Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) on Netflix
PG-1320072h 18mAdventureFamilyFantasy
The Ministry of Magic denies Lord Voldemort's return, and Harry Potter faces expulsion for casting a Patronus. At Hogwarts, Dolores Umbridge refuses to teach defensive spells.
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Dementors attack Harry Potter and his cousin Dudley Dursley near the Dursleys' home, and Harry repels them with a Patronus spell. The Ministry of Magic learns Harry cast the spell and moves to expel him from Hogwarts, though a trial clears him. The Order of the Phoenix tells him the Ministry is denying Lord Voldemort's return. At Hogwarts for his fifth year, Dolores Umbridge becomes the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and clashes with Harry.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
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- Warner Bros. claimed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix lost $167 million despite a worldwide gross of $942 million, a noted case of Hollywood accounting; the film's worldwide five-day opening was $333 million.
- Evanna Lynch won the role of Luna Lovegood over 15,000 other girls at an open casting call, where the line of hopefuls stretched a mile long; Saoirse Ronan auditioned for the part but was considered too young.
- Helen McCrory was cast as Bellatrix Lestrange, but withdrew when she was three months pregnant and would not have been able to perform the intense Ministry of Magic battle sequences; Helena Bonham Carter was recast in the role on 25 May 2006.
- Kreacher the house-elf was cut from one draft of the script, so J. K. Rowling warned the filmmakers that if they made a seventh film they would be tied in knots, and he was added back into the script.
- David Yates originally shot a three-hour cut of the film, but 45 minutes had to come out in the final edit, so several locations used for scenes do not appear in the finished film.
- Posters showing Harry with six classmates drew controversy after the profile of Hermione Granger, played by Emma Watson, was made curvier in one version, with the outline of her breasts enhanced.
- The Hall of Prophecies set was built entirely digitally; in the fight scene there, prophecies crash to the ground and break, and a physical set would have taken weeks to reset.
- When producers asked J. K. Rowling to detail every name and birth year on the Black family tapestry for the set of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, she faxed them a complete copy of the entire tree.
