Harry Potter 5

I have just finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It was break. I was bored. Don't judge!! Harry Potter is God!!

I've always been the kind of reader who gets really into certain books, (e.g. Harry Potter) because of the interesting plot line. After having that experience with a book like that, I would expect it from other books, and not get it. I want that rush in my stomach while turning a page, knowing something is going to happen. While I admire J.K. Rowling for her genius plot, her writing is rubbish. See! I’m even using British words.

When I first read the 5^th book, I was in 2^nd grade. My teacher was impressed, but I told her I didn't really understand a lot of the words on the page, which is reasonable. Rowling didn't write the books for 7 year olds, and she uses some surprisingly challenging vocabulary. The climaxes of the books have no inner meaning whatsoever. The fact that Harry is fighting the Death Eaters has no substance at all. This is why, at age 7, I enjoyed the books so much. I didn't need to really read the book to enjoy it. I was an incredibly fast reader, not really taking in any of the words on the page. I read to know what happened next, not what was actually going on.

I re-read all the books all the time, especially the 6^th one, which is my favorite, closely followed by the 7^th. Each time I read them over again, I focus on a different aspect of the book. The first time, the plot, the second time, the details I missed the first time, the third time, the characters, the fourth time, the thoughts, the fifth time I have no idea. At least, this is what it was like for me with the 5^th book. This was the fourth time I read the book, but I was kind of in between characters and thoughts, because the first time really doesn't count, I mean, I was only 7 years old!

The character I focused on was Professor Umbridge. She is a horrible person, who has some really horrible views on things like half-breeds. Naturally, I agree with Harry and the rest of the Gryffindor that she is a horrible person and teacher. It is not Harry that I disagree with, it's J.K. Rowling. By creating an adult like that, she makes it seem like it's a good thing to do bad things to teachers because of the way they teach. The reasons that Umbridge acted the way she did about teaching was reasonable, because she honestly didn't believe anything harry said, and she thought the students and Dumbledore were going to try and fight against the Ministry so that Dumbledore could be Minister of Magic. If this were the case, it would be good for Umbridge to go to all the lengths that she did to prevent that from happening.

Rowling makes it okay for the students to do horrible things to the teacher. Because Harry Potter is such a popular book for small children, this is not a very good thing for Rowling to put in her books. It makes it seem like it's okay to misbehave if the adult in question has some different views on things than you.