Feelings on OoP

[angellslin]

No: HPFGUIDX 79980

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mom31" <mom31 at r...> wrote:
> I've been wondering how everyone else is feeling about OoP now that 
we've had time to re-read it and let it sink in.  
> 
> For me, it didn't even feel like canon at first.  When I first 
finished it, I felt very emotionally drained, and had absolutely no 
idea how I felt about the book.  People kept asking me if it was 
good, and I kept replying, that I needed to read it again to figure 
it out.  I was so tense and anxious about the death, and so surprised 
about Harry's attitude!  It seemed such a downer.
> 
> I liked it much better the second time, and now that my daughters 
done with it, I'm going to start my third.  I'm going to pay 
particular attention to the cleaning scenes at Grimmauld Place.  
There has to be something important in there.
> 
> The more I get used to OoP, the more I like it.  I love that Harry 
has more of a personality now!  
> 
> This is how I'd rank the books.
> 
> 1. GoF
> 2. PoA
> 3. OoP
> 4. SS
> 5. CoS
> 
> 
> Joj
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


I'm bitterly upset by OoP. It's a book about human weaknesses. Rather 
than restoring to different branches of magic, the OoP is 
so "realistic" that it tells us that wizards are just human, who 
commit all sort of human mistake, no matter you're as wise as 
Dumbledore, or as reckless and brave as Harry Potter. 

I'm also disappointed by Harry's behaviour in this book. Of course, 
you can argue that he's a teenager and feels angry and be 
misunderstood and stuff like that. But I wonder, if Harry continues 
his self-consciousness, self-isolation and self-pity as in OoP, can 
he be alive by the end of Book 7 or how many of his friends and 
mentors have to die in order to save him? 

Angel 
(whose favourite book is PoA)