Jul 10, 2003 04:47 PM
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(Updated Jul 10, 2003 04:47 PM)
The much hyped about “ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” is finally here but it was certainly not worth the LKR. 1700 I paid for it.
After all the press attention which drove the fans crazy I feel that the book is a bit of a let down.
Although the book continues the tale of the boy wizard it just seems too lack the polished finish of J.K. Rowling’s previous four books. The author just seems to dwell too much on the mundane and doesn’t transport the reader into a “magical” castle filled with the unknown as the earlier books. The first twenty pages of the book are filled with utter rubbish with absolutely nothing happening. How does the author expect the readers to hang on to her every word when the first twenty pages are full of filth? Further on in the book the “dementor” attack on Harry and Dudley is totally out of context it only results in about another forty pages or so full of absolutely nothing. To top it all Harry comes out as an egoistic teenager that I’m sure most reader’s hate. Bring back the old Harry charachter please.
The girl boy thing in the book is a total non-starter it only consumes even more of the readers time. Although it is laudable that the writer ahs included it in the book it certainly could have been better written. As is it is it just looks like a side show designed to hold the reader’s attention during the more mundane parts of the book. However it is a welcome change that from the normal style of children’s writers who usually follow the Famous Five route.
Though most of the book is not bad it doesn’t stand up to the standard of the previous books. After reading the book you feel like “what the hell happened?” In the first book Harry goes one on one with Voldemort to rescue the Philosopher’s Stone, in the second book Harry fights off a Basilisk to kill a memory of Voldemort preserved in a diary and saves Ron’s sister Ginny in the process, In the third book Wormtail escapes to restore Voldemort and Harry Finds out about his godfather Sirius and finally in the fourth book Harry wins the Tri-wizard tournament and goes one on one with the real Voldemort and escapes with Cedric’s dead body. But in the fifth book Harry learns of the prophecy and Sirius dies it just seems to negative, most of what was written in the fifth book had been deduced earlier through rumours.
The book leaves us with more questions than answers.
Who will finally kill Voldemort? Harry or Neville? What’ll happen to Fred and George? What about the Order? Will some form of Sirius still survive? Will Percy reunite with the Weasleys? Finally will Dumbledore’s Army survive?
