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Loading... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)by J. K. Rowling
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Even after five massive books, Harry Potter is still in my best interest. (  )lizardva | Jul 2, 2009 |  1   As times become darker for Harry he is faced with new challenges in the wizarding world. Another great triumph in the world of wizards. ( )Mrhodes4b2 | Jun 30, 2009 | 1 http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1258147... I enjoyed this more than I remember doing first time round. I still think it has some pretty serious flaws. I find Harry's adolescent surliness for much of the book simply boring, and his reconciliation with Dumbledore at the end feels flat to me since we have always been pretty sure that it was going to happen. And the construction of the legal system and governance of the wizarding world is not quite substantial enough to be described as superficial. (Just one example: in what sort of school would the Slytherin supporters' merciless mockery of Ron Weasley not result in serious disciplinary measures against the perpetrators?) Having said that, the high points were higher than I remembered. There are some good descriptive passages, especially of particular settings - the forest, the Ministry; and the second order characters, Sirius, Luna, the twins, etc, all get much more development. (One is a bit sorry for Cho Chang whose subplot gets lost in the second half of the book.) I still think this is one of the weaker volumes of the series, but I think I must have raced through it so fast first time round that I missed a lot of its better elements. (  )nwhyte | Jun 30, 2009 | 2 Wow, does the story change... Harry began so young and naive. That is not so anymore. I don't want to give a single thing away, so I don't like to say more than, don't forget to breath during all the action. ( )Cpassmore | Jun 12, 2009 | 1 Harry goes back to school after surviving both a Dementor attack and the threat of expulsion. However, this year seems even harder than ever. Not only is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher basically a spy for Minister Fudge, but Harry and Dumbledore are both being discredited and smeared in the media as raving lunatics and liars, the fifth year O.W.L tests are approaching, Harry's relationship with Cho Chang seems just as complicated as ever, and the disturbing dreams aren't helping anything. To really appreciate Harry's anger in most of this novel, you really need to think about what just happened at the end of Goblet of Fire. It's easier to understand Harry's thoughts and arguments when you understand what's going through his head. That said, this book was never my favorite, but I must admit that it's better than many other things out there. Rowling uses much of the book as setting up for future events and backstories, but the result is priceless, as always. ( )pluckybamboo | Jun 11, 2009 | 1 0.031 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 043935806X, Hardcover)As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero's non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief... or will it?The fifth book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for our young wizard, who finds himself knocked down a peg or three after the events of last year. Somehow, over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teen. Even Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of the school, has come under scrutiny by the Ministry of Magic, which refuses to officially acknowledge the terrifying truth that Voldemort is back. Enter a particularly loathsome new character: the toadlike and simpering ("hem, hem") Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, who takes over the vacant position of Defense Against Dark Arts teacher--and in no time manages to become the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, as well. Life isn't getting any easier for Harry Potter. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations (O.W.Ls), devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team lineup, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry's resilience is sorely tested. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a coming-of-age story. Harry faces the thorny transition into adulthood, when adult heroes are revealed to be fallible, and matters that seemed black-and-white suddenly come out in shades of gray. Gone is the wide-eyed innocent, the whiz kid of Sorcerer's Stone. Here we have an adolescent who's sometimes sullen, often confused (especially about girls), and always self-questioning. Confronting death again, as well as a startling prophecy, Harry ends his year at Hogwarts exhausted and pensive. Readers, on the other hand, will be energized as they enter yet again the long waiting period for the next title in the marvelous, magical series. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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