Of the seven Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling - which one is your favorite and why?

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I do love these books... We started reading them before they came out in the States--ordered our copy of the first volume from Amazon. Uk, actually, and while they all have their strong points, I must say I like the last volume the best. As we read along, as the books came out, I kept wondering--how's she going to pull off the end?

And I really believe that volume 7 is a worthy culmination--that she has achieved more than she really set out to do. Of course, I am also pleased that some of my predictins came to pass... I was sure that Snape's character would be redeemed. That Dumbledore would be back, somehow.

That Harry would, of course, be victorious... that Ron and Hermoine would survive it, that Harry would end up with Ginny... And JK Rowlinig did it so very well. I loved that Neville got such a critical ending role--that Harry didn't do it alone--the power of love and friendship, of working together, in unity, for a worthy goal is so much stronger than unity through hatred and the love of only power. We have three sets of the books--one for my son, one for my daughter (she took hers to college with her) and one for me--and I've selfishly hogged all the British editions for myself.

We bought the british AND the US editions, and have gradually picked up a third set of the US editions, used, because it quickly became clear, as my kids got older, that this was the only way to do it. Sources: Personal experience NancyE's Recommendations Deluxe British Edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter UK Deluxe Special Editions, Volume 7) Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) We didn't get the delux special edition, just the regular one.

Prisoner of Azkaban One Reason: Sirius Black. Well, not to say that remus Lupin doesn't have a special place in my heart - he was my favorite Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. But Black is what really sells.

He's such a deep and disturbed character, but redeeming, mischievious, and someone to love. The twist ending was amazing and thrilling. Plus this is the book where Harry really started to grow up.1.

Prisoner of Azkaban 2. Deathly Hallows - simply for how much I sobbed through the last 1/4 of the book. I still get worked up thinking about those who died.

3. Goblet of Fire - Clever, action-packed and thrilling.4. Order of the Phoenix - If for nothing else, this ranks higher because of the Fred & George exit scene.

Great stuff with Umbridge too.5. Half-Blood Prince - Harry's a bit too angsty, but the end is startling and the book is enlightening. 6.

Sorcerer's Stone - The original and most surprisingly magical. Holds a place in my heart as the first. 7.

Chamber of Secrets - Admittedly the weakest book, even by Rowling's standards. But it was necessary for key information later on. PenguinSage's Recommendations Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Widescreen Edition) Amazon List Price: $14.97 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Also happens to be my favorite of the movies..

I definately loved book 6 I thought all of the 7 books were entertaining to a degree. I am going to write this so as to hopefully not give away many of the plot twists.....After reading all 7 books, I've learned to appreciate the series much more than I would have after reading say just the first 3 or 5 even....the series ended fantastically and was fabulous....hope we can have something as addictive as this series was soon.... Books one and two were a lot more child-oriented and while they weren't bad, I didn't think they had quite enough to them to warrant all the fuss (They're a far cry from the Hobbits and Narnia classic's of this genre, but were still entertaining enough to keep my interest---plus they were pretty short and could be read quickly). Maybe had I not started with a 4 paperback book set, I would have ended after the first two (or waited at least until I had kids to read them all), but I had the first 4 book paperback set and decided, why not read book 3, they are quick reads and have their entertaining moments (the whole Riddle diary thing in book two also helped with this (the Moaning Myrtle, Quidditch and school stuff didn't help matters as an adult reader).... Then I read book 3 and literally couldn't put it down.

I loved the plot twist ended (and incidentally also loved the film, the only film to date taht I've seen and really really enjoyed--the rest were simply ok, but I haven't yet seen Order of the Phoenix). Book Four and the tournament was the darkest of the first four books and the longest. An adult (mid/late 20's friend of mine kept saying keep reading because book 4 is great, and he was mostly correct).

Book Four is really where all the Quidditch and school stuff really started to take a back seat, and Rowling started to focus a bit on the dark Voldemort and his cronies, and disaster started to impact Harry and crew more so than the threat of danger in the other books. Ts was maybe a 750+ page book, but it was so wildly entertaining that it felt like a 150 page book....a very solid read. Book Five was the only book that seemed to retreat from the books before.

Rowling had made vast leaps both in storytelling and writing techniques (seemingly maturing as a writer to the level of Harry's age, a fabulous little twist on these stories). Book Five however to me seemed to be more her going through the motions....if in a bit of a darker realm than before. We had some disaster in this book, but it happened awfully early......frankly I read this one rather quickly and didn't enjoy it nearly as much of the others...it was the book that almost ended the series for me (wasn't bad, but after books 3 and 4 were getting to a classic status, book 5 seemed almost to be a VERY LONG version of books 1 or 2, except with Harry a little older and his crew a little too familiar to be overly interesting.

THat said I've been wanting to revisit this one because I bought this one right when it came out and gobbled it up quickly and didn't remember much when I started to finally read book 6. I bought Book 6 the pretty early when it came out at WalMart....I was a little bit down on the series, but thought well I've come this far, and the price for the book was only like $17.52 (I think it was 17.52, that number seems ingrained in my head--I'm a finance guy after all), and I brought it home and told my I think then just girlfriend (She may have been my fiance) that I'm sorry but I'm probably going to be a zombie for a few days reading these Harry Potter books. I opened the book up and read the first chapter and kept thinking, I don't really remember too much of book 5 other than that I didn't like it much (it wasn't awful, just an average book from an at this point even above average series), maybe I should reread that one and then get back to this book.SO I kept opening book 5 but was hard pressed to get motivated to read like a 800-950 page (off of memory) book that I really didn't enjoy that much the first time (it would get like a 2.5 out of 5 star review in my book, decent book, not going to hurt you, but not going to make you say, wow that was fabulous unless maybe you hadn't read anything prior.

So anyway, I juggled with that for a bit (wanting to read book 5 again but being thrown off by the size and experience, and I had gotten into that, well this series is ok, but not great mode (As I tend to do with music if say for instance Radiohead makes a great THe Bends record, follows it up with possibly the record of the 90's, the fabulous OK Computer record, then a pretty good (if a little bit remain in lightish Talking Headsian follow up with Kid A, then lays a huge dud with Amnesiac, I sour on the band and often cannot return.......I haven't been able to forgive Radiohead for Amnesiac yet but have bought their last 3 albums (the Live album and In Rainbows and Hail to the Thief...it just happens with me).... So I put book 6 on the shelf for I think a year....maybe a year and a half. Then all the marketing buzz about the last book started and I had some free time one sunday while my now almost wife was off at a bridal something or other, so I thought what the heck, I'll actually give this book a go.30 pages in (Which in these books takes like 15 minutes), I was hooked, and I literally would work and constantly think, man I wish I could finish that book, it's so good. The story got really really dark and it featured my favorite character in the entire series quite a bit.....I tend to always like the bad guys from Skeletor (He-Man), Gargamel (Smurfs), Megatron (Transformers), Cobra (GI Joe), I always preferred the bad guys, and from day one I loved it when this character who is in all 7 titles quite a bit would ridicule Harry and his childish innocence (though in real life I love the fact that my nephews who I live with are uber innocent, it doesn't mean I want to read about them...).

No the whole thing with the half blood prince and this evil teacher was extremely entertaining...and the final 200 pages or more with Dumbledore and the caves/lake, and the death eaters was one of the best bits of fantasy writing I've ever read.........After this I could barely wait the maybe now 5-6 months for book 7..... I preordered book 7 from Amazon and it came on the first day it was available.. I think we were downtown in Chicago that day and didn't get home until maybe 11PM and the book was here....I actually opened it up and started reading, guzzling the book down when I could. I took my time a bit more with this one because I was a little saddened that it would be the series end. Thankfully this one had absolutely no Quidditch and about 1% of the school stuff, and instead focused on Voldemort and his cronies and Harry.

It tied in most of the major loose ends from the series very well, and was another one of those tough to put down books (though since it was summertime when I started reading this, and my first summer as a married guy, it probably took me 2-3 weeks to finish). After I was done, I told my wife she NEEDS to give these books a chance. Books 4, 6, and 7 are the highlights overall.

Book 6 was the only in my eyes at least, flawless book (though I've only read it once and might have just been reading it at the right time). Overall after having read all 7 books, I'd have to say that this series stands up to anything before it. All should read regardless of age.

Fabulous books, especially given the amount of pages could have lead to a lot more filler than was here.....the scope of the series was immense, and the fact that really the quality remained so high for so long and sooo many pages, is amazing. I'm a big fan! .

The first one I really liked the first one, because it was something new. The history the first steps of the main character and the new world that he fond, the world of magic. For personally the surprise and the unexpected in a book or story are the best part.At first I was very skeptic about it.

I was 14 when I red it for a first time, it was gift from my grandmother and that create that skepticism in me, it's just that she have very different taste. Then the cover I thought more that is some kind of garbage. Maybe that was the thing that made me to like it that much in the end, all that skepticism and then the original, at least for me, story just got me.

Deathly Hallows and then Prisoner of Azkaban Deathly Hallows is my favorite because of the way that it pulled everything together and gave me some final reassurance that everything did turn out okay for Harry. I never really thought he would die fighting Voldemort, but there was always that lingering dread that he might. I also think that it shows how much thought J.K. Rowling put into the entire series as I started noticing the way that things from the earlier books really had all fed in to the final events in Deathly Hallows.

I like Prisoner of Azkaban because its a great story that also represents an important introduction to Harry's parents (particularly his father) as real people who lived and had friends. I also loved the characters of Remus Lupin and Sirus Black and once again the way everything was resolved at the end. Mistral's Recommendations Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) Amazon List Price: $34.99 Used from: $8.16 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 2887 reviews) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) Amazon List Price: $22.99 Used from: $2.91 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2583 reviews) .

Were can I find the special editions of the harry potter books.

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