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.

Too many drug references..the characters were mean.

This is one of the worst films I've ever seen. It is not appropriate for anyone under 18!

This is a great book. J K Rowling leaves you with a cliffhanger at the end of each chapter, so it's very hard to put down. There was one instance of an inappropriate word that I wouldn't want any of my children repeating. Otherwise I found it enjoyable to read & look forward to the time that my daughter can share this book with me.

Harry potter and the order of the phoenix (hpootp) is a really fun book for kids 8+. Sirius's death is sad, but im sure the author wouldn't have done it if it wasn't necessary to the plot. Butterbeer is not even really alchoholic. No-one other than elves actually get drunk off it. Great read!

I had to arm wrestle my kid to get the book away from him (I put him to bed early so I could read it when he slept) and now I look forward to reading it to him out loud. Remarkably, Rowling has not only sustained her characters but she has managed to make them appropriately complex and compelling. The book is a total page turner for adults as well as kids and her world remains a place that any adult who still loves fantasy will enjoy spending 800 pages. My regret is that it ended too soon. I cannot bear waiting another three years for the next one. I enjoy nothing more than these books.

This exciting tale is the best one yet and definitely my favorite book! I loved it sooo much I read it 12 hours straight! I can't wait to read the sixth!