Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By J.K Rowling
Genre: Fantasy
THE AUTHOR: JK (Joanne) Rowling was born July 31 1965 in Yate, Glouchesterhire, England. She is best known for being the second richest female entertainer for her books on the Harry Potter Series. She has written 10 books and soon to be 11. Her Potter books won multiple awards and sold over 400 million copies worldwide.
THE STORY: It takes place in a magic castle called Hogwarts where students are taught how to control and use magic. The main character Harry is still recovering from the death of one of his friends Cedric. Who was killed by an evil wizard named Voldemort, who has risen back to power. The wizard government, the Ministry of Magic, in fear denies his return and covers up the facts. Thinking that the Headmaster Dumbledore is forming a wizard army to take over the ministry, They take over the school, forbid all magic, and send the headmaster to the wizard prison Azkaban. While the Ministry takes over Hogwarts, Voldemort is looking for a secret weapon hidden in the Ministry that will kill Harry. Harry must do whatever he can to stop the ministry and Voldemort.
Scholastic. 870 pages. $18.99.
CRITIQUE: One strength of this book is that it had a very good message to it. To always believe in the truth and what’s right. No matter how many times Harry got called a liar for the return of Voldemort he always stuck with the truth. He got shot down numerous times and just stuck with the facts.
Another strength of this book was the believability through use of imagery. J.K Rowling used her imagination of spell creation and mythical creatures she painted a whole new world of magic. She made the audience feel like they were a student at Hogwarts learning the magical ways. When Harry got attacked by dementors the author described how being in their presence sucked the happiness out of you. She described them as hooded black figures that would kill you with no reason at all.
My final strength of this book was the character development. Harry in the beginning was a mad about how no one believed the story on how Cedric got killed. He was angry at himself and everyone else for not being able to do anything about Voldemort or the Ministry. At the end he learned to accept Cedric’s death and the only thing that he could do now is to stop him from hurting anyone else.
The New York Times Book Review
Genre: Fantasy
THE AUTHOR: JK (Joanne) Rowling was born July 31 1965 in Yate, Glouchesterhire, England. She is best known for being the second richest female entertainer for her books on the Harry Potter Series. She has written 10 books and soon to be 11. Her Potter books won multiple awards and sold over 400 million copies worldwide.
THE STORY: It takes place in a magic castle called Hogwarts where students are taught how to control and use magic. The main character Harry is still recovering from the death of one of his friends Cedric. Who was killed by an evil wizard named Voldemort, who has risen back to power. The wizard government, the Ministry of Magic, in fear denies his return and covers up the facts. Thinking that the Headmaster Dumbledore is forming a wizard army to take over the ministry, They take over the school, forbid all magic, and send the headmaster to the wizard prison Azkaban. While the Ministry takes over Hogwarts, Voldemort is looking for a secret weapon hidden in the Ministry that will kill Harry. Harry must do whatever he can to stop the ministry and Voldemort.
Scholastic. 870 pages. $18.99.
CRITIQUE: One strength of this book is that it had a very good message to it. To always believe in the truth and what’s right. No matter how many times Harry got called a liar for the return of Voldemort he always stuck with the truth. He got shot down numerous times and just stuck with the facts.
Another strength of this book was the believability through use of imagery. J.K Rowling used her imagination of spell creation and mythical creatures she painted a whole new world of magic. She made the audience feel like they were a student at Hogwarts learning the magical ways. When Harry got attacked by dementors the author described how being in their presence sucked the happiness out of you. She described them as hooded black figures that would kill you with no reason at all.
My final strength of this book was the character development. Harry in the beginning was a mad about how no one believed the story on how Cedric got killed. He was angry at himself and everyone else for not being able to do anything about Voldemort or the Ministry. At the end he learned to accept Cedric’s death and the only thing that he could do now is to stop him from hurting anyone else.
The New York Times Book Review
“ As Harry gets older, Rowling gets better.... She has looted the shelves of literature and mythology, fairy tales and folklore, anthropology and comparative religion firing up a pop-culture crockpot and adding pratfalls word play and dread.... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is rich and satisfying.” JOHN LEONARD
Entertainment Weekly
“By the time we finish The Order of the Phoenix, with its extraordinary passages of fear and despair, the distinction between ‘literature’ has ceased to exist.... This is one series not just for the decade, but for the ages.” STEPHEN KING
“By the time we finish The Order of the Phoenix, with its extraordinary passages of fear and despair, the distinction between ‘literature’ has ceased to exist.... This is one series not just for the decade, but for the ages.” STEPHEN KING
USA Today
“You don’t have to be a wizard to appreciate the spell cast of Harry Potter” (NOT ATTRIBUTED)
“You don’t have to be a wizard to appreciate the spell cast of Harry Potter” (NOT ATTRIBUTED)
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