OOP : Favourite book?

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Couldnt help comparing OOP with the other 4 books.  Here's my thoughts.

It lacked the uniqueness of the PS, it was all new and fresh in the 
first book,

Didn't have the plot and story building of COS
Not a patch on the wonderful Azkaban, (who was not completly shocked 
by the whole Scabbers thing)

Didn't have the suspense of the Triwizard Tournament, and the 
Voldermort scene at the end of GOF  surely was a lot better than 
OOP.  Cedric's death shocked me alot more than Sirius's I feel JKR made a mistake in saying there was going to be a death because that 
would have been far and away the biggest shock in the book, but 
unfortunately were all waiting for it to happen and it didn't have 
that much impact for me. 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!

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