Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Discussion Thread

[Spelca]

WARNING - SPOILERS!!!
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I loved the book, of course. Though it made me really sad... Harry kept being tortured by that Umbridge and other people, and one of my favourite characters died... I found it really dark... I expect the sixth one will be like this too... But that doesn't mean I didn't love the book!!! I read it for three days in a row, from the moment I got home (5 pm) to the time I got to bed. I even sacrifised a few hours of sleep in the evenings so that I only slept 4 hours (I work early). But now I can read it again. Yay! When is the sixth one coming out? [img]smile.gif[/img]

PS: Did anybody understand what: "Rememeber my last, Petunia." was supposed to mean? I understood that Dumbledore didn't want her to throw Harry out, because of the "blood" protection, but what did he mean by "my last"?

[ 06-26-2003, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: Spelca ]

[DameonRules]

<font color=green>Can someone please PM me with who gets killed off. i mean i have heard a whole bunch of rumors and the fact that iam not going to be able to read it for atleast another month is killing me please please please please iam begging.</font>

[whacky]

Bah you people are far too slow [img]tongue.gif[/img] I downloaded the book, yes the original one, last evening at 4p.m and had finished it by 5a.m. in the morning [img]smile.gif[/img] Wonderful book, brilliant, eloquently written .... and all the other praises on can throw at the book ... except perhaps it was too short to satisfy

[Gammit]

I read it in a matter of days, and all I have to say is OH MY GOD IT WAS AWFUL (for a HP book)!!! I guess you can't please everybody...
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The last book was so long because... well, it NEEDED to be (so much relevent detail). This book... well... spending (what seemed like) 100 pages of Harry sitting around, being pissed off at everyone in a house with little to no advacement of the plot put me to sleep??? Chapter 12, Harry wakes up, Chapter 13, Harry has breakfast, Chapter 14, Harry brushes his teeth... nope, they STILL won't let him in the meetings. Secondly, everybody knows Rowling's style... build up the mysteries, build them up, then reveal EVERYTHING in the last three chapters... which I love... but did the ending (and point of maximum tension) have to be only 50 pages out of 800??? What the heck happened with Cho at the end (what a let-down)? Why hasn't Harry been able to play Quidditch in years?

All in all, I found myself staying up super-late, furiously flipping through pages just to find a point of excitement. Alas, it almost never arrived... and by the time it did, I was pretty bored.

[ 06-28-2003, 10:54 PM: Message edited by: Gammit ]

[Memnoch]

Originally posted by whacky: Bah you people are far too slow [img]tongue.gif[/img] I downloaded the book, yes the original one, last evening at 4p.m and had finished it by 5a.m. in the morning [img]smile.gif[/img] Wonderful book, brilliant, eloquently written .... and all the other praises on can throw at the book ... except perhaps it was too short to satisfy

Explain to me how you managed to do this, whacky?

[whacky]

Originally posted by Memnoch: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by whacky: Bah you people are far too slow [img]tongue.gif[/img] I downloaded the book, yes the original one, last evening at 4p.m and had finished it by 5a.m. in the morning [img]smile.gif[/img] Wonderful book, brilliant, eloquently written .... and all the other praises on can throw at the book ... except perhaps it was too short to satisfy

Explain to me how you managed to do this, whacky? </font>[/QUOTE]The downloading part or the reading part ?
The download after searching for quite some time on kazaa while the reading part .... well i guess its natural for me to read quite quickly, and i am after all on summer vacations, but that does have an advantage ... the excitement never dies, as it often does in slow reading [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Tancred]

The Potter books are light cheerful children's books! Easy to read. I managed the first four in eight hours. Kind of a cram. But I didn't suffer for it, so hooray.

[Larry_OHF]

Originally posted by whacky: The download after searching for quite some time on kazaa...

<font color=skyblue>Am I reading this right? Are you admitting to stealing a copyright protected piece of literature from a download site, instead of paying for it legally? You know, I think our rules about piracy also pertains to literature, and not just video games, but I am putting words in Ziroc's mouth that he has not uttered...so I do not know what to think. How do you feel about it?</font>

[Ziroc]

Originally posted by whacky: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Memnoch: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by whacky: Bah you people are far too slow [img]tongue.gif[/img] I downloaded the book, yes the original one, last evening at 4p.m and had finished it by 5a.m. in the morning [img]smile.gif[/img] Wonderful book, brilliant, eloquently written .... and all the other praises on can throw at the book ... except perhaps it was too short to satisfy

Explain to me how you managed to do this, whacky? </font>[/QUOTE]The downloading part or the reading part ?
The download after searching for quite some time on kazaa while the reading part .... well i guess its natural for me to read quite quickly, and i am after all on summer vacations, but that does have an advantage ... the excitement never dies, as it often does in slow reading [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]You've been here long enough, Whacky, to know we DO NOT allow people to brag or even talk about STEALING. This will be your last post about this.

Let NORMAL Harry Potter discussion continue! [img]smile.gif[/img]

PS: I don't want to see ANY major spoilers in this thread. Since not all countries have this book. When I say "MAJOR" I mean: Who (if anyone)was killed and such.

Finished this book 1.5 days after I got it, awhile ago.
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Great book, Fred& George are now my idols. Will never forget the line "Give em Hell Peeves!" I must say, this book beats the third one 10x over (the 3rd was the best in my opinion until now)

The duel was awesome, and it was great seeing harry attempt the Crucio Curse on Sirius's cousin. The Order of the Phoenix reminded me of Morrowind (the group opposing Dagoth Ur).

Dumbledore's Army (DA) was really cool of Harry to do, and where would we be without Dobby. The whole thing with Cho was rather stupid in my opinion though. I wonder what happened to Grawp...

Furthermore, I got really mad when I saw Snape's memory in the Pensieve, and I want to kill Umbridge, by boiling her alive.