[HPforGrownups] Why my favorite is my favorite...

[Steph Widger]

No: HPFGUIDX 10270

As I sit here, skimming my way thru digests apon digests I think I need to 
put my two cents into this discussion. Everyone I've seen so far has said 
that their favorite was book 3, The Prisoner of Azkaban. I didn't vote on 
the poll because I couldn't pick my favorite book. There is no possible way. 
I could probably narrow it down-but no, wait, i don't think I could. I'm 
gonna take a moment out to tell you why...

Book 1 introduces us to the characters. It lets us figure out who we like, 
who we dislike, why or why not. My favorite part of this book is "through 
the trapdoor" because I love the rooms. I also love when Dumbledore gives 
ron points because I love Ron and find him the underdog in so many ways, he 
deserves it.

Book 2 would probably be at the bottom of my list. It's good, but I can't 
really pinpoint one certin moment. That looks bad for me, I just finished 
re-reading CoS. :) I think the whole putting together who Tom Marvolo Riddle 
is together is so smart, I never would have figured that out myself. It also 
introduces you to Dobby, a character whom I fell in love with since I first 
pictured him, with big, orb like eyes.

Book 3 is very good. It gives such good imagery, I want to go to Hogsmeade 
myself. Sirius Black, as I've come to see you guys absolutely adore, is a 
great character. It gives someone to Harry to bond with once he finds out 
the actual story. Crookshanks is a good character, once you find out he was 
so smart. Otherwise, I hated him because of the whole Scabbers incident. And 
the whole transforming into animals (the word is escaping me...) by James 
and his group. My future Siberean Husky *will* be named Prongs. The time 
travelling part was also very good. But we've speculated this whole book 
already. Something that no one else has mentioned is the Quidditch cup. I 
find myself feeling for Wood, and being so happy for him when he wins. I 
became attached to him, nad it's gonna be weird to be in Hogwarts without 
him, as it will be without Fred and George.

Book 4 took me to the depths though. Reading it for that week this summer 
I'm really excitied to get the chance to pick it back up. (I'm almost 
through 3 for the 3rd time, working towards the first time re-reading GoF-I 
can't wait! I forget so much! :) It really is a book that appealed to me, 
and I worried about it being so long! I realized that JK really is good, and 
that she can make you feel for anyone. I fell in love with Cedric Diggory 
during GoF and cried at the end I'd become so attached. I think the whole 
story line through the book is good. I love the adventures they go on, from 
fighting dragons to saving people in the lake. It also is the first bigger 
hint towards girls, and how I'm *positive* that ron and hermione are really 
secretly in love with each other. The end kind of blows me away, and I'm 
biting at the bit for the next book because I want to know what's going to 
happen. It frightens me, and scares me. Voldemort at power agian. Could that 
really happen?

So that's why I can't possibly pick a favorite. Utterly impossible.
@~~~
Steph

"Excellent, are we carrying on?" -Fred
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