I was really looking forward to this book and was a little disapointed with the way it was writtien. First of all Harry is alway angry. He thinks everyone is against him. He is yelling at everyone at his teachers, friends and supporters. He, once again, doesn't ask for help from Dumbledor. Harry feels everyone is against him. This gets old fast. He also gets punished by not being able to do a lot of his favorite things. Harry gets his first kiss, but it wasn't handled correctly. The book tries to deal with it in a non romantic way and it makes Harry look like he didn't really want to kiss the girl but felt he had to. Some parts of the book are interesting. Snape teaches Harry how to block thoughts and Harry gets to go into Snapes darkest feelings. Harry learns that his parents were not as perfect as he thought they were. It's an interesting twist, since he has only heard only positive things about his parents. Someone close to Harry dies in the book. Harry had a lot of questions that he wanted to ask them which will now remained unanswered. The Weasly twins were great in this book. They had a lot of neat jokes and stunts that they were pulling. Overall, it's the same formula. Harry doesn't trust any of the adults and doesn't go to them for help. The kids need to fight evil in the end and come out victorious. Also I felt there were too many characters for kids to follow. She also doesn't give any introduction of what happened in the previous book. Kids will need to get updated themsleves. I still gave the book a 3 star rating. It was interesting and took me less that 24 hours to read.