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Well, it's 20 til 5 in the morning, and I've just finished OotP. My only source of anger and frustration is that when I read the first 4 a few years ago, I was able to read all four at once...and only 870 pages after I started I already have to wait again!
Not that JK would write to reflect the film, but I really thought she might have Dumbledore killed as a means of respect to the actor who has played him in the movies. I thought it would surely be him. I'd hoped it'd be Percy somehow. Also, at the start of the book, I thought perhaps Aunt Petunia may have in her youth shown an inclination towards wizardry, but had repressed it. That would have indicated her knowledge and her reasons for always wanting to appear perfectly normal.
Damn Harry can be illogical....of course he's so well written because he's 15.... of course he's going to rave and misinterpret. But I love how you can already see the distinction between him and his father with how he handles Luna, he sympathizes for her despite thinking her odd, while it was the grounds upon which James tormented old Servius. I like that. It's part of what makes him better, he's filled a little more with love.
I wonder what will become of Dumbledore though...he can't make it in the end...If he does then Harry will always have had a greater authority helping him....though he has done most everything on his own...he hasn't been ENTIRELY ALONE, and that'll make a difference I should think. Although I agree that Neville, with his courage building and the members of the DA growing more competent should prove useful, unlike the ignorance of seemingly all of the Slytherin side, save for Draco who will no doubt be the 2nd to the last to be defeated, and will probably injure one of the other 2, Herm or Ron.
I found it kind of funny that it was the slytherin's who were helping professor umbridge, who in essence only was there to further conceal the dawning that Voldemort has returned, when it was a slytherin there were helping by denying his return, and discrediting those who said otherwise.
Was there no house cup? if so, who won?
I really enjoyed this one though.....some of JK's characters got on my nerves SO MUCH, I wanted to tear them from the story, but how great a writer one must be to write a character who gets under your skin the way Prof. Umbridge and Fudge do?!?!
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