The problem with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth volume in Rowling's boy wizard series, is that it is simply too long. Rowling teases her readers for over 600 pages, setting the stage, as it were, for a fabulous final 150 pages that rocket beautifully to an as-always satisfying conclusion/cliffhanger, but to have to make one's way through all the detritus that she asks ...