[HPforGrownups] My favourite HP book...

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10098

My turn, my turn! I think I like book 4 the best. While book 3 did introduce some wonderful characters, and started giving more depth to all of them, it is book 4 where I feel like I really "know" some of them, can guess what they're thinking. I feel like I've known them long enough now.

And because Snape is the most fascinating to me. In book 4 we see a lot more of Snape when he's *not* in a towering rage over something. Also, as I said somewhere or other, I believe that up until the ending of book 4, Harry has been (for Snape) a walking mass of associations. There is clearly a Past there, with Harry's parents and Snape, whatever that past may be---I think Snape is only now beginning to see Harry for what Harry is, only now beginning to get past all the feelings and emotions Harry raises in him just by existing.

This unfolding, and the increase in maturity and perspective in all the characters, makes me like book 4 the best.

Then, it'd go book 3, book 1, book 2.

--Amanda