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

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 157313

Aida:
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!!!

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



Sherry now:

I had a very emotional reaction to OOTP and still have trouble getting
through it when I try to reread.  The weekend of its release, I had two
friends over to read the audio book with me.  During many of the Umbridge
scenes, particularly the lines writing, I had to leave the room and let my
friends continue without me.  And the part where Sirius dies upset me more
than any other thing in any of the books.  Not even Dumbledore's death upset
me as much.  The manner of Dumbledore's death shocked me, and I was sad that
he had to die, but he was old, and he had to die in the story.  But to take
away Harry's godfather and guardian, to take away the one person he'd found
who was all his, it really broke my heart.  When I can manage to read OOTP,
I always have to stop before Sirius dies.  Emotionally speaking, I think
it's one of the cruelest events in the entire series for me, anyway.

Sherry