Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

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Submitted by Kyrie 
(Jul 16, 2005)

I was suprised that this was a book that was too short. Most of you will disagree, but I had hoped it would last longer than a day and a half of my time. I wished she hadn't killed ... him... -but she's the author. And Harry's moodiness? Well, have any normal teenage boy go through that and compare the results...
But we can't just make Neville have gone through that all, and make the poor boy suffer. But all in all it was okay but not as good as PoA.

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Well I am a huge fan of Harry Potter and the fifth edition is simply brilliant. The story opens with Harry in a face to face battles with the dementors. Although the story is stretched too much and JK Rowling has explained each and every topic to the longest point possible. The other editions were written so well that we could keep on reading it again and again, but this part is extremely sleepy when read twice or thrice. Also, the story ending was not good at all. There was no hapiness for Harry when he left Hogwarts for Summer holidays due to Sirius' death. And Harry merely found himself miserable and scared at Hogwarts, thinking that he was far better at the Dursley's.

Well, I hope the next edition would be far more exciting and adventurous than the fifth part. And I'm really looking forward to reading it off as fast as I can and then wait for the final edition which would be the best of all.

This book was a huge disappointment. Not only did Rowling over estimate what weight my book bag can hold, but she also made it so that when you do eventually finish the book (if you can be bothered) you have to wonder: was it worth it? The answer is- no. The plot is too boring and slow, not as fast paced as the others. Harry is overly moody, and you just want to tell him to shut up, and get on with the story. The ending is pathetic and predictable, and most of the climax doesn't make much sense. Aside from a couple of good characters introduced, I wouldn't ever bother picking up this book again. Rowling has lost the plot- DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.

*** SPOILER WARNING ***

While Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix provides readers with answers to those questions which have hounded us since book one, the book seems to serve as a mere placeholder, in the form of an obnoxious and purposefully frusturating character, for more eventful sagas in the books to come.

870 pages were completely unnecessary for Rowling to deliver the point that the Ministry of Magic was reluctant to believe the bitter truth, that the infamous Lord Voldemort had in fact returned.

This novel leaves readers debating the purpose of book three, as well while sympathizing with the torments of writer's block, which certainly became evident in the many seemingly endless chapters that could surely be analogous to one of Professor Binns's History of Magic classes.

The only incentive for turning the pages is simply to hope that the next chapter is more exciting than the last. The climax occurs after 700 pages of monotony, but unfortunately the intensity and wonder of the book's conclusion is not strong enough to carry this novel, the latest in the Harry Potter series, to the pinnacle of Harry Potter greatness. Better luck next time, Ms. Rowling.

The way I became a huge fan of J.K. Rowling and her books were actually by hating them. I thought that the whole "Harry Potter" thing was a joke.

However after many arguments with my friend she said
"Now how can you judge the books if you have never read them"?
This got my attention, she was right. I decided to read the first Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I couldn't put the book down.

While reading the first four I could picture each and every thing J.K wrote. Her ability to show the reader the even smallest details of something that came her own head astounds me again and again. I could picture everyone in the books so clear and when the movies came out, the people, places and things were so much how I imagined them. Down to the people, with Hermonie's tangled up hair, Ron's flaming-red hair, and of course Harry's scar.

Then when the fifth book came out I was thrilled I read the book in two days! That's all it took. It sucked me in like all the other books did. Although at the end I was a bit disappointed, in all the other books the ending became the telling of everything. Why she did this or he did that, why that person said this, etc. The whole story, the mystery, came to an end and everything was told. But in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix there were some holes (missing parts that are still a mystery).

This is not a bad thing though I believe it is part of an even bigger scheme. J.K. Rowling has two more books left to write. The fifth book was a small part of the next two, it is not over the mystery of the fifth book has not ended. We will find out about the missing holes in the next two books. Now that is my theory, you may agree with me or not. I have so many ideas of what might happen in the future of the Harry Potter gang.

I am a true believer of the wizarding world (well at least when I read the books).