OOTP made me angry - WAS Re: I'm new here so sorry if this isn't correct

[Aida Costa]

No: HPFGUIDX 157261

Lynn wrote:

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> I am curious how many times everyone has read the series.

Aida:

I've read the first four books 3 times, the 5th book twice and HBP
only once so far.  I want to start reading the whole series again from
the beginning to try and make sense of all the little
questions/abnormalities/inconsistencies that we all discuss here :-)

> My husband thinks I'm a nutter for rereading HP books. Anyone else?

Aida:
A couple of years ago I finally convinced my husband to read the books
and now he's just as big a Potter-head as I am, thank goodness!

As a matter of interest - reading book 5 really ticked me off.
Umbridge is such a cow!!!  What really steamed me was knowing that in
our real world, politics and government *are* corrupt- this wasn't
just JKR's wonderful imagination at work - and we all suffer for it.
I got angrier and angrier as I read the book that by the end, I was so
incensed at Dumbledore that I almost threw the book across the room!
That's when I *really* realized what a talented story teller JKR is -
they're fictional characters for goodness sakes, yet I was so mad at
them!!!

Then again, book 5 is my husband's favourite book in the series
*precisely* because of the political intrigue.  (Can you guess which
of us is a hard-core James Bond fan?)

I'm wondering if anyone else has had a severe emotional reaction to
any of the books?

When I read the description of the DE's in book 4 (robes, hoods and
masks) I had such a visceral reaction as I realized this was no
different than the KKK.  I already knew JKR was heavily influenced by
the atrocities of the Nazi regime, so any parallels there didn't hit
me as hard, or come out of the blue, I expected it.  But for some
reason that *image* of the DE's freaked me out.  And then the GOF
movie!  Oh, man!!!  I think the movie DE's are even more menacing than
how they're described in the book.

Am I the only one that gets freaked out reading the books?

Aida