@Tony: Oh c'mon, Order of the Phoenix was the best of 'em by far.
Yep. It's not even close, IMO.
Ehhh idk Prisoner of Azkaban is still my favorite. The twist near the end with Sirius, Remus, and Peter is still one of my favorite moments on the series.
Agreed. Plus, Buckbeak's rescue from death coinciding and converging with Sirius' own escape, plus the novel's ending leaving you (and Harry) with some hope for the first time in his life that he had a family member who cared for him, was kind of a tear jerker tbh.
Order of the Phoenix was the worst for featuring a whiny brat main character, and then dashing all of the aforementioned hope re: Sirius.
Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite as well but I don't really think Harry's behavior in OotP is as much of a rap against it as a lot of fans seem to. It's not a great portrayal of what he's supposedly going through, but it's not the unmitigated disaster it could have been.
Also, I never really got the appeal of Sirius...
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