

It's there, but the neighbors are unaware of it. As the movie opens, Harry is the subject of a smear campaign that Valdemore has cooked up because darkness works tirelessly to triumph over the light when his friends come to rescue him from the suburban horror show known as his adoptive family, they take him to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, a place that doesn't exist until a row of Georgian homes stretches out to reveal it. Indeed, one of the movie's first big special effects embodies this idea. Fantasy literature has since the beginning of time been about mediating and making sense of the real world Harry Potter is part of this tradition. As Harry and his friends mature, the line between the world of wizardry, magic, and Hogwarts and the world of self-centered, manipulative, cruel adults thins to the point of almost magical invisibility. 5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner Bros., 2007), I got my answer. Why do Harry Potter movies give me, but not the children, nightmares? I've been wondering this for the past few years.
