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annundrielToday's LJ Writer's Block says it's JK Rowling's birthday and then asks, "Which of her seven Harry Potter novels do you think is the most satisfying read?"
For me there's really no question: Prisoner of Azkaban. Of course, it could be that I need to re-read Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix. It may also be that PoA isn't the most satisfying and is simply my favorite of the seven.
Why? Because it's the first time in the series that everything starts to take on a larger scope. There was already a lot to the world of Harry Potter, but with PoA it felt like the whole thing opened up that much more. You've got the introduction of Remus (who will always be one of my favorite HP characters, though he may have lost some points near the end) and Sirius, the Marauder's Map (and with that Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs), Dementors, the Patronus. There's intrigue and betrayal and history.
I love it because it made the world more real, embroidering it with consequence.
I remember getting near the end of it when it was published and just having this feeling that it was going to be my favorite. Because suddenly Harry wasn't just this boy who had lost his parents and was special and had evil to fight. He was this boy who had all of that, but he was also part of something much bigger and much darker than the sort of episodic idea of the first two books.
Not that they're completely episodic and not that I mean to take anything away from them, but events in the first two have less weight (save for Tom Riddle's diary), I think, by the end of the series than what happens in book three and onward.
For me there's really no question: Prisoner of Azkaban. Of course, it could be that I need to re-read Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix. It may also be that PoA isn't the most satisfying and is simply my favorite of the seven.
Why? Because it's the first time in the series that everything starts to take on a larger scope. There was already a lot to the world of Harry Potter, but with PoA it felt like the whole thing opened up that much more. You've got the introduction of Remus (who will always be one of my favorite HP characters, though he may have lost some points near the end) and Sirius, the Marauder's Map (and with that Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs), Dementors, the Patronus. There's intrigue and betrayal and history.
I love it because it made the world more real, embroidering it with consequence.
I remember getting near the end of it when it was published and just having this feeling that it was going to be my favorite. Because suddenly Harry wasn't just this boy who had lost his parents and was special and had evil to fight. He was this boy who had all of that, but he was also part of something much bigger and much darker than the sort of episodic idea of the first two books.
Not that they're completely episodic and not that I mean to take anything away from them, but events in the first two have less weight (save for Tom Riddle's diary), I think, by the end of the series than what happens in book three and onward.
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Date: 2009-08-01 06:07 am (UTC)I knew that. Really. ::embarrassed::
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