No: HPFGUIDX 86451 Okay, this is going to sound ridiculous, but when I read the books (I read them all last summer, when OOP came out) I thought that books 1-3 gracefully connected to one another. But is it me, or did JKR start hopping around after book 3? Because it just didn't seem like book 4 and 5 connected to the story ( as in the whole story). Mary Santillo.