Poor unloved CoS!

[becks3uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 182998

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67@> wrote:
> >
> > I notice that several posters to SSS's new thread have listed CoS
> > as their least favorite book and I don't think anyone has listed
> > it as their favorite. Why? Is it all Dobby's fault? A little bit
> > Lockhart's, maybe?
> >
> > CoS is, after all, a crucial book,<SNIP>

becks3uk:

I know I feel a bit bad for CoS now, it was one of my least favourite
but that isn't to say I didn't like it. It just wasn't as good as the
later ones for me. I guess as an adult I like the deeper insight you
get into the adult characters that comes in the later books, since we
see things through Harry's eyes, his perspective becomes more astute
as he grows older. Plus, I really like some of the characters that are
not introduced until post CoS (i.e. Remus and Sirius, and to a lesser
extent Moody).

But I do love some aspects of that book. One of my all-time favourite
chapters is the one with the Duelling club. With Lockhart, Snape and
Expelliarmus! The bits towards the end, with the diary and all the
action with the Basilisk were not as interesting to me. Nothing wrong
with it but its an action sequence and I prefer the little things,
like characterisation, subtle descriptions, conversations; that type
of thing. As an end to the book for the first read it was fine but I
don't get much out of re-reading it.

JMO
Becks