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Originally posted by sugar and spice
As for this book being backstory-full -- I agree, but I definitely don't think that's a bad thing. I definitely preferred this book to Order of the Phoenix, which I thought was badly edited, boring and lacked too much of the trademark humor that kept the earlier books from getting too dark. This improved on all of those points, at least to me (I suppose the "boring" one is debatable).
A friend and I discussed this: what do you think of the "final battles" in the books? He and I were both sort of let down by this one (Dumbledore's death aside), and I was definitely let down by the final battle scene in OotP. I guess it's because I prefer the puzzle-type battles where something important is finally revealed to the "everybody shoots unforgiveable curses at everyone else" scenes, but I thought that the endings were at their strongest in Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire. How about you guys?
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GOF is probably one of my favorite endings... and probably my favorite overall book.
I understand what you mean about OoTP. I think what made it one of my favorites was, surprisingly, Umbridge. I loved to hate her. Other than that, I wanted to smack the living crap out of Harry for being a whiny prat... but that's just me.
I think book seven will have a combination of the "curses battle" (from dumb DEs that don't know anything else) and a "puzzle battle," involving the trio's strengths to figure out the last couple of horcruxes. And the death of Voldie and/or Potter battle will be one giant mind game... I think.