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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 Jools wrote:
I had looked forward to this book for a while but as the book became more intricate, I struggled to remember some of the facts that had been explained in the first 4 books, and had to keep going back to them. Long as it was, I still found it un-put-down-able because I knew it was going to get better. And it did. So many books are over so quickly but this one just kept going so kept me part of the Harry Potter world for even longer. I actually found the length of this book enjoyable and am struggling to find a book to follow it now. JKR really should be praised for the atmosphere she creates and for how she has made us love the characters - not an easy task. I must say though, I was glad to see that other people have questioned the relationship between Malfoy and Snape - I thought it was just me who found all that a bit bizarre! I can't wait for the 6th now. A truly brilliant book - I would recommend it to anyone (and I'm nearly 30!).

Unknown reviewer wrote:
Much like everyone else on this site i was disapointed by OoP. JKR said 'in this book a great revelation will be made in why Voldermort wanted to kill Harry.' While reading the book everyone assumed it was because Harry was a decandant of Gyrffindor or that Lily was his daughter or neice or something like that. But it was the 'only Harry could defeat him'i mean come on. Everyone knew that after they read the first book. And most of the book seemed like some BS you'd find on the internet. Ron becoming a prefect??! What the hell is that?? And everyone is suddenl'y able to produce Patronus' and the every begining of the book they said it was nearly impossible for someone his age to prodice one, and now Neville can almost do it. Now im not saying the entire booked sucked. It had its good parts like when Fred and George broke of the school, but you'd have expected their mother to be so pissed at them. Now the book had its good parts, like the begining when harry and duddley are making fun of each other and duddley says 'i hear and night saying "no,no, not cedric don't kill cedric" is he your boyfriend or something' that was funny. But the book wasn't. JKR had 3 years to write this, and i expected alot better. Maybe she's getting old and losing her touch. And i also wonder when the next book will be out ???(2008???) ne ways this book was way below what JKR is supposedly capable of. I expected a whole lot better that this.

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Reviewer r.ng wrote:
Ok,i know that some people are ticked off because everyone is slamming JKR's new Harry Potter book, but I for one agree with most of the reviewers... this book was not as good as it was cracked up to be. Actually, I would say that this book is my second last favourite... (the second one is the worst) but i had expected much more action and suspense in this novel! I cracked the book open and was amazed at how Harry Potter had changed... he was so much more angrier and the way he insulted Dudley!! I know Harry is changing and everything but i didn't expect him to change COMPLETELY. The plot was incredibly boring at the beginning and the middle. Proffesser Umbridge spiced things up, but I started getting bored after a while. And what were with the uneccessary chapters... like Grawp? I think that this book should've been shorter and should've been more well edited. NEvertheless, the ending battle was VERY good. I cried when Sirius died. I think someone else should've died... book three seems stupid now, because it was all about Sirius and now he's dead. The book as whole got me depressed.

Reviewer Hanniella wrote:
Me and my friends went to get this at tesco at 12.00 and it was soooooo exciting! We were at the front of the queue which went all the way around the supermarket. Was it worth the wait? Well yes because it's Harry Potter of course. I did feel a bit disappointed after I'd read it. It wasn't as good as I expected, as a lot of readers have said. However I don't think you can judge it against the others until you've read it a good few times, which I haven't, I've only read it once. I think that most people read it quickly in a desperate attend to get to the end to find out what happens. It'll be much more enjoyable to read without the pressure of finishing it quickly and without the intense curiousity of who was going to die etc. I thought a lot of the new characters were good. I didn't feel I knew many of the Order of the Phoenix characters, except Tonks who rules. The others confused me, but again this'll probably improve when I read it again. Luna Lovegood was an excellent character but I was a bit disappointed that you didn't find out anything really interesting about her i.e. I thought she was going to turn out to be some half - breed like half angel or something. Still you never know what's going to happen in future books! The death was a little disappointing. I really thought Dumbledore was going to die. Not that I wanted Dumbledore to die, but I think that would have been more shocking. Also there were a lot of unresolved storylines with Sirius i.e. the clearing of his name. That would have made an interested storyline. Oh well, we'll just have to accept that he'll never know if he's cleared or not. I could go on forever, which I'm not going to. I'll just conclude by saying that it was a good book, not quite as good as the last two I don't think at the moment, but I might change my mind. It's been given a lot of harsh criticism which it doesn't deserve. No one is worthy enough to dis JK Rowling anyway!

Reviewer Stefanie wrote:
I am another reader who avidly looked forward to this book and then was bitterly disappointed. The bit about the mirror is very difficult to believe -- ok, Harry forgot it at the bottom of his trunk, but I find it incredible that during three fireplace conversations it never occurred to Sirius to mention it. And, like many readers, I found the prophecy a real letdown; it was certainly nothing we didn't know before, and there doesn't seem to be any truth in Dumbledore's assertion that any of the troubles in any of the books could have been prevented had Harry known it sooner. And finally...the problem of the prophecy ball was solved neatly at the end when it was smashed; why did it not occur to anyone in the Order simply to bring Harry to it, and have him break it, rather than putting people's lives at risk performing guard duty?

Unknown reviewer wrote:
I just want to say how disgusted I am with some people. Even though, like a lot of you, I thought that maybe it was a bit too long, all most of you have to say is about how bad the book is (i'm sorry that doesn't apply to everyone). I just want to say to the reviewer who said they now have more questions unanswered than they did at the start has no idea. Half of those questions were answered at the end, if you bothered to read properly. For example, the ministry is now on the side of Harry and Dumbledore (i.e. they are less corrupt), the death eaters have been sent to askaban, and Umbridge will probably be forgiven won't she (i personally think she would do well to go to askaban also but thats not the point). Aren't there meant to be many unanswered questions? Isn't that the point? We will get to book 7 and know everything so there won't be any point reading on! Before reading this book, I thought that Harry Potter and the prisoner of askaban was the best book but now I definetely think this tops them all. In places it did drag on, such as 'hagrids tale' but overall this is very well written. I read the book in 20 hours (i think I must be slow) and couldn't put it down! I amit Harrys attitude did get extremely annoying but I thought to my self, think about if this stuff was happening to you, how would you feel? (I'm also 15 so can understand more than younger readers. Believe me you have no idea what it is like at this age) I found that i could get a deeper understanding of the characters and the plot and its subplots in this book. I found the death quite shocking but as Lupin is my fav character I would have felt worse if he died. I feel sad for Harry as he's lost his parents and his godfather who acted as a brother/dad for two years. The whole 'beyond the veil' idea will be explained soon enough, i'm sure. Although, if you read closely you are told that the chamber where sirius dies is the death chamber. I liked it when we found out about Sirius's family which i found interesting and i hope we found out more about James' because if his family is pure blood, does that mean that he is realeated to some dark witches and wizards (sirius said the pure blood families are always interelated)? The prophecy was sort of predictable and so was Sirius death. I too thought that Harry was going to be told that he was the heir to gryffindor (i got that from varies sites of rumours and theories on the web) and I also thought that we were going to find out more about the sorting hat and 'what it becomes'as JK had said. I guessed that either harry or voldemort were going to have to kill one another in the end, before this book even came out, but it was nice to discover that JK had put this into the book (i knew this after Dumbledore told harry that professor trelawney had made her second prediction i.e. i realised what the first predition was about!) I now have come to dislike/hate some of the characters: Cho Chang- can i just say what a cow! She certainly gets around a bit doesn't she? I don't blame Harry for not liking her in the end, and i now wish nothing happens between them ever again. Umbridge-well i hate her! Oh, I also want to say to those of you that have been claiming that the whole snape being nice to Malfoy thing doesn't make sense are talking rubbish! Think about it, Snape doesn't want to appear to be friendly to Harry because it will look to Draco like he's on Dumbledores side! Then he'll go and tell his dad and he'll tell Voldermort and that will be the end of Snape! So, in conclusion, he still has to act as though he hates Harry (he still does as well) because he's a spy (very important spy) for Dumbledore and he doesn't want to muck that up. Back to the book as a whole, I think when the plots all come toghether in the next two books, we will see how important some of the subplots were in book 5, so they were very vital to the book. Luna lovegood, is a interesting character isn't she? I predicted that she saw her mum die (thats why she could see the Thestrals). To start with i thought she fancied Harry, then I fought she fancied Ron! Something to look out for in future books because some how she must be significant (JK wouldn't include a character for nothing despite what some of you have said about Grawp)Bring on book 6 is what I say! I can't wait, does anyone know any rumours yet? I love TOOTP, its fantastic, a must read for anyone aged 10/11 upwards, pick up the book and start reading today. Oh yeah, and don't stop!

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Reviewer Anna wrote:
Like everyone else, I was going crazy waiting for this book and breezed through it in 2 days once I got it. However, I think I went through it as fast as I did b/c I was hoping to finally get answers and not b/c I was completely engaged. Don't get me wrong...I still loved the book and thought it was great, but a better balance could have been acheived. I feel as though Rowling spent too much time getting in all the details she wanted in the beginning of the book that she ended up leaving things out of the end. What IS up with the death veil? Harry speaks to Nick about it, and then he speaks to Luna about it, but nothing happens....no finality or sense of hope at all. The whole bit about Umbridge leaving in the end seemed anticlimactic too...considering that she takes up such a large part of the book. I would have liked a bit more of an explanation...hey, Lockhart got a better send-off than her in Book 2, and his role in that book wasn't nearly as large as hers in this one. I think the thing that irked me the most was how everyone was talking about this character who would die, and we had so many fake-outs throughout the story. Mr. Weasley, who, by the description seems to have huge chunks taken out of him...McGonagall, getting hit as hard as she did and at her age....Hermione getting slashed by some spell and slumping over. However, even though they were all fake outs, I felt as though each built up to a possible death and reaction better than Sirius's. I mean, I loved Sirius, (Book 3 was my favorite b/c of the range in his character), but his actual death and the reaction to it just wasn't there for me. Oh well. The book DOES have some great points to it...as I said, I still loved the book. I like the introduction of Kingsley and Tonks and I think the best part has to be Snape's memory of James Potter (great twist in the change of roles there...James takes more of a Draco-esque persona). And I'm happy to see that my theory COULD STILL be right...Snape was in love with Lily and protects Harry b/c he is her child, but hates him b/c he looks too much like James who took her away from him. What do you think? Snape seems like a total outcast and Lily stood up for him. Granted, he insults her, but what young boy hasn't insulted hi crush to hide his feelings? Just a thought....

Reviewer Phoenixanonymous wrote:
I hope writing down my thoughts will help me straighten out how I feel about this book. (I'm assuming that people reading these posts have read the book. If not, be warned, my review gives away too much.) The tapestry of politics and relationships woven throughout OoP is brilliant. I was frustrated with many of the characters. They were moody, irritable and behaved stupidly. At the same time, what else could be expected? How else would they have acted? I wondered how J.K. would start this one out after the tragic GoF ending. She couldn't begin with humor this time. I hated the clue about "someone close to Harry will die." I kept expecting every injured character to be the one, and when the death finally hit, it wasn't effective because I was so prepared for it. Someone complained about the Harry-Cho thing, but I was impressed with J.K.'s work here. Who among us handled our first crushes without anything less than disillusionment or embarrassment. The characters who impressed me most were Ginny, Fred and George. Ginny actually talks, and when she talks, she's sharp. The naming of the D.A. was touching. Fred's and George's last stand was incredible. And the highly imperfect Ron was wonderful as usual. Hermione was too perfect. A number of people said the ending is the best part -- not for me. I didn't find it scary or enchanting like the endings of the other books. The darkest and scariest of OoP involved Harry's dreams and the thoroughly evil Professor Umbridge. Her stubby hand reaching into the fire was creepy! The series of misteps by NEARLY EVERYONE leading up to the battle was frustrating. I'm mad at Harry over his treatment of Dumbledore. Harry was so thick throughout this whole thing. I felt relieved during the moments that Harry behaved like the good-old Harry we all know, such as during D.A. lessons. I'm mad at Sirius, too. How long had he carefully plotted his escape and resisted the Dementors? He seemed to have turned carless and crass when Harry needed him most. J.K. forced us to see her characters as "only human." God Bless her for the gift of Harry Potter, and for highlighting the value of all people, even oddballs like Loony Lovegood. (I hope some day we'll understand how Snape gets away with his double agent role. At least now we know why Dumbeldore sends Harry to stay with the Dursleys.)

Reviewer Micky wrote:
A lot of people seem to go on for hours about this book, so I'm just going to make my comment short and simple: It was a good book, but could've been better.

Reviewer s.r. price wrote:
I have been chin deep in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for days now, trying to finish up. But I found myself considering the reading of it more of a chore than a joyful experience. I certainly do not wish to offend any avid Harry Potter fans, because I thoroughly enjoyed books 1 through 4, especially the third book Prisoner of Azkaban. All of the Harry Potter books were a pure delight for me and I was counting the days down for the fifth book to be released. However, I sincerely felt while reading the book that it was too long winded and lacked that certain zing that flowed so naturally from her other books. The fun and magic were very obviously missing and the length of the book made it rather tedious and boring. I am so disappointed although there are some parts of the book which are worth reading. It also felt rather depressing as Harry is put through so much, particularly unfair when his godfather dies. And why is Hermione such an annoying know it all? She was so likeable in the other books, but in this one, she seems devoid of any flaws. I'm still a big fan and appreciate Rowlings efforts. Mostly, I did not like all the hub bub of the Ministry of Magic this and the Ministry of Magic that. I could go on and on, but you'll have to find out for yourself. The book did not live up to all the hype surrounding it and it is better to borrow it from the library rather than buying it, it is quite expensive.

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