Harry Potter and God

[Carol]

Kemper wrote:
> I agree with GOF, but it was also her worst book, I think.  I believe she was writing it at the time where she was coming to realize that Harry was bigger than her, so that has to mess with anyone's head a bit.  I think it's why she took so long with OP, adjusting and getting back in control of the story. <snip>

Carol responds:
I loved GoF (the book); I was so excited that I rushed out to buy OoP even though it wasn't out in paperback yet. Unfortunately, I was disappointed by OoP, possibly *because* my expectations were so high but also, I think, because I loathe Umbridge. The GoF film had some good parts (Nagini was well done, for one, and poor Cedric's death made me cry (but maybe that's just because I like Cedric). But it was also episodic and the long scene with the dragon was overdone and overly long. Too many changes in both it and the OoP film. (Just how a viewere who hasn't read the books is supposed to know that Snape sent the Order to the MoM, I can't guess.)

As I said earlier in this thread, no two people will react in the same way to the books or interpret them the same way. The same applies to the films (though there's less to interpret).

Carol, who really likes HBP (the book) and hopes that the film at least comes close to following the complex plot