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A review by snowbenton
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
1.0
Easily the worst one so far. Harry is an emotional baby for the entire book, with not sentence of these 870 dragging pages devoted to self-reflection. He picks fights with everyone and all the fighting took the fun out of this book. Goblet of Fire was also too long, but at least you had the wizard tournament and that kept the pages turning because there was another adventure coming. This book had no plot beyond Harry failing to even try to keep Voldemort out of his head, and it fell very flat.
It hardly bears repeating at this point, but Hagrid is an absolutely terrible person who has no business interacting with children. Dumbledore is at best an idiot, at worst, possessed of a flagrant disregard for children's lives. Molly Weasley is a shrew and Arthur Weasley is an airhead and all the Weasley children deserved better.
Reading this as an adult was a chore.
It hardly bears repeating at this point, but Hagrid is an absolutely terrible person who has no business interacting with children. Dumbledore is at best an idiot, at worst, possessed of a flagrant disregard for children's lives. Molly Weasley is a shrew and Arthur Weasley is an airhead and all the Weasley children deserved better.
Reading this as an adult was a chore.