... by J.K. Rowling, are fantasy novels filled with witches wizards and mythical creatures. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2003) is about Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Over the summer holiday his friends Ron and Hermione have been very inspecific in their letters and Harry is dying to get back and find out why they were being so secretive ... . Harry is unaware that what he may find out could possibly change his world ... detail equally well so that you can imagine what they would look like in your head. In the book there is a vast array of ...

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... reason the movie doesn't live up to the quality of the novel is the fact that some notable characters from the book we're omitted from the film. Among the characters who are noticeably absent are two house elves; Dobby, who is introduced in a previous Harry Potter novel and Winky, who's a character in the book, but never appears in the movie. Although the movie ... 's disappearance in the film makes it possible for Barty Crouch Jr. to become more important. Winky is supposed to have a major role in this work, but she is denied in order to make Barty Crouch Jr. more significant. The film ...

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... I agree with this in saying the book is much better than the movie. This movie was highly anticipated by moviegoers. Shawn Fitzgerald writes, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the much-anticipated film adaptation of the first of the J.K. Rowling's literary blockbusters, is the ultimate example of Hollywood ... characters" (par 1). This shows how one movie can be different to everyone who watches it. To me I would have to agree with the Fitzgerald review. I personally thought that that the movie was over rated, however, this opinion is brought by the fact I have read the book. To...

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... Fire. The author is J.K. Rowling. The setting of the story is in England at a school for wizards called Hogwarts. There are three main characters, Harry Potter; Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry is a skinny boy with dark brown hair (which is always messy) and glasses. Ron is the youngest boy in a family of five, ... "Mudblood". This means that she is a wizard whose parents are not magical. She however is a very talented wizard. The story is basically all about Harry. He attends Hogwarts School of Wizardry, which is located far away from the rest of civilization, (the Muggles). When...

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... the meanings of them are not hard to guess. Comprehensive sketches of characters are introduced. You can actually figure out what sort of feeling each of them had, say miserable, ambivalent, anxious, agitated, and remorseful. In this book, Harry Potter demonstrated an adolescent sensation: immature, curious, rebellious, but kind-hearted ... world seemed chaotic and confusing. The Ministry of Magic refused all facts, while Professor Albus Dumbledore had to set up the Order of Phoenix against the Dark Lord. Harry, the target of the devils, was to encounter more than he could imagine. Befor...

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