Comments on: Revisiting Harry Potter: Not your most flattering side

By: Nishita

Nishita — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:10:00 +0000

My daughter just got into Harry Potter, and I’ve been reading the series along with her to refresh my memory for the fun nights we spend discussing the books.

And I couldn’t bear Chamber of Secrets. Even Snubnose couldn’t tolerate it, and just ploughed through the book for the sake of getting to the next one.

I remember one of the other books being quite bad too. The Order of the Phoenix perhaps? So much time spent in set up.

By: samantha1020

samantha1020 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:27:43 +0000

God, I just love this series so much! It is so fun to read your thoughts on it and now I’m kicking myself for not grabbing the audio when I was at the library. Because I feel the NEED to reread these too 🙂 This isn’t my favorite book of the series either but I admit that I love it because it is Harry Potter. And that is enough for me 🙂

By: Nathalie Foy

Nathalie Foy — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:35:46 +0000

SPOILER ALERT. DON’T READ IF YOU HAVEN’T READ AZKABAN. Right after reading this post, I started reading the three(!)-volume Folk Tales of Britain, by Katherine M. Briggs, and the very first section is a collection of legends about Black Dogs, and it turns out that Sirius Black has a serious literary history (apart from the dog star reference). There is a whole ambivalent body of legend concerning black dogs, who sometimes appear as guardians and sometimes as a menace and a threat (so far, so consistent with the mysterious black dog/the Grim/the godfather role). AND one of its names is Padfoot, though more commonly known as Barguest. Hope this adds to your appreciation of the book. It did to mine!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:10:05 +0000

In reply to doczom. May I call you Doctor Zom from now on then?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:09:25 +0000

In reply to Rayna (Libereading). Oh, yeah, it's crazy to me that he never asks anybody what his parents were like. That's all I'd have been asking. I ask everyone what my parents' EXES were like, and I care about that, like, way less than Harry presumably cares about what his OWN PARENTS were like.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:08:17 +0000

In reply to Kerry. I know! I couldn't have driven a car to save my life when I was twelve! I could barely change the gears when my father was driving, which he occasionally let me do except then I'd mess up and he'd ask me to stop.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:07:33 +0000

In reply to Iris. Aw, poor you! That's a really frightening story from your parents. I quite like snakes but I'm confident I never would have if I'd had a scary story like that from my parents when I was a kid. I am permanently frightened of escalators because of a story my mother told me.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:06:47 +0000

In reply to K von Wittgenstein (@KayleighvonW). Yeah! If she did even a little bit of badassery, I would be placated!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:06:21 +0000

In reply to gaskella.

#skepticalface

You are allowed to have crushes on silly people when you’re 13. I’m just saying that when I myself was that age, I had a totally reasonable crush that holds up to ALL THE SCRUTINY. And I am not as smart as Hermione. So.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:05:33 +0000

In reply to Jess - A Book Hoarder. YES! It totally did cheapen their eventual relationship! It was soooo over-the-top when she was eleven, and I hated to think about the possibility that she'd bee nin love with him all along. Boo.