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HP5 is #9 in Entertainment Weekly's list of top ten books of the year and JK Rowling is #12 in the Entertainers of the year list

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The #743/744 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was #9 in the top books of 2003. Here was their description:

Harry my have become a cranky, hormone-bedeviled adolescent in his fifth outing, but Rowling shows no similar growing pains. Her biggest book is also one of her best, plunging readers into a fully imagined world while introducing one of the best villains in recent memory, the Ministry of Magic's toadlike martinet, Dolores Umbridge.

Also JK Rowling was #12 in the Entertainers of the year list! B)