Harry Potter Thread
Hey everyone, You can talk about anything Harry Potter related in this thread. First i'll start off by saying that my favorite movie would be Chamber of secrets and i think ether that or Prisoner of Azkaban was my favorite book. Also here is a funny video i found on Youtube that shows how Voldemort
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Harry Potter is my favorite book series. I've read each of the books at least 3 times, and I have the (UK) audiobooks for all 7 books, which my wife and I have listened to so many times, we've lost count.
My least favorite book was Order of the Phoenix when I first read it, because Harry spends so much of his time angry about everything. Sure, there are a legitimate reasons for it, but he just not all that likeable in Book 5.
Regarding the audiobooks, I highly recommend the British version as read by Stephen Fry instead of the US version by Jim Dale. Stephen Fry is just better. Seriously.
Stephen Fry is better than everything.
But then, there were lots of things that just didn't work. Character deaths didn't seem to have as much meaning in this book as they did in previous ones. They just die and are instantly forgotten, with the exception of Dobby and possibly Snape (but they do just leave him rotting in a shack). Fred Weasley, who was half of the staple comic relief for the entire series, gets barely a few sentences about his demise. We don't even get a hint of what's going to happen to George after the series. Does he continue to play pranks in his dead brother's memory or just become a bitter, closeted man and join the Ministry of Making People's Lives Miserable? We don't even get a vague reference.
Not even in the epilogue (which reminded me of every bad fanfiction ever). I'm halfway convinced that the only reason Harry got paired with Ginny was so that they'd remind everyone of James and Lily because Ginny lost all her character traits once she stopped being the super shy little girl. Reading back through the last few books, Luna seems a much more likely candidate, given the much larger portion of time that Harry spends with her. But nope. It's Ginny.
So yeah, loved some parts, hated others.
I rewatched them all last month and Goblet of Fire became my least favourite movie. (before it was Order of the Phoenix) They just wasted so much precious time to show them dancing and romancing.
And yes all that house elf stuff was cut out of the movies except for Chamber which (just wouldn't work without Dobby), Order of the Phoenix (I guess someone noticed that Kreacher had to be shown at least once) and Deathly Hallows 1 where we need Kreacher to find a Horkrux and Dobby.
Good point but i still like the parts of the tournament and the start was pretty good in my opinion.
I think Half-Blood Prince is also my least favorite because after everything that happened in Order, seeing Harry and Co. return to their Scooby Doo antics in Half-Blood just seemed silly.
Plus, remind me why we were supposed to care that
I don't know, Maybe Harry needed to think he was starting to act like
I like Order of the Phoenix, i liked how Harry and Hogwarts had to rebel against The Ministry of Magic and Umbridge who has taken over the school. But one thing i hate is how fast the school stands up to Umbridge at the end and i feel it was rushed since if i remember right all that happens is
Because
Then it turns out that Harry learns a whole lot from him, and that it's quite probable that Harry's mother did also, if Slughorn is to be believed about her being one of Slughorn's best and favorite students.
I like the books for the humor and the interactions between the characters, not just the plot. Reading/listening about Ron and Hermione argue about "spew" is much more enjoyable to me than reading/listening about
Also, the lessons with Dumbledore are some of my favorite parts of Book 6. I liked that things were in a way back to normal, to confirm that it is
Again, the books flesh it out better. The
Steven Fry is in Sherlock Holmes a game of shadows ain't he? He's Holmes brother in it?
I found that to be something of a turning point in Harry's view of Snape. I mean, he still hates him, but when he was using the book, he grew to like the Prince's sense of humor and started actually learning Potions.
That says to me that if it wasn't for Snape's immediate and unconditional loathing of Harry since they first met in book one, they might have actually gotten along. Which is kinda weird if you think about it, but given how similar Harry is, personality-wise, to Lily, also makes sense.
In the books, I think it says that Ron went into business with George and they ran the prank shop that George & Fred ran while Ron then went to work with Harry at the Ministry of Magic.
Here's Ron's page on the Harry Potter wiki where it says that Ron went into business with Fred.
[url] http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Ronald_Weasley[/url]
There are other interviews where she says that Ron and Harry go on to become the leading experts working in the Aurors office.
I even wrote to the author and asked for a Kindle-friendly format, but he never responded.
EDIT: Oh, well it seems he does have them out in ePub and mobi. When I wrote to him, Hall of Elders Crossing was the only book out.
Hey, I just might read them then.
My favourite Harry Potter book & movie is actually the same book. Its Chamber of Secrets for me, followed shortly by Prisoner of Azkaban. I loved the mystery of both books, but Chamber of Secrets had a bigger threat to the school along with mystery. Mystery is something I feel was left out in the later books. Yes we get a little mystery in Goblet of Fire with
I enjoyed the second book's mystery & plot the best. Also it introduced some great characters like Dobby.
Personally I felt it was transitioning into a darker Harry Potter since Chamber of Secrets. The first movie was lighthearted but the second movie/book became darker with more serious themes like