[HPforGrownups] Why is your favorite your favorite?

[Allyson]

No: HPFGUIDX 10003

Another question I am ready to answer!  PoA is my favorite HP book for a number of reasons! 

I think it explores Harry just a little more and that is what is needed to really make you feel for poor Harry.  I gained so much more insight as to who Harry is that I could honestly say I felt his pain a number of times in this particular story-line.

I also liked the introduction of Sirius!  Next to Hermione, he is my favorite character.  We really get to see his true personality come out and in it is his obvious love for his Godson.  Not to mention, in my mind he is a hunk!!!!!  Nice addition to mental pictures here!!!

We were introduced to yet another great character, Prof. Lupin.  WOW!  What a great addition to the cast of characters in the HP books.  I think his praise of Neville in front of Snape was just the icing on the cake in PoA!!!!!  Glad to hear he might be making a comeback in one of the next books!!! WOO HOO!!!!

The book as a whole was such a griping story-line I couldn't put the book down.  I started reading it and like the Energizer Bunny, I kept going and going and going.  My husband actually kicked me out of the bedroom so the lights would be turned out and he'd get some sleep that night.  I remember going into school the next day, beat off my butt, and excitedly telling my students I finished the book, but in the same breath kicking myself since I wasn't getting GoF until Christmas!

As you can tell, I am a new HP fanatic.  Truthfully, I had SS for at least a year and a half and I couldn't get into the reading of it at all until one day I started reading it aloud to my class in some downtime between academics and Art and I became hooked.  That was probably in the middle of November '00.  By the second week of December, I had the first three books read and asked for GoF for Christmas from my MIL who thought I was crazy!!!!!
 
All this HP discussion in the past few days has put me in serious HP withdrawal and I have started reading PoA for a third time, to get myself in the proper frame of mind for when I start it in class!!!!  My goodness Book 5 can not come fast enough for me here!  I am in need!!!!!!



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