Poor unloved CoS!

[hickengruendler]

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> Montavilla47:
 
> 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.

Hickengruendler:

For me it's exactly different. CoS is the book, where I couldn't 
stand Dobby. His appearence at the Dursleys is still one of my least 
favourite scenes ever. Harry has enough problems with the Dursleys, 
without an annoying little git like Dobby making his life worse, 
because he wanted to "help".

It got much better for me in the later books. I liked him from OotP 
onwards.
  
Plus, I found the climax over the top, and not in a good way. It 
never manged to captivate me the way the endings of GoF, HBP or DH 
did. It still had lots of good scenes, though. And it is tightly 
written.