I’ll probably change my mind tomorrow (after I’ve had some sleep and… perhaps… when my chest is hurting less), but here is my initial response to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in all of its non-spoiler glory: what? Readers will know what I mean when I say “when Harry and co. headed in for the climactic part…” Well, from that point onward, I thought the book rather fell apart. After a long, very interesting buildup, the story suddenly became uninteresting, chaotic, formulaic, and tedious — using all those words in their mildest sense, of course, as even uninteresting, chaotic, formulaic, and tedious J.K. Rowling is interesting, coherent, original, and gripping. However, the much-speculated-upon death left me completely unmoved, the similarly highly-discussed mysterious revelation unsurprised. Don’t think I’m trying to pan it… overall I enjoyed the book very much, am still quite enchanted with the series, and am looking forward to the next one most avidly. However, certain aspects left me disappointed; I can’t go into more detail without giving massive spoilers, of course… and as I just read the entire thing at one sitting and it’s now 6:30 AM (shimatta, I haven’t eaten in, like, two days, either), I don’t really feel like typing it out. *stumbles off to bed*
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I can understand what you mean by chaotic, but I can sort of see how it makes sense — this book wasn’t about Harry being a hero like he was in the past four. As I read it, the book as about things falling apart.
I was also unsurprised at the “revelation” (that was like, DUH!), but I did find the death a bit sad. Why weren’t you moved? Did you not like the character, the way it happened, or did you think someone else should have died?
I read it in one sitting, too. *eyes fall out of head*
Heh, I loved the character. It was just that by the time the death finally occured, it was blatantly obvious that it was going to happen (so there was no shock value)… then it happened so abruptly and the story immediately moved on… and then she dwelt more on Harry’s irritation with everyone else than she did on his sorrow… I just didn’t feel bad at all. Well, I do feel a bit bad — I wish it had been Fudge — but it just wasn’t moving at all to me.
Yeah, I get what you mean. I hope there’s more follow-up about it in the next book…
Also…
I hope Fudge dies in the next book!!!!!!!!!!!