OOP : Favourite book?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 66312

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "imo_star" 
<sixbrokensoldiers at h...> wrote:
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> It was a long book but I have to say in 
> places it seemed to be padded out, Draco, Hagrid what did they 
really 
> add to the story? I just did not find the Grawp story line 
> convincing, I felt Hagrid was an add on.  Anyway that was my 
thoughts 
> on the books, my favourite by the way is azkaban!
> 
> imo

Annemehr:
I'm just assuming that the scenes in OoP about Draco and Hagrid and 
Grawp were not actually story _lines_  but actually just fragments, 
to be continued later.  I just treat any one HP book like 
_The_Two_Towers_ -- nobody complains about Gollum being pointless 
there!

That said, I don't like the Grawp thread much either, yet.  I'm just 
willing to wait for the payoff; and really, it's hard to imagine how 
else JKR could bring in a giant on the good side.

Far from being padded out, I thought there was an amazing lot in 
there, and I'm still having a lot of trouble internalizing it all in 
a second reading -- each new revelation drives the last out of 
memory so that I can't remember who did what.

Incidentally, what didn't you like about the Draco thread?  
Certainly, we haven't reached the end of it yet, but I thought it 
was good in showing him rushing down his chosen path, on the "Any 
Enemy of Dumbledore's is a Friend of Mine" branch.  He was actually 
beginning to *do* something.

Annemehr