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Loading... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)by J. K. Rowling
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 9/10, what a masterpiece, I might read this again later. Yep. Excelente, como siempre. Super sorprendida ya que al haber visto solamente las películas, muchas dudas se resolvieron al leerlo. I know I'm in the minority for only giving this three stars. But I don't know how I can give it more. The world-building is still first rate. There is enough story and character development here for a five-star read. The problem is that it's well hidden inside of an overblown, over-sized book where nothing much happens for pages and pages. Yes, it's often fascinating and I did make it to the end. And the end is where it all becomes worth the while. But it was a bit of a slog. Knock off a half a star just for being so long. Editing, people, editing. Knock off another half star for quite a few clinks and clunks in the writing. Adverbs, he said, disapprovingly. These are the same issues that started creeping in with the previous volume. Now knock off a full star for story-killing character traits. Harry is just too much of a dunderhead in this. I understand that one of the main themes is his growing teenage angst. It just was not done well. He was argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, often just because that would move the story forward. Not because it fit his character. Umbridge was evil just for the sake of being evil. We never found out what she was truly up to. Again, I felt cheated because it seemed that everything she did to make Harry's life harder was done merely because the story need her to do it. And what the heck is up with Dumbledore? He was just too aloof in this, swooping in at the odd moment to save the day in an odd way. At least he explains it all in the end. Only two more books to go. I hope they don't feel like five.
The family romance is a latency-period fantasy, belonging to the drowsy years between 7 and adolescence. In ''Order of the Phoenix,'' Harry, now 15, is meant to be adolescent. He spends a lot of the book becoming excessively angry with his protectors and tormentors alike. He discovers that his late (and ''real'') father was not a perfect magical role model, but someone who went in for fits of nasty playground bullying. He also discovers that his mind is linked to the evil Lord Voldemort, thereby making him responsible in some measure for acts of violence his nemesis commits... Ms. Rowling's magic world has no place for the numinous. It is written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons, and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip. Its values, and everything in it, are, as Gatsby said of his own world when the light had gone out of his dream, ''only personal.'' Nobody is trying to save or destroy anything beyond Harry Potter and his friends and family. Las tediosas vacaciones de verano en casa de sus tíos todavía no han acabado y Harry se encuentra más inquieto que nunca. Apenas ha tenido noticias de Ron y Hermione, y presiente que algo extraño está sucediendo en Hogwarts. En efecto, cuando por fin comienza otro curso en el famoso colegio de magia y hechicería, sus temores se vuelven realidad. El Ministerio de Magia niega que Voldemort haya regresado y ha iniciado una campaña de desprestigio contra Harry y Dumbledore, para lo cual ha asignado a la horrible profesora Dolores Umbridge la tarea de vigilar todos sus movimientos. Así pues, además de sentirse solo e incomprendido, Harry sospecha que Voldemort puede adivinar sus pensamientos, e intuye que el temible mago trata de apoderarse de un objeto secreto que le permitiría recuperar su poder destructivo. Belongs to SeriesHarry Potter (5) Is contained inHas the adaptationIs parodied inHas as a reference guide/companionNew Clues to Harry Potter Book 5: Hints from the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter by Galadriel Waters Has as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsWhitcoulls Top 100 Books (31 – 2008) Whitcoulls Top 100 Books (78 – 2010) Notable Lists
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors. No library descriptions found.
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First of all, George and Fred are my heroes! Their roles in the story has grown throughout the books, starting out as just some background troublemakers. But in this book, their mischief found a target, and it was brilliant. After so long of Umbridge being one of the most despised characters I've ever read/seen, the culmination of George and Fred sticking it to her was almost worth it (but not really). Not to mention Peeves taking up the call.
I liked seeing Lupin again and loved seeing so much of Sirius. In my review of the previous book, I mentioned how much I liked him being around so much in that one, and his role was even bigger in this one. He's become my favorite character, which I think may be as much because of what he's able to be to Harry as anything. Of course, that just made it all the worse at the end. I am frustrated about the fact that Hermione actually did question if it could be a trap, only for them to take the word of the house elf and walk into the trap anyway. But I'm not sure if my frustration about his death is just because I liked him or if I'm legitimately bugged by what seems like a spot of weak plotting/characterization.
I also really liked the progression of the D.A. and Harry trying to explain that a lot of what he'd done in the past was luck. Yet they were aware that, luck or not, he still had more practice with these spells than anyone else. I was glad to see Neville have some good moments in this book, while still having plenty of struggles, poor kid.
There were some other smaller things that happened that I found particularly interesting, like Ron being made prefect and the reminder that Petunia would have at least a little knowledge of magic. Hermione's drive for house elf freedom can die any time, in my opinion. But who knows, maybe it'll have a purpose at some point in the last couple of books.
The biggest downside to this book is Umbridge herself, and how much power she's given by the end of the book, only to not really have a great resolution to it. And really, it's not Umbridge, at least not solely, but the Ministry, and how much power they are able to wield with apparently no one to keep them in check. Because of how long the book was, this whole thing just seemed to drag on and on.
As for the book length...I have never been one for long books. Never read anything longer than 550 pages, and that length is not common for me. But of course, I didn't come this far to not finish the series. After reading it, though, I can see a few side plots that could have been cut out. Of course, I don't know that these side plots won't be more important in the later books, so maybe I'm wrong.
Things are getting real now, and there are only 2 books left. I'm so nervous about what other bad things will happen as this series finishes up (not to mention about spoilers I've heard out of context). ( )