Seen the movies, read all about it in wiki, spells, names, locations, plot, everything, and still i see it as a children's book. For some reason im against fashions, and HP is fashionable nowadays.. so I dont read it... never liked it. I think its an OK idea for a book, or series of books, but i just feel the great creativity that JKR is credited with, just isnt there. I mean, what i can't stand, is all these "coincidences" in names mostly. Examples being: the professor for herbology is called Sprout... a guy named Sirius Black turns into a black dog, Sirius being a star in the Canis Major constelation, so basically he's "black dog". Family gone bad, called "malfoy"... Mal being evil in some latin languages. A "severe" teacher, named "Severus". The werewolf is called Lupin, Lupus being latin for Wolf. A girl called Luna turns out to have a dreamy personality, Luna meaning Moon...
Dont even get me started with the spells which apart from being poorly named, dont follow any kind of logic.

To me its just too many coincidences to make it realistic. Aaaaaaaand thats why i say HP is a badly executed idea.

ozzy72 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2007 at 11:55am:


BLASPHEMY!!!!     

Now,  somebody mentioned about the "wiki"resource... tell you the truth I wish I hadn´t done it. Now, there is no element of surprise...

Anyway, in my family, both me and my wife LOVE the movies (don´t have any of the books).... and my kids get bored with it... Guess they are the "mature" members of the family!     

As for the names and spells, I guess that opinions are like belly buttons, everybody has one, but I personally think that even though they are VERY obvious, they are also clever.

Cheers!


Frank.