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| Posted by: Lawless | | I finished it Sunday night, and I've started re-reading it last night. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HP_Fan | | Yea i finished it on umm wednesday. I thoguht thew first 300 pgs where soooo boring. I myself think the 4th one was much better. But the ending!! omg! soo much background info. I cant wait until # 6 to see harry's score on his O.W.L.S. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shakin4Aiken | | i finished it the first day it came out..it was soo easy to read | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | Shakin... it was definately an easy read. But, re-reading it really allows you to look more in depth at things. At least that's what I've found. I get a much better understanding toward a story, and I can see if there's anything that I didn't notice the first time. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | |
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Originally posted by galadrielzero
yeah, no joke! but i guess that would be puberty, adolescent angst, etc. he is fifteen after all so he gets to be inexplicably moody. personally i really enjoy his new sarcasm, especially with the dursleys.. sassy harry makes me laugh but i felt bad for ron and hermione who had to suffer through it all  he also seems to be getting big into the self-pity and moping, which again i think is an effect of his age... and it's probably only going to get worse. but does anyone else think all the angst and dark stuff just makes for dead good reading?? many of those passages were among my favorite parts in the book. jk really develops harry's character in book 5, showing the awkwardness of being a fifteen year old. i am thinking in particular of the scenes with cho and how self-conscious he is, worrying about his arms swinging stupidly at his sides for instance. then there's that scene where she's trying to give him a clue that she wants him to ask her out for valentine's and he is so incredibly thick about it, until 'something clunked into place in harry's brain'.. a very funny study of the primal teen |
JKR definately makes Harry seem so real. I think that's one of the things that I liked about the books. He is a real kid, with real struggles of everyday teenage life. Just because he found out that he's (in the words of Hagrid) a thumpin' good wizard, that didn't make his whole life so magical that every problem that he had before, or would have throughout life, just disappear. I have found not one book in this series to be boring. I love each page as I turn them to see what happens next. When Harry is around Cho, it reminds me of when I was a teenager, and all the angst that went with it. Oh man... good old days!  I loved the sarcasm that Harry through at his uncle, in the very beginning, when they found him laying outside the window, "ease dropping" on the news. He cracks me up with those comments to them. And THAT is a typical teenager.
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| Posted by: krazy_chan | |  i also love the way harry thinks about catching dudley and his gang's attention when he was on the swing just to see what dudley would do... i kno that there have been times ive done sumthing similiar to my brother or sister just to try to embarrass them as much as possible, all his temper tantrums show that harry ISN'T just evading voldemort with ease, but its actually taking a toll on him and weighing him down.
harry argues alot more with ron and hermione and i kno that people always get into fights with their best friends.. i just love the way JKR is able to make his feelings and relationships with the people around him, also... they're getting more into the age of the dating and boyfriend/girlfriend relationships and harry and ron show more of the "how are we supposed to understand girls?" pointof view i just love that ^-^
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| Posted by: Lawless | |
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Originally posted by krazy_chan
i also love the way harry thinks about catching dudley and his gang's attention when he was on the swing just to see what dudley would do... i kno that there have been times ive done sumthing similiar to my brother or sister just to try to embarrass them as much as possible, all his temper tantrums show that harry ISN'T just evading voldemort with ease, but its actually taking a toll on him and weighing him down.
harry argues alot more with ron and hermione and i kno that people always get into fights with their best friends.. i just love the way JKR is able to make his feelings and relationships with the people around him, also... they're getting more into the age of the dating and boyfriend/girlfriend relationships and harry and ron show more of the "how are we supposed to understand girls?" pointof view i just love that ^-^ |
I'm a girl, and when Harry said that, I had to agree. I don't even understand girls. And I'm 32 years old. So... what's that tell ya? I don't think that you can figure the female species out. We're all different, and we're constantly changing. 
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| Posted by: rsxracer | |
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I'm a girl, and when Harry said that, I had to agree. I don't even understand girls. And I'm 32 years old. So... what's that tell ya? I don't think that you can figure the female species out. We're all different, and we're constantly changing. |
haha...girls...that is so true...cant figure them out
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Book 5: HP & the Order of the Phoenix Forum: who has already finished the new book?
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but since when did Harry get so into having those temper tantrums. 
I found it kind of odd that this was such a big part of this last book while before he seemed to be more level headed. 