Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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I didn't like this book as much as the others, it was my least favourite in the series
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Apr 29, 2011 12:08PM
Fariha, sorry Godfather not my thing so haven't read or seen films. Yes lord of the rings wasn't bad though the second is just one long fight scene and may be better than the books, now they were a hard slog. Hobbit much better read.
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I wished Harry had been the snake. It seems a cruel pun, but I like torturing characters--mine too.
Josephine wrote: "I wished Harry had been the snake. It seems a cruel pun, but I like torturing characters--mine too."I like to torture mine too. Not fun if your characters don't suffer in some form or another.
Yes. Although Suzanne Collins took Katniss' reaction to the extreme. Oh, Rowling has no pluck. Couldn't she have made him Nagini?
I liked the book. Sure I got annoyed with parts of it, like Harry's over-the-top teenage angst (the whole "no one understands me!" thing), but I like that she had a main character who went through the ridiculous, awkward, and frustrating stages of growing up. His complete inability to pick his battles or keep his mouth shut reminded me of some of my own adolescent stages. I apologize in retrospect to anyone around me at that time.It was definitely depressing and I still resent the ending for making me cry, but for the books to remain relevant to us as we grew up, they kind of had to get more intense and serious and, yes, depressing. We needed someone like Umbridge there to show us that even those not in league with Voldemort could be awful people. Harry needed to get to the point of isolation that he did because all of us can identify with feeling alone. And I think we even needed to see that Dumbledore is human. He can screw up and regret his choices. It makes him more relatable.
I totally understand being annoyed with the book at times, but I wouldn't change it.
Hey, would you have like if Harry actually was the weapon? Or the snake? *smiles* Yes, that would've been cool. That way he wouldn't be angsting about something he didn't do.
Hmmmmm, it seems like everyone's going off topic.
Anyway, I thought the Order of the Phoenix wasn't as good as the others, not as interesting as the others.
The thing is, it was kind of like a gap in between The Children's books and the Young-Adult Books. It kind of separated the books apart, so the story will change a bit later on like in the Half-Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows.
This one was just not my thing.
Anyway, I thought the Order of the Phoenix wasn't as good as the others, not as interesting as the others.
The thing is, it was kind of like a gap in between The Children's books and the Young-Adult Books. It kind of separated the books apart, so the story will change a bit later on like in the Half-Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows.
This one was just not my thing.
Helen wrote: "Fariha, sorry Godfather not my thing so haven't read or seen films. Yes lord of the rings wasn't bad though the second is just one long fight scene and may be better than the books, now they were a..."How can godfather be not anyones "thing"??
Twee wrote: "Are we still on topic!?"isnt discussion on just one topic a little hard to do? i mean you're bound to wander off from the original topic at some point and than get back to it...
Fariha, like you say topics should change tack or all we'd get is yes I like no I didn't. Sorry if we were no longer talking Harry Potter just a little slip.
But on the other hand never been into gangster films. I believe Godfather deals with family and relationships but that kind of real violence doesn't sit well with me.
thats not what am saying, am saying during discussions you are bound to get off topic once in a while. It inevitable.
Fariha (dream on!) wrote: "thats not what am saying, am saying during discussions you are bound to get off topic once in a while. It inevitable."It is :)
On thing is bound to lead to another topic, or issue. But stay true to the thread, this is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, if people want to discuss other books, etc. They can add theirs to the discussions that comes up on the left hand side of the uppermost column.
I completely agree with you. This is my least favorite of all of them so much so that I actually stopped reading it for a time. Harry always seemed angry to me which kind of hurt how I felt about him and my perception of him.
I also didn't like this one all that much but I understand why it was written the way it was. First off, Harry started being all moody and such - I think Rowling was doing this because 15 year olds are moody. I like how throughout the series we were able to see the characters grow. So while yes this book is my least favorite I understand what was going on.
I actually liked Harry being moody and his temper tantrums because it actually shows that he isn't god-modelled and he is like a normal person.
i hated this book because i got mad at everyone because everyone was acting stupid and not beleiving harry i just wanted to jum in the book and slap umbridge
The plot was interesting, it can catch you since the beginning, in the end there was something rational that lead to everyone's decisions and actions. However, I didn't like it in the end.What I didn't like is that Harry felt at some moment that everything turned around himself, that he became very anxious, reckless and impatient with everything and with everyone so that lead him to danger and to one of the most loved person's dead.
Harry wanted to demonstrate that he was right, that Voldemort returned and that the ministry has become quite corrupted. In the end he got it but paying a high price.
I knew that sooner or later, he would have died, but it was sooner and if only he had known his true value in Harry's life, he might not have risked his life in a so stupid way.
For me, at the end of the saga, it was obvious that JK Rowling drew back from what it was already planned, I don't know if it was because she was thinking in a more happy and "fair" ending or just to please the fans and not letting the Harry Potter marketing down. She had the guts on "killing" a certain number of characters during the series, and in the end she soften her pen making Harry Potter's end in a soft note.
i also think this is not as exciting as the others..but a good book though.
♦Amethyst Jewels♦ wrote: "When Harry's scar started to hurt, it made the book interesting and fun to read. Yet, Umbridge was added as a good person to be an enemy. Yet, it was a good idea to make her be nicer to Draco Malfo..."Umbridge wasn't being nice to Draco Malfoy because he was Draco himself, it was because he's a pureblood, she likes all purebloods.
I would say it's the worst in the series too, it was just too slow for a book with like a million pages.
♦Amethyst Jewels♦ wrote: "When Harry's scar started to hurt, it made the book interesting and fun to read. Yet, Umbridge was added as a good person to be an enemy. Yet, it was a good idea to make her be nicer to Draco Malfo..."As the series advance, you will see how hypocritical Umbridge has been, saying that she was doing what it was necessary to protect the Ministry of Magic interests but her ideas were similar to Voldemort in the end hiding them by saying that she was checking for the Ministry's sake.
Also, if Harry hadn't been so paranoid...
Umbridge was certainly toadlike, and her punishments for Harry were kind of extreme. She worked some kind of spell herself to become so powerful, to make all those orders, and in the movie, she could just get people fired for the person not doing what Umbridge wanted them to do.
♦Amethyst Jewels♦ wrote: "Aysha wrote: "I would say it's the worst in the series too, it was just too slow for a book with like a million pages."Hina wrote: "♦Amethyst Jewels♦ wrote: "When Harry's scar started to hurt, ..."
Yes, definitely. I'm not saying that she wasn't mean. I don't really look at how thick the book is I know that it can put some people off.
i was not a big fan of this book. at least not the beginning and part of the middle. i found it was too full of details, too much knowing, not enough doing, if you know what i mean. the end got a little more exiting, but i think this one was the hardest to get through. for me anyway
You get alot of info from this book, you learn a little more about the connection between Voldemort and Harry. I think this book was a way of preparing you for the 6th book.
I read some of this. But got turned off by Dolores Umbridge.
Robin wrote: "I read some of this. But got turned off by Dolores Umbridge."You got turned off by Dolores Umbridge?
This one is my fav out of all of them. I loved the way Fred and George left the school, fantastic. It is darker but still a great read. I also loved how the Order comes into this book and that huge battle at the end, loved that to. (Sadly didn't bring that part into the movie).
This is definitely my favorite in the entire series, and possibly my favorite book ever. There are plenty of reasons, and I would elaborate on them later if anyone is interested.
this is my favourite in the series, everything went downhill after here.
Tim wrote: "this is my favourite in the series, everything went downhill after here."saayy wwhhhaaaaa!!!
Yes, it was the book that I liked least in the series. I'm not sure why, it just didn't seem to hang together.
Well actually I liked this book very much.
I liked this book a lot but I didn't like the part when Sirius died! It was so sad!
Helen wrote: "to Mary JL can't believe you have not seen the films yet. As adaptations go I think they have done an excellent job with all the films. Although Daniel Radcliffe is not the best actor in the world ..."I agree with you. The films were really good.
This is my least favourite, because I think Umbridge was *too* unpleasant, I couldn't even love to hate her, I just hated her. The atmosphere is so oppressive as the Ministry seeks to control every aspect of our heroes' lives and prevent them from being able to do anything to protect themselves - they are almost a more helpful government to Voldemort than the one in the final book, where he is puppetmaster.
The best one in the whole seires..It`s the best!If only my brother didn`t lend it to someone else, and magically forgot to retrieve it back I would have been reading this one for the umpteenth times! TT___TT
Aini wrote: "The best one in the whole seires..It`s the best!If only my brother didn`t lend it to someone else, and magically forgot to retrieve it back I would have been reading this one for the umpteenth tim..."
Why don't you buy a new one? You can find some for cheap if money's an issue.
Bookworm wrote:Why don't you buy a new one? You can find some for cheap if money's an issue. "Money is not the issue here, its just that I thought instead of buying the same book, why not I buy a new one..But don`t worry..i`ve blackmailed my brother for the replacement..haha..He`s more of a potter geek than I am, so he didn`t mind at all..
Yeah, it wasn't as exciteing.... but I really liked the ending, it felt realistic.Agreed, it is my least favorite book in the series, but it was still good. :3
♦Amethyst Jewels♦ wrote: "I liked it when the mystery began with Bellatrix Lestrange. When Cho became a kind of 'big' character in this book, I wasn't interested in reading more of the parts with her. Yet all in all, I have..."same here...i totally despised Dolores Umbridge (which is why i like the forest part, how they tricked her).......and i hated the fact that Sirius dies (i was in tears at that point):(
I agree, this book was my least favorite. Did not like (no matter how justified Dumbledore feels he was) how Dumbledore distanced himself from Harry. Harry felt that enough from his friends and classmates. The whole crap between him and Cho needed to be deleted.
IKR..that was plain stupid and tretching the stor
I don't think you can call Harry and Cho's date 'crap'. It was a date, not all dates are all fun and good and happy, some of them are a bit rubbish. I found the whole thing pretty amusing.
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