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Summary: Good Book That Delves Deeper Into The Harry Potter Universe
Review: Very good book and leaves you dying for more. In this book we go even deeper into the realm of Harry Potter and discover more secrets and wizardry customs. We learn of other schools that teach magic and the pasts of several characters are revealed. The ending leaves you questioning what`s going to happen next!
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Summary: Harry Potter, No Way!
Review: It is Harry Potter's fouth year at Hogwarts School of Wictchcraft and Wizardry. This year Hogwarts is hosting a tournament that hasn't been held in a century because of the dangers. Harry some how becomes one of the schools competitors. This tournament can put Harry in more danger then he could ever guess.
I can truthfully say that I have found no enjoyment in reading this fourth installment of the Harry Potter series. I think that the characters' backgrounds are rather shallow and I wish that we knew more about some of their childhoods. The Harry Potter books are enjoyed world-wide, but I think the public only sees the surface of Harry's personality. Honestly I can not actually tell if Harry is a good wizard. The plot was rather pointless and I think Ms. Rowling should have had a little introducion to the tournament in earlier books. I also think that other students in Hogwarts should get a chance to be in the limelight once in a while. Harry is the only person who actually saves the school and some one else should get a chance to be the hero or herione. Ms. Rowling also has distinguishing similarities in her characters to Professor Tolkien. The giant spiders in The Chamber of Secrets are very similar to Tolkien's Shelob. Peter Wormtail's name sounds a bit like Tolkien's Wormtongue. In conclusion, I find the Harry Potter books rather fake and confusing.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Review: Harry Potter, a fourteen year old wizard, awakens one day from a horrible dream. "The old scar on his forehead...was burning beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin." He dreams of Lord Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew, or Wormtail, planning to kill someone, Harry himself. Harry goes back to school for his fourth year and a tournament is taking place. The Triwizard Tournament. Since he isn't seventeen years or older, he can't put his name in the Goblet of Fire, the goblet where the people put a piece of paper in it with the following information: there names and school name. As Dumbledore was taking the names out of the Goblet of Fire, Harry's names comes out as the fourth champion, when there was supposed to be only three champions. Besides he is under seventeen years old. Someone must have snuck over to the Goblet of Fire and put Harry's name with a different school name.
My favorite part of this book is when Harry goes into the lake for the second task of the Triwizard Tournament. He has to go into the lake to retrieve what he'll "sorely miss", his friend Ron. Dobby, Malfoys old house elf, gives Harry the plant he needs to eat so he could breath under the lake, Gillyweed. He eats it and, "Then, quite suddenly, Harry felt as though an invisible pillow had been pressed over his mouth and nose...He claped his hands around his throat and felt two large slits just below his ears, flapping in the cold air.... He had gills." Harry, thinking what the song that the mermaids sang was true, "And while you're searching, ponder this: We've taken what you'll sorely miss...But past an hour-the prospects black, Too late, it's gone, it won't come back", he tried to get all the people that were stuck under there out of the water, thinking that they will die.
What I like about the book is that it still has it's adventure and magic just like the rest of J.K's books. J.K Rowling's books are the best ones of all the rest of the other books out there, in my opinion, because these books are 1) exciting, 2) mysterious, 3)scary, and 4)understandable. I love all the Harry Potter books, but I like this one the most because this one is the scariest one and it is also challenging for me. It took me a week and two hours to finish it. I am impressed by J.K. Rowling's work and I wonder how she does it all. I guess it's in her imagination, but it is most defenitely in the heart. I heard writers write from the heart and by J.K's work I know this statement is true.
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Summary: Another fun read...........
Review: After the half let down Harry Potter and the prisoner of azkaban, J.K. Rowling has bought the fourth, and final (for now) chapter of the Harry Potter series. This book has, I believe, it all: magic, fun sports, dragons, deceptions, lies, conspiracies, details, and most of all good, great fun. Truly magical. As the story unfolds, Harry has been invited by his friend Ron Weasley to attend the Quidditch World Cup with him. The two go, are joined by their friend Hermoine Granger, and along with Mr. and Mrs Weasley, Ron's brothers, and sister Ginny, they have a great time. Until when to sgin shows up. And as the students are sent back to school and a mysterious tournament comes into play, Harry Potter comes to realize that he may be in more danger than he may ever know. I loved, loved, loeved, loved this book. The sheer joy it gives you to read will leave you begging for more. I am now waiting in baited breath for THE ORDER OF THE PHOEINEX to come out in June.
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Summary: I loved this book!!!
Review: Book 4 was great. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I was always found in with my nose in that book. It was exiting and different than any other book I have read and I read lots and lots of books. I always had to tell someone what was going on in the book that is how good it was. This book is on my favorite list for sure. Because this book was so good I couldn't wait for the next one to come out.
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Summary: Goblet Of Ire (MAJOR SPOILERS)
Review: This review should be read ONLY by those who have already finished Goblet Of Fire. It contains MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS - it has to - because problems with the plot are the reason I have given the book the rating I have. You have been warned. If the Harry Potter books were nothing more than minor bestsellers, I'd have no problem with them. But, alas, HP has become a lauded cultural phenomenon equivalent to the first Star Wars trilogy, and so I am stunned into disbelief when apparently intelligent people (and adults) go on about how wonderful they are. And they do, constantly. And then they get this hurt, sullen look in their eyes when I point out all I'm about to explain now, like I just burst their water balloon. Setting aside the question of JK's writing ability (and she's alright - fast paced and smooth flowing, quite entertaining on the first read - scant on description, but then, "this is for kids") and how so many aspects of her fantasy world are stolen directly from Tolkien without even an attempt to disguise them (Dumbledore=Gandalf, Dementors=Ring Wraiths, Voldemort=Sauron, Wormtail=Wormtongue, Dobby=Gollum, etc), the real problem with "Goblet..." is another one entirely. Here it is, in big letters: THE STORY DOESN'T WORK If the people, places and events in this story behaved consistently, even on their own terms, things would never happen like they do in this book. In J.K. Rowling's universe, character actions and magic function solely to manipulate the plot down a barely thought-out set of train tracks. It shakes my faith in the brain-power of humanity that people either don't notice or ignore this, and laud this book to heaven for it's "invention." For example (SPOILERS): - In this book, a lesser bad guy uses an ingenious set of spells to disguise himself as another character. The whole plot hinges on this double agent getting Harry Potter to touch an object (a "Portkey") which will teleport him instantly into the clutches of Voldemort. During the book we learn that Portkeys are easy to create, and can be just about anything you like. Yet the agent never thinks to just make ANY object a Portkey and trick Harry into touching it. Instead, he goes to enormous trouble to get Harry entered in a huge competition (the Triwizard Tournament) which will take months and attract massive publicity (risking the agent's exposure), in the hope of getting him to touch a very specific object that way. Me, I'd have put on my invisibility cloak, snuck into Harry's bedroom three days into the first term, and turned his pillow into a Portkey. Then I'd have gone on the rampage through Hogworts, Avada Kedavra'ing the faculty, hiding the bodies, changing my appearance to look like them as I did so; bringing an end to Rowling's lucrative saga. I forced myself to re-read this book to see if there's any reason why this wouldn't happen. There isn't. - At a point late in the story, Harry is in a tight spot, about to be killed by Voldemort. He escapes not through any wit or virtue he possesses, but through a blatant coincidence stemming from previously unmentioned SIDE-EFFECTS of Voldemort having the same type of wand as him. These side-effects not only stop Voldey in his tracks, they also tell Harry how to escape and conveniently prevent Voldemort's henchmen from helping their master out until Harry gets a chance run to for it (the old golden force-field trick). Not storytelling; just pure deus-ex machina. - An example of the way character behaviour is manipulated is at the end. "Goblet..." ends with the goodies explaining the situation to the Minister For Magic. By this point, there have been three murders; a Death Eater informer has fled, there has been Death Eater activity at the Quidditch World Cup, and the Dark Mark on Snape's arm has gone black (a clear sign of Voldemort's return). But this leader of a nation refuses to believe anything is amiss. Why? No reason, except that it allows JK to extend the 'story' for three more books by keeping the 'action' centred on the characters at Hogwort's, and prevents her from having to do anything too ambitious, like decide how a magical war could work based on her ludicrous rules. In fact, if you want a believable fantasy world where the laws of magic are applied consistently, where the hero/heroine wins on their own merits, and where the other characters behave in realistic ways given their intelligence and resources, you'll have to read something else (The Hobbit, or Watership Down, or the first two Dark Materials). The problem is that with manipulation this serious, the notion that this book is finely constructed or full of twists and turns goes out of the window - a plot twist is only worthwhile if the storyline behind it makes sense. Nothing makes sense in the Harry Potter books, from the way Wizard Society supposedly works (by expending VAST resources keeping most Muggles in a state of stupification, but leaving the Dursleys with their memories intact for comic effect) from the choice of Harry as a hero, to the numerous characters and situations present in each book solely as red herrings. JK uses magic and selectively stupid bad guys to compensate for plots that would leave no chance of the Harry winning if the bad guys behaved like real people. And as there's no feasible story to the books, there's no real drama - just strings of vacantly clever, derivative situations connected by a spy novel-reject of a plotline which defies it's own logic to get where JK wants it to go. Harry Potter will never have to use his wits to survive; the dangers he confronts are never more than the shadow of an illusion. But who cares! It's for KIDS, right? And getting kids to read is important, so who cares if they get used to reading nonsense! ALL THEIR FRIENDS READ IT!
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Summary: Wonderful and worth the length!!!
Review: I loved this book--it's so easy to get caught up in it.And you do, you find youself cheering on the characters, and hoping for everything to be okay in this book. Don't let the length intimidate you, it couldn't have been this good if it wasn't this long. This series just keeps getting more creative and exciting as it does. I would recommend this to anyone, its really,really good!!
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Summary: Great stuff
Review: Well, once again there is plenty here for young & old.. although in this weighty volume it does often lean to the more adult. One of the interesting things about this series, and particularly this book, is how it allows us to view our own Muggle world through new eyes. Aspects of the media & politics etc. A particularly genious invention is the tabloid reporter Rita Skeeter, and her magic quill that twists & distorts words coming out of her interviewee's mouth. A wonderful piece of healthy cynicism! I loved the wizard who, trying to dress in disguise as a Muggle, goes in a poncho & a kilt. Priceless.I could not put the book down over the last 6 or so chapters, although it does suffer from a James Bond style "Im the baddie & I'll narrate to you everything I've done (for no particular reason)before you die - Mister Bond". It does get very interestingly political towards the end, the series here seems to step up a whole new level....
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Summary: The Best One Yet
Review: I'll admit that when i first heard of all this Harry Potter thing I thought it was something for little dorky kids, but i'll also admit that when i read the book i was all about it. I read the second book to my little cousin and i found myself liking it. Soon i found myself reading all four books. This one is the best one of them all. I can't wait untill the next one comes out. I feel that Rowling (the author) is making the books darker because the readers are getting older and so are the books. I'll recomend anyone to this book and it doesn't matter if your a child or an adult. For a child its a great book. For an adult its a great book thats also an easy read. I finished this book in four days and i'm a slow reader. So read it and see if you can prove me wrong.
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Summary: Dragons
Review: My favorite Character is Harry Potter and I choose this book because someone told me about the triwizard tournamant and I heard he Was fight a dragon to My ameze he was .My favorite thing about the book was all the climax scence the story line was good to and now I have to get the next book and even the one after that because that's how much I enjoy them.
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