Hmmm. What's your favorite *now*?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 182964

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
>
> Well, poor Mike thinks he may have killed the list with his last 
> post.  There's been a stunned silence around here for 24 hours now, 
> anyway. ;)
> 
> So I thought I'd break that silence to ask a very mundane sort of 
> question of all y'all.
> 
> That question is:  Now that we're almost a year out from the 
release 
> of DH and the completion of the series, which of the books has 
become 
> your favorite?
> <SNIP>


Alla:

Oh, me loves this game.

Favorite book. Hmmmm, I would still say Prisoner of Azkaban, GoF and 
yes, Deathly Hallows. I got so many emotionally satisfying moments in 
that last book that I do like it very much.


Has my favorite changed over the time? Well, DH became one of them, 
but I still love Prisoner and Goblet the most because Prisoner 
introduced my favorite adults in the series, because it touched my 
emotions the most and because after those books I truly started to 
care for Harry not just because he is is the hero on the quest.

My least favorite book, well OOP, definitely. I love some things in 
there very much, but when I read it I was hurting with Harry, I hated 
Umbridge, I cried for Sirius. So I guess when I say least favorite, I 
should say the one which is hard to reread, not the one which I think 
badly written or something.

Which characters I love the best when it is all over? I still like 
sooo many of them and still love Sirius and Harry and Ron the best.

I was a bit dissapointed with Ron in DH, but then I realized that I 
should be happy that he was allowed real growth.

I LOVE Snape and Dumbledore as well written characters too :-) 

I do not sympathize with them (well, maybe with Dumbledore sometimes) 
or respect them, but I think they are very well done.

I certainly have temptation to skip Umbridge in OOP and I will not 
reread Harry's grieving over Sirius at the end and yes, yes, 
Dumbledore's speech at the end of OOP makes me sooo angry.

I will write more about favorite and least favorite chapters later.

Am I surprised at any of my reactions? Well, I did not expect to have 
so much disgust for Dumbledore at the end, even if I forgive him if 
Harry can - that is considering the fact that I already hated some of 
his **actions** indeed should say a lot.

Thanks :)

Alla