[HPforGrownups] CoS Is The Least Favorite HP Book. Why?

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 27378

justanopinion2001 at hotmail.com wrote:

> Let's talk about this.  What exactly is it that causes so many people
> not to like CoS?  Is it the characterization, the ending, the plot,
> something else?  Can anyone put their finger on it?  And if you can
> identify a gripe about CoS, can you think of a way to fix it?

In my case the reason is simple:  Gilderoy Lockhart gets on my
nerves in a BIG way.  As in, fingernails-on-a-blackboard time. 
Intellectually I can appreciate that he's a wonderfully realized
character and I wouldn't ask JKR to change a hair on his
exquisitely coiffed head, but that doesn't mean I personally want
to be in the same book with him very often . . .


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>