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| Directed by | David Yates |
| Produced by | David Heyman David Barron |
| Written by | Novel: J. K. Rowling Screenplay: Michael Goldenberg |
| Starring | Daniel Radcliffe Rupert Grint Emma Watson Ralph Fiennes Michael Gambon Gary Oldman Imelda Staunton Helena Bonham Carter |
| Music by | Nicholas Hooper Themes by: John Williams |
| Cinematography | Sławomir Idziak |
| Editing by | Mark Day |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) |  United States: Australia:July 11, 2007  United Kingdom:July 12, 2007 |
| Running time | 138 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States
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| Language | English |
| Budget | GB£75&endash;100 million (US$150&endash;200 million) |
| Gross revenue | US$938,468,864 |
| Preceded by | Goblet of Fire |
| Followed by | Half-Blood Prince |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name, by J. K. Rowling. Directed by David Yates, produced by David Heyman\'s company Heyday Films, and written by Michael Goldenberg, it is the fifth film in the Harry Potter film series. The story follows Harry Potter in his fifth year at the magic school Hogwarts. The Ministry of Magic refuses to believe the return of Lord Voldemort and appoints bureaucrat Dolores Umbridge as a teacher at the school.
Live-action filming started in February 2006 and finished in November 2006. Post-production on the film continued for several months afterwards to add in visual effects. The film\'s budget was reportedly between GB£75 and 100 million (US$150&endash;200 million).Cornwell, Tim. "Oscars signal boom (except for Scots)", The Scotsman, 2007-01-24. Retrieved on 2007-01-24. Haun, Harry. "Harry the Fifth", Film Journal International, 2007-06-20. Retrieved on 2007-06-26. Warner Bros., the distributor of the film, released it in the UK on 12 July 2007, and in the US on 11 July, both in conventional and IMAX theatres.
It is the sixth-highest grossing film of all time, and a critical and commercial success, acclaimed by Rowling, who has consistently offered praise for the film adaptations of her work,Potter Power!. Time For Kids. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.Puig, Claudia. "New \'Potter\' movie sneaks in spoilers for upcoming books", USA Today, 2004-05-27. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. "JK \'loves\' Goblet Of Fire movie", BBC Newsround, 2005-11-07. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. as "the best one yet".Grint, Rupert, David Heyman, Emerson Spartz. (2007, July 8). OOTP US Premiere red carpet interviews. MuggleNet. Retrieved on 2007-07-11. In general, critics received the film well. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film "the best of the series so far, [with] the laughs, the jitters and the juice to make even nonbelievers wild about Harry".Travers, Peter. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", Rolling Stone, 2007-06-29. Retrieved on 2007-07-08. The film opened to a worldwide 5-day opening of $333 million, third all-time, and grossed $939 million total, the second to Pirates of the Carribean: At Worlds End for the greatest total of 2007.Worldwide Openings. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2008-03-06.2007 Worldwide Grosses. Box Office Mojo (2008-03-06).
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Harry Potter and his cousin Dudley Dursley are attacked by two Dementors, soul-sucking creatures. Harry casts a Patronus charm to repel them, but soon after the Ministry of Magic detect his underage wizardry and inform him that he has been expelled from Hogwarts. After experiencing horrible nightmares depicting the evil Lord Voldemort\'s return, Harry is awoken by the arrival of an advance guard of wizards who escorts him to headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, a secret organisation founded by Dumbledore. Members of the Order, reveal that under the Ministry\'s influence, the newspaper The Daily Prophet has launched a smear campaign against anyone who claims that Voldemort has returned, leaving Harry feeling isolated and betrayed by the wizarding community.
With the help of Dumbledore and Harry\'s neighbour, Mrs. Figg, Harry\'s name is cleared of all charges at the Ministry and is allowed to return to Hogwarts. Upon entering his fifth year of school, Harry learns that the Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge has appointed a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Dolores Umbridge, a Senior Ministry official who refuses to teach practical magic to her students, out of fear that Dumbledore will organise his own personal wizard army. As Umbridge\'s control over the school increases, Ron and Hermione aid Harry in forming a secret defence group, calling themselves "Dumbledore\'s Army" or DA for short.
During the year, Harry envisions mysterious scenes in his sleep, including a dangerous attack upon Arthur Weasley in the Department of Mysteries. Fearing there may be a connection between Voldemort and Harry\'s mind, Professor Snape immediately initiates Occlumency lessons to close his mind from the Dark Lord\'s influence.
Promoted to High Inquisitor, Umbridge, Filch and her loyal Inquisitorial Squad, including Draco Malfoy, uncover Dumbledore\'s Army after interrogating one of the students, Cho Chang for whom Harry had developed intense feelings. Dumbledore is questioned and makes an impressive escape as Fudge orders his arrest. With Dumbledore gone, Umbridge becomes the new Headmistress, and her sinister dominance over the school continues.
During an O.W.L. exam, Fred and George launch a firework display causing chaos for Umbridge. As the students cheer joyously outside, Harry suffers a vision of Sirius trapped within the bowels of the Ministry. Umbridge, soon after, catches the trio attempting to use the Floo Network, and begins interrogating Harry. Hermione leads Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest in search of a faux weapon when a herd of centaurs emerge and carry the Headmistress into the darkness. Finding Ron and other DA members, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, and Ginny Weasley, they fly to London by winged-horses named Thestrals.
Arriving at the Ministry, the six enter the Department of Mysteries where they uncover a prophecy named after Harry. Transfixed, they soon become ambushed by Death Eaters, including Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange, Sirius\'s deranged cousin. A battle erupts as the Death Eaters try to stop the students from escaping, resulting in Sirius\'s death at Bellatrix\'s hand. Back in the Atrium, Harry corners Bellatrix, where she struggles with his desire to enact the Cruciatus curse. Voldemort himself appears, ready to kill Harry when Dumbledore emerges.
A brief but furious duel between Voldemort and Dumbledore takes place, in which Bellatrix escapes through the Floo Network. When Voldemort disappears, and the battle seems over, Harry suddenly finds himself being possessed -- recalling images of his past, of his family and his friends. Seeing Ron and Hermione across the hall, Harry resists and rebuffs Voldemort, calling Voldemort weak. Before Voldemort can kill Harry, Ministry officials, including Fudge, arrive via the Floo Network, seeing Voldemort with their own eyes. Voldemort promptly disappears.
In the aftermath, the Ministry is forced to end their smear campaign and Umbridge is removed from Hogwarts, awaiting a formal investigation. Dumbledore explains that he had attempted to distance himself from Harry all year, hoping it would bring less risk as Voldemort would not try to invade his mind. The film ends as Harry tells his friends that they have one thing Voldemort does not: love, a power worth fighting for.
David Yates was chosen to direct the film after Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell, as well as Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Matthew Vaughn and Mira Nair, turned down offers.Daly, Steve. "Harry the 5th", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2007-10-08. Yates believed he was approached because the studio saw him fit to handle an "edgy and emotional" film with a "political backstory", which one of his previous projects, the television drama Sex Traffic, demonstrated."How I raised Potter\'s bar", The Observer, 2007-06-24. Retrieved on 2007-06-26. Steve Kloves, the screenwriter of the first four Potter films, had other commitments, and Michael Goldenberg wrote the script for the film.Fienberg, Daniel. "Screenwriter will sit out one \'Potter\'", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2005-11-16. Retrieved on 2008-03-03.
Rehearsals for Order of the Phoenix began on 27 January 2006, filming began on 6 February, and finished in the end of November 2006."Order of the Phoenix Movie Rehearsals Starting", The Leaky Cauldron, 2006-01-27. Retrieved on 2006-12-30. "2006: The Year in Harry Potter Film", The Leaky Cauldron, 2006-12-29. Retrieved on 2006-12-30. Filming was put on a two-month hiatus starting in May 2006 so that Radcliffe could sit his A/S Levels and Watson could sit her GCSE exams."Exclusive: Order of the Phoenix News", Empire, 2006-03-14. Retrieved on 2007-08-02. The film\'s budget was reportedly between GB£75 and 100 million (US$150&endash;200 million). The largest budget of the other films in the series has been the £75 million it cost to make Goblet of Fire."Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2008-03-06.
Mark Day was the film editor, Sławomir Idziak was the cinematographer, and Jany Temime was the costume designer.Warner Bros. (2006-08-02). "Helena Bonham Carter Joins the All-Star Cast and Nicholas Hooper Signs on to Compose the Score of Warner Bros. Pictures\' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Press release. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. Choreographer Paul Harris, who has previously worked with David Yates several times, created a physical language for wand combat to choreograph the wand fighting scenes.About Paul Harris. PaulHarris.uk.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
Stuart Craig returned as set designer, having designed the first four films\' sets."New Interactive OotP Set Preview Photos on MSNBC", The Leaky Cauldron, 2007-02-09. Retrieved on 2007-02-11. There were a number of notable new sets in this film. The atrium in the Ministry of Magic is over 200 feet in length, making it the largest and most expensive set built for the Potter film series to date. Craig\'s design was inspired by early London Underground stations, where, he said, architects "tried to imitate classical architecture but they used ceramic tile", as well as a Burger King on Tottenham Court Road in London, where "there\'s a fantastic Victorian façade which just embodies the age"."Pottering about", The Northern Echo, 2007-06-02. Retrieved on 2007-06-26. Newgen, Heather. "Harry Potter 5 Set Visit - Production Designer Stuart Craig", ComingSoon.net, 2007-06-25. Retrieved on 2007-06-26. The set of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place contains the Black family tapestry spread across three walls; when the producers told Rowling they wanted to visualise the details of each name and birth year, she faxed them a complete copy of the entire tree.""Empire" Magazine Feature on OotP", The Leaky Cauldron, 2007-05-24. Retrieved on 2007-06-26. The set of the Hall of Prophecies was entirely digitally built. During a fight scene which occurs there, prophecies crash to the ground and break; had it been an actual physical set, the reset time would have been weeks.Newgen, Heather. "Harry Potter 5 Set Visit - The Sets", ComingSoon.net, 2007-06-25. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
The set used for Igor Karkaroff\'s trial scene in Goblet of Fire was doubled in size for Harry\'s trial in this film, while still protecting its symmetry. New professor Dolores Umbridge, though she teaches in a classroom that has appeared in films two through four, inhabits an office vastly different from those of her predecessors. The set was redressed with "fluffy, pink filigree" and a number of plates upon which moving kittens were animated in post-production."An Interview with Harry Potter Production Designer Stuart Craig, Part 3", Voices from Krypton, 2006-09-27. Retrieved on 2007-09-28. A 24-hour photo shoot was held to photograph and film the kittens for use on these plates.LeakyMug: Order of the Phoenix Set Visit Transcript. The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet. Retrieved on 2007-09-28. The quill which Umbridge gives Harry to write lines is designed by the set designers.
Though the producers explored options to film outside of the UK, Leavesden Studios in Watford was again the location on which many of the interior scenes, including the Great Hall, Privet Drive and Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place were shot."Sunrise Behind the Scenes of Order of the Phoenix", The Leaky Cauldron, 2006-03-03. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. "New Privet Drive Set Photos from OotP", The Leaky Cauldron, 2006-07-04. Retrieved on 2007-02-24. "Leaky Mug: Order of the Phoenix Set Report", The Leaky Mug, 2006-11-24. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
Locations in England included the River Thames, for the flight of the Order of the Phoenix to Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, and the flight of Dumbledore\'s Army to the Ministry of Magic."Yates comments on OOTP hold-up", MuggleNet, 2005-05-27. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. This sequence also includes such landmarks as the London Eye, Canary Wharf, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and the HMS Belfast.Dhanyasree, M. "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix", One India, 2007-07-20. Retrieved on 2007-10-04. Filming at Platform 9¾ took place at King\'s Cross Station, as it has in the past."Kings Cross, Sunday Sept 3rd", HP4U News, 2006-09-09. Retrieved on 2006-10-24. A telephone booth near Scotland Yard was used as Harry and Arthur Weasley enter the Ministry,"New images from \'Order of the Phoenix\'", HPANA, 2006-10-22. Retrieved on 2006-10-22. while the crew closed the Westminster tube station on 22 October 2006 to allow for filming of Arthur Weasley accompanying Harry to his trial at the Ministry of Magic."Harry Potter rides on London Tube", BBC, 2006-10-22. Retrieved on 2007-04-01. Other scenes were filmed in and around Oxford,Kern, Chris. "Harry Potter\'s Britain", Fandango. Retrieved on 2007-03-08. specifically at nearby Blenheim Palace in Woodstock.Harry Potter pops into palace. Oxford Mail (2006-07-27). Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
Various locations around Scotland were used for exterior shots. Fort William was used to show \'snow-capped mountains and glens\' vital for the opening sequence of the film.Twinch, Emily; Henry Samuel. "Ski Sunday as snow blankets Scotland", The Daily Telegraph, 2006-03-06. Retrieved on 2007-04-01. In Glenfinnan, the Hogwarts Express crosses a viaduct, as it has in the past films."Harry Potter 5 Filming in the West Highlands", ComingSoon.net, 2006-05-25. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. Aerial scenes were shot in Glen Coe, in Clachaig Gully, and Glen Etive, which, at the time of filming, was one of the few places in Scotland without snow, making it ideal for a backdrop.
Several locations were used which do not appear in the final cut of the film. In Virginia Water, scenes were shot where Professor McGonagall recovers from Stunning Spells,"Order of the Phoenix Filming", HP4U News, 2006-08-02. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. and Burnham Beeches was used for filming the scene where Hagrid introduces his fifth-year Care of Magical Creatures class to Thestrals."Order of the Phoenix August Set Report and Pictures", MuggleNet, 2006-08-03. Retrieved on 2006-10-24. Harry skips stones in front of Bonnie Prince Charlie\'s Monument in Glenfinnan in another cut scene.
The film required over 1,400 visual effects shots, and the London-based company Double Negative created more than 950 of them. Working for six months on previsualisation starting in September 2005, Double Negative was largely responsible for sequences in the Room of Requirement, the Forbidden Forest, the Hall of Prophecies, and the Death Chamber.Bielik, Alain. "Order of the Phoenix: Escalating Potter VFX -- Part 1", VFX World, 2007-08-01. Retrieved on 2007-08-02.
A new character in the film, Grawp, Hagrid\'s giant half-brother, came to life by a new technology called Soul Capturing, developed by Image Metrics. Instead of building the character from scratch, the movements and facial expressions of actor Tony Maudsley were used to model Grawp\'s actions.Waxman, Sharon. "Cyberface: New Technology That Captures the Soul" (registration required), The New York Times, 2006-10-15, p. E1. Retrieved on 2007-04-19.
Nicholas Hooper was the composer for the soundtrack of the film, following John Williams, who scored the first three films, and Patrick Doyle, who did the fourth. In the new score, Hooper incorporated variations on "Hedwig\'s Theme", the series\' theme originally written by Williams for the first film and heard in all subsequent ones.Carlsson, Mikael (2007-05-08). "Hooper writes new themes for Potter". Film Music Weekly (14): 4. Retrieved on 2007-05-10. In March and April of 2007, Hooper and the London Chamber Orchestra recorded nearly two hours of music at Abbey Road Studios in London. The score, like the film and book, is darker than previous instalments in the series. To emphasise this, the two new main themes reflect the sinister new character Dolores Umbridge, and Lord Voldemort\'s invasion of Harry\'s mind. A Japanese Taiko drum was used for a deeper sound in the percussion. The soundtrack was released on 10 July 2007, the eve of the film\'s release.""Order of the Phoenix" Soundtrack Due July 10", The Leaky Cauldron, 2007-03-26. Retrieved on 2007-03-26. For his work on the film, Hooper was nominated for a World Soundtrack Discovery Award.
Casting began as early as May 2005, when Radcliffe announced he would reprise his role as Harry.Puig, Claudia. "There\'s no looking back", USA Today, 2005-05-03. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. Across the media frenzy that took place during the release of Goblet of Fire (2005), most of the main returning actors announced their return to the series, including Grint, Watson, Lewis, Wright, Leung, and Fiennes."NR chats to GOF\'s Rupert Grint", BBC, 2005-11-16. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. "NR chats to GOF\'s Emma Watson", BBC, 2005-11-16. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. "Matthew Lewis: Online Q&A session", MuggleNet, 2005-08-25. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. "Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", Scholastic News, 2005-11-26. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. What Katie did. The Star (Malaysia) (2005-11-16). Retrieved on 2006-10-23."Ralph Fiennes on Lord Voldemort", ComingSoon.net, 2005-08-09. Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
A number of characters new to the series appear in the film. Staunton announced she would be playing the major new role of Dolores Umbridge in October 2005,"Top actress \'will play Umbridge\'", BBC, 2005-10-21. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. and the announcements of the casting of the rest of the new characters to the series was spanned across 2006. Lynch won the role of Luna Lovegood over 15,000 other girls who attended the open casting call,"Filming Begins for Harry Potter 5", ComingSoon.net, 2006-02-02. Retrieved on 2006-10-23. waiting in a line of hopefuls that stretched a mile long."Lizo reports from the Luna casting", BBC, 2006-01-15. Retrieved on 2006-10-24.
Beginning in February 2005, persistent rumours linked Elizabeth Hurley to the role of Bellatrix Lestrange, although Warner Bros. asserted there was "no truth whatsoever" to reports that she had been cast."WB: Hurley Not Cast in Fifth Potter Film", The Leaky Cauldron, 2005-02-08. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. "Elizabeth Hurley Rumor Crops Up Again, Crashes and Burns Again", The Leaky Cauldron, 2005-12-22. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. Then, as early as August 2005, rumours began linking Helen McCrory to the role.Cummins. "Exclusive: Helen is New Foe for Harry", The Daily Mirror, 2005-08-02. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. On 2 February 2006 it was announced that McCrory had indeed been cast as Bellatrix."Luna Lovegood role has been cast", CBBC Newsround, 2006-02-02. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. However, in April 2006 she revealed that she was three months pregnant and withdrew from the film because she would not have been able to perform the intense battle sequences in the Ministry of Magic in September and October of 2006. The announcement that Helena Bonham Carter had been recast in the role was made on 25 May 2006."Potter exclusive: New Bellatrix", CBBC [Newsround, 2006-05-25.
The inclusion or cutting of some characters sparked speculation from fans as to the importance of the characters in the final book of the series, which was released just ten days after the film. In April 2006, representatives of Jim McManus said he would be playing Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus\' brother and the barman of the Hog\'s Head, in which Harry and his friends found the D.A. A week later WB announced that the role was "very minor", allaying some of the speculation to the significance of the role, which, before the final book, was not even a speaking part."WB: McManus as Aberforth, "Very Minor Role"", The Leaky Cauldron, 2006-04-26. Retrieved on 2007-08-25. MTV reported in October 2006 that Dobby, a house-elf who appeared in the second film, Chamber of Secrets (2002), and in the fifth book, would be cut, opening up "plot questions" as to how the role of the elf would be filled.Adler, Shawn (2006-10-06). Elf\'s Absence From Next \'Harry Potter\' Flick Opens Up Plot Questions. MTV. Retrieved on 2006-10-06. MTV also reported about a month before the release of the final book that Kreacher, the Black family\'s house-elf, was cut from the film in one draft of the script. However, after Rowling prodded the filmmakers to include him, saying, "You know, I wouldn\'t [cut him] if I were you. Or you can, but if you get to make a seventh film, you’ll be tied in knots", he was added back into the script.Vineyard, Jennifer. "Kreacher Comfort: MTV Solves A ‘Harry Potter’ Mystery", MTV, 2007-06-25. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
Other minor roles were cut with subsequent drafts of the script. At the U.S. premiere of Goblet of Fire, series producer David Heyman said that former Hogwarts professor Gilderoy Lockhart, played by Kenneth Branagh in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), was in the first draft of the script for Phoenix.Anelli, Melissa, David Heyman, Daniel Radcliffe, Miranda Richardson, Tolga Safer, Emerson Spartz. (2005, November 13). "Goblet of Fire" Red Carpet Interviews, Part 2: Interviews filmed with Tolga Safer, David Heyman, Miranda Richardson, and Dan Radcliffe on the red carpet of the US premiere. (QuickTime). The Leaky Cauldron, MuggleNet. Retrieved on 2006-06-06. However, neither Branagh nor the character of Lockhart appears in the final version. Tiana Benjamin was scheduled to return for the film in the role of Angelina Johnson, the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, but she had to withdraw due to a commitment to playing Chelsea Fox in EastEnders. The character, as well as the entire Quidditch subplot, was ultimately cut from the film. She did, however, record sound clips for the Order of the Phoenix video game.Green, Kris. "Tiana Benjamin", Digital Spy, 2007-04-13. Retrieved on 2007-04-15.
The family of footballer Theo Walcott made a cameo role in the film. Theo himself was due to appear as well, though his commitments to Arsenal forced him to pull out."Football Shorts: Theo misses out on Harry Potter film", The Times, 2006-09-24. Retrieved on 2006-10-24.
At 766 pages in the British edition and 870 in the American edition, Order of the Phoenix is the longest Harry Potter book in the series.Daly, Steve. "What Phoenix leaves out", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. Screenwriter Michael Goldenberg described his task to cut down the novel as searching for "the best equivalent way to tell the story. My job was to stay true to the spirit of the book, rather than to the letter".Traister, Rebecca. "Harry Potter and the art of screenwriting", Salon.com, 2007-07-11. Retrieved on 2007-09-15. Goldenberg said that Rowling told him, the producers, and Yates that "she just wanted to see a great movie, and gave [them] permission to take whatever liberties [they] felt [they] needed to take to translate the book into a movie she would love". Cutting down the book to meet the time frame of the film, Goldenberg explained, became "clearer when [he] figured out that the organizing principle of the screenplay was to narrate Harry\'s emotional journey". He and Yates "looked for every opportunity to get everything [they] could in there. And where [they] couldn\'t, to sort of pay homage to it, to have it somewhere in the background or to feel like it could be taking place off-screen".Anelli, Melissa. "Introducing Michael Goldenberg: The OotP scribe on the Harry Potter films, franchise, and fandom", The Leaky Cauldron, 2007-04-09. Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
One cut Goldenberg had to make, which he "hated" to do, was the absence of Quidditch, the wizarding sport. "The truth is that any movie made of this book, whoever made it, that had included the Quidditch subplot would have been a lesser film", he said. In the book, Ron grows as a character by trying out for the Quidditch team. "Ron facing challenges and coming into his own in the same way that Harry is, we tried to get that into the film in other ways, as much as possible. So, you feel like, if not the details of that story, at least the spirit of it is present in the film". The change disappointed Grint who had been "quite looking forward to the Quidditch stuff".Daly, Steve. "\'Phoenix\' Rising", Entertainment Weekly, 2007-04-06. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.
In a significant scene in the book, Harry sees a memory of his own father humiliating Snape in their school days, and Snape insulting his mother after she stood up for him. In the film, it is abbreviated to an "idea", in Goldenberg\'s words. "It\'s an iconic moment when you realize your parents are normal, flawed human beings. … Things get trimmed out, but I kept the meat of that in there — and that was what really gave me the coming-of-age story." Young Lily Potter did not appear at all, but promotional screenshots show unknown teenager Susie Shinner in the role."Magic Parents", Daily Record, 2007-02-04. Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
The scene at St Mungo\'s, the hospital where Harry runs into classmate Neville Longbottom and learns that his parents were tortured into insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange, was cut because it required the construction of a new set. The main purpose of the action of the scene was relocated to the Room of Requirement after one of the D.A. lessons. Also, in order to speed up the film\'s climax, several events in the Ministry leading up to Harry\'s battle with Voldemort were removed, including the brain room. Mrs. Weasley\'s encounter with a boggart at Grimmauld Place, Ron, Hermione and Malfoy becoming prefects, and Firenze teaching Divination followed suit.
The character of Kreacher the house-elf, who was included in the script only at Rowling\'s request, has a larger part in the book than the film. In the novel, he is seen saving some of the Black family\'s artifacts which the Order of the Phoenix throw away, one of which is a locket which becomes extremely important in the seventh book.Rowling, J. K. (2007). Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (in English). London: Bloomsbury/New York City: Scholastic, et al. UK ISBN 1551929767/U.S. ISBN 0545010225, chapter 10. "It was kind of tricky to raise that in our story, because it\'s for so much later", Yates said. "We figured we can probably introduce it later, and that\'s the approach we took". Whilst Kreacher remained, all scenes involving Dobby were cut, and his important actions given to other characters.
Rita Skeeter, the journalist played by Miranda Richardson in Goblet of Fire, was also removed. In the book, Hermione blackmails her into writing articles that support Harry as the rest of the wizarding world denies his claims. Richardson noted that "it\'s never gonna be the book on film, exactly. … They\'ll take certain aspects from the book and make it something that they hope is going to be commercial and that people want to see".Goblet of Fire Red Carpet Interviews, Part 2: Interviews filmed with Tolga Safer, David Heyman, Miranda Richardson, and Dan Radcliffe on the red carpet of the US premiere. (QuickTime). The Leaky Cauldron, MuggleNet. Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
The first trailer was released on November 17 2006, attached to another WB film, Happy Feet. It was made available online on November 20 2006, on the Happy Feet website."Order of the Phoenix Trailer to Show on Happy Feet Website Monday November 20 at 3:00pm (EST)", The Leaky Cauldron, 2006-11-17. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.
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