earlier seen a photo of the Order of the Phoenix, which includes Albus and Aberforth, and they look similar. Albus mentions in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that Aberforth is arrested for "performing inappropriate charms" on a goat. Another link to his goat history is in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when he tries to convince the Death Eaters that Harry's Patronus, a stag, is his own, which takes the form of a goat. Aberforth is also seen at Albus' funeral at the end of the sixth book.

However, it is not until Deathly Hallows that Aberforth was named directly. He plays an important role by taking Harry, Ron, and Hermione into his bar before the Death Eaters can arrest them. Aberforth later reveals to the trio some facts they did not know about the history of the Dumbledore family. In addition, it is also revealed that he purchased Sirius Black's two-way mirror from Mundungus Fletcher in the previous book.^[1] Harry briefly glimpses Aberforth's eye in its counterpart's remaining shard while being held prisoner in Malfoy Manor. Using the mirror to watch over the trio, Aberforth sends Dobby to rescue them and some other prisoners from the Manor.

Aberforth allows the resistance fighters to use a secure passageway from the Hog's Head to the Room of Requirement via Ariana's portrait. The same passage is used to evacuate underage students from Hogwarts, and, according to Neville, it was also used by members of Dumbledore's Army to get food when they were living in the Room of Requirement. Aberforth leaves the Order, believing the war against Voldemort is lost. However, he quickly joins the Battle of Hogwarts, and is last seen stunning Augustus Rookwood. According to Rowling, Aberforth survives the battle, and is still "at the Hog's Head, playing with his goats".^[6]

Jim McManus appeared as Aberforth in a brief cameo in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.^[7]

Arabella Figg

Arabella Doreen Figg, better known simply as Mrs Figg, surreptitiously watches over Harry while he is at home with the Dursleys. She is a Chekhov's gun, first mentioned as a neighbour who takes care of Harry in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. She has a lifelong love of cats and does "a roaring trade" in crossbred Cats and Kneazles, their magical variant.^[8] Though she maintains a good Muggle cover, Mrs Figg is actually a Squib, a non-magical being born to a family of wizards. Within the Order of the Phoenix, Mrs Figg functions as one of Dumbledore's liaisons between the magical and Muggle worlds. In Order of the Phoenix, she aids Harry after he and his cousin Dudley Dursley are attacked by two Dementors, and chooses to reveal herself to him. Mrs Figg explains to Harry that she deliberately made Harry's stays with her unpleasant so that the Dursleys would continue to send him to her. When the Ministry of Magic tries to have Harry expelled from Hogwarts for under-age use of magic (after he cast a Patronus charm in order to protect himself and his cousin) Mrs Figg's testimony before the Wizengamot is crucial in allowing Harry to stay at Hogwarts. However, according to Rowling, Squibs are actually incapable of seeing Dementors.^[8] In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Mrs Figg attends Dumbledore's funeral at Hogwarts.

Mrs Figg was portrayed by Kathryn Hunter in the film adaptation of Order of the Phoenix.

Mundungus Fletcher

Mundungus "Dung" Fletcher is mentioned in passing in some of the earlier books in the series, but it is not until the second chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that he makes his first appearance. Mundungus is described as a "squat, unshaven man" with "short, bandy legs", "long, straggly ginger hair", and "bloodshot, baggy eyes that gave him the doleful look of a basset hound". He is involved in many illegal activities, yet he seems confined to relatively minor crimes, such as theft and trading stolen goods on the black market. Many members of the Order have mixed feelings about him, but he is very loyal to Dumbledore, who once got him out of serious trouble. His connections enable him to hear rumours and information rolling around the shadier segments of the wizarding population, which could potentially prove instrumental in the fight against Voldemort.

As a member of both the original and the newly reformed Order of the Phoenix, he is assigned guard duty to protect Harry, but abandons his position to conduct a shady cauldron-trading deal, leaving a critical opening through which Dementors sent by Dolores Umbridge manage to attack Harry. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry catches Mundungus outside of the Three Broomsticks trying to sell Sirius Black's property (which now belongs to Harry after Sirius's death) to Aberforth, and the boy confronts him. Mundungus goes into hiding but is later jailed in Azkaban for impersonating an Inferius during a botched robbery.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Mundungus has managed to get out of prison, but the circumstances are unclear. He is Confunded by Snape, and gives the idea of using the Polyjuice Potion to the Order and helps with the escort of Harry from Privet Drive. He travels with Mad-Eye Moody on a broomstick. Though he does flee during the flight from Privet Drive, he only does so when Voldemort himself shows up- not when the fighting initially starts. It is later revealed by Kreacher that, in addition to the property he stole from 12 Grimmauld Place in the previous book, he also took a heavy locket from the drawing room. The locket turns out to be the Slytherin's locket Horcrux. Kreacher is tasked with, and succeeds in capturing Mundungus, who is forced to reveal the locket was taken from him by Umbridge.

Remus Lupin

Remus John Lupin, nicknamed Moony, first appears in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and, unknown to the students, a werewolf. He makes his first appearance on the Hogwarts Express when a Dementor appears on the train and Lupin drives it away. During his tenure, he gives Harry private lessons in casting the Patronus Charm, to aid him in fighting off the Dementors flanking the Hogwarts grounds. His students, except a few from Slytherin, hold him in extremely high regard and loved his hands-on teaching style. Until the climax of Prisoner of Azkaban, Lupin believes Sirius is guilty of betraying James and Lily, and of killing Peter Pettigrew. Upon discovering the truth – that Sirius is innocent, and that the very much alive Peter Pettigrew is the traitor – he helps Sirius to explain the truth to Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Shrieking Shack. However, Remus has forgotten to take the Wolfsbane potion and so transforms into a werewolf without retaining control of his actions. Snape, furious over Sirius's eventual escape and his resultant loss of the Order of Merlin promised to him by Cornelius Fudge, publicly reveals the nature of Lupin's lycanthropy. Anticipating a public outcry in response to a Werewolf teaching at Hogwarts and fearing for the students' safety, Lupin resigns from his post.

Long after resigning from his post, Lupin remains in the story as a friend to Harry. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Lupin joins the newly reformed Order of the Phoenix and is part of the advance guard which escorts Harry from the Dursley family home in the book's opening chapters. Lupin lives in Grimmauld Place, the headquarters of the Order. Despite this, he is rarely to be seen in the old mansion as he is often away performing secret tasks for the Order. Later in the book, Harry sees a young Lupin attending Hogwarts with his best friends through Snape's memory. Here Harry watches his father bully a school aged Snape. Lupin does not participate in said bullying and gives several small indications that he disapproved of James's behaviour. When Harry confronts Lupin about the scene he witnessed in the Pensieve, Lupin expresses regret at never having had the courage to tell his friends when they were "out of order". Later, Lupin participates in the battle at the Department of Mysteries where he duels and overpowers Lucius Malfoy. He witnesses the death of Sirius and attempts to prevent a distraught Harry from putting himself in danger by attacking Sirius's murderer, Bellatrix Lestrange. However Harry is able to shake him off.

At the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it is revealed that Nymphadora Tonks has fallen in love with Lupin, despite a thirteen-year age gap. He resists becoming involved with her because of the many risks posed by his lycanthropy, and insists that she deserves someone "young and whole". However, by the opening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it is revealed that Lupin and Tonks have married. Later in the book, Lupin informs Harry, Ron and Hermione that Tonks is pregnant, although feeling ashamed that he has turned Tonks into an outcast and that his unborn child would have a high chance of inheriting lycanthropy, so plans to leave Tonks and his unborn child. This results in an intense argument between Lupin and Harry. Eventually, he recognises the truth in Harry's words and returns to his wife in time for the birth of his son, Teddy Remus Lupin. Lupin remains active in the Order throughout the year. He is often heard providing the casualty reports section on the pirate radio station Potterwatch under the pseudonym of Romulus. Lupin commands a group of defenders on the school grounds during the Battle of Hogwarts and is last mentioned duelling Antonin Dolohov. Both Lupin and Tonks die in combat, killed by Dolohov and Bellatrix, respectively,^[1] leaving Teddy an orphan with Andromeda Tonks as his guardian and Harry as his godfather. Rowling has since stated that she originally intended for both Lupin and Tonks to survive,^[9] but finally killed them off to compensate for the last-minute reprieve she gave to Arthur Weasley when he survives a snake attack in Order of the Phoenix.^[10][11] He makes one last appearance before Harry is struck down by the Killing Curse when the latter activates the Resurrection Stone to bring forth his parents, Sirius, and Lupin to comfort him. Lupin apologises that Teddy will never know his father, but that he will know why he died: trying to make a world in which his son could live a better life.

Rowling has stated that Lupin is the kind of teacher she wishes she had had. He is good-natured, kind, and able to extract the best in everyone. Rowling explained that his status as a werewolf made him unemployable, and worked as a full-time member of the Order after graduating from Hogwarts instead, while being financially supported by his friend, James.^[12][13]

In the film series, Lupin is portrayed by David Thewlis as an adult, and by James Utechin as a teenager.

Alastor Moody

Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody is an ex-Auror working for the Order of the Phoenix. Moody's character is portrayed as a teacher of Defence against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts in Goblet of Fire. It is not revealed until the climax of the book that the teacher is actually an impostor and the real Alastor Moody has been imprisoned in a magical trunk for most of that time.

Moody is perhaps the most famous Auror in the modern times of the Wizarding World, single-handedly responsible for capturing numerous wizard criminals. He is also said never to have killed his quarry, even when permitted to do so, unless he had no other choice. Moody's face is badly scarred, described as looking as if a person with only the crudest understanding of the human face had carved it out of weathered wood. He has lost several body parts, including his left eye, right lower leg, and part of his nose, in fighting practitioners of the Dark Arts, and is cautious - some characters might say paranoid - in that he refuses to eat or drink food which he has not himself prepared. His magical eye can rotate 360 degrees and see through almost everything (including walls, doors, Invisibility Cloaks, and the back of his own head). He walks with a pronounced limp due to his prosthetic leg, and uses a walking staff.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Moody is appointed as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, coming out of retirement as a favour to Dumbledore. Shortly before the school year begins, however, Moody is attacked by Barty Crouch Jr, who subdues him with the Imperius Curse and takes Polyjuice Potion to assume his appearance. He keeps the real Moody alive so that he can be interrogated about his mannerisms and memories, and takes Moody's place at Hogwarts teaching Defence Against The Dark Arts. Moody's well-known habit of carrying around his own drinks in a private hip flask allows Crouch to take the Polyjuice Potion as needed without raising suspicion. The pseudo Moody becomes noted for teaching and demonstrating otherwise higher-level topics to Harry's fourth-year class, such as the Unforgivable Curses and being a demanding teacher who expects students to work, as well as punishing Draco Malfoy by transforming him into a ferret. Crouch/Moody also mentors Harry, encouraging and tutoring him in the three Tournament tasks. After Harry unexpectedly returns alive from the graveyard battle with Voldemort, Crouch/Moody takes Harry back to his office, questions him about Voldemort and the graveyard, and reveals that he is in fact working on Voldemort's behalf. He then prepares to kill Harry but he is stopped by Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape. Having neglected to take his hourly dose of Polyjuice potion, Crouch transforms back to his own appearance and, under the influence of Veritaserum potion, confesses everything. Dumbledore then rescues the real Moody from his magic trunk.^[14]

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the real Moody has joined the newly re-formed Order, and leads the party transferring Harry from 4 Privet Drive to Number Twelve Grimmauld Place. He appears at the climax of that book, arriving to the battle at the Department of Mysteries after being tipped off by Snape. He also appears with Lupin and Tonks at the very end, when they give the Dursleys a warning concerning their treatment of Harry.^[15] Moody's appearance in Half-Blood Prince is minimal, appearing only as a cameo at Dumbledore's funeral. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Moody is killed by Voldemort; falling off his broom after he is abandoned by Mundungus Fletcher, who is acting as a decoy. The survivors are unable to recover his body, but later his eye is found by Harry upon Dolores Umbridge's door, being used as a security measure. Harry retrieves the eye, disgusted that it would be used in such a way, and later buries it at the base of an old tree in Mad-Eye's memory.

Moody is portrayed by Brendan Gleeson in the film series.

Kingsley Shacklebolt

Kingsley Shacklebolt is a senior Auror, who acts as informer for the Order within the Ministry of Magic. He is first introduced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when he volunteers to be one of the members of the Advance Guard that escorted Harry from the Dursleys' home to Number 12, Grimmauld Place. Kingsley is in charge of the search for Sirius in the Ministry; however, knowing Sirius is innocent, he is supplying the Ministry false information that Sirius is in Tibet. He is present in the scene of the fifth book when Harry is confronted about Dumbledore's Army, after Marietta Edgecombe betrays it to Dolores Umbridge. Kingsley swiftly modifies Marietta's memory, but to avoid suspicion from the Ministry, Dumbledore is forced to hex him too as he flees.

Kingsley takes part in the battle at the Department of Mysteries, and appears to be very skilled at duelling as he is seen fighting two Death Eaters at once. However, after Sirius is killed, he continues the duel with Bellatrix Lestrange, during which Kingsley is hit by a spell that causes a "loud bang" and he hits the ground "yelling in pain". In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the new Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, appoints Kingsley to the Muggle Prime Minister's office. Posing as a secretary, Kingsley is actually the Prime Minister's guard, assigned to protect him from possible attacks by the Death Eaters.

It is revealed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that Kingsley is the only wizard that the Dursleys seem to like, due to his skill at blending in well with Muggles and his calm, collected demeanor. In that book, Kingsley first appears with other Order members to move Harry from the Dursleys' home to safety in the Burrow. Later in the book, he manages to send a timely warning to Bill and Fleur's wedding when Voldemort overthrows the Ministry of Magic, giving the guests a chance to escape. He continues to guard the Prime Minister, but is eventually forced to flee. He later is heard preaching equal rights for Muggles and Wizards on the radio show "Potterwatch" under the pseudonym "Royal". Kingsley is a leading figure in the Battle of Hogwarts, where he is first seen organising those who remained to fight. He is later seen duelling an unnamed Death Eater, and ends up confronting Voldemort himself, alongside Minerva McGonagall and Horace Slughorn. Kingsley is appointed temporary Minister for Magic following the death of Voldemort and the deposing of Voldemort's puppet ruler, Pius Thicknesse. However, it was later revealed by Rowling in an interview that Kingsley did become the new Minister for Magic permanently.^[1] He revolutionised the Ministry: some of his accomplishments include removing the Dementors from Azkaban prison and advancing the Auror department, through appointing Harry as department head.

George Harris appeared as Kingsley in the film adaptation of Order of the Phoenix.

Nymphadora Tonks

Nymphadora "Dora" Tonks is a Metamorphmagus, an Auror, and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. She is described as having "a pale heart-shaped face, dark twinkling eyes, and short spiky hair that was a violent shade of violet" (though she quickly changes the colour to bubblegum pink). Tonks is seen to be notoriously clumsy and unskilled at household spells. She despises her given name and prefers to be called by her surname alone. Her mother is Andromeda Black, sister to Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy; she is therefore Draco Malfoy's first cousin. Andromeda's family, however, disowned her after she married Muggle-born wizard Ted Tonks, meaning that Nymphadora has had little contact with her extended family. Tonks was sorted into Hufflepuff,^[16] and graduated from Hogwarts one year before Harry entered, after which she begins three years of Auror training; she qualifies as an Auror one year before her first appearance in Order of the Phoenix.

Tonks is introduced early as a member of the Order in the fifth book. At the time, she and Kingsley act as spies for the Order in the Ministry. She helps to escort Harry first from the Dursleys' house to Order headquarters, and later to the Hogwarts Express. Tonks later fights the Death Eaters at the Department of Mysteries, in which she was injured by Bellatrix, and had to be taken to St Mungo's. During Half-Blood Prince, Tonks is stationed at Hogsmeade and assigned to guard Hogwarts. Harry observes she is constantly depressed and rarely smiles. After Dumbledore's death, it is revealed that Tonks has fallen in love with Lupin, and her Patronus has, as a result of this, changed to the form of a werewolf. Lupin is reluctant to return her affections arguing that he is "too old, too poor, and too dangerous" for her. Because of this, she falls into a depression which disturbs her magical abilities. However, at Dumbledore's funeral, Tonks and Lupin are seen holding hands and Tonks' hair has returned to her favoured pink, signifying that she is happy again.

Early in Deathly Hallows, Tonks accompanies twelve Order members to take Harry from the Dursleys' home to The Burrow. Before they leave the Dursleys' home, Tonks announces that she has recently married Lupin. She flies with Ron, who impersonates Harry using Polyjuice Potion in order to throw the Death Eaters off the real Harry's trail. During the aerial battle, Tonks fights Bellatrix once again, and injures her husband, Rodolphus. Later in the book, Remus reveals Tonks is pregnant. He leaves her for a brief period, believing that he, through their marriage, has caused her to become an outcast and their unborn child would be better off without him, but changes his mind and returns to her side after a heated argument with Harry. In April of the seventh book, Tonks gives birth to Teddy Remus Lupin, named after her father and husband. Towards the end of the book, Tonks and Lupin join the Battle of Hogwarts. During the battle, Tonks is killed by Bellatrix, and Lupin is killed by Antonin Dolohov, leaving Teddy an orphan to be raised by his maternal grandmother, Andromeda.^[1] In an interview shortly after the release of Deathly Hallows, Rowling confessed that she had originally intended for Tonks and Lupin to survive the series ending, but felt that she had to kill them after she spared Arthur Weasley in Order of the Phoenix.^[10][11]

Natalia Tena played Tonks in the film versions of Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.

Arthur Weasley

Arthur Weasley is the patriarch of the Weasley family, a family of wizards who are considered "blood traitors" in the Wizarding world. He is married to Molly Weasley with whom he has seven children, including Ron, Harry's best friend. During his time at Hogwarts, Arthur belonged to the house of Gryffindor. Arthur is described as being tall and thin, and as having a receding hairline and wire-rimmed glasses. An affable, light-hearted man, he tends not to be the authority figure in the family; his wife Molly tends to handle that area.

Arthur works for the Ministry of Magic, initially in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office. He is obsessed with learning about Muggle customs and inventions and owns a large collection of mostly Muggle used items. His department lacked funding and his salary is insufficient to provide for a family of nine - leaving his family finances precarious. However, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he has been promoted to Head of the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects. His promotion is accompanied by a pay increase. Mr Weasley first appears in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when Harry stays with the Weasley family during the summer before Hogwarts opens. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it seems that Arthur does not fully believe the stories of Harry's abuse at the hands of the Dursleys until he witnesses what they think about Harry and the Wizarding world, before taking him to the Quidditch World Cup. After that, he takes a more active interest in Harry's welfare.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Mr Weasley is a member of the Order, and during one of his shifts in the Ministry Voldemort's pet snake Nagini attacks him. Harry, who is mentally connected with Voldemort, manages to see this in a vision and is able to warn the Hogwarts authorities. Arthur is subsequently saved just in time and sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. He was originally intended to die in that scene, but Rowling could not bear to kill him.^[17] He was also slated for death in the original draft for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.^[18] Rowling has said that part of the reason she could not kill Arthur as originally planned was that he is one of the only good fathers in the series. However, as she "wanted to kill parents," she spared Arthur's life in exchange for Remus Lupin's and Nymphadora Tonks's.^[19]

Mr Weasley is portrayed by British actor Mark Williams in the film series.

Molly Weasley

Molly Weasley (née Prewett)^[20] is married to Arthur Weasley and mother of seven children. Molly is born into the pure-blood Prewett family, being the sister of Gideon and Fabian Prewett. The character is first introduced in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when she kindly tells Harry how to cross the barrier through to Platform Nine and Three Quarters. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, she is furious with Fred, George, and Ron after she discovers that they flew their parents' enchanted car to rescue Harry from his aunt and uncle who have imprisoned him in his room. At the beginning of the school year, Molly sends Ron a Howler, screaming at him in anger that he and Harry flew the family car again, this time to Hogwarts. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the Weasleys win the Daily Prophet draw and use the gold on a trip to Egypt to visit Bill. They return to Britain and stay at the Leaky Cauldron with Harry and Hermione. Harry overhears Mr and Mrs Weasley arguing one night about telling the truth about the supposed relation between escapee Sirius Black and Harry; Arthur feels Harry should know the truth but Molly, feeling the truth would terrify him, assures him Harry will be perfectly safe at Hogwarts with Dumbledore's protection, and orders Percy Weasley to keep an eye on Harry at the school.

When Harry arrives at the Burrow in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Molly finds out about Fred and George's experimenting with dangerous sweets they were manufacturing and tells them off before leaving for the Quidditch World Cup; however, after the Dark Mark appears over the sky at the World Cup campsite, Molly is upset for yelling at Fred and George, worried that something might happen to them after she treated them so horribly. Towards the climax of that book, Molly and Bill arrive at Hogwarts to see the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament, acting as family guests to Harry. After the return of Voldemort, Dumbledore asks Molly and Bill to join the Order and fight in the impending Second War. Molly comforts Harry and, for the first time in his life, he has someone to be there for him, like a mother.

Molly and the Weasleys are staying at the Order headquarters, Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where she and Sirius fight over how much to tell Harry about the Order's operations. Days later, Molly is found in the drawing room, with a boggart that transforms into her dead family members and Harry, and confesses her nightmares of losing more family members to Voldemort and the Death Eaters. At the beginning of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Molly clashes with Bill's fiancée at this time, Fleur Delacour; however, at the end of the novel, when Molly rushes to Hogwarts with her husband and Fleur to tend to her son Bill, who is ferociously attacked by Fenrir Greyback, Fleur is offended greatly when Molly jumps to the conclusion she will break up with Bill due to his scarring; thus Fleur and Molly begin to see each other in a much more positive light.

At the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Molly and Arthur offer the Burrow as Order headquarters when Grimmauld Place is no longer safe. She feels immensely uncomfortable with the trio's decision to drop out of Hogwarts, and initially attempts to dissuade them from doing so. As the novel progresses, the family is forced to head for safety at Auntie Muriel's home. At the end of the book, Molly and her entire family fight in the Battle of Hogwarts. Upon seeing the death of Fred, she becomes devastated, and is pushed to the edge when Bellatrix Lestrange almost strikes Ginny with the Killing Curse. In great fury, she engages Bellatrix in an intense duel, killing her with a curse that hits Lestrange in the chest.^[21]

Julie Walters has appeared as Mrs Weasley in all films bar the fourth.

Bill Weasley

William Arthur "Bill" Weasley is the eldest son of Arthur and Molly Weasley. He is described to be "hard-working" and "down-to-earth", but possesses a fondness for "a bit of adventure, a bit of glamour".^[22] During his time at Hogwarts, Bill becomes both a prefect and Head Boy, with 12 O.W.L.s to his credit. Later, he works for Gringotts Bank in Egypt as a Curse-Breaker.

He makes his first full appearance in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, where he is described as being a good-looking young man, sporting long red hair tied back in a ponytail and a single fang earring. When Fleur spies Bill at Hogwarts as he and Mrs Weasley paid a visit to Harry during the Triwizard Tournament, she eyes him with "great interest." Bill returns to Britain to work with the Order in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He meets Fleur at Gringotts head office in London where she is employed at the time, giving her lessons to improve her English. After a yearlong relationship, the couple was engaged, and Bill brought his fiancée to get to know his family.

Bill fights in the Death Eaters' attack at Hogwarts near the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but does not escape unscathed, as he is attacked by werewolf Fenrir Greyback. However, since Greyback is in his human form at the time of the attack, Bill suffers only partial lycanthropy contamination. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Fleur and Bill take part in getting Harry escorted safely from the Dursleys' house, and they witness Mad-Eye Moody being killed by Voldemort himself, which they announce upon their return to the Burrow. The couple have their wedding there, and later provide safe haven for the trio and several others in Shell Cottage after they narrowly escape Malfoy Manor. Both Bill and Fleur were combatants for the Order during the Battle of Hogwarts and both survived the battle. Bill and Fleur have three children: Victoire, Dominique and Louis.^[4]

Richard Fish appeared as Bill in a brief cameo in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Charlie Weasley

Charlie Weasley is the second son of Arthur and Molly Weasley and is described as having a build like that of his twin brothers, Fred and George: shorter and stockier. At Hogwarts, he is a prefect,^[23] a Quidditch Captain, and a legendary Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. After school, Charlie chooses to go to Romania to work with dragons as a Dragon Keeper. At Harry, Ron and Hermione's request, he takes Hagrid's baby dragon, Norbert, an illegally hatched Norwegian Ridgeback, into his care in Harry's first year, and his team bring four rare species of dragon to Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament. During the second rise of Voldemort, Charlie's task in the Order is to try to rally support abroad. Charlie returns to the Burrow in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to participate in his brother Bill's wedding as best man. He enters the later part of the Battle of Hogwarts at the head of reinforcements for the Order, and survives the battle without serious injury. He does not marry or have children, due to the fact that he "preferred dragons to women", according to Rowling.^[4]

Alex Crockford appeared as Charlie in a brief cameo in the film adaptation of Prisoner of Azkaban.

References

External links

• Order of the Phoenix on Harry Potter Wiki, an external wiki
• The Harry Potter Lexicon item on the Order of the Phoenix

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