Your least favorite Harry Potter Book.

[Sythe]

All of the books J.K. Rowling wrote are wonderful. But the book I feel she didn't put her energy into is the second book Chamber of Secrets. Oh yeah I forgot to mention this thread might contain spoilers. If you are going to spoil... well you know the rules.

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[shadowhound]

The whole series in general [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I could not bring myself to read anymore after the second book.

[Sythe]

SHADOWHOUND HOW COULD YOU. JK it okay I respect your opninon. I have some friends who thought the same way you did about the series. Did I mention that none of those friends are not sane [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img]

[Xen]

The Chambers Of Secrets...

[pcgiant]

The Order of the Phoenix.

[shadowhound]

Originally posted by Sythe: SHADOWHOUND HOW COULD YOU. JK it okay I respect your opninon. I have some friends who thought the same way you did about the series. Did I mention that none of those friends are not sane [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img]

Sanity is over-rated

[IronDragon]

The Order of the Phoenix

I really did like the book but I felt it just didn’t live up to the previous four.

It took me awhile to recognize just what the problem was that the problems Harry and company were facing were identical to the problems in the previous 4 books.

If you call this a spoiler so be it:
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Harry is abused/neglected by his boorish non-magical relatives.
An escape from his family is engineered by members of the magical community.
Harry spends the rest of summer vacation in a much nicer and magical place.
Harry goes to school and is immediately branded an outcast by his class mates.
Only his best friends Ron and Hermione understand and accept him.
Harry worries about Quidditch.
Harry falls behind in his school work.
Malfoy Draco makes Harry’s life miserable
One of Harry’s teachers causes all sorts of problems for Harry.
Most of Harry’s problems could be solved if his teachers would just have an honest conversation with Harry but they choose not to.
There is a convoluted plot by Lord Voldemort putting both Harry, and the entire world at risk.
The Lord Voldemort crisis could be solved if Harry would just have an honest conversation with his teachers but he chooses not to.
Harry and friends decide that only they can save the day.
Just as the school year is ending there is a heated battle with Lord Voldemort and/or his minions.
Harry nearly looses but somehow succeeds.
Dumbledore explains what just happened.
Harry finds himself liked and respected once again by his classmates.


After four books using that template I had hoped that Rowling would change or alter things, bring some fresh air into the book but she doesn’t and I worry the next two books will follow the same rut.

[Tancred]

A close call between Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire. Chamber of Secrets just doesn't have the energy and cleverness of Prisoner of Azkaban, nor does it have the novelty value of Philosopher's Stone. Falls flat. Goblet of Fire is just so god damn long! Sorely, sorely in need of some SERIOUS editing. There's a lot of dead wood in Goblet.

[DameonRules]

<font color=green>I think that chamber is so far the worse book. but saying that goblet of fire is to long why thats just crazy. i personally think that it is a normal size book. if you think about it other authors write much longer books. the only thing i didn't like about chamber is that for some reason it didn't seem to flow right.</font>

[Tancred]

I'm not saying it's too long. I'm saying it's UNNECESSARILY long. And it suffers from a 'Poirot' ending - in that there was absolutely no way in hell you were going to guess the bad guy. It wasn't the last man you suspected - as it was in 'Stone', 'Secrets' and 'Prisoner' - it was the only man it could have been, but there was nothing to suspect him by. It seemed a bit like cheating...