Favorite HP books?

[Captain oats 13]

I was wondering what's everyones favorite HP book and their book order according to their favorites...

[Helen Weasley]

My favorites go HBP, DH, GoF, CoS, OotP, PS, PoA. The first three are really quite tied. I love HBP, GoF, and DH pretty equally.

[Manon]

My list:

HBP
DH
GoF
CoS
OotP
PoA
PS

=D

But the last 3 are like, equal

[Captain oats 13]

Wow!! My favorites are extremely different! :lol: I find that interesting...

POA
DH
GOF
HBP
PS
OOTP
COS

[*Twinkle*]

Hmmm... I think my faves are

DH
HBP
GOF
OotP
PS
PoA
CoS

[danyjoncew]

HBP/DH/GoF
CoS
OotP/PoA
PS

Wow, Manon, looks like we're HP twins :lol:.

[Manon]

thats so cool! =D

[danyjoncew]

Yeah, let's elope and get married. Seriously though, I'm surprised some people hate HBP and find OotP to be the best book. Whaaat? And PoA is pretty popular too, which is nice, but the books got so much more eventful, relevant and continuous after GoF. I can't compare the PoA plot to HBP, for example, so much more happens in HBP!!!

[Helen Weasley]

I like HBP better cause it's just so interesting, with all the horcruxes and everything....It was the first book where I was like "oooohhh....I GET it now....Voldie's never known love and he's tearing his soul apart! it all makes sense now!"
Not to mention it's the one where all the good romances start up. :)

[Captain oats 13]

HBP has amazing plot stuff, but there is something about POA I absolutely adore. Learning about the Marauders for the first time, the beginning with Marge is a classic, the by far the best Quidditch parts, the time turner...ahhh!! I adore POA.

I had a hard time choosing if GOF or HBP was higher on my list... I decided on GOF cause I read the climax of that one a teeny bit more.

I did enjoy reading COS more than I did OOTP, but I find during that long-ass book it has better single moments (Snape's worst memory, "give her hell, peeves, etc),so I put it a spot higher.

[Helen Weasley]

There's definitely parts of OotP that I kinda fall asleep during...and I don't know what it is about PoA...but I've never found that one all that entertaining. Sometimes when I read the books, I kinda just start with the fourth one and go from there. It's how I first started the books, actually. GoF was the first one I ever read.

[BellaBlack]

Well for me:
DH
OOTP
POA
HBP
GOF
SS
COS

But the last four are pretty tied :lol:

[zealousheart]

:lol:, Bella I remember we did this before and you and I were the only one's who liked OOTP.

Mine is like DH/OOTP OOTP due to all the DA and kid!power stuff, DH because it was epic and the end and everything worked out and totally exciting. Followed by hmm...probably SS cause it's the first one and then HBP/GOF cause of all the romance. And then POA. Which I never loved. But do like all the flashback stuff. And COS last because it doesn't stand out, though I still love it. Aw poor COS is unloved.

[BellaBlack]

haha really I don't remember Beth :lol: I do know I was one of few who liked OOTP but glad to know I'm not alone.

[Captain oats 13]

I liked OOTP, I would just never put it high on my list. Too long and too much Umbridge.

[BellaBlack]

I like the rebellious teen stuff as well. Plus it's the first real dark book that shows how the series has changed. However I could do without some of Umbridge and Harry's angst.

[Cilla]

Okay uhm...
DH
GoF
OotP
HbP
PoA
CoS
PS

I think...

[zealousheart]

:lol: I know Cilla it's so hard!

I actually even liked the Harry angst because it showed he was human. And I liked Umbridge because it incited the rebellious teen stuff. My favorite part in any HP book ever continues to be Career Advice...and into the next chapter I forget what it's called where McGonnagal tells Umbridge off and helps unscrew the chandelier and Lee Jordan puts Nifflers in her office and all sorts of students do all sorts of things.

[Cilla]

Yeah, I did like the DA stuff in OotP, a lot. but the part BEFORE they get to Hogwarts is too long, imo.
and the Umbridge rebellion is just too good.

[Captain oats 13]

Actually the Harry angst is one of my favorite parts of OOTP! :lol: With everything he went through, Harry was bound to crack, and I am glad that he did.

I am still so mad at the OOTP movie for not showing the amazing office part with Dumbledore. :(

[zealousheart]

Exactly, before that he seemed so perfect. That showed he was real.

I know! Just saw the OOTP movie and they left out a lot. But I'm madder about the QUIDDITCH and Weasley is Our King and Fred/George/Harry/Draco fight.

[BellaBlack]

Well I was annoyed by him yelling at Ron and Hermione sometimes. Otherwise I thought the angst was due for, after Cedric. I'm sad they left out the destroying Dumby's office scene too.

[Danizinha]

This is haaaaard!!

I think it goes:

PoA
GoF
HBP
OotP
DH
PS
CoS

I think so. The order of some of them changes constantly :lol:

[Captain oats 13]

YAY!!! someone who loves POA like me!!!! :lol:

I was kinda upset when Harry was yelling at Ron and Hermione too, (Though the first time was kinda called for in my opinion), but after JKR explained that he thinks of Ron and Hermione as his family and it's so true that you seem to take our your anger on the people you love most.

[Danizinha]

YAY!!! someone who loves POA like me!!!! :lol:

I was kinda upset when Harry was yelling at Ron and Hermione too, (Though the first time was kinda called for in my opinion), but after JKR explained that he thinks of Ron and Hermione as his family and it's so true that you seem to take our your anger on the people you love most.

Wohoooo. High five :lol:

[zealousheart]

That's very true.

I need to reread POA. I read it when I was really young and I didn't get it at all, in subsequent reads I understood it but I still don't think I was old enough to really get all the flashback stuff, which may be the reason for it never stood out to me. If only I could just read HP books all day. :)

[Helen Weasley]

On really slow days at work...I can read HP all day. and get paid for it. But it's still really busy right now. :(
I need to read OotP again. It's been too long since I had a good laugh over Umbridge.

[Captain oats 13]

I think the one I need to re-read is HBP, funny enough. I haven't read that one in sooo long!!!

[BellaBlack]

I am trying to reread the whole series before college starts and I have failed. I go back in about 2 weeks and I am still on OOTP :lol: :(

[zealousheart]

:lol: you can do it Bella, just have a marathon!

We should have like a reading group and all pledge to read our least-read HP book.

[heroesgirl]

Poa, hbp, dh, ootp, ss, gof, cos

[chicagoaudra]

I think my order is:
OotP
DH
HbP
GoF
CoS
PoA
PS
but this is soley based on how good I thought they were when I first read them, rather than what I think now...

[la_ny]

i like them all :) oop was a little slow for me though

[Wanderer]

I'd put GoF at the top of my list right now, but I really need to re-read them again all in a row to be sure.

[alison3001]

my favorites are in order:

Deathly Hallows
Goblet of Fire
Half Blood Prince
Prisoner of Azkaban
Chamber of Secrets
Order of the Phoenix
Sorcerer's Stone