Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Chapter 23: Christmas on the Closed Ward

Harry begins to suspect that he might be Voldemort’s secret weapon and he tries to stay away from the others. Just as Harry decides to run away, back to Privet Drive so as not to endanger the others, he gets a message from Dumbledore to stay where he is.

He has another dream of going down the corridor toward the plain black door, whch he can’t open.

Hermione turns up at Grimmaud Place, having told her parents she doesn’t want to go on a skiing holiday with them.

Ginny points out to Harry that he is probably not being possessed. She was possessed by Voldemort in the past and his experiences are not like hers at all.

Christmas arrives and there are presents all round. Hermione gives Harry a magical homework planner. Ron gives Hermione perfume.

Hermione makes a quilt for Kreacher. They put it in Kreacher’s cupboard, which is full of junk he has salvaged before it can be thrown out by Sirius and the rest. One of the items is a picture of Bellatrix Lestrange, a dark witch who Harry saw tried through Dumbledore’s Pensieve some years prior. Kreacher seems to have left the house.

The kids visit St. Mungo’s where they find Mr Weasley has had his bandages changed a day early. That happened because he was trying complementary medicine (Muggle stitches – but they dissolve from the snake venom and don’t work well at all.)

They run into Professor Lockhart who is as annoying as ever and starting to regain some of his memory.

Neville is there with his grandmother. They are visiting Neville’s parents, who everybody except Harry thought were dead. In fact, they were tortured to insanity by Death Eaters. In fact, it was Bellatrix Lestrange who performed the Cruciatus Curse on them. For that she was sent to Azkaban.

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