(Spoilers) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[Crothian]

So, for over 4 years Snape has really wanted the Defensae of the Drak Arts job. Book 5 comes along and Dumbledore can't find anyone to fill the posistion? Shouldn't somebody have wondered whjy Snape didn't get or even seem to want the job all of a sudden?

 

[drothgery]

If there isn't a very good reason for Dumbledore failing to give the Defense Against the Dark Arts job to Snape[1], whether he wants it or not, I'll be very disappointed with Rowling. The man's not very likeable, but he is on the right side, and he's more than competent.

[1] Potions experts being difficult to find is not good enough. A poor potions teacher hurts the students a lot less than a poor Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Maybe potion-making gets a lot more practical use than the DAtDA courses?

 

[kkoie]

Wow what a great book! I couldn't put it down... how I wish the next one takes only a year to write, but I'm betting it will be about as long a wait as this last one. Who knows...

 

[blackshirt5]

Actually, IIRC it took so long to bring this book out because somebody slapped her with a lawsuit claiming that they created the HP characters and story, and that she just ripped off it.

 

[kengar]

Actually, IIRC it took so long to bring this book out because somebody slapped her with a lawsuit claiming that they created the HP characters and story, and that she just ripped off it.

I thought it was because of her time-commitment to the films.

 

[drothgery]

I thought it was because of her time-commitment to the films.

That, and that Order of the Phoenix is 870 pages long (at least in the US hardcover).

I'd feel really guilty about giving a ten-year-old a copy of Sorcerer's Stone; a pre-teen can probably handle the first three books, but I can't imagine there are many people who would finish a book the size of Goblet of Fire or Order of the Phoenix before high school.

 

[kengar]

That, and that Order of the Phoenix is 870 pages long (at least in the US hardcover).

I'd feel really guilty about giving a ten-year-old a copy of Sorcerer's Stone; a pre-teen can probably handle the first three books, but I can't imagine there are many people who would finish a book the size of Goblet of Fire or Order of the Phoenix before high school.

Just because a high proportion of the people on this thread are nutty enough to stay up all night reading to finish it in a sitting doesn't mean one HAS to. I think a chapter or two per night of OoPh is quite do-able by an 11-12 year old. It may take them a couple weeks to finish, but there's nothing wrong with that.

 

[Tsyr]

I was assigned The Hobbit for a book report in 4th grade, and read LotR of my own volition in 6th...

There are a lot of kids out there that read a lot better than a lot of people give them credit for.

Of course, granted, I also knew plenty of people who, in highschool, still had to sound out very simple words.

*shrug*

 

[drothgery]

I was assigned The Hobbit for a book report in 4th grade, and read LotR of my own volition in 6th...

There are a lot of kids out there that read a lot better than a lot of people give them credit for.

I'm just thinking that anyone who starts the series after Rowling finishes it would try to read all seven in the same year, and that lots of kids who'd have no trouble with Sorcerer's Stone would never get through Order of the Phoenix. While each book is presumably targetted at someone Harry's age in that book, there's a huge jump in length and complexity between Prisoner of Azkhban and Goblet of Fire.