Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Ratings2,879
Average rating4.3
My least favorite book of the series. While it contains one of the best storylines and involves some of my favorite secondary characters (Neville and Luna, plus Ginny's a person now somehow?), Harry gets lost inside his own head too much for my taste. Honestly, when I reread the series, I have a hard time not skipping the first hundred pages or so until he gets to Hogwarts.
Age range: 11+
If younger readers could handle the last two books, this one will be no problem.
It was ok...
This entry in the series has been until now the one I´ve struggled the most to get through. The story is uneventful and boring.
I understand that this book serves as a setup for a future big battle with the one that should not be named. We still have a lot to learn for a great payoff at that battle.
My main problem does not lie in the story, in fact, I found the character of Dolores Umbridge a good choice to break up the monotone and boring school year. But I believe she was an underused asset.
The greatest problem I had with this book is how unlikeable Harry Potter was. He is the main character and therefore I should support him and want the best for him, but his attitude throughout the book was simply irritating. Suddenly he becomes an egocentric idiot that thinks he now everything better than the rest of the world. Props to J.K. Rowling for writing an accurate teenage boy, but accurate teenage boys don´t make for great main characters...
I previously mentioned Dolores Ambrige to be an underused asset, and this is because the only moments in the book where I sympathized with Harry were when he was interacting with her. Turns out Dolores is a Character even more unlikeable than a teenage boy, which is great when you have her to be the main antagonist throughout the school year.
She was indeed a great antagonist, but she was just portrayed as a dumb puppet of the ministry. I would have liked her to be more mastermind evil, at the end of the day she got outsmarted by 15-year-olds several times... I would have preferred if she was always one step ahead of the main characters and they only got to outsmart her at the very end, I would surely have been a lot more satisfying in my opinion.
All in all the weakest entry in the series until the moment. The story was more interesting than the source's stone, but Harry being an ass the whole book took it down a lot and made it a chore to get through the book.
Opět velmi silný zážitek. Ať už varování Moudrého klobouku při hostině na počátku školního roku, představení Střelenky Láskorádové, interakce mezi Harrym a Cho, BA... Oproti předchozím dílům jsem zde měl navíc možnost ztotožnit se s postavou Brumbála.
Every book seems to me better then the previous one, and this is not the exepetion though, and that keeps me going on to finish this wonderful series.
Loooong book, but can't wait for the next one! (and it's true, I haven't seen the movie yet either!)
whew this took me a while to get through. although i think a lot of the info in the book is important for world building & setting up the plot in the next two books, i do think some parts really dragged on and tbh could've used some editing. like 800 pages wasn't really necessary tbh. NONETHELESS, still amazing & still loved
her writing is interesting and intriguing but I thought this book was mostly irritating internal politics of the school and the ministry. For anyone who watched Stargate SG-1, it's like it was in the later seasons where there was not much outer-worldly threats, but most threats came within their own community.
Probably my least favourite of the harry potter books (at least so far) taking me almost 3 months to finish. The middle is super slow, the start disconnected from everything else, and it doesn't finish with much payoff. Umbridge, who is supposed to be a shitty person, is also just a shitty character who ultimately bogs the story down significantly. For me the beauty of Harry Potter is in the way it captures the magic of childhood/teenage-hood and all that spirit is stripped here with her character. I'm aware the latter books are darker than the first few, but this wasn't so much “dark” as it was boring and dull. Still, the foundation set earlier in the series manages to carry it through.
Oh dear. I've been chugging along with Harry Potter, generally enjoying the experience although not falling in love. (Which isn't to say they aren't good – they are exceptionally well written and well crafted, but they just aren't really for me.) But this one. This one was too much for me. Throughout the series so far, I've enjoyed the world-building elements the most along with the wizardy capers. But I'm not one for a lot of peril, and as the series continues, everything just becomes more and more perilous, and there is much less of the wizardy fun that I enjoyed in the earlier books. My favorite parts were when Harry visited the Ministry of Magic and when the whole crew went to St. Mungo's.
this book was a fucking rollercoaster bye. i hate the ministry so fucking much on god wanted to kill myself multiple times during reading scenes with umbridge in them !!
Naprosto zbožňuju ty detaily které nejsou ve filmech. Například obrazy v Brumbálově pracovně.
Nemám ráda Hermionu...
Zato zbožňuju Tonksovou, Moodyho a Lupina.
A Sirius...
Naprosto zbožňuju ty detaily které nejsou ve filmech. Například obrazy v Brumbálově pracovně.
Nemám ráda Hermionu...
Zato zbožňuju Tonksovou, Moodyho a Lupina.
A Sirius...
I have always loved the Harry Potter movies. I swear I've watched them 100 times BUT nothing compares to the books. There is so much detail in this one that wasn't in the movies.
You get to see so much more into Harry's thoughts, feelings and struggles. You also get to see just how evil Umbridge really is and come to loath her all the more.
This is going to be one of my favorites in this series (the first being The Goblet of Fire).
This was my favorite since the Sorcerer's stone! Wow, this was fast paced (unlike goblet of fire) and heart wrenching and just so good.
Sirius's death is always difficult to deal with, through text, movies or audio.
Re-read this one after so long, had nearly forgotten how the occlumency lessons ended. Not with Harry performing the legilimens spell on Snape (As shown in the movie), but in fact seeing them in the pensive.
Dumbledore assuring Harry that Snape was trying to help, that he verified whether Sirius was at Grimmauld Place, killed me. Also, him silently correcting Harry to say Professor Snape instead of just Snape, is just heart breaking.
For a while, I was contemplating whether Sirius's death was Harry's fault. Until Dumbledore's explanation, it seemed like a viable option. But if you think about it, 6 teenagers fly to London, into the ministry of magic, get attacked by a dozen of death eaters, what was he thinking?
Sure, it was Sirius he was trying to save. Also, why avoid occlumency lessons when Sirius, Lupin, Hermione had so urgently told him to continue them.
Just so angry at Harry in this book for some reason!
Loved the fact we got to see some of Snape's memories, a crucial one at that.
As we later find out, that him calling Lilly a you - know - what, created a rift between them, causing her to get closer to James as he comforted her.
We don't deserve snape do we?