Around the World in 80 Books discussion

The series took the world by storm. Her first book, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, was real literary magic and enmeshed the reader. Her next two books were not that “magical”, but nevertheless still continued to enthrall the reader. Her balance four books were “ordinary” books. However, by then the reader was thoroughly hooked and continued to read till the very end of the very last chapter of the 7th novel.
I was one of those readers!

Harry Potter: Book or Movie?

The Harry Potter movies were magnificent and many came to know Harry Potter through them. Most of them never cared to read the books!
However, though I liked the movies, I liked the books much more. The "magic" of the books was not there in the movies. Moreover, it is difficult to condense in a movie all the stuff contained in a whole book.

Some of the Main Characters in the Series

Harry Potter is, of course, the hero of the series, the boy destined to finish off Lord Voldemort, the villain of the series.

Hermione Granger is the main heroine of the series. Though she comes from a "non-magical" family, she is a “know-all” of all things magical! Her knowledge of magic helps Harry a great deal in his quest to vanquish Lord Voldemort.

Ginny Weasley can also be termed a heroine of the series. She plays a vital role in the second book, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". And, of course, she eventually marries Harry Potter.

Ron Weasley is Harry’s best friend and takes part in all his adventures, together with Hermione Granger.


Draco Malfoy is a “villain” of the series. He baits Harry continually throughout school and then, as an adult, he becomes one of the "dark lord's" supporters. However, at the very end he does appear to repent of his ways.

I like them all, but I think that the last book in the series was superior to the movie. There was no need to make two movies out of it. It lost a lot of momemtum by doing it that way.

Rosemarie wrote: "I like them all, but I think that the last book in the series was superior to the movie. There was no need to make two movies out of it. It lost a lot of momemtum by doing it that way."

I actually think every book is superior to every movie (particularly talking about Harry Potter) but the worst movie of them all was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I mean, that book is freaking amazing, is one of the best, but the movie is so lowsy... I don't know.

Geraldine, they did leave out a lot of the plot in Half Blood Prince. The book was better, I agree.

Rosemarie wrote: "Geraldine, they did leave out a lot of the plot in Half Blood Prince. The book was better, I agree."

They left out everything :'v
But anyway, it has been a long time since that days went off...
I remember they changed the end of the seventh book