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Answer for question 4308.
Apr. 5th, 2015 09:48 pm[Error: unknown template qotd] PoA is my favorite of the books for a couple of reasons.
1) It's the first of the books I read without having seen the movie version of it beforehand, so I had no idea what would happen aside from being reasonably certain that Harry would not die in it.
2) While I don't really care for Quidditch much one way or the other, the end of the Cup with Wood and McGonagall weeping over finally winning? I cackle with delight each time. And I am forever pissed that I was denied this in the movie so we could have more "magic wands = masturbation, y/y?"
3) Lupin.
4) Harry's home life sucks and this is no secret. PoA ends with the thought that one day Sirius will have his name properly cleared and that Harry will go live with him (hell, maybe even without the name being cleared) and Harry will finally get to stay with someone who loves him. Sirius gives him permission to go off campus (and I tear up each time I read this) and then Harry gets to tell his nasty aunt and uncle all about his criminal godfather. Which ends the book on a laugh.
So PoA ends on a hopeful note and it's that particular note that makes the book my favorite.
It is also one of the many, many reasons I hate OotP.
I don't tend to compare the books and movies in a general way. I go case by case, and in this case, I think the book trumps the movie rather soundly.
I remember being excited to see PoA and even cautiously optimistic even as report after report came out that they were tweaking the book hardcore for the movie. Streamlining things, I think, was one of the kinder ways of looking at things. I'm not sure if I would have liked things more if PoA wasn't my favorite of the lot, though I did manage to enjoy both versions of GoF, and found that OotP was a better movie than a book in most respects. So it's entirely possible, but it's more likely that the movie was just a dud comparatively speaking.
1) It's the first of the books I read without having seen the movie version of it beforehand, so I had no idea what would happen aside from being reasonably certain that Harry would not die in it.
2) While I don't really care for Quidditch much one way or the other, the end of the Cup with Wood and McGonagall weeping over finally winning? I cackle with delight each time. And I am forever pissed that I was denied this in the movie so we could have more "magic wands = masturbation, y/y?"
3) Lupin.
4) Harry's home life sucks and this is no secret. PoA ends with the thought that one day Sirius will have his name properly cleared and that Harry will go live with him (hell, maybe even without the name being cleared) and Harry will finally get to stay with someone who loves him. Sirius gives him permission to go off campus (and I tear up each time I read this) and then Harry gets to tell his nasty aunt and uncle all about his criminal godfather. Which ends the book on a laugh.
So PoA ends on a hopeful note and it's that particular note that makes the book my favorite.
It is also one of the many, many reasons I hate OotP.
I don't tend to compare the books and movies in a general way. I go case by case, and in this case, I think the book trumps the movie rather soundly.
I remember being excited to see PoA and even cautiously optimistic even as report after report came out that they were tweaking the book hardcore for the movie. Streamlining things, I think, was one of the kinder ways of looking at things. I'm not sure if I would have liked things more if PoA wasn't my favorite of the lot, though I did manage to enjoy both versions of GoF, and found that OotP was a better movie than a book in most respects. So it's entirely possible, but it's more likely that the movie was just a dud comparatively speaking.