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4.48 AVERAGE
4.48 AVERAGE
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
medium-paced
The rereads just keep getting better. There’s so much intention and connection of details within the wizarding world.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
This reveiw is rather long but it's length is fitting for a 870 page book. Let's jump right in to listing likes and dislikes as well as aspects I found interesting.
•Dolores Umbridge is without a doubt my most hated villain in any book ever. I hate her so much that sometimes I cannot decide if I enjoy hating her or if she's so bad that even that isn't fun. She is the prime example of overbearing government and an all around indecent human being. I do like that she wears pink BUT come on she's horrible!!! And for those who had only experienced her horridness in the movies, the book reveals her to be much worse.
I noticed while rewatching the movie adaption of this book that there is no Quidditch! At all! And everything Umbridge did to cease the playing of Quidditch for Gryffindor was what infuriated me the most!
Also! As a fun fact: Dolores in Latin means pain or sorrow.
•Government involvement in Hogwarts: Being an anti-modern education system/the government being so heavily involved in education kinda person I truely loved how Rowling (a former English teacher ironically enough) slammed (for lack of a less extreme word) the involvement of government in the education system. Hogwarts has always been a place that allows students to have freedoms in many areas so that they can make choices, learn from their mistakes, and ultimately learn to defend themselves and others and live as wizards. When the government steps in (Umbridge and the Ministry of Magic) the school gradually becomes a place built around rules where students only read from text books without actually doing any real magic. This struck me as very familiar. Our modern education system is much the same. Students are taught how to take and pass a test but not how to apply what they learn to real life. The same exsists in Umbridge's class. They are taught "the theory" of something so that they can pass a test while also being told that none of it is going to matter anyway because there isn't anything "out there in the real world." To further this extremely long tangent here are some quotes below:
"As long as you have studied the theory hard enough, there is no reasons why you should not be able to perform the spells under carefully controlled examination conditions..."
"...this is school, Mr. Potter, not the real world..."
"So we're not suppose to be prepared for what's waiting out there?"
"There is nothing waiting out there, Mr. Potter."
Wait...what? Yes there is!! Life is waiting out there!
•The DA: With the formation Dumbledore's Army we see several of the students taking initiative and leaning the magic they think necessary to know on their own. They learn on their own by knowing the basics and building from there by practicing and learning from their mistakes. This also has me admiring Heromine even more for the idea. Side note...if you abbreviate defense against the dark arts it gowns out as DA the DA...see the DA there? Like Dumbledore's army...its stretching it...but still.
•Other Characters! this is the book where we finally get more involving Neville and Ginny annnnd we meet Luna who is one of my absolute favorites. Luna is a character I could say I strive to be more like due to her ability to not give a crap about what other people think.
•Dumbledore is actually kinda badass: in the scene where he vanishes and no one can find him and the fact that he covered the other students involved in the DA made me appreciate him all the more. I am pretty sure that if he were sent to Azkaban, he would find a way out.
•Lockhart: as annoying as year two's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher was...I enjoy seeing him again and the humor he added in his book.
•Plot: that last fourth of the book was intense, fast paced, and everything I was waiting for. Except the death of course...
//Quotes//
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."
"And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within. I have told you. I have warned you. Let the sorting now begun."
•Dolores Umbridge is without a doubt my most hated villain in any book ever. I hate her so much that sometimes I cannot decide if I enjoy hating her or if she's so bad that even that isn't fun. She is the prime example of overbearing government and an all around indecent human being. I do like that she wears pink BUT come on she's horrible!!! And for those who had only experienced her horridness in the movies, the book reveals her to be much worse.
I noticed while rewatching the movie adaption of this book that there is no Quidditch! At all! And everything Umbridge did to cease the playing of Quidditch for Gryffindor was what infuriated me the most!
Also! As a fun fact: Dolores in Latin means pain or sorrow.
•Government involvement in Hogwarts: Being an anti-modern education system/the government being so heavily involved in education kinda person I truely loved how Rowling (a former English teacher ironically enough) slammed (for lack of a less extreme word) the involvement of government in the education system. Hogwarts has always been a place that allows students to have freedoms in many areas so that they can make choices, learn from their mistakes, and ultimately learn to defend themselves and others and live as wizards. When the government steps in (Umbridge and the Ministry of Magic) the school gradually becomes a place built around rules where students only read from text books without actually doing any real magic. This struck me as very familiar. Our modern education system is much the same. Students are taught how to take and pass a test but not how to apply what they learn to real life. The same exsists in Umbridge's class. They are taught "the theory" of something so that they can pass a test while also being told that none of it is going to matter anyway because there isn't anything "out there in the real world." To further this extremely long tangent here are some quotes below:
"As long as you have studied the theory hard enough, there is no reasons why you should not be able to perform the spells under carefully controlled examination conditions..."
"...this is school, Mr. Potter, not the real world..."
"So we're not suppose to be prepared for what's waiting out there?"
"There is nothing waiting out there, Mr. Potter."
Wait...what? Yes there is!! Life is waiting out there!
•The DA: With the formation Dumbledore's Army we see several of the students taking initiative and leaning the magic they think necessary to know on their own. They learn on their own by knowing the basics and building from there by practicing and learning from their mistakes. This also has me admiring Heromine even more for the idea. Side note...if you abbreviate defense against the dark arts it gowns out as DA the DA...see the DA there? Like Dumbledore's army...its stretching it...but still.
•Other Characters! this is the book where we finally get more involving Neville and Ginny annnnd we meet Luna who is one of my absolute favorites. Luna is a character I could say I strive to be more like due to her ability to not give a crap about what other people think.
•Dumbledore is actually kinda badass: in the scene where he vanishes and no one can find him and the fact that he covered the other students involved in the DA made me appreciate him all the more. I am pretty sure that if he were sent to Azkaban, he would find a way out.
•Lockhart: as annoying as year two's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher was...I enjoy seeing him again and the humor he added in his book.
•Plot: that last fourth of the book was intense, fast paced, and everything I was waiting for. Except the death of course...
//Quotes//
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."
"And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within. I have told you. I have warned you. Let the sorting now begun."
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes