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I must say I was very disappointed while reading the 5th book about Harry Potter. From 1st to 3rd book I really enjoyed Rowling's style of writing and developing a plot. I never knew what's really important and in what way. But in the end it always surprised me how everything was connected (Rons rat comes to mind in part 2).
But 'The Order of Phoenix'... Full of useless information! Completely overstreched! Take a look at building Harry's character! I understand Harry is in puberty now and he acts like that. But to use 4 pages just to describe one simple event! Or his inability to calm down and shut his mouth... And Hagrid's tale comes to mind - in previous books Rowling would need 1 page to say it all, but here she used a whole chapter telling me about sleeping in caves and walking around at night. Useless. Or the fight with Death Eaters - way too long and appears more like a movie script than a book chapter. I could go on for quite some time now...
Everything really worth reading was Dumbledore's explanation at the end. And this is ingenious in my opinion because it gives another weight on some of the characters.
To sum it all up: Rowling's determination to write each book thicker than the one before backfired. She doesn't have enough to write in 750 pages. The proper amount of pages here would be 200 at most. She didn't introduce us to one single new creature that would be interesting. All in all, I get the feeling that I read 650 pages just so the author is keeping her promise and justifying the bigger price of the book. Well, no money out of my pocket. I hope next one will be more fun to read.