Least Favorite Book

[unbeastly]

I want to know which book is your least favorite. Mine is Half Blood Prince. Soo much of this book annoys me (Lavender Brown and her Won-Won "shudders"). Unlike the other books in the series I only re-read it to complete the series otherwise I would probably not touch it at all. The only parts I like are Dumbledore finally starting to inform Harry some of what he needs to know and I'm probably in the minority in that I was also happy when Harry and Ginny got together.

So register your votes (you get 2 if you can't decide) and don't forget to give your reasons.

[kumainpink]

HBP is my choice for least favorite. =P

[mkatl1]

Order of the Phoenix .

[Dimcairien]

HBP. Yes, it was a good book and Harry and Ginny got together, but it was just too slow for me. I mean, there's OOTP which to me was jam-packed full of action, but then nothing really happens in HBP until Harry and Dumbledore go after the Horcrux.

[viralic1]

GOF was my least favorite. When I first read about the triwizard tournament, I was so pumped with the different ways and epicness JK could have taken it, but I felt the tournament as a whole was not thought out, completely retarded, and an epic failure. When I got to the part where Ron starts acting like a bitch, I thought that at least one good point would be Harry finally ditching the jerk. Then he forgave him and I almost ragequit.

I thought that the graveyard scene was a child trying to act like an adult, but failing miserably. If it was meant to scare/add tension in any way, I felt that it failed utterly.

For me, GOF was the beginning of the terrible trend that the series went. I felt that the later books were, at least in many ways to me, terrible.

While I enjoy the HP universe and idea, I felt the canon books left way too much to be desired, and the quality of writing became rather uniform and stale, especially by DH.

[physicssquid]

For me it's a toss-up between OotP and HBP. There are bits of both that I like, but also a lot of bits that I didn't like. I don't like Harry/Ginny at all, and there wasn't enough action in HBP at all, but also, in OotP, there was just too much angst from Harry.

[blonde geek]

Got to be HBP for me because it was kind of slow and there wasn't much action in it. Also as I've already said before I hate Harry/Ginny and as they get together in this book it just made it worse for me, if that makes any sense.

[cierrasol]

To be honest, my least favorite is COS. It's makes me angry when everyone except Ron and Hermoine turn against Harry. You can agrue that happenned in PS, GOF, and OoTP(somewhat), but it's really obvious that Harry isn't the heir of Slytherin since one, he's best friends with a muggleborn and, two, his mother was a muggleborn. I didn't like the parts where Molly Weasley didn't believe her sons, the howler, or that people got pertfied I liked the part with the polyjuice potion and the part with the chamber. I like Dobby, but i admit he went too far trying to protect Harry. I HATED Lockhart, he's nothing more than an annoying, pompous, idiotic, fraud, attention-seeking prat. The only DADA teacher I hate more is Umbitch.

[Strange Hearts]

I disliked DH and CoS, though DH is my least liked of the whole series, as I've only been able to read it once, and that was just to finish the series. Before the last three came out, though, CoS was my least liked one, and it hasn't changed that much, either.

[werewulfking]

I liked all of the books very much but as i noticed this topic I thought about it and came to the conclusion that the Prisoner of Askaban and the Order of the Phoenix are my least favourite ones.
I unfortunately have to admit that a great deal of that dislike comes from the movies but I can't seem to disconnect books and movies completely.

But as for the books I didn't like how Voldemort played such a minor role in the Prisoner and that Harry was so moody in the Order. I also totally didn't like the whole Cho business and how Lupin acted for most of book three.

[Nahara46]

I chose Goblet of Fire because it started the thing with Cho, which was stupid. Also, Ron was an idiot the whole time. I was also a big fan of Viktor/Hermione, and this book did it all right, but then it just dropped it... (which I guess was more of an ootp thing really). I was upset that it just cut off like that.

My other least favorite was HBP because I hated Harry/Ginny and I hate the whole love triangle between Ron, Hermione and Lavender. Sorry, but I don't like Hermione with either of the trio,a and if I had to choose between Harry and Ron to be with her, I would choose Harry. Though I did like that in HBP we got an insight on Draco and Voldemort. The Bellatrix and Narcissa moment at the beginning was nice too.

[heraldofdreams]

Favorite to least: Prisoner of Azkaban, Half-Blood-Prince, Sorcerer's Stone, Deathly Hallows, Order of the Phoenix, Chamber of Secrets.
Movie order: Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows 2, Sorcerers Stone, Deathly Hallows 1, Chamber, Goblet, Order and Prisoner.
The reason for Prisoner being my least favorite film? Same as why it's my favorite book! They severely messed this one up. Not only was the werewolf a laugh, the only right casting was David Thewlis for Remus (exactly what I thought!) Gary Oldman, while a great actor, is NOT the mental image I get for Sirius and it is so out of order that it's not even funny.

[mountaingirl777]

my least favorite book is PoA, my second least favorite is HBP. Why? They are both really drawn out and boring to me. All the other books have action in a lot of the chapters, these two don't until the last two to three chapters.

[voice-on-the-wind]

My least favorite is Goblet of Fire. I liked the story and everything in it, but for me, it seemed like the dynamics set up in the first three books suddenly shifted. And yes, I understand that a war started, and things get dark, and it had to happen that way, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Overall, it was just too dark, too soon, and I think it could have been just as good if certain things had been changed even slightly.

[Kitty279]

HBP, hands down. The whole Lavender/Ron and Hermione/McLaggen thing was grating on my nerves, Hermione throwing a fit about Harry using that book for potions and getting better grades than her was annoying, Dumbledore annoyed me with these fairy tale stories and giving Draco carte blanche to kill others ... is that enough explanation?

[unbeastly]

So it seems the only book safe so far seems to be Philosophers Stone.

[mkatl1]

Aug 4, 2012 5:36:17 GMT -5 unbeastly said:

So it seems the only book safe so far seems to be Philosophers Stone.

That one was one of my favorites , thAt and goblet of fire

[viralic1]

Philospher's Stone I enjoyed the most.

[Kitty279]

Prisoner of Azkaban HBP can't hold a candle to it.

[readingdeatheater]

CoS is the first of mine mainly because i hate lockhart for being such a idiot and because the whole school turns against harry for no reason. Half-Blood-Prince because Severus was cast as the villein

[scifychick812]

HBP because other than the first couple of paragraphs you don't see Harry actually mourning Sirius. Also the Harry/Ginny and Lavander/Ron/Hermoine makes me cring

[Chameleon]

My least favorite is Chamber of Secrets.

[dracosfairmaiden]

HBP was my least favorite. Nothing happened in it except for the last three chapters. Too much time was spent on Voldemort's past. I am one of the few to like Harry/Ginny but I hated the way it was written.

Before HBP came out, it was COS. COS was just boring to me. It felt very meh to me.

[eskimoRock]

I never felt like the chamber of secrets was all that important, because for quite a lot of the book it felt like an afterthought, while they put more focus on brewing the polyjuice potion than the actual attacks themselvevsa.

[melissar2]

HBP, hands down. The whole Lavender/Ron and Hermione/McLaggen thing was grating on my nerves, Hermione throwing a fit about Harry using that book for potions and getting better grades than her was annoying, Dumbledore annoyed me with these fairy tale stories and giving Draco carte blanche to kill others ... is that enough explanation?

The Harry/Ginny thing for me as well.
Second least favorite was OotP. Too much was piled up in this one. Puberty, the ministry targetting Harry, Dumbledore ignoring him, "remedial potions lessons", Voldemort manipulating him.... I kept waiting for Harry to snap. Add in Sirius dying and finding out the prophecy Dumbledore SHOULD have told Harry about long before that point, and I just was not happy with the book.

[Kitty279]

Aug 21, 2012 7:57:08 GMT -5 melissar2 said:

The Harry/Ginny thing for me as well.
Second least favorite was OotP. Too much was piled up in this one. Puberty, the ministry targetting Harry, Dumbledore ignoring him, "remedial potions lessons", Voldemort manipulating him.... I kept waiting for Harry to snap. Add in Sirius dying and finding out the prophecy Dumbledore SHOULD have told Harry about long before that point, and I just was not happy with the book.

That's exactly what I disliked about OotP and why it ruined the series for me. And you said what I always thought - there are people who complain that Harry was so moody, but IMO it's amazing that he was not much worse and lost it completely after everything - all this was on top of the graveyard incident, after all.

As for the prophecy, yes, Dumbledore should have told him long ago. Particularly as I wonder if it was even still valid, as you can read here. Not to mention that keeping Harry in the dark was leading to Sirius's death - something I still haven't forgiven either JKR nor Dumbledore for.

[eskimoRock]

I can kind of understand why dumbledore kept Harry in the dark though... There was the possibility that voldemort could see into his mind and find out everything, which would have jeopardised the whole Order. He could have handled it a bit better, granted, but I think he was just scared of letting Harry know what was going on, and because of that he got a bit too cautious.

[Kitty279]

Sure, but I still think he should have tried to find a better way to deal with the connection in the first place. Just because Dumbledore didn't know a way that doesn't mean there is none. And even without that, Voldemort knew about the prophecy, or rather, part of it. Would it have been so bad to tell Harry that there was one, and the part Voldemort knew and tell him that for security reasons because of the connection, they don't want to tell him the rest? And that they fear the connection could be used both ways? That would not have given Voldemort any new information, but it would have saved Harry all the anger and frustration about being treated like a child that can't be trusted with anything even after everything, it would have prevented him from trying to find out more (Dumbledore of all people should have known since first year that Harry would try to find out!!) and he would have been warned that Voldemort could have used the connection to lay a trap. In other words, it would have prevented the whole mess.

[eskimoRock]

Probably, yeah Part of it though is that Harry felt abandoned by dumbledore, but hat was necessary. The one time he looked at dumbledore before the department of mysteries he only didn't attack him because he was being taken away by port key.

[Kitty279]

And why could Dumbledore not tell him the why? He didn't need to look him in the eyes for that, right? Or asked someone else to explain it to him? But it would have saved Harry so much frustration and anger.