Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Chapter Fifteen:
The Hogwarts High Inquisitor

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

U.S. hardcover edition: pages 306 - 329
U.K. hardcover edition: pages 274 - 294
U.K. paperback edition: pages 340 - 365
Timeframe: 9-10 September, 1995 [Y15]

In which Umbridge is made Hogwarts High Inquisitor, and Harry loses his temper again in Defense Against the Dark Arts, serving another week's detention. Umbridge observes the professors in class, and Ron and Hermione try to convince Harry to give Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons.

Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:

Still to come....

Characters introduced in this chapter:

• None
  

Characters returning in this chapter:

• Brown, Lavender

• Crabbe, Vincent

• Crookshanks

• Finnigan, Seamus

• Goyle, Gregory

• Granger, Hermione

• Grubbly-Plank, Wilhelmina

• Johnson, Angelina

• Jordan, Lee

• Malfoy, Draco

• McGonagall, Minerva

• Patil, Parvati

• Potter, Harry

• Snape, Severus

• Thomas, Dean

• Trelawney, Sybill

• Umbridge, Dolores

• Weasley, Fred

• Weasley, George

• Weasley, Ron

Characters mentioned in this chapter:

• Binns, Professor

• Diggory, Cedric

• Dumbledore, Albus

• Flitwick, Filius

• Fudge, Cornelius

• Hagrid, Rubeus

• Longbottom, Neville

• Lupin, Remus

• Malfoy, Lucius

• Marchbanks, Griselda

• Moody, Alastor (Mad-Eye)

• Ogden, Tiberius

• Quirrell, Professor

• Riddle, Tom Marvolo

• Spinnet, Alicia

• Trelawney, Cassandra

• Weasley, Percy

Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

  • classrooms:

    • Defence Against the Dark Arts

    • Divination, in the North Tower

    • Potions dungeon

    • Transfiguration

  • Great Hall

  • Gryffindor Tower Common Room

  • Umbridge's office

Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:

• Hogsmeade

• Malfoy's Wiltshire Mansion

Exceptional character moments:

• Still to come....

Spells and Potions:

• Reparo

• Strengthening Solution

• Vanishing Spells

Links and Resources:

• Bestiary, the

  • bowtruckle

  • hippogriff

  • murtlap

• D.A., the

• detentions

• Educational Decrees

• essay: N.E.W.T.s and O.W.L.s

• Wizengamot

Memorable lines:

• "T?" asked Hermione, looking appalled. "Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?" "Troll," said George promptly. Harry laughed again, though he was not sure whether or not George was joking. He imagined trying to conceal from Hermione that he had received T's in all his O.W.L.s and immediately resolved to work harder from now on.

• "Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher," said Harry loudly, "there was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head."

Strictly British:

• none

Timelines/Calendar:

The chapter begins at breakfast on Monday morning, the second week of classes. It then covers Harry's classes for Monday and Tuesday, and ends with Hermione asking Harry to teach Defense in the Gryffindor Common Room, Tuesday night. Since the first week of classes began on 2 September, these two days must be the 9th and 10th.