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Title	Harry Potter (Book 5): Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Author(s)	J K Rowling
ISBN	0747551006
Language	English

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Reviewer Jenifer wrote:
Well let's just start with expressing just how dissapointing this book was for me. I just started reading the Harry Potter books in Feb. so I didn't have to wait as long as most people for this book, but even so I was still foaming at the mouth and waiting in line at midnight with the rest of the Harry Potter nuts, my favorite book was Book 3 so I was upset the Sirius died but I understand... on the rest of the book I read it straight through it took me 22 hours and it took everything I had to keep going it was so boring the only good parts happen after chapter 30 but by then I had already read 700 or so pages, what is the point of having a female Snape? Which is pretty much what the new professor is in the long run, and why did she not get killed by the centaurs that would have really made the book dark! She didn't even get punished for sending the demetors after Harry in the first place JKR could have least given Harry the satisfaction of telling her that he was right all along about Voldemort! that would have been nice. I just felt like this book wasn't like the other ones there was no shock factor as there was from the first for books. I didn't think the death scene was that great either I didn't even cry and Siruis was my favorite character, and that is saying something considering I balled my eyes out on Book 4 when Cedric dies. And what was the point between Harry and Cho anyway I know when I was fifteen I didn't act like that! Well I guess that is all. I have given the book a rating of 3 because after all is said and done it is still a Harry Potter book!, and I am sure I will be waiting in line at midnight for the next one!

Unknown reviewer wrote:
This is the the worst of the five books. There is nothing in the book. NOTHING.............. each the four books before it have a bombshell at the end, just because the fifth book has no bombshell at all, so JK intentionally leaked that "a major character will die", that what keep me on edge when I read the book.(So if a dare say, this is a scandle?!!!) when Auther was attacked by the snake... when Hagrid and Mongonogol was attacked... any of these, if render a death will be far more a impact then black's death. His death will totally have no or very small impact on the characters. In the following books, his death will be totally forgotten or at least make not much different in the development of the charecters. Just imagine that if it's Auther who dead, the impact it will have on Ron and his whole family, Ron will grow up in one night. Don't to mention if it's Hagrid or Mongonogol who dead... Another thing is disappontted is the love story, no development in that front what so ever. This whole book make me wonder that JK have the story of only 6 books instead of 7, and she have to write 7 books, so the fifth is just the boring story of magic creatures, fancy magics, strange witchs wizards... who care, we already got the point that they living in a magic world, none of these will impress me any more. I like the fight scene at the end, but what the point fighting or even protect that so called "weapon", just Voldmore want hear it in the whole, When we hear the whole in the end, is there anything new except we knew the the division teacher do predict future..., Voldmore can easily get in the room undetected and take it like( We knew the other death eaters getting in without any trouble or being seen by anybody), As mentioned in the book he and harry was the only ones that can take it. And the only reason given by JKR is that voldmore don't want other people see him(Ha, Ha, it's laughable...). You can see it full of holes in here, nobody was protecting the "Weapon" as they should, Voldmore turn up anyway to show himself in front of many people instead of sneak in and get the thing and read it. Why dose he think that if he trick Harry to take it for him Harry will give hime without a fight or simply destory it, we know how easy that can be. And at the end why headmaster don't worry about it anymore and receit the whole prediction to Harry while Voldmore can still easily get into Harry's mind and steal it.... The only bright point in the book is the twin, any of you have finished the book will have to agree with me on that one. Sorry for the English, English is not my native language and I write this in a "Harry" :).

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Reviewer Samantha wrote:
Hum, I just finished reading the book on the 23rd at 3 in the morning. I have avidly read every Harry Potter Book and finished it with in four days of it's release. I'm sorry to say i was overall rather disappointed with this book. Throughout the story the plot seemed stretched and not much seemed to happen between the beginning and the end. I have to say I loved the reoccurrence of Lupin and Sirius, and the new characters were interesting ( I love how she ties everything together) But i am appalled that she killed Sirius. He was the on characters I dreaded seeing killed. I cried from his death to the end of the book. I think it was a bad move to kill one of Harry's best links to his family and his father's past. Hopefully it will work into her last books and actually have reason for why HE had to die

Reviewer Dusan Manojlovic wrote:
I thought it was an amazing book. From the first chapter when the Dementors attack Dudley (the boxer) Dursley up until the members of the DA decide to hex Malfoy. There are plenty new characters and others that play a more prominet role within such as Cho, Ginny and the older two Weasley brothers. Rowling's perception of Harry during the book is spot on. I'm 16, and he is in the same school year as in the 5th year of Secondary school. Rowling has Harry portrayed as an angry teenager, who feels the whole world is against him and the mounting pressures of exams, this is on top of all his worries with his dreams getting further and further into the story but it was predictable to me that when Harry went looking for Sirius, he wouldn't be there and I though he would die,him or Hagrid, me personally prefering the latter. This book really does open the boundaries more with less attention on Hogwarts and more on life outside Hogwarts. Sub plots such as Harry's relationship with Cho, which i feel should have been incorporated more into the main storyline. The attempts of the Weasley twins to open their joke shop etc, which I found hilarious, they are extremely comical from book 3 onwards and hope they provide a large role in the final two books. The other interesting plots of Sirus's frustration, his runnung feud with Snape and the school rebellion against Umbridge. The battle scene at the end is truly amazing, seeing it as a movie would be great and the big secret that Dumbledore tells Harry is built on all the hints from the first 4 books. I have enjoyed the last 3 books much more than the first 2 although the first 2 were great books. I think it being a darker book shows the reality of the return of Voldermort, and this book is much more a stepping block for the last 2 books where expect a lot more characters to die. I give this book top marks and for all interested she has already started to write the 6th book and I'm looking forward to seeing the next 3 movies as I think they'll be great, hopefully they don't miss too much out.

Reviewer Sam wrote:
JKR definitely did not think the book thru all that well. After the first 4 books, this was a bit of a dissapointment. First of all, I think it was made unnecessarily long. Nothing much happened in the first 20 or so chapters. The biggest problem that I found was with the way she made Harry act. He proved to be nothing but an angry, confused and foolhardy 15 year old. Why did he not practise Occlumency hard enough? Why did he resort to Umbridge's fireplace when he had the mirror that Sirius had asked him to use when he needed to talk to him? The Harry we knew previously was not so forgetful, was he? Why did he not go to Snape in the first place after he had that dream? Why did he stubbornly keep hating Snape even after what he saw in the Pensieve?? I think JKR failed to live upto the mark this time. Hopefully next time will be better!

Reviewer Penny wrote:
Well, I don’t know what I expected, but this wasn’t it. I was never so happy looking forward to anything in my whole life as I was the release of Book 5. If you had asked me, “Didn’t I think there were going to be tough times for Harry in the new book?”, I would have said “Sure”. In the back of my mind I expected him to have to meet Voldemort, naturally. It is JKR’s story and she does have the right to write anything she chooses. But the misery level in this book was so high, precisely because I do love the characters so much, as if they were my real friends, I don’t like to see them suffer that way. Harry baiting Dudley to that extent?, that is surely not the Harry we have always known. Sirius’s mother, saying those caustic things to all of them, the family, the betrayal, that he had to put up with. (It does makes the Marauders look all the more understandable all of a sudden.) Poor Mrs. Weasley, limp on the floor because of that boggart. Quills that cut your skin and write with blood - Filch, actually reaching for whips - torture going on, right under Dumbledore’s nose? No quidditch for Harry, Ron makes the team and then is utterly humiliated. Mr. Weasley being attacked and hospitalized. Professor Snape was so totally unable to teach Harry, and it is long past time for Dumbledore to take him in hand. Dumbledore may have absolute trust that Snape would not betray them; but Snape should grow up and realize that Harry is not James, and people’s lives depend on his attitude. I hope he feels the guilt he really deserves in this case, both for the person who died, and the person who is left behind. Dumbledore’s great revelation had already been alluded to previously and was pretty much what we already knew. Someone is dead because Snape and Dumbledore let Harry down? - that is almost too hard to accept. It was an accident, a “should not have had to happen” death. And it left Remus all alone, losing more than a friend, bereft of his packmate. It was just a huge downer, and my book definitely has tear stains on it now. I feel like I have been in mourning ever since I read it. Cedric has been dead for a year now, and his death has not contributed anything to the story but sadness, and I think this death is more of the same. Harry is absolutely right to be so angry, all their silence has done is to make his life a living h**l, and he deserves much better from his mentors, how many times does he have to defeat Voldemort before they treat him as an equal? And it seemed the mystery was gone. In previous books the bad guy was right under our nose but we had to wait until the surprise at the end to see who it really was. This time, the bad guy was right out in the open as just pure shock material, and the only mystery about it was when would people snap, all they needed was endurance. The biggest mysteries were only buildings, rooms, and doors. I know JKR has always been humorous, but even Fred and George’s humor with Peeves was bittersweet, they had to give up a lot to leave school. There are two things that seemed to be way over the top, just a little too far fetched even for JKR. First: Hagrid’s brother: Grawp’s chapter especially seemed very disjointed, like it was just thrown in there. It surely does make Hagrid look deserving of some of the things Rita had written about him before. Is JKR just trying to “pull a Rita” and discredit him to the point where he can’t be a help to anyone anymore? Second: A tank of brains: Yuck! I guess we are just supposed to be shocked how far the Ministry will go? The high points were seeing the kids learning to protect their selves in the DA meetings, the way the teachers stuck together against Professor Umbridge, and the people that were waiting for Harry when he got off the train. Those three similar items seem to be the only point for this whole story. Did she write the whole story on the strength of the quote from Benjamin Franklin? I was also very gratified to see Rita Skeeter do something right, and surely it helped Harry to finally tell the truth. I’m glad he did that before the final battle, so he had the precedents in place. Luna Lovegood is a great new character, she was good for Harry; but I hated to see Ginny call her “Loony” Lovegood before Harry and Neville had even met her, Molly would not have raised her daughter that way. And Hurrah! for Dobby, I was glad to see him again. It’s about time that Harry gets some of the support he deserves, but it sure came at too high of a price this time. The new story plot didn’t seem new at all. It was like 800+ more pages of Chapter 37, Goblet of Fire. Fudge is against Dumbledore and Harry, yes, we already knew that. Harry’s scar connects him to Voldemort, we already knew that too. There was a prophecy, we knew that too. The final straw for me was Harry finding the mirror in his trunk when it was too late for him to use it. Geez, JK, did you just have to twist the knife?

Reviewer Louis wrote:
I have enjoyed the book but it was the worst one so far . harry was to angry, no real character of hagrid and dumbledore, took ages to start , almost unbelivable that fudge wouldnt believe dumbledore, new characters were boring, NOTHING NEW ABOUT SNAPE!!!!!!!!, dumbledore's speech at the end was exciting until he finished and you realised that you knew all of that already.Poor fight scene with voldemort and just when things start to get better for harry something bad comes his way and puts him in another bad mood. However the book was O.K and cant wait for the new one personallly i think that the prophecy will turn out wrong and neville will kill voldemort.

Reviewer Victoria wrote:
I am an avid reader of the Harry Potter series and I could not wait until this book came out. However, I am seriously disappointed in the book. The book was such a dark turn from the previous four and it really affected me emotionally especially with the death of Sirius. I don't understand the authors need to make this book so dark especially when the primary audience is children. I don't think that they'll be able to comprehend why it is such a sad and depressing book. Harry Potter used to make every feel better and this book just does the opposite. I also heard that the next book is going to be a blood bath of people dying, and I'm seriiously considering not even reading it. J.K. Rowling certaintly lost one fan of the series.

Reviewer Bruce wrote:
Does anyone think that Neville could still be the boy that the prophecy refers to? I know that supposedly it should be Harry, since "the Dark Lord marks him as his equal". BUT, and that's a big BUT, Rowling leaves a sliver of a chance open by saying that "[the boy] has powers that the Dark Lord knows not". In other words, this could refer to how Neville seems unassuming and magically weak. Although many of you might think I'm crazy to suggest this after reading Dumbledore's explanation, you cannot deny that that line suggests that Neville is still a possibility (albeit remote). As much as I hate to say this, Dumbledore has been wrong before (i.e. his choices in OotP). Nonetheless, Dumbledore is still my hero! Nobody messes with that wizard!

Reviewer Mikey wrote:
Wow. What a terrible book! I mean I would rank all the previous books as 9 or 10 out of 10. OOTP I would give maybe a 6. I really enjoyed the first 4 books because they seemed to flow. This book just dragged on, and on, and on...How many times do we need to read a description of what Ron Weasley looks like, or Severus Snape, or Hogwart's? She keeps writing the books as though her readers have never read any of the previous ones. I can understand that she would like to make the book as accessible to as many people as possible (even people who have never read any of the previous books), but I would guess that the vast majority of the people who are reading OOTP have already read at least one if not all the previous books and do not need 300 pages of descriptions of stuff they are already familiar with. There were not many plot twists, not nearly as many funny parts, and a lot less action than any of the other books in the series. This story contained in this book could easily have been pared down to 300 pages. I enjoy a long book as much as the next person, but so long as the author is not just filling pages for the sake of filling pages. At the end of book 4, I was SOOOOOO looking forward to this book. Things were starting to heat up, so the next book was bound to be action-packed. Then I waited 3 years for it to come out, so anticipation grew even more. Then I read it and was thoroughly disappointed. Hopefully she will redeem herself with the next one.

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