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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J.K. Rowling
aaaaaaaaah. this book.
Okay so, I am one of the people who spent their childhood/early teens fangirling and geeking about the movies but never read the books, well, until recently when I felt the random urge to do so. That leads to a few changes, especially that I discovered a ton of new things I did not know existed. Why am I saying this? because some of the opinions are based on a certain disappointment; somethings I loved in the movies did not turn out to be true in the books, but I also other opinions are based on my increased love for other details that did not exist in the movies. So here is what I think.
The things I disliked about this book:
- Dude. Throughout my reading, I felt several urges to throw the book out from the window. Why? well, Harry and Ron will NOT stop being assholes to Hermione. JESUS. She is naggy, yes. She is opinionated and kind of bossy, yes. But SHE LITERALLY ONLY DOES THAT TO HELP THEM. When Rita Skeeter wrote that crap article about her in Witch Weekly, she must have been angry and insulted and when she was trying to investigate about it, what do her oh-so-supportive friends do? keep giving her shit about exaggerating and taking it too seriously. When Harry and Ron fight, she tries to be a good friend to both (which is the exact opposite of what they did when she fought with Ron about Crookshanks in PoA) and tried to help Harry and believed him even when the WHOLE school including his best friend didn't. What did grateful Harry do? Dismiss her opinions! He kept asking her to shut up and basically didn't take her advice at all or rarely. UGH. This bothers me so much because no one is acknowledging it and it's not fair towards her. They always have to do the exact opposite of what she says and never do anything nice or supportive towards her and it ANNOYS me so much. Of course I'm not hating on Ron and Harry but they're doing a bad job at being supportive friends, to be honest.
- The book was unnecessarily long. A lot of unnecessary details. Things didn't start getting heated till the last ten chapters and it took me a while to get into the story. A lot of things didn't really add to the plot and didn't help with anything, yet made the book uselessly long.
Things that I loved/liked about the book:
- The plot, though filled with unnecessary details as I already mentioned, was quite interesting. I liked the tournament and the fact that we get to discover a ton of new details about characters and their past.
- I love Sirius. That's it.
- The last three chapters made me cry okay my eyes leaked several times I cannot deal. It's too sad and emotional but I love it.
- the revelation of Barty Crouch and his son at the end was quite interesting. I enjoyed it so much and liked how different things were linked to form a more clear and coherent plot.
- If this book did anything, it made me ADORE Hermione Granger more than anyone in the whole HP universe do not talk to me.
General conclusion:
I was going to give this book three stars due to the stress it gave me about the way Harry and Ron treat my bby Hermione. But due to its extremely intense and cool end, I couldn't not give it one more star. Though, in fact, I was sort of planning on giving all the HP books 5 stars, but, oh well.
I am so excited to read Order of the Phoenix!
Okay so, I am one of the people who spent their childhood/early teens fangirling and geeking about the movies but never read the books, well, until recently when I felt the random urge to do so. That leads to a few changes, especially that I discovered a ton of new things I did not know existed. Why am I saying this? because some of the opinions are based on a certain disappointment; somethings I loved in the movies did not turn out to be true in the books, but I also other opinions are based on my increased love for other details that did not exist in the movies. So here is what I think.
The things I disliked about this book:
- Dude. Throughout my reading, I felt several urges to throw the book out from the window. Why? well, Harry and Ron will NOT stop being assholes to Hermione. JESUS. She is naggy, yes. She is opinionated and kind of bossy, yes. But SHE LITERALLY ONLY DOES THAT TO HELP THEM. When Rita Skeeter wrote that crap article about her in Witch Weekly, she must have been angry and insulted and when she was trying to investigate about it, what do her oh-so-supportive friends do? keep giving her shit about exaggerating and taking it too seriously. When Harry and Ron fight, she tries to be a good friend to both (which is the exact opposite of what they did when she fought with Ron about Crookshanks in PoA) and tried to help Harry and believed him even when the WHOLE school including his best friend didn't. What did grateful Harry do? Dismiss her opinions! He kept asking her to shut up and basically didn't take her advice at all or rarely. UGH. This bothers me so much because no one is acknowledging it and it's not fair towards her. They always have to do the exact opposite of what she says and never do anything nice or supportive towards her and it ANNOYS me so much. Of course I'm not hating on Ron and Harry but they're doing a bad job at being supportive friends, to be honest.
- The book was unnecessarily long. A lot of unnecessary details. Things didn't start getting heated till the last ten chapters and it took me a while to get into the story. A lot of things didn't really add to the plot and didn't help with anything, yet made the book uselessly long.
Things that I loved/liked about the book:
- The plot, though filled with unnecessary details as I already mentioned, was quite interesting. I liked the tournament and the fact that we get to discover a ton of new details about characters and their past.
- I love Sirius. That's it.
- The last three chapters made me cry okay my eyes leaked several times I cannot deal. It's too sad and emotional but I love it.
- the revelation of Barty Crouch and his son at the end was quite interesting. I enjoyed it so much and liked how different things were linked to form a more clear and coherent plot.
- If this book did anything, it made me ADORE Hermione Granger more than anyone in the whole HP universe do not talk to me.
General conclusion:
I was going to give this book three stars due to the stress it gave me about the way Harry and Ron treat my bby Hermione. But due to its extremely intense and cool end, I couldn't not give it one more star. Though, in fact, I was sort of planning on giving all the HP books 5 stars, but, oh well.
I am so excited to read Order of the Phoenix!