Harry Potter 5: Review
Now that I’ve read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I’ve got a few words to say about it. First, it’s an awesome book! I’ve only read three, four and five, but I think five is best, hands-down. However, I think that my reading of the book was tainted by the fact that I was always looking for something I new was going to happen (though I didn’t know all the details). It was like reading half a spoiler for a movie. The book is quite long, I started reading it Monday night so I spent three evenings reading; the last two I was up quite late. I didn’t go to bed until three a.m. this morning. Anyway, back to the book. The Order was extremely dark, very much like the last bit of The Goblet of Fire, and while interesting, it was easy to get disappointed as events of the book unfolded. Bickering between Harry and Hermione and Hermione and Ron continued and was just as prevalent as it was in the last book, if not more prevalent. This was disheartening but at the same time, yielded a sense of normalcy about the characters. They were portrayed as realistically acting as teenagers, where sometimes reason is lost to the heat of the moment. Sure, the book is about witches and wizards, but there was a very believable feeling about it. In any case, I don’t really know what is so special about these books, but it is no wonder that this book had a huge launch. I was telling Schtoom today, the only thing bad about buying and reading the book right after it launched is the fact that the wait until the next one arrives will be seem so much longer! Hopefully it won’t be three years!
I thought The Goblet of Fire was much darker. However, I was really glad to see my favorite characters, Fred and George Weasley, get more more face time in the book. They rock!
I figure the worst it could be is another 3 years, but the author has had a baby, a major lawsuit, AND the book, so she’s done pretty well, and it may not take her that long to write #6. Hopefully she won’t be like Jean Auel (Shelters of Stone) and make us wait a &%#%%% DECADE for a book that should have rocked but fell flat on its face instead.
What was she sued for? I must have missed that somehow.
I think harry potter 5 rocked. I don’t care what anyone else says, it is well worth the wait. Harry potter is so packed full of emotion, you can tell joanne poured her heart into this book. When sirius died, it was just like, you wanted to cry. HARRY POTTER ROCKS!! THANK YOU J K ROWLING!!!!
Uhhhhhhhhmmmm…. I’m a big fan and all…. but this book didn’t reach the level I was hoping for, it was long and i was happy about that at first, but once i got through it, i found out that the whole middle was filled with boring nothingness. The thing about the OWLs exam was loooooong and made me want to give up. Nice fight between Dumbledore and Voldemort though.
I completely agree with CrazyG, I expected more of a book with 766 pages. If she made it shorter it would have been better. In my opinion part 3 and 4 were better.
HP5 is awesome!More surprises but long winded though.The most part of the book is about Firenze teaching them Divination.That was a total surprise to me.
Well this book is awesome. I would like to know CrazyG could you tell us what are the boring nothingness you talk about? It’s too easy to say things like that without give explanations.
The whole story is realistic and gives us the feeling that the characters are growing and are acting like teenagers.
And the Unbridge appearance in this book is totally delighted. If I would have been able to enter in this book and give her you know some kind of correction. She’s totally bitch.
Wow for this fifth book and I can’t wait to see what will happen in the 6th one.
HP5 rules!it’s got EVERYTHING—action, suspense etcetc, and the plot is MUCH darker.
Thumbs up to Rowling!!!!!!
Yes HP5 was much darker, and had better fights and a nice ending to it.
I could tell that everyone were teenagers, it was so good how she described everything, i felt like i was actualy pat of the wizarding world, eves dropping on everything, I loved it, But, Whats the different between aduly edition and the normal one?
HP5 is a great, dark, book. A lot of changes in all the charactere, a good stories (although a bit long sometimes). Anyway, this book is great.
I hope the same from book 6 and 7
HP5 is good but I expected more than that. The plot is dull and cumbersome. Harry’s temper is overdone. No new ideas. i reckon HP3 is better. you have to read it anyway.
I thought the book was great, but Voldemort’s first name is Tom?? What the hell is with that????
Yup, Tom Marvolo Riddle is his first name, which if you change the letters around, spells Lord Voldemort. This was in the second book.
This book simply rocks my world. The fact that several of the characters were developed further made it more deep and more satisfying to read. The whole thing with Cho was kinda disappointing but its nice to see that Harry has his priorities straight. I can’t wait for 6 and 7.
HP5 rocked but i did not understand the part about Sirius dying he died by a curse or falling through the veil
I thought this book was dissapointing. Nothing happened!! The hightlight was Sirius’ death and the Lord Voldemort appearence. In every other book Lord Voldemort had a plot, and if that was stopped it would be a disaster… not some stupid prophecy that doesn’t matter in the long run. I kinda thought the prophecy said nothing new.
Although I enjoyed the book I wanted to throw it across the room when Sirius died. He was my favorite character and she killed him off! Needless to say I am quite angry at Rowling now.
Incredible book. JO keeps outdoing herself every time .Awesome book.Part 5.
The best book of Harry potter series(Book 5 of course)
It seems like that they are improving very fast
and we must wait and see how wonderfull the next
ones are!!………I CAN’T WAIT……….
I think book 5 is the most exciting one in the whole series.This is more realistic and dark about the wizarding world,though I think the change is too sudden,making the story seems “weird” to the readers. But I never imagine that Rowling would remove Sirius just after he appeared for 2 years and died in such a meaningless way!! I can’t believe my eyes when I read that paragraph!It is also disappointed we need to wait for the book 6 to know Harry’s results of OWLs.However,I was and am very amazed by Fred and George who created so much funniments in the story~I hope Rowling can tell us more about them~
Personally I think book 5 is a failure. It lacked of imagination so that author had to give Sirius’ death as the hightlight. It’s really disappointing.
well anyways the harry potter fith book was good but not in the spectacular way the other books were i think it lost a bit of it’s magical charm and he grew up to fast. i know your going to say that he’s acting like a teenager but personally i don’t think any teenager is going to stay as angry as he was for an entire year. plus some of the things could have been explained quiker and not have had to go on and on it’s like she was just trying to get it to a certain length. any way it was a good book but average just like any other book in the market is avarage. i just thought she could have done a better job. and if u get past the fact that it is harry potter and therefore has to be good you’ll agree with me. alot of people have said the same. the fourth book was the perfect lenghth and the best in my opinion. thanx for listing to my 2 cents.
how could j.k kill off harrys god father he was ssssooooo good to him now he relly has no one well the dersley are not very nice to him i have read all of them so j.k u rockl cause u r brill
One should write with flaming inspiration. HP5 definitely seemed like J.K. was cramming to get her long-over due homework assignment done.
After reading the book I’m left with these questions:
What was the book actually about?
Why did it take so long to say so little?
Where did the magic go?
At best this book seemed like an off episode in a tepid adolescent soap opera that has been airing for a decade and the first years events vary little from the tenth years’.
Ever since I finished reading HP5 last night, I’ve been walking around with an utter sense of disillusionment. For me, a big fan of the Harry Potter series, HP5 was sheer disappointment. HP 1,2,3,&4 in my opinion were masterpieces. But like watching a tight rope walker , I had been holding my breath in trepidation wondering whether JKR would make it to #7 without flopping.
Alas, just as Harry’s idealized perception of the benevolent adults in his life had been dashed, so has my enthrallment with the work J.K. suffered a mortal blow. Basically it felt as if she had just run out of ideas or that her muse vanished with a pinch of flue powder.
Is it me or did anyone else feel that the disconcerting turn of events with Percy Weasly was left unfinished out of plain remiss?!
If anything then HP5 has taught me once and for all that size does NOT matter.
For a book about magic which had become an occult, HP5 is simply disenchanting.
I can’t believe people are actually disapointed by Harry 5. I thought it was really great, especially the ending was very fast and intense. Because of that, the middle part of the book may be slow nothingness to people who just want to get to the end of the book. The middle part is maybe not as intense but it does give us insight in the wizarding world and most of all, Harry’s world.
For the adults who have forgotten what it was like to be a teenager: you can feel angry and emotional as intense and long as Harry does, and I would like to add that Harry has all the reasons to be upset, especially at the end of the book.
I’m not saying that this is the best book ever written (i’m still not sure which part I like better: 3 or 5), but it is surtainly setting up for the best books to be written, I’m confident of that. Because after reading OotP you know that a lot is still coming, so book 6 and 7 can only be great.
Man i’m back again having read the fith book 3 times it has gotten a bit better. I can kind of see where u people that love this book come from. But u are exagerating to much. In the middle it is boring and it doesn’t really give us that much insight to harry’s life. most of the stuff that you find in the book either you found out or it was really easy to guess. Some of the stuff that we found out i’m sure youv’e seen on the internet. Now i kow your probably saing this guy isn’t really a fan. but i am i’v read the other books over ten times each. but the fifth book has only inpired me to read it three times. I am looking foreward to the sixth book and i hope she does a better job. and by the way i doubt the title will be green flame torch or any of the other ones they copyrighted. thanx for listining to my 2 cents laters.
I think that the first 500 pages of this book were really slow and boring. and then once you got past that it was good but then i was pissed that sirius died, he was my favorite. I think parts three and five were better as well.