Re: So, did you like it?

Drusilla wrote:
Jano escribió:
Deevo wrote:

"Bill Blakely" <wcblakely@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I enjoyed them all more the second time around, especially OotP which
has so much rich detail about the wizarding world outside of Hogwarts.
All except HBP, that is, where a second reading, which I could barely
make myself complete, only served to confirm that it really was as bad
as I thought it was the first time around.
Actually I felt the opposite, while Deathly Hallows was dissapointing I
quite enjoyed Half Blood Prince for the most part as it allowed Harry and
his peers a relatively normal school year. Order of the Phoenix was good
but overwritten for me.

From what I read I must be one of the few that really like HBP a lot. I
consider it my favorite nowadays.

Yep. Many people here dislikes HBP a lot, even David would tell you that it was "ghost-written". I did like it, BUT, after DH I think it was a waste. JKR could have used book 6 for some other stuff rather than giving information that wasn't useful.


I felt that the Horcrux thread, and the Hallows thread, added as such a late point were departures from the original plan for the books. Many good fanfiction stories just continue without them, and tell a much more satisfying story. The detract from the linearity of the story. Adding the Horcruxes could be seen as 'obstacles', but the Hallows were merely a distraction, and really contributed nothing.
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    ... while Deathly Hallows was dissapointing I ... From what I read I must be one of the few that really like HBP a lot. ... satisfying story. ... for Horcruxes and the secret to their destruction. ...
    (alt.fan.harry-potter)
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    ... while Deathly Hallows was dissapointing I ... From what I read I must be one of the few that really like HBP a lot. ... for Horcruxes and the secret to their destruction. ... agree the hallows weren't a great plot device, ...
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