Harry Potter, For those who love Harry Potter, pure bloods, 1/2 bloods, muggle borns and muggles all

[douglass]

Thanks everyone, I'll take your advice.

[Wind Ann Wise]

I love Harry Potter. It's awesome! I grew up with those books. My faves are (in order):

1. Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Deathly Hallows
3. Sorcerer's Stone
4. Chamber of Secrets
5. Goblet of Fire
6. Half-blood Prince
7. Order of the Phoenix

[sadbeautifultragic]

I seriously remember the first day I picked up a Harry Potter book (I read them all out of order lol.) It was summer and I was really young, and I went out back to tell my mom I was really bored. She told me "Go read Chris's big Harry Potter book in the closet!" I was REALLY bored so I got Goblet of Fire out of the closet and started reading it. I remember being hooked from the beginning, telling my mom all about it. Thus beginning the rest of my life.

I agree though, with everyone else. I read the first couple out of order (I think it was like, 4 2 3) but then I just got them all from the library and read them in order before 5 came out, and I will say that was the more enjoyable way.

My favorites would have to go:

1. Order of the Phoenix
2. Deathly Hallows
3. Half-Blood Prince
4. Sorcerer's Stone
5. Goblet of Fire
6. Prisoner of Azkaban
7. Chamber of Secrets

I'm pretty sure Harry Potter is like, one of the best things that has ever happened to me.



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[readitnweep]

I think Prisoner of Azkaban is one of the books I've enjoyed the most, and I've read a lot. My son had been given the first book right when it came out here in the States, but he was only 2, so I packed it away and forgot about it until, much later, when someone gave him the DVD to Prisoner of Azkaban. His dad and I watched it first to see what it was. Then I remembered we had the books (all three by then) and I read all three over the next two days.

I don't care for books 4-7 half as much as I do the first three, in particular the third, which is wonderfully plotted with beautifully crafted characters. I thought the Dursleys were too one-dimensional, but other than that I did like the first two.

The last four books tend to drag at times, especially the fifth one. But the concepts were great, and I loved Ron, Hermione and Hagrid.

[EmilyBrooke]

Harry Potter had one of the biggest impacts in my life. The world created by J.K. was one of the reasons I wanted to start getting into writing. I loved the idea that I could imagine something or someplace and turn it into words for other people to read. It's definitely why I'm so into fantasy and magic.

The first time I read it, I was nine or ten. My mom's friend came over and she knew I liked to read so she gave me Sorcerer's Stone. I read it in a day and demanded the others immediately. I've read them so many times they're falling apart. D: A few months ago my brother borrowed Goblet of Fire and it ripped in half. I burst into tears. But I was lucky enough to find a U.S. first edition for less than $10.

My favorites are:
1. Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Deathly Hallows
3. Half-Blood Prince
4. Sorcerer's Stone
5. Chamber of Secrets
6. Goblet of Fire
7. Order of the Phoenix

[Seraph]

Huge Rowling fan here. The only thing I really consider something like blasphemy is when people badmouth Harry Potter. Just started Pottermore. Haven't got to the sorting yet. I'm loving all the little bits she added.

[KAM_writer]

I'm so glad a post like this exists here. <3

I have a lot to do on my writing to do list today, but had to pop in here right now to do a quick reply. I love this series so much. Last year when I went to London I got all the British versions of the series and want to read them all that way at some point because I'm that much of a Harry Potter geek. :p

My favorite Harry Potter books in order:
1) Deathly Hallows
2) Half-Blood Prince
3) Prisoner of Azkaban
4) Philosopher's Stone
5) Order of the Phoenix
6) Goblet of Fire
7) Chamber of Secrets

[Vince524]

I used to write all the time when I was in High School. Wanted to be a writer, etc. But my parents kept saying there's no way, despite all my teachers telling me I was really good. My parents just didn't think anyone could make a future of that. So I went another way and stopped writing. Every once in awhile, I'd have ideas and think about writing again.

It was the Harry Potter books that really inspired me to refocus. I just so adored them.

No here I am at 41, (No old jokes!) and I'm about to get my first novel published!

Thank you JK Rowling.

And KISS.

[KAM_writer]

Originally Posted by douglass

Hi,
Is there one Harry Potter book that you would recommend to an adult reader that doesn't want to read the whole series? One that can stand alone and captures the HP experience for an older reader?

That's tough. My boyfriend only read Order of the Phoenix while he was writing his thesis (on an unrelated topic to Harry Potter) and he liked it enough, but the thought of doing that confused me when he told me he'd only read that HP book and it still confuses me because I feel like each book builds on what happened in the previous book. While an adult reader might understand what's going on, when you see how all the plot lines intertwine with each other it makes it a better story as a whole.

I'd say go with the first book. It's quick and gives you a general idea about the world as whole although, yes, the series takes more "interesting/darker" turns that appeal to older readers in the later books.

[KAM_writer]

Originally Posted by Seraph

Huge Rowling fan here. The only thing I really consider something like blasphemy is when people badmouth Harry Potter. Just started Pottermore. Haven't got to the sorting yet. I'm loving all the little bits she added.

YOU HAVE CAS AS YOUR AVATAR!!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

[SAppleyard]

Harry Potter is FANTASTIC. I remember my mom reading me the first two books, which she would then finish once I went to bed, but come the third I was reading them on my own. Everything was just perfect - though the angsty parts through the fifth book got a little annoying, but he was a teen so it happens.

In order of my faves:

1. Deathly Hollows
2. Goblet of Fire
3. Chamber of Secrets
4. Half Blood Prince
5. Sorcerers Stone
6. Order of the Phoenix
7. Prisoner of Azkaban (Mainly because the movie just ruined it for me.)

I love them all so much, but that is the order I'd put them in if I truly had to.

I'd love to see her go back to that world with their kids to see what would happen. Also I just miss HP and his world haha

[Smish]

I can tell you my very favorite - Prisoner of Azkaban - but I can't rank the rest. They're all brilliant. I've read each book a couple dozen times.

(Prisoner of Azkaban was definitely my least favorite of the movies, though. It didn't even come close to capturing the greatness of the book.)

[Kzordcid]

I love Harry Potter-- I was an absolute fanatic in middle school. I was sorted into Hufflepuff on Pottermore, though I haven't been on lately-- I kept failing at the Polyjuice Potion and gave up.

As for my ranking of the books:
1. Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Goblet of Fire
3. Deathly Hallows
4. Half Blood Prince
5. Philosopher/Sorcerer's Stone
6. Order of the Phoenix
7. Chamber of Secrets

[ThatKnight64]

Harry Potter was really the spark for my fantasy addiction which eventually led to wanting to write my own. I think I first picked up a Harry Potter book because my third grade teacher had confiscated Sorcerer's Stone from another student. I bought goblet of fire from the scholastic reader and was hooked from then on. I honestly have to thank J.K. Rowling for making reading so much fun. It opened a whole world for me.
I was sorted into Ravenclaw on Pottermore but I haven't really been back in awhile.

1.) Order of the Phoenix
2.) Goblet of Fire
3.) Prisoner of Azkaban
4.) Half Blood Prince
5.) Deathly Hallows
6.) Sorcerer's Stone
7.) Chamber of Secrets

[tpolen]

I'm a huge Harry Potter fan! A friend recommended I read the books when I was 34 years old - just figured they were for kids, but loved them. Since then I've become a regular reader of YA books - some of them are so much better than adult fiction. I couldn't put them in order of preference because I enjoyed them all so much, but I do know Chamber of Secrets is probably my least favorite. I'm on Pottermore, but haven't visited lately - can't wait to be sorted! Visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios about 2.5 years ago and excited to be going back this April.

[fredXgeorge]

^ The Wizarding World of HP is the greatest place in the world (except maybe for the studio tour, which I really want to visit). So excited they're expanding Orlando, and building at LA and Japan. Though I do wish we got something in Aus so we didn't always have to travel so far. Oh well.

[Cyia]

WWoHP really is amazing. I took my cousin's kidlets last year for what turned out to be "dead week" in Orlando. (A one week lull between Thanksgiving and Christmas where the parks are nearly empty.) The lines were about five minutes each, which was awesome.

I got so upset though. I'd had vertigo all day, but it had started easing off -- only to come back with a vengeance right at the loading station for the ride inside the castle. Had to send the kidlets on alone, then endure their squeals of how awesome it was.

[fredXgeorge]

Oh no, talk about bad timing!

LeakyCon 2011 was held there and we had the theme park to ourselves from 10pm-1am. Brilliant, except I had got a throat infection on the plane so spent the night holding my bottle of Pumpkin Juice up to my neck, in so much pain. Plus it got even worse because I was screaming on the rides. My friends and I went back on our second-last day and I had spent the days in between working on getting better so I did get to appreciate it, but still wish I had properly been able to enjoy our private night.

[BetteDavis]

I don't understand people who don't like Potter.Im a ravenclaw and my favourite books in order are

1.Deathly Hallows
2.Half Blood Prince
3.Chamber of Secrets
4.Goblet of Fire
5.Prisoner of Azkaban
6.Philosophers Stone
7.Order of the Phoenix