Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Symbolism, Imagery, & Allegory

Phoenixes are magical birds that age, die, and are reborn from their own ashes. They symbolize endurance and new beginnings. Professor Dumbledore has an actual phoenix, Fawkes, who swallows an Avad...

At the front of the Ministry of Magic is a set of five golden figures:Halfway down the hall was a fountain. A group of golden statues, larger than life-size, stood in the middle of a circular pool....

All of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place seems designed to remind Sirius of the dark years of his childhood, with its gloomy, pest-ridden rooms and the Black family tree with his name burned off. But...

Sirius gives Harry two extremely useful gifts over the course of the novel (though Harry only opens the two-way mirror once Sirius has died and it's too late to be helpful). Harry does get a lot of...

The Department of Mysteries is the part of the Ministry of Magic where they study the great, well, mysteries of life. Ron stumbles unluckily into a room full of brains in jars: a place to analyze t...