OOP : My review (spoilers)

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No: HPFGUIDX 63544

Feel I have to get a few things off my chest, beware spoilers
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This is my first post, though i have been reading everyone elses 
thoughts for sometime.  

1.  I am getting a little tired of the Draco Harry thing we know they 
hate each other, we know why, their dialogue is practically te same 
in each book, (sorry) but frankly it's beginning to bore me.

2.  Loved the whole DA thing I also thought that it was doing exatly 
what the sorting hat said to do, uniting the houses to stand together 
against evil, all except Slyterin of course (another thing which I 
find hard to believe that all Slytherin studendt are pretty bad, 
surely they cant all be?

3.  I enjoyed all the stuff at Sirius's house it was certainly 
refreshing to be out of Hogwarts or Privet Drive, and I like the new 
characters introduced into the order.

4   Id hoped we were going to find out more about Snape, but i dont 
really think we did, yes i know we saw the whole James thing but we 
dont know why he was a death eater, isnt anymore, and why Dumbledore 
trusts him.

5   In fact I didn't think we found out a great deal of shocking new 
stuff, no big surprises, really except Neville being involved in the 
prophecy and i hope she is going somewhere with that.  And all the 
stuff about Dumbledore finally telling Harry what he should have told 
him years ago, well to be honest I though it was a bit of an 
anticlimax, is theyre anyone whose read the other books who didnt 
already know the series is going to end with either Harry or 
Voldemort dead?

6   I liked that Ginny is actually starting to have more of 
character, but its a pity Hagrid wasnt killed off, as far as i can 
tell he would be no loss if he wasn't in the book at all, so hopefully 
the whole Grawp storyline will have some bearing on future books 
otherwise was it really necessary, I like the way Neville is coming 
along, in fact at the moment for me he is the character who is most 
interesting and believable.  Harry was as we know very angry and 
understandably so but he was very hard to like in this book and im 
sorry to say but comes across more lucky than anything else, 
certainly not particulary cleverly.

To be honest for me it did not have the suspense and fantastic twist 
at the end of Azkaban, which remains by favourite book, nor anything 
exciting going on like the Triwizard Tournament in Goblet, the much 
touted death of one of the main characters wasn't horrifying or 
tearjerking and didnt really send Sirius off with a bang. The book 
seemed to plod along and in places seemed a little stale (sorry)no 
real surprised not loose ends tied up and to be honest I am not 
gagging for more! as i was at the end of Goblet, anyway hoefully book 
6 will put my griped to rest.

let me know what you thing (but please be gentle with me)