Best HP Book...

[gkgyver 1,645]

Goblet Of Fire.

It would be Order Of The Phoenix if it wasn't so damn long and sometimes tiring.

[SturgisPodmore 0]

Gambon is the best thing to happen to the HP movies IMO.

8O

~Sturgis

[ridan 0]

OOTP, by a mile. I find it the most interesting book of the series.

The thing I didn't like about HBP is that it mostly seemed like filler between Dumbledore's lessons. I know there were the subplots with Snape and Draco, but they seemd like thin threads in a sea of pointless prose.

[pixie_twinkle 48]

Gambon is the best thing to happen to the HP movies IMO.

~Sturgis

:nod: 8O 8O

Couldn't agree more! Finally we get the more cheeky and unpredictable Dumbledore of the books.

Interesting to see Goblet of Fire moving up the ranks here. I honestly think that GoF is a dry run for book 7. All the quests in the triwizard tournament are Harry's testing ground for the quests to find the horcruxes in book 7. I can't wait!

James - who prefers the action-packed GoF to either of the last two books.

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

By the way, Chamber, we still love you!

Ray Barnsbury - who feels bad for it

[Composer_Fan 2]

^Aww, that's pitiful, lol....

[Olivier 5]

Oops -- wrong Potter.

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

Good ol' Bea!

Ray Barnsbury

[Justin 2]

Pottersville??? No, no! This is Bedford Falls!

Justin

[Marian Schedenig 8,207]

It was a day like any other and Mr and Mrs Samuel Brainsample were a perfectly ordinary couple, leading perfectly ordinary lives - the sort of people to whom nothing extraordinary ever happened, and not the kind of people to be the centre of one of the most astounding incidents in the history of mankind ... So let's forget about them and follow instead the destiny of this man ... Harold Potter, gardener, and tax official, first victim of Creatures from another Planet.

Marian -

[pixie_twinkle 48]

Death Eaters have been seen on tennis courts all over England...practicing. They mean to win Wimbledon!!!

[Morlock 11]

By the way, Chamber, we still love you!

No we do not!

Morlock- who thinks that that book embodies every single bad thing about the series.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

By the way, Chamber, we still love you!

No we do not!

Morlock- who thinks that that book embodies every single bad thing about the series.

:?

[HPFAN_2 0]

Gambon is the best thing to happen to the HP movies IMO.

8O 8O

~Sturgis

:) 8O 8O

8O

[Justin 2]

Radcliffe's tits?

Justin

[Composer_Fan 2]

The director could've sent him to a fat-camp.....

[Docteur Qui 1,544]

Radcliffe's tits?

Justin

I agree about Gambon. I appreciated Sir Richard, but he really didn't communicate any of the character's energy, oddities and humour. It didn't seem like the characters felt safe and warm when he was in the room; his subdued nature rubbed off I think.

[Justin 2]

I wouldn't go that far. Harris emboded the loving wise old wizard of Dumbledore. The Dumbledore that counceled Harry. However, Gambon brings a power to the role that is essential for the later books.

Justin - Who thought Gambon should have had more scenes in PoA...

[Composer_Fan 2]

I think that there's a happy medium between Harris' somber wisdom and Gambon's funny energy that would embody Dumbledore. I'm happy with Gambon; they did a nice job on the transition between actors.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

They didn't transition anything, one actor croaked so they got another one, who they will keep unless he croaks too or asks to much money.

[pixie_twinkle 48]

British actors don't tend to ask as much as American ones. The Harry Potter films have wisely tended to stick with brits. That way they get great character actors (many from the RSC) for a fraction of the cost of US actors putting on dodgy English accents. I wonder how much money Don Cheadle got paid for butchering his role as the Brit in Oceans Eleven. If Gambon leaves the series I seriously doubt it will be because of money, and I really hope it isn't because of the other reason!

~James - Who thinks Gambon's crowning achievement was the 1986 miniseries The Singing Detective (NOT to be confused with the crappy movie version with Downey Jr).