Plot in OotP

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Hi,
 All this discussion on the OOTp is so welcome that I felt like 
adding my two bits to it. I always thought that JKR was an excellent 
dramatist and a bad narrator. I didn't like GOF too and I think that 
PoA is exactly the right length for her. OOTP was very boring until 
the middle when Harry sees Arthur being attacked and picks up pace 
from there dramtically. 
   Reading it, one can make many excuses: we can say that OOTP has to 
be boring and frustrating because that's how Harry was feeling; after 
the intial excitement that the wizarding world had to offer him, it 
is palling on Harry and some of that too should rub off in the novel 
and many more. The fact is we can fully sympathise with these things 
yet demand that a good author can make the material exciting for us 
the readers eventhough it is going very badly for the characters in 
it.
  Yeah, there are wonderful glimpses strewn all over the novel but if 
JKR had just cut down the flab in the between these, OOTP would have 
been a great novel. 
  About the plotlessness though. I think the structures will be more 
and more linear now that the series is coming to a finish. So the 
rest of the novels will be 'plotless' too. More of backstory and less 
of surprising twists and turns.
Bye
Adi