Poor unloved CoS!

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 182988

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Carol, just curious as to why CoS is apparently so low on everyone's
> list of favorites


Montavilla47:

Me, too, Carol.  I'm also surprised to see so many people listing 
DH as their favorite.  But then, I'm just a nasty curmugeon. :)

I quite liked CoS.  I didn't like Dobby much, of course, but he's
better in book form than on film and actually less annoying
in CoS than in later books.

It might the low Hermione quotient.  She does disappear for
months when she's petrified, and that sort of slows the 
action down.  

Also, the spiders?  I dunno, that was sort of 
Portkey question of CoS for me.  If the adults hadn't been
such idiots, Harry and Ron wouldn't have needed to go out
into the woods at all.

But I like CoS just fine as a book, and it's one of my favorites
as a film.  And all because of Kenneth Branagh playing 
Lockhart.  It's such perfect casting that I did a little dance
when I heard he was playing the part.  That he and Alan
Rickman had a duel with itty-bitty sticks filled me with 
joy.