Hmmm. What's your favorite *now*?

[Jayne]

No: HPFGUIDX 183025

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
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> > > Mike:
>  But the real hook was the Scabbers/Peter 
> > revelation, anybody with the ability to hang that in front of us 
> for 
> > three books only to turn everything on it's ear,... I just had to 
> > read more of this story. 
> 
> Potioncat:
> I think that experience happened for me earlier because someone let 
> it slip that Snape wasn't the bad guy when I was mid-way through 
> SS/PS. He didn't give any other information and I still think the 
> Bonehead had no idea he'd given anything away at all. But I started 
> reading differently.
> 
> PoA was exciting because of the turn-arounds. I enjoyed that book, 
> too.
> 
Me 
I have to agree that up until OoP and DH this was my favourite book. 
I loved the way the relationship between Harry and Sirius developed 
and of course I loved the relationship, trust and respect growing 
between Harry and Lupin
> > 
> > Mike:
> > OotP still tops this list. <snip>
>  I did enjoy the whole MoM running fight and got goose 
> > bumps when Dumbledore showed up to battle "Tom". Of course, that 
> was 
> > after my favorite character got himself killed, which meant I had 
> two 
> > more books to go with no Sirius. :(
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> How difficult was it to continue reading the series after Sirius 
> died?  Given that I'm still here, I suppose I would have continued 
> reading if Snape had died earlier. But I was quite upset at his 
> death, even expecting it. I thought Sirius's was completely 
> unexpected.
>
Me
Yes. I was glad that it happened near the end of the book. It was 
unexpected to me and I was really sad , but the ending I felt was 
great in other ways and made this my fav book


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Jayne
Loving this discussion on OoP