Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by

J. K. Rowling

Harry's godfather. Fourteen years earlier, Sirius was imprisoned in Azkaban for a crime he didn't commit, but he escaped two years ago with Harry's help and has been on the run since then. He takes up residence at his own childhood home—number twelve, Grimmauld Place—not long before the novel starts and offers it to the Order of the Phoenix to use as its headquarters. Sirius is a lively, involved, and action-oriented person, but because he's still on the run from the Ministry, he must stay cooped up at Grimmauld Place all the time to avoid detection. The one time he leaves the house in his dog form (he's also an unregistered Animagus, who can transform into a large black dog), Lucius Malfoy recognizes him and begins telling people that Sirius is in London. Due to being cooped up, especially in a house that he hates, Sirius becomes sullen and withdrawn. To make things worse, Sirius inherited the house-elf Kreacher in addition to Grimmauld Place, and Kreacher has spent the last several years taking orders from Mrs. Black's portrait. Sirius treats Kreacher with disdain and though he's never outright cruel to Kreacher, he also doesn't do anything to make Kreacher's life easier. Throughout the novel, Sirius encourages Harry to rebel against Umbridge and rebels himself by speaking to Harry through the Gryffindor common room fireplace. At other times, he doesn't appear to take Harry's concerns seriously, as when he suggests that Harry is just tired after his dream of attacking Mr. Weasley. After Harry sees Snape's memory of being taunted by James, Sirius also tries to explain to Harry that while James was self-important and a jerk at age fifteen, he also wasn't a bad person. When Sirius learns that Harry went to the Ministry believing that Sirius was there, he insists on accompanying the Order and saving Harry. However, while dueling with his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange, Sirius falls backward through a mysterious and ghostly arch and dies.

Sirius Black Quotes in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix quotes below are all either spoken by Sirius Black or refer to Sirius Black. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Six Quotes

"So, got there yet?" said George eagerly.

"The weapon Sirius mentioned?" said Harry.

"Let slip, more like," said Fred with relish, now sitting next to Ron. "We didn't hear about that on the old Extendables, did we?"

"What d'you reckon it is?" said Harry.

"Could be anything," said Fred.

"But there can't be anything worse than the Avada Kedavra curse, can there?" said Ron. "What's worse than death?"

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Ron Weasley (speaker), Fred Weasley (speaker), George Weasley (speaker), Sirius Black, Lord Voldemort
Page Number: 100
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"Does it matter if she's my cousin?" snapped Sirius. "As far as I'm concerned, they're not my family. She's certainly not my family. I haven't seen her since I was your age, unless you count a glimpse of her coming into Azkaban. Do you think I'm proud of having relatives like her?"

Related Characters: Sirius Black (speaker), Harry Potter, Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa Malfoy
Page Number: 114
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Chapter Nine Quotes

The fact was that living at the headquarters of the anti-Voldemort movement was not nearly as interesting or exciting as Harry would have expected before he experienced it. Though members of the Order of the Phoenix came and went regularly, sometimes staying for meals, sometimes only for a few minutes' whispered conversation, Mrs. Weasley made sure that Harry and the others were kept well out of earshot (whether Extendable or normal) and nobody, not even Sirius, seemed to feel that Harry needed to know anything more than he had heard on the night of his arrival.

Related Characters: Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Lord Voldemort, Mrs. Weasley
Page Number: 160
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Chapter Fourteen Quotes

"I know her by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater—"

"She's foul enough to be one," said Harry darkly and Ron and Hermione nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters," said Sirius with a wry smile. "I know she's a nasty piece of work, though—you should hear Remus talk about her."

"Does Lupin know her?" asked Harry quickly, remembering Umbridge's comments about dangerous half-breeds during her first lesson.

"No," said Sirius, "but she drafted a bit of anti-werewolf legislation two years ago that makes it almost impossible for him to get a job."

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Sirius Black (speaker), Dolores Umbridge, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Remus Lupin
Page Number: 302
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Chapter Twenty-Two Quotes

"But that's not all, said Harry in a voice only a little above a whisper. "Sirius, I...I think I'm going mad...Back in Dumbledore's office, just before we took the Portkey...for a couple of seconds there I thought I was a snake, I felt like one—my scar really hurt when I was looking at Dumbledore—Sirius, I wanted to attack him—"

He could only see a sliver of Sirius's face; the rest was in darkness.

"It must have been the aftermath of the vision, that's all," said Sirius. "You were still thinking of the dream or whatever it was and—"

"It wasn't like that," said Harry, shaking his head. "It was like something rose up inside me, like there's a snake inside me—"

"You need to sleep," said Sirius firmly.

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Sirius Black (speaker), Professor Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort, Mr. Weasley
Page Number: 481
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Chapter Twenty-Nine Quotes

He could abandon the plan and simply learn to live with the memory of what his father had done on a summer's day more than twenty years ago...

And then he remembered Sirius in the fire upstairs in the Gryffindor common room... "You're less like your father than I thought...The risk would've been what made it fun for James..."

But did he want to be like his father anymore?

Related Characters: Sirius Black (speaker), Harry Potter, Professor Severus Snape, James Potter
Page Number: 667
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Thirty-Two Quotes

"I'm trying to say—Voldemort knows you, Harry! He took Ginny down into the Chamber of Secrets to lure you there, it's the kind of thing he does, he knows you're the—the sort of person who'd go to Sirius's aid! What if he's just trying to get you into the Department of Myst—"

Related Characters: Hermione Granger (speaker), Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Lord Voldemort, Ginny Weasley
Page Number: 734
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Thirty-Seven Quotes

"Like the fact that the person Sirius cared most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly. "Like the fact that you were coming to regard Sirius as a mixture of father and brother. Voldemort knew already, of course, that Sirius was in the Order, that you knew where he was—but Kreacher's information made him realize that the one person whom you would go to any lengths to rescue was Sirius Black."

Related Characters: Professor Albus Dumbledore (speaker), Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Lord Voldemort, Kreacher, Narcissa Malfoy
Page Number: 831
Explanation and Analysis:

"Sirius did not hate Kreacher," said Dumbledore. "He regarded him as a servant unworthy of much interest or notice. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike...the fountain we destroyed tonight told a lie. We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward."

Related Characters: Professor Albus Dumbledore (speaker), Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Kreacher
Related Symbols: The Fountain of Magical Brethren
Page Number: 833-34
Explanation and Analysis:
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Sirius Black Quotes in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix quotes below are all either spoken by Sirius Black or refer to Sirius Black. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Purpose of Education Theme Icon
).
Chapter Six Quotes

"So, got there yet?" said George eagerly.

"The weapon Sirius mentioned?" said Harry.

"Let slip, more like," said Fred with relish, now sitting next to Ron. "We didn't hear about that on the old Extendables, did we?"

"What d'you reckon it is?" said Harry.

"Could be anything," said Fred.

"But there can't be anything worse than the Avada Kedavra curse, can there?" said Ron. "What's worse than death?"

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Ron Weasley (speaker), Fred Weasley (speaker), George Weasley (speaker), Sirius Black, Lord Voldemort
Page Number: 100
Explanation and Analysis:

"Does it matter if she's my cousin?" snapped Sirius. "As far as I'm concerned, they're not my family. She's certainly not my family. I haven't seen her since I was your age, unless you count a glimpse of her coming into Azkaban. Do you think I'm proud of having relatives like her?"

Related Characters: Sirius Black (speaker), Harry Potter, Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa Malfoy
Page Number: 114
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Nine Quotes

The fact was that living at the headquarters of the anti-Voldemort movement was not nearly as interesting or exciting as Harry would have expected before he experienced it. Though members of the Order of the Phoenix came and went regularly, sometimes staying for meals, sometimes only for a few minutes' whispered conversation, Mrs. Weasley made sure that Harry and the others were kept well out of earshot (whether Extendable or normal) and nobody, not even Sirius, seemed to feel that Harry needed to know anything more than he had heard on the night of his arrival.

Related Characters: Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Lord Voldemort, Mrs. Weasley
Page Number: 160
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Fourteen Quotes

"I know her by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater—"

"She's foul enough to be one," said Harry darkly and Ron and Hermione nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters," said Sirius with a wry smile. "I know she's a nasty piece of work, though—you should hear Remus talk about her."

"Does Lupin know her?" asked Harry quickly, remembering Umbridge's comments about dangerous half-breeds during her first lesson.

"No," said Sirius, "but she drafted a bit of anti-werewolf legislation two years ago that makes it almost impossible for him to get a job."

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Sirius Black (speaker), Dolores Umbridge, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Remus Lupin
Page Number: 302
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Twenty-Two Quotes

"But that's not all, said Harry in a voice only a little above a whisper. "Sirius, I...I think I'm going mad...Back in Dumbledore's office, just before we took the Portkey...for a couple of seconds there I thought I was a snake, I felt like one—my scar really hurt when I was looking at Dumbledore—Sirius, I wanted to attack him—"

He could only see a sliver of Sirius's face; the rest was in darkness.

"It must have been the aftermath of the vision, that's all," said Sirius. "You were still thinking of the dream or whatever it was and—"

"It wasn't like that," said Harry, shaking his head. "It was like something rose up inside me, like there's a snake inside me—"

"You need to sleep," said Sirius firmly.

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Sirius Black (speaker), Professor Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort, Mr. Weasley
Page Number: 481
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Twenty-Nine Quotes

He could abandon the plan and simply learn to live with the memory of what his father had done on a summer's day more than twenty years ago...

And then he remembered Sirius in the fire upstairs in the Gryffindor common room... "You're less like your father than I thought...The risk would've been what made it fun for James..."

But did he want to be like his father anymore?

Related Characters: Sirius Black (speaker), Harry Potter, Professor Severus Snape, James Potter
Page Number: 667
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Thirty-Two Quotes

"I'm trying to say—Voldemort knows you, Harry! He took Ginny down into the Chamber of Secrets to lure you there, it's the kind of thing he does, he knows you're the—the sort of person who'd go to Sirius's aid! What if he's just trying to get you into the Department of Myst—"

Related Characters: Hermione Granger (speaker), Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Lord Voldemort, Ginny Weasley
Page Number: 734
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter Thirty-Seven Quotes

"Like the fact that the person Sirius cared most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly. "Like the fact that you were coming to regard Sirius as a mixture of father and brother. Voldemort knew already, of course, that Sirius was in the Order, that you knew where he was—but Kreacher's information made him realize that the one person whom you would go to any lengths to rescue was Sirius Black."

Related Characters: Professor Albus Dumbledore (speaker), Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Lord Voldemort, Kreacher, Narcissa Malfoy
Page Number: 831
Explanation and Analysis:

"Sirius did not hate Kreacher," said Dumbledore. "He regarded him as a servant unworthy of much interest or notice. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike...the fountain we destroyed tonight told a lie. We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward."

Related Characters: Professor Albus Dumbledore (speaker), Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Kreacher
Related Symbols: The Fountain of Magical Brethren
Page Number: 833-34
Explanation and Analysis: