harry potter

[zelda]

who likes herry potter!:D:):cool:

[SparkleViolet]

Uhhh, I think you posted in the wrong section. It should be in the Ingledew's Bookshop section of the forum.

[Dawnfire]

Yup. Wrong section, dearie. Ingledew's Bookshop, like Sparkles said, is the place to post about books besides Charlie Bone.

[nevermore]

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[zelda]

well now that I am in the right place:WHO LIKES HARRY POTTER!!!!!

[Sam Pagan]

I DO!

Many years ago I used to think Harry Potter was silly, and then I saw the Chamber of Secrets movie with my friend and I was instantly converted and read through all the books as fast as I could, haha.

[SparkleViolet]

Well, I used to be a huge Harry Potter fan, but now I regret to say that I'm no longer a fan of the series. And I know you're all gonna get mad at me, but consider this: I used to love the series until the last 3 books (or 4, since I hated Goblet of Fire as well, but not too much), which were written so badly that I was ticked off and stuff like that.

So that's that for me. But I do have an anti-Harry Potter series that I'm currently writing to combat how awful I feel for liking something and then finding the ending to be just pathetically written.

[nevermore]

how was it badly written, in your opinion?

[Duende]

The Harry Potter books, even though I'm not a fan, are written brilliantly. If you don't like how the story went, then that's got nothing to do with the writing, just your personal preferences. Plus, don't mean to get personal, but how can you say HP is written badly when you're a fan of Twilight?

[SparkleViolet]

@Duende: I judge only by what I see. Don't force your opinions on Twilight on me at all. I know the first 3 books were great, but the rest of them were beginning to look like crap in my opinion.

@nev: I think the last book just couldn't stay on topic, too many people were killed off, and the epilogue was unnecessary not to mention poorly written. I can say that because I seem to write better fanfiction.

[Duende]

I wasn't forcing my opinions on you. You need to stop taking every mention of twilight as an attack against you. Anyone will an ounce of literary knowledge will agree that Harry Potter is written far better than Twilight

[nevermore]

*has significant literary knowledge and agrees with Duende*

Using the last novel only: I don't understand how killing characters (which happens in the real world all the time), and providing an Epilogue so that readers know that Ron married Hermione, Harry married Ginny, Neville grew up to be a professor, and Harry and Ginny had a hand in raising Teddy Lupin make a bad novel... and couldn't stay on topic? Other than a flashback regarding the history between Lilly and Severus, as well as news articles about Dumbledore, it was pretty much all Harry, all the time... I don't think the books got more poorly written after the first three, I think they were written for a more mature, more literary audience at that point, is all.

[Kingdom Hearts]

Book seven wasnt a bad book. ive read it at lest 2 times. I agree WAY too much people where killed off inclouding my 3 favorite chacters (Tonks, Lupin,and fred). Other whise it was a great book. I love the twilight saga but HP is MUCH better written then any of the twilight's

[You stupid boy]

I loved the seventh book - I just think it had a very different tone from all the other books (like the swearing. Mrs. Weasley's shout at Bellatrix made me laugh so hard). Which is understandable, because it would be the darkest part of the story as a whole - Voldemort et al. having taken over the wizarding world and planning to get rid of Muggle-borns. And the deaths were realistic - if only one or two people had died, it wouldn't feel like a real, dangerous war. And some of the deaths were absolutely tragic (Hedwig and Dobby, I'm looking at you). The only thing I didn't like were the names Harry and Ginny gave their children, but that's just cos it's quite cheesy. :p
If you're a fan, or were a fan, of Harry Potter, Sparkles, I don't get why you wouldn't like the last book - it was more in tone with the first three than the fifth one was, in my opinion. And even the fifth one was great.

[sunlight]

I love Harry Potter escpecially the fourth book and film. I really like the story line with the whole tri-wizard tournament and the other schools. the seventh one was awsome too and can't wait for the two remaining films =] I thought the ending was really good and i liked they way Jk Rowling wrote the chapter 16 years. I was really sad the books ended there but you have to end a series at some point!

[nevermore]

oh, that was always my favorite, too. The tri-wizard challenges take my breath away every time I read (and re-read, and re-re-read :p) the books. I read the series to each of my siblings (my brother dropped out after book four because it's hard to convince a teenage boy to let you read to him--he still watches the movies though, and my oldest little sister ended up finishing the last two on her own, but my youngest little sister heard the Jessica Show from start to finish), and each of them are still Harry Potter fans today.
My youngest sister positively cheered when Mrs. Weasley called Bellatrix a *cough*

Harry Potter is also how I taught each of my siblings about literary criticism and analysis. I even had my youngest sister, at age ten, picking out the psychology behind Voldemort's actions and Harry's rage, and even for the fun of it, encouraging her to come up with theories about Ron and Hermione's tension in the final books. Of all things, it took her a while to see that romance blossoming. Silly girl. She's good at picking out the hardcore analysis, but the things that are right in front of her nose? :rolleyes:

I really wish I'd been able to read all of them ASOUE too, because that's a fabulous way to teach kids to philosophize. :D

[ZigZag]

I love Harry Potter because it has so many layers. When you read it as a kid, it's just a story of a boy wizard and the adventures he has. But when you read it when you're older you realize it's a fantastic buildingsroman (a word I learned from ASoUE) and a deeply psychological.

[Dawnfire]

Hey, that was my vocabulary word the other day!! xD I know what that means! I feel happy!!

It's a book where you can just read the lines and get so much out of it. you could read between the lines and get so much more out of it. And you can read beyond the lines, connect it to other things (my favorite to do with these books) and feel oddly satisfied.

YAY. ENGLISH LITERARY DEVICES.

[ZigZag]

I also love the theme of it: good vs. evil, hate vs. love. It's so interesting. And the characterizations are incredible. The way she creates characters, they are just so real. You know exactly what makes Hermione Hermione, for example.

[nevermore]

So true! So many authors just give their characters a physical description and a name. Rowling takes time to make a very specific personality for each character, no matter how minor. In conversations, even if someone were to leave out all of the "...said _____" parts, you could still figure out who said what based on who they are and the way they talk. Ron vs. Hermione is no contest. Even Snape vs. Sirius. Somewhat similar when they're in the same room together, but you can bet on Sirius having a smart mouth and Snape going for the low blow.

[Kalik2486]

Wow!! Some of us here are seriously intellectual and great critics. I used to be an avid reader of HP series, but later thought the last 3 books weren't as good. The first 3 were my favourite books, though. The secrets in the plot all weave together perfectly, and make sense. The last book didn't end as I would have liked it to end. The story perhaps revolves around Harry too much.

[ZigZag]

I don't mind that at all. They are called Harry Potter after all. ;)

[You stupid boy]

Haha, yes. I have to say, I tend to skim rather than properly read the chpaters that don't have Harry in them (like the opening chapters of Half Blood Prince), even though they're well-written. I just like Harry's narration.

[zelda]

interessting I like to read the hole_whole book_cover to cover *grin*