<p>So i just finished the new harry potter book and have to say it was pretty weak. i mean i injoyed reading it, but it was slow and nothing AMAZING happened. ok dumbledore died, but i never really cared about him to much (like him though). and snape did something bad...oooo. voldemort didn't even make an appearance. cmon. and everyone was horny as hell. maybe its because i not so intrigued by the series anymore, i dunno. but it wasn't as surprising or interesting as the other book, excluding the 5th one.</p>
<p>so did you like it? just say "yes" or "no". and if you have A FEW comments (not long conspiracy theories) then you can post them too.</p>
<p>i say NO. it had its moments, but from 1-5 i give it a 2.</p>
<p>I didn't like where the 5th book was going, and I thought this was a nice turn-around (not plotwise). The 5th seemed more like a jigsaw puzzle than a story (one that we don't have all the pieces to, at that), while this one was more emotional (Harry's "power" being love, the big prophecy wording technechalities dismissed, etc.). At the same time, I thought the same turn-around left a lot of loose ends that should've been included (especially Neville's story, and what the hell was Voldy doing this whole time?), and I thought the snogging overdrive was obscene and boring. Still one of my favourites (favourite being PoA), and I thought the Harry-Dumbledore relationship was perfect, and Snape was intriguing as hell.</p>
<p>i use to like harry potter being more powerful because his mom died out of love for him but this book made it corny in the conversation w/ dumbledore. </p>
<p>it seems to me like he's turned into those brooding aristotle recluses and kind of pompous if you ask me.</p>
<p>but maybe its because i, as a poor asian, had to read it in borders in 3 hours.</p>
<p>If I have to choose between yes and no (meaning no "kinda sorta maybe a little bit"s), I'd say NO.</p>
<p>I've always been slightly annoyed by the fact that Harry is always the big hero, when often someone else saves him/he just randomly finds himself in an advantagous position. I think this is getting worse as he gets older. I mean, seriously, did he do ANYTHING heroic in this book? It seems like Dumbledore just saved his ass a bunch of times. He didn't even catch Malfoy. Oy.</p>
<p>That might have been the point vegangirl. As he's getting older, Rowling's showing that Harry is, despite his heroism and magic, a regular teenager and human being. He's not always going to be invincible, and he's not always going to be able to save the day. He also has limits. Things won't always go his way, or the way he wants them to go. Even Dumbledore has his limits.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who really enjoyed this one so far? I liked the premise, story, etc. of this one. I was hoping it'd be longer.</p>
<p>Most definitely "Yes."<br>
Honestly, I don't understand all this negativity towards HBP. Several people complained that the book was too slow...but personally, I liked the POA flare it had to it, in that instead of HBP being action based (like Goblet and OOTP), it was based on the past/background stuff (like POA). ...I liked Harry a lot in this book (he's matured a good deal from his angry easily angered Harry in the last book); I particuarly loved how he coaxed Slughon into giving him the memory. And Mo123, I have to disagree with you on Harry being pompous...he is anything but pompous; people are refering to him as essentially "the one" and he isn't letting any of it get to his head... Perhaps it's b/c he likes "playing hero", but that certainly <em>doesn't</em> make him pompous.</p>
<p>Yes--4. I cried at the end. How could you not really care about Dumbledore dying or the fact that Snape did it??? He didn't just do something bad--he betrayed and murdered someone who trusted him!!! I did, however, like books 4 and 5 better for the most part. I look at this book as more of a transition into book 7.</p>
<p>Dark? He's become mature and serious, but not dark. If you found out at age 11 that your parents had been murdered by some evil guy who is still terrorizing people... I think you'd start to think about it more and more and become more curious as you grew older. You'd start to miss those parents even more after seeing vivid memories of them. You'd realize that this evil guy not only killed them, but he's putting everyone around you and your friends in danger.
And then you'd realize that, since you're the only one who knows enough and has the ability to, you have to put an end to him. That's what Harry realizes. Especially after his only real guide and mentor in life is killed by evil man's followers.</p>
<p>its sad
i'm sad
i guess i just wanted it to have a happy ending,
as much as i love sirius i dont want harry's life to end up like him, but more like mr. and mrs. weasley...</p>
<p>when you were little...did you think hagwarts existed?</p>
<p>its sad
i'm sad
i guess i just wanted it to have a happy ending,
as much as i love sirius i dont want harry's life to end up like him, but more like mr. and mrs. weasley...</p>
<p>when you were little...did you think hagwarts existed?</p>
<p>I loved everything about it. I found the writing style to be a bit different than the previous books, but that makes sense, considering the character's are growing older. There WAS an increase in snogging, but come on- the snog content of the entire book is about equal to a week or two at your average high school. I'm actually surprised that Jo waited until sixth year to add all of the sexual tension.
I loved it all, the relationships, the backstory, everything....and I sobbed for hours at the ending. The predicted two years seems like an awful long time...</p>
<p>My friends finished their books before me and they were like "I nearly started crying" "I was crying" "I cried after"
And I got up to the part where Dumbledore died and I was like, "am i supposed to be crying?"</p>
<p>Maybe it's because I'm smarter than when I was 11. I can tell which parts are important ;which ones foreshadow. At 11, I was like "omg I can't belive this/that had such an importnace!" but now I'm like "yeah, i kinda saw that coming"</p>
<p>And 2 cents won't buy you anything. Unless we all chip in our 2 cents, in which case we might be able to afford something from the local dollar store.</p>