Book details of 'Harry Potter (Book 5): Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

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 Timothy Mack wrote:
The fifth book is by far the best. I am on page 500 and I only put it down to go to work. Rowling is brilliant in every way and she deserves everything she gets. This book captures everything you can imagine from page one. It starts of good and I am sure it going to end superbly. I cant wait for book six and seven.

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. Just to prove my point: Is any of you still interested in the stupid sport (so call quidich), the only thing that it make a different here is the dramatic turn around of Ron as a keeper, (I become like Ron more and more, not Harry, because Ron is human, while Harry is a HERO.....) 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. To conclude I still say this book have no story what so ever, if I just skip this book and direct go to book6 it will not make much different. When we finally read all 7 books, if I dare to predict, we will notice again, that there is no point to write the 5th one. Sorry for the English, English is not my native language and I write this in a "Harry" :).

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Reviewer gingee wrote:
honestly, i was disappointed in this fifth installment of harry potter. i was looking forward to something that was less dark and depressing but instead, that was exactly what this book was all about. harry was angry, confused and alone most of the time so there wasn't a lot of funny and scary adventures happening to the 3 (harry, ron and hermione). also, a lot of major characters appeared less in this book (like dumbledore and hagrid) which is quite a loss since i was always looking for Dumbledore's words of wisdom and hagrid's slips of the tongue. quidditch was also evidently missing from the book. quite a lot of characters were introduced in this book and sad to say, there was not enough space for character development for all of them. i just don't understand why rowling had to introduce all these characters including grawp. maybe they'll play important roles in the future books. another problem i had in the book was that it left a lot of questions. unlike in the previous books which was always seamless, this one left me with some questions like what was in that archway where sirius fell? how did those statues move in the Ministry of Magic during Voldemort and Dumbledore's fight? lastly, i was expecting that the revelation scene at the end would be more earth-shattering. the prophecy that was revealed was nothing new--you can deduce why voldemort wanted to kill harry from the start! i was expecting a little more history, what harry's parents did before, why voldemort wanted to kill them, etc. another thing i didn't like was the fact that there were a lot of things happening around harry but harry was not really in the middle of it. like for example ron's playing quidditch. harry was not able to play the sport while ron was. another was ron and hermione's being prefects which left harry out of a lot of things. but of course, there were also good parts in this book. i especially liked the chapter "snape's worst memory". it was so refreshing since that scene was a very innocent and angst-free one. it also gave a glimpse as to what kind of people harry's parents were. all i can say is that this book didn't match up to the expectations... too bad.

Reviewer shay wrote:
I dont mean to be rude but for those people who are saying this book is too dark. Please Get real. What did you expect. Voldemort is loose and ready to kill and i dont think Harry should be acting all peachy king about that. First of he almost died in book 4, he saw someone murdered right next to him etc, not to mention the fact that he has to face death every single year and still do well in school and deal with constant vicious and slanderous rumors. If a real kid or even adult was in his position i think that it would be understandable if they were a angry etc. even a little crazy if you ask me. With that said this book was REALLY GOOD but it was depressing because i really like sirius. However i appreciate why she did it. i actually think that mrs. Rowling is very blessed and magical to be able to do what she does. I love how she fooled everybody by not doing the predictable. For example Ron is the prefect and he won the quddtich cup (seems like the vision he saw the mirror in book one is coming true, yeah for ron) Harry is definately getting rained in this book but it makes the story so much richer. It would be unrealistic to make Harry always come out on top. The bit about his parents was brilliant i hope after she finishes witht the seventh book she does a spin-off series about the maurauders. Pleaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssseeeeee.

Reviewer yana wrote:
I finished reading the book yesterday and I must say I loved it. i think it was better than book 4. The first part of the Goblet of Fire is boring. The pace only picks up after chapter 12. But with Book 5, the suspense starts at Chapter 1 and it continues until the very last. This may not be for everyone (evident in some reviews) because people seem to think that it was too dark, it was too tragic etc. etc. Its understandable since Voldemort is about to reign once again. Rowling is just giving readers an insight as to what people must have experienced, suffered during Voldemort's reign. Before I read book 5 i thought my most hatest characters would be the Malfoys and Snape. But now... it definitely is Umbridge, Fudge and everyone who thinks Harry is crazy. Plenty of the readers may have thought Harry became a bit pompous but come one, he is only 15! Anyone whose been past that age know how many issues 15-year olds have (speaking from experience). I was really depressed for a few days because of Sirius' death for he is my most favorite character. Oh darn... really Ms. Rowling, why not kill Snape instead ? Anyway, this is a fabulous read. I loved it!!!

Reviewer Susan wrote:
Right, so many are complaining about the darkness of this book. So? Voldemort has returned, why wouldn't it be dark? And the complaints about Harry changing. Again, why wouldn't he? He's a teenager and teenagers are moody, torn between not being a child and not quite grown. The book is a gripping read, answers some questions and brings up some new ones. Well done JK! Just don't make us wait three years again.... And for goodness sake, why don't some of you learn to spell and punctuate properly! It really is infuriating to read such badly constructed attempts at sentences. (No, I'm NOT and English teacher.....)

Unknown reviewer wrote:
i read this book nonstop, and finished in two days. I kind of think that this book would've been better if i didnt read it so fast, and let it drag out longer. I really loved this book, no doubt about it, and the three year wait for it was unbearable. But there was something different about this book. I noticed that JK Rowling used the word "mate" a lot and also "pitch", when reffering to the quidditch feild. That was weird since she never used those terms through the first 4 books. The styly or basic structure of the book was changed too. Instead of a distinct begginning, middle, and end, as usual, the book seemed broken up differently. There were many scary or at least suspenseful things that appeared randomly throughout the novel instead of all at the end. The ending i feel was really rushed, and the book didnt really come cleanly together until the end. The more i think about it the more i realize i was kind of disappointed, even though i keep lying to myself about it. i still LOVED the book, but the depressing mood throughout it frusterated me, as well as the complete blindness the ministry of magic shows to whats really going on. I cannot stand professor umbridge!!! she acts as a dictator and takes over the school. one of my favorite parts of the book was when they had the many D.A. meetings. I loved the ending how it wrapped everything up, answering all the questions, and adding more to think about, but i think more questions couldve been answered throughout the book. all in all it was a great read, and i will definately recommend it. i also plan on reading it again soon and this time taking it slower, because i think that will change my opinion of the book for the better.

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Reviewer Dan McFarquhar wrote:
Really disappointed with this book. It took FOREVER to get going. I mean forever... like 500 pages. There is very little story to the book despite it's 766 pages. Dumbledore and Hagrid have been reduced to minor roles and there is no explanation at all of Snape's secret mission. It was one of the stories I was most looking forward to after book 4. I hope that for the next books Ms Rowling will not feel the need to bore us with pages and pages and pages and PAGES of pre-amble and just get on with the story the way she did with the first 3 books. I can't really think of anything positive to say about the book I'm afraid.

Reviewer tanya wrote:
absolutely mindblowing!!!!! i loved this book cant wait till the other one gets out and man, i hope she doesnt ever stop writing the books ever!!!!! i wonder how can neone have an imagination like Jk Rowling. She has done really great 4 herself i mean she was only a social worker b4 but only in a matter of few years, she did the unthinkable. i loved this book and thought that this was generally rebellious that the rest and also that its a whole lot sadder than the others. i thought the part where dumbledore sheds a tear for harry and tells him that he really likes him was really really sweet- at least it'll give him some confidence. ppl who dnt read h. potter- i feel sorry for them as they dnt know what theyre missing out on.

Reviewer Mo wrote:
Hey everyone. I just finished reading the book and i started yesterday on sunday. i was sooo sad and still am to find out that sirius died. I don't know about anyone else who read it but when i read books i feel like i live the story. so reading was soooo eventful for me and i got all emotional. I am looking forward to the next book although i am kind of scared of what is too come. I have watched the harry potter movies in theaters and i thought i was in love with daniel radcliffe. hehe. turns out i love the character the buld up of harry potter and i hope jk rowling never ever stops writing.

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