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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

         Harry Potter, stuck once again for two months with his formidable Aunt and Uncle and their son Dudley, cannot understand why nobody, not even his friends, has written him a single letter all summer. Harry wants answers; Where is Voldemort? What are the plans to stop him from gaining more power? Why isn't any one telling him anything?
    But Harry soon finds the answers to all of these questions when a group of wizards come and take him to a secret location. A location where he learns more about Sirius's past, and meets a disgruntled house-elf named Kreacher.
    After a few weeks stay at this secret location, it is time for Harry, Ron, and Hermione to go back to Hogwarts for their 5th year. This 5th year at Hogwarts is particularly detestable as 5th year is the year in which students must take their O.W.L.s. What makes it worse is that this years Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is even worse than Professor Snape. While making Harry as miserable as she can, the new teacher is also helping Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge take control of Hogwarts and discredit Albus Dumbledore.
    Join Harry, Ron, and Hermione, as they prepare for the worst. They must warn everyone they can about Voldemort return, and they must unravel the secret of an unknown weapon that Voldemort so desperately wants. They must do all of this and more, before the 2nd War begins and Voldemort rises to world power once again.

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Facts and Statistics

- First British printing, Bloomsbury Publishing, June, 2003

- Simultaneous First United States printing , Scholastic Inc., 
   June, 2003

- Initial print run of 8.5 million copies

- The first printing of the 'Phoenix' used 15 tons of black ink --  
   enough to fill 242 bear kegs or 40,000 soda cans.

- It took 2,000 hours to print all the books. 8,000 hours to bind 
   them all and 120,000 total man hours.

- The combined weight of all the paper was 27, 294, 167 lb.

- To get 'Phoenix' into stores, 650 tractor-trailers hauled loads of 
   14,000 books each, packed in 10-book cartons

- Page Number Information:

   - U.K. Version: 766 pages
    - U.S. Version: 870 pages

 

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