the order of phoenix

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.
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. 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.
Order members in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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 looking after Sybill Trelawney's prophecy, referring to Voldemort's downfall and Harry's role in defeating him. Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts Grounds Keeper and 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 was 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. 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.
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.
Notable Order members
Albus Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Rubeus Hagrid, and Severus Snape have their own pages. Minerva McGonagall is listed under Hogwarts staff. Most of the members of the Weasley family are part of the Order, as well as James and Lily Potter.
Aberforth Dumbledore

Aberforth Dumbledore is Albus Dumbledore's brother. At Ariana's funeral, he publicly confronted Albus and broke his nose. 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]Harry had earlier seen a photo of the Order of the Phoenix, which included Albus and Aberforth, and they look similar. Albus mentions in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that Aberforth was 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, was his own, which takes the form of a goat. In a Pensieve memory in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Albus informs Voldemort that he is "friendly with the local barmen" when able to inform Riddle that he knows his followers are near by waiting for him. Aberforth is also seen at Albus' funeral at the end of that book.
However, it was not until Deathly Hallows that Aberforth was named directly. He plays an important role by taking Harry, Ron, 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]Aberforth allows the resistance fighters to use a secure passageway from the Hog's Head to the Room of Requirement via Ariana's portrait. Aberforth left the Order, believing the war against Voldemort was lost. According to Rowling, Aberforth survived the battle, and is still "at the Hog's Head, playing with his goats".[6]

Arabella Figg

Arabella Doreen Figg, better known simply as Mrs Figg, surreptitiously watches over Harry Potter while he is at home with the family of his mother's sister, 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. Mrs Figg even belongs to the Order of the Phoenix and functions as one of Albus Dumbledore's liaisons between the magical and Muggle worlds. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore refers to "Arabella Figg" as part of "the old crowd", giving the first clue to her identity.
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. When the Ministry of Magic tries to have Harry expelled from Hogwarts for underage 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. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Mrs Figg attends Dumbledore's funeral at Hogwarts.

Mundungus Fletcher

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". As a member of both the original and the newly reformed Order of the Phoenix, he is assigned guard duty to protect Harry Potter, 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, Mundungus attempts to sell products that promise protection from Death Eaters. Later in that book, Harry catches Mundungus outside of the Three Broomsticks trying to sell Sirius Black's property (which now belongs to Harry after Sirius' death) to Aberforth (who gave him a lifetime ban from the Hog's Head) and the boy confronts him. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Mundungus has managed to get out of prison, but the circumstances are unclear. He was Confunded by Severus Snape, and gives the idea of using the Polyjuice Potion to the Order of the Phoenix and helps with the escort of Harry from Privet Drive. He travels with Mad-Eye Moody on a broomstick. The locket turns out to be the Slytherin's locket Horcrux. Following Snape's death, Harry finds out through the Pensieve that Mundungus helped Snape with Order business even after Snape killed Dumbledore, which did end up benefiting the anti-Voldemort cause.

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. Long after resigning from his post, Lupin remained in the story as a friend to the central character, Harry Potter. 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 gave Harry private lessons in casting the Patronus Charm, to aid him in fighting off the Dementors flanking the Hogwarts grounds. Until the climax of Prisoner of Azkaban, Lupin believed Sirius Black was guilty of betraying James and Lily Potter, and of killing Peter Pettigrew. Upon discovering the truth — that Sirius was innocent, and that the very much alive Peter Pettigrew was the traitor – he helped Sirius to explain the truth to Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Shrieking Shack. While Harry, Ron, and Hermione were distracted by Lupin, Pettigrew assumed his Animagus form and escaped. Severus Snape, furious over Sirius' escape and his resultant loss of the Order of Merlin promised to him by Cornelius Fudge, publicly revealed 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 resigned from his post.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Lupin joins the newly reformed Order of the Phoenix and is part of the 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 of the Phoenix. 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. 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 participated in the battle at the Department of Mysteries where he dueled and overpowered Lucius Malfoy.
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. Later in the book, Lupin informs Harry, Ron and Hermione that Tonks is pregnant, although feeling ashamed that he had 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 of the Phoenix throughout the year. 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 Lestrange, respectively,[1] leaving Teddy an orphan with Andromeda Tonks as his guardian and Harry Potter as his godfather. Rowling has stated that Lupin is the kind of teacher she wishes she had had. [9] Rowling stated 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.
Lupin borrows the name of the other twin, "Romulus," as a nom de guerre in the seventh book. His surname, "Lupin," recalls the English word "lupine" (meaning "characteristic of or relating to wolves"), which in turn is derived from Latin lupus ("wolf").
David Thewlis has portrayed Remus Lupin in the third, and the fifth films of Harry Potter as of 2007, and is slated to appear in the final two films.[13][14]

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. Moody is perhaps the most famous Auror in modern times, single-handedly responsible for capturing numerous wizard criminals. 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 Albus Dumbledore. 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 expected 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, expecting to be rewarded, but he is stopped by Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, and Severus 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.[15]
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the real Moody has joined the newly re-formed Order of the Phoenix, and leads the party transferring Harry from 4 Privet Drive to Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, accompanied by fellow Order members Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, and Kingsley Shacklebolt, among others. 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.

Kingsley Shacklebolt

Kingsley Shacklebolt is a senior Auror, who was acting as informer for the Order within the Ministry of Magic when he was first introduced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when he volunteered to be one of the members of the Advance Guard that escorted Harry from the Dursleys' home to Number 12, Grimmauld Place. Kingsley was in charge of the search for Sirius Black in the Ministry - considered a prestigious job, as Sirius was the most wanted man in wizarding Britain. Knowing Sirius was innocent, he was supplying the Ministry false information that Sirius was in Tibet. He was present in the scene of the fifth book when Harry was confronted about Dumbledore's Army, after Marietta Edgecombe had betrayed it to Dolores Umbridge. Kingsley swiftly modified Marietta's memory, but to escape the Ministry, Dumbledore was forced to hex him too.
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. 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, he continues to help battle Voldemort. Kingsley first appears with other Order members to move Harry from the Dursleys' home to safety in the Burrow. 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.
Nymphadora Tonks

Nymphadora "Dora" Tonks is a Metamorphmagus, an Auror and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Tonks is seen to be notoriously clumsy and unskilled at household spells. 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 studied at Hogwarts and was sorted into Hufflepuff.[17]This means she would have graduated from the school one year before Harry entered.
Tonks is introduced early as a member of the Order in the fifth book. 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 hospital.
During Harry Potter and the 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 was revealed that Tonks had fallen in love with Remus Lupin, and her Patronus had, as a result of this, changed to the form of a werewolf. Early in Harry Potter and the 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 recently married Lupin. She flies with Ron, who impersonates Harry using Polyjuice Potion in order to throw the Death Eater's off the real Harry's trail. During the aerial battle, Tonks fought Bellatrix once again, and injured her husband, Rodolphus Lestrange. Later in the book, Remus reveals Tonks is pregnant. After a heated argument with Harry however, he returns to her. In April of the seventh book, Tonks gives birth to Teddy Remus Lupin, named for her father and husband. When the Death Eaters attack Hogwarts, Tonks and Lupin join the battle. During the battle, Tonks is killed by her Aunt Bellatrix, and Lupin is killed by Dolohov, leaving Teddy an orphan to be raised by his maternal grandmother, Andromeda.