What was the Order of the Phoenix?

[Aesha Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 101514

I never thought about the Order of the Phoenix being an older society
until someone just suggested it in response to this post... saying that
as a
Phoenix lives on and is reborn, perhaps the Order has lived on over many
centuries. Right?

    I thought the Order wasn't for protecting the Potters and
Longbottoms,
but it kind of was a secret society.. the originator of this message
said
that the Order didn't have to be secret because the Ministry was on
board,
but perhaps they were still secret- the ministry had moles, so the Order
was
a group of wizards kind of hand picked by Dumbledore (I just recalled
that
Hermione said that it was founded by Dumbledore, so I guess that first
paragraph is meaningless, hehe), because he knew he could trust them. It
would be a greater benefit to have a secret society fighting the Death
Eaters; the DE's wouldn't expect an organization of wizards banded
together
for the purpose of fighting them, and the Order may have kept secret to
protect their identities.

    Anyway, I wanted to say that I always thought it had been secret,
because no one knew who to trust... so Dumbledore formed a covert
organization of wizards he knew personally and could trust to fight with
him.


Aesha