Daniel Shellenbarger’s Reviews > Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix > Status Update

The last 30% of this book would've been unbearable if Fred and George hadn't declared war on Umbridge, it's such a dystopian nightmare otherwise

I admit it, I skimmed through Harry and Cho's date... just too awkward

It's infuriating rereading book 5 and realizing that so far as we know Umbridge never really paid for her crimes. I mean I expect she got fired from the Ministry for collaborating with Voldemort but did they turn her into a toad? Did they make her spend the rest of her life writing lines with her quill? Did they let the whole wizarding world line up and kick her in the shins? I doubt it...

I'm curious, in the American edition we have "'And in our first year" said Neville to the group at large, 'he saved that Sorcerous Stone_' 'Sorcerer's' hissed Hermione'", but is that joke the same in the British editions or do they do a play on the word Philosopher?

Interesting side note, Hermione and Gandalf have the same rather loose definition of "a couple people"

One does have to wonder how an ambitious self-important power-hungry officious back-biting... person... such as Percy didn't end up in Slytherin... Sorting Hat must've not been trying that year and just heard McGonagall say "Weasley" and defaulted to Gryffindor

Eugh... Detention with Dolores... maybe I should skim/skip this chapter