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  • Life at Hogwarts

  • This is my favorite book of the series :) Some people complain that not much action happens in OOTP, but I like it for that reason. We get a complete look at student life at Hogwarts. We're taken on a journey with Harry, rather than having the "quest" introduced early on. It's the first time that we ... Continue

    This is my favorite book of the series :) Some people complain that not much action happens in OOTP, but I like it for that reason. We get a complete look at student life at Hogwarts. We're taken on a journey with Harry, rather than having the "quest" introduced early on. It's the first time that we see the utter incompetence of authority figures, and there's nothing I love more than people trying to expose and bring down corruption!

    

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  • This was where my interest in Harry Potter waned almost completely. It felt as though there was the opportunity for it to be so much better than it was. And I also hated that I could tell what was going to happen nearly 100 pages in advance.

    

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  • Harry was a whiney bitch in this book. If Rowling would have kept out the emo bullshit then it would have been a lot better.

    

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  • A great follow-up to Goblet Of Fire. I very highly recommend it.

    

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  • Finally

  • It is nice to finally read a book with so much content that was good from beginning to end. She is editing herself much better now, or, at least, or her editor is editing her much more carefully now.

    

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  • My Thoughts

  • I enjoyed this book as I would with any Harry Potter book, though I really didn't like to see Harry so depressed and angry.

    

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• ― `♠Alexvampira♠` said on Sep 27, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

I say to you all, once again--in the light of
Lord Voldemort’s return, we are only as strong
as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and
enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing
an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.

So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potter’s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord Voldemort’s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to believe it’s all madness and lies--just more trouble from Harry Potter.

Add to this a host of other worries for Harry…
• A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey
• A venomous, disgruntled house-elf
• Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team
• And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams

…and you’d know what Harry faces during the day. But at night it’s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every other nightmare combined.

In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowling’s seven-part story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts.

Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice.

Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.

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