I am so happy you recomended this! I love this series and think more people should read it!

This series is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've read the whole series and it's awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My favaurite book in the series is 'The Order of the Phoenix" It's awesome how the students fight back against Umbrige!!!

OK, this is my Harry Potter story at a glance:

Read the first book in one day, finished the series by third grade.  (started in the summer?)

Reread the books.  Watched the first 4 movies over and over again.  Only ones I could watch at the time.  re re read books.  set my personal best for reading 7th - 3 days.  re re re read.  finally watched 5, 6, 7, 8.  re watched, re read.  memorized every word in the movie.  re watched.  became obsessed(cuz i wasn't already!?)  developed crush for harry stuck for years.  done with reading so suffered depression until fifth (i think) grade when i found a new book to read.  still obsessed.  decorated bedroom wall. got hp trivia game.  still liked harry.  re watched. lost crush for harry.

here i am today, typing non stop about my harry potter experience!  You know what i'm doing today?  Standing up to hp haters, re reading, re watching, and still obsessed!  :D 

I LOVE the Harry Potter books!

But... so many people die. So sad. I shall now say very dramatically and sadly all the spoilers, AKA people who die. 

SPOILERS:

DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ALL THE BOOKS, MAJOR SPOILERS.

*Serius Black... Seriusly! He dies... It's just so sad, it really makes Harry unhappy! Waaaaaaaaah!! :(

Dumbledore. WAAAAAAAAH!! He was always there!!! And then, Poof! Gone! Harrry in total depression here!!!!!!! :(

Mad-Eye!!!!! WAAAA-AAAA-AAAAA!!!! Always there for Harry! Although him dying wasn't actully really sad for Harry. :[

Hedwig!!!!!! Even though he was just an owl.... that death was really sad. :(

Profesor Lupin!!! And Tonks!!!!! So sad!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!! Well, at least they got to die together. :(

Dobby!!!! I liked him. He was a little wierd, but he was always just so nice  to Harry. :(

Severus Snape!!!!!! WAAAA-He actully killed Dumbledore.... but it turned out he was good! So many mixed feelings on his death for me. :(

Goerge Or Fred!!!!! JUST HORRIBLE FOR THE OTHER TWIN. Harry's in turmoil now.*

And so that ends my sad list of those who died. (At least, the people who I remember reading about dying.)

*Note: Those listed here are not listed on when they died.*

Rest In Peace all those who died in the HP books, Rest In peace. 

I absolutely love Harry Potter! The Half Blood Prince is my favorite. It is devastating when Dumbledore dies though.

The Harry Potter books were really good! I have read them over and over 3 hundred times. I even encouraged some of my other friends to them! Nice recommended choice. :D

These books are definitely entertaining, but I also think they are kind of cartoonish and predictable. Though they are fun to read, and I can completely understand why everyone else loves them so much.

I love love LOVE Harry Potter!!! 

These books are so good! I love how J.K. Rowling writes with passion and feeling. Although the book is fantasy, the characters also face some real life problems and learn life lessons along the way. 

I've read the whole series.My fav is The Prisoner of Askaban.

I LOVE the Harry Potter series! It is one of my favorites!

I love this book series! Im on book 2#.

I dislike giving mindless hate to anything without deep analysis as to why, so here we go: I absolutely dislike these books. To explain further...

 I think a lot of the main ideas and core themes are really weak to utterly confounding.

I'm already uncomfortable with the idea that only people with good "blood" or "bloodlines" can be successful (as in, parents/ancestors having a special aptitude towards something will make their descents just as, if not more, skillful in that subject; and the idea that you can only be good at something if you have a ancestor who was at it), and the other way around, that 'evil' people can only raise 'evil' children, is heavily emphasized. For the good bloodine=good child: Harry is not good at anything because he's skilled or strong or clever, but because his parents were skilled, and his father (who I think was a jerk) was descended from a famous wizarding family. Basically all the antagonists are stuck with the bad fam=bad kid too. Also, having a stand-in family that treats you horribly is so cliché. Sweetie, if you wanted something more interesting, you didn't have to dehumanise the family who took the kid in. Why would the aunt who hated her sister for being magical be forced to take in her magical nephew, anyway? Surely wizards aren't incapable of background checks? As a person who was severely mistreated by their birth parents, and was only ever treated like a human by step-parents/other stand-ins, this hits especially hard and annoys me to no end, although that's obviously just my own bias. Not all biological parents are the pure innocent perfect family that you lost. Sometimes you just weren't born into a good situation. That doesn't mean that you can't grow out of your situation, or that you're inherently more evil for it, despite what I think Rowling's message would suggest.  

I also think the 'chosen one,' prophecies, Harry vs Voldemorte rivalry, etc. are also all really poorly thought out, or at the very least poorly executed. Especially the Harry vs. Voldemorte thing. I get that you needed some big-bad for your perfect little hero to fight off against or whatever, but watering down the villain in order to make them inept or just plain stupid so that the hero can have a chance at winning is always a bad move. It really ruins any impact and makes the whole wizarding world feel way less engaging. Speaking of the wizarding world not being engaging, what the heck is up with the Ministry? Why is it the leading body in the magical world? Why has there not been a coup to get rid of this thing? Also, how is magic kept a secret by everyone? It's not a secret if two know, and it seems like there's a genuinely staggering amount of wizards so... yeah. You get punished for revealing wizarding, so it'd make a whole lot of sense if someone revealed it to a non-magical person but then pretended nothing happened out of self interest/preservation. Anyway, I think the schooling system is also absolutely ineffectual too and just... Why is nothing important really taught there? I'm low-key half convinced that the wizarding world is intentionally trying to keep itself useless and ineffective against literally everything. Why is Dumbledore, the strongest wizard, a school director, anyway? Imagine if the best politician/warrior/richest person in the world was the Dean of your high-school. Um... what? Yeah. The magic system also makes gosh-darn no sense (and it's not like I'm saying that magic itself doesn't, because I'm totally willing to suspend my belief there; it's that the entire system is so ridiculously arbitrary I wonder how it even exists), but I'm getting off track here.

So... the whole Goblet of Fire book makes no sense whatsoever, I'm still salty over the whole veil thing with Sirius, why does the "good" side literally always win (I think it's boring as heck because of that) and... Okay. I'll slow down. But seriously, why are all Slitherins evil? Why are nearly all Hufflepuffs useless, Ravenglass are the thirdth wheel on the Gryffindor vs Slytherin date, and Gryffindors are always annoyingly pretentious and self-righteous (except for Peter Petigrew, which... I honestly can't even with)?

Furthermore, the writing style is rather haphazard, there are so many numerous plot-holes, "Why? Just why...?" moments, and so, so many other issues. To be honest I have never understood why these books ever got so immensely popular in the first place. I think it's disgrace to all of literature that this is one of the first things that comes to mind when one thinks of 'magic,' 'England,' 'English,' or 'wizard/witch.'

Okay, rant over. 

And just to be clear, if you do enjoy Harry Potter, I'm not saying that you're a bad person or that you don't deserve to defend yourself or be heard. I just think that you have really poor taste in books, in this case.

Well, Jaybells, I and a lot of other people enjoyed the series—all the characters and happenings. I enjoy a good story and am not overly critical about details. I appreciate what is there and all the effort put in to such a huge project.

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