Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter (Analysis of Book 5)

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The book talked a lot about running bits and was a little annoying to keep reading. I wish it was more like the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter analysis of books 1-4. This book wasn't as fun or as interesting to read.

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This is Galadriel Waters and friends' take on the FIFTH book--not the most recent entry--in the Harry Potter series. Unlike the first volume, which analyzed the first four books by raising questions and then answering them, this one provides few answers--but plenty of provocative questions. There are frequent references to another JK Rowling book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and I suggest you have it with you as you read.Each chapter is analyzed in light of things that have happened earlier (in the first four books as well as this one). Wordplay is one of the main "clues" Waters investigates; she's certainly found puns and anagrams that I had overlooked, although I think at times she may be seeing word clues that aren't really there. Nonetheless, she has obviously put a great deal of hard work into this area of the book. She also has some interesting hints on what may have been going on at 12 Grimmauld Place that the characters overlooked.The last section, Book 6 and Beyond, was the most interesting to me. Here are analyses about the strategic positions at the end of Order of the Phoenix, discussions of possible character participation in the next book, Half-Blood Prince, as well as of the prophecy and Frequently Asked Questions.

I don't know whether it's because this analysis is coming out 2 years after book 5 was published, or maybe because I read the "New Clues" book and this is simply redundant; but I didn't particularly enjoy this book as much as I did when I read the Guide to books 1-4.I loved the first Guide because of its analyzation, but this one took it a little too far. Consider the fact that the first guide covered 4 books in about 400 pages, and this guide covered just book 5 in about 300 and you'll understand my point.Everything was a "running bit" which we were supposed to "keep our eyes open" for, but seriously a lot of the "hints" were just overanalyzation of the text. There were so many "running bits" that I'm quite surprised that the word "and" wasn't pointed out as one. It got quite irritating after awhile. The only thing that was more irritating than the "running bits" was the constant mention of the Hintoscope/Sneakoscope whirring, blinking, screeching etc.The author also seems incapable of leaving well enough alone. Even after JKR has dismissed several rumors (Snape being a vampire, a Lupin/James switch, Mark Evans being a significant character) the author is still trying to support these ideas--hoping, I guess, that JKR is trying to deceive her fan base.If you have the "New Clues" Guide already then don't waste your money buying this as well. If your stumped by some of her elusive suggestions which she presented in it then you can always go to the website she gives on the back of the book where other fans have worked out the answers to the clues. Either way, if you've read book 6 already you'll see that your way beyond this analysis in that you will already know what was an accurate hint and what was merely an overanalyzation. That fact alone might make the reading of this new guide a bit tedious for you.

Mir hat dieses Buch ebenso wie sein Vorgänger sehr gefallen. Es ist zwar schade, dass in diesem kaum noch Zitate enthalten sind, aber die Gedanken und Theorien der Autoren zu den einzelnen Kapiteln des Romans sind immer noch sehr interessant zu lesen. Wie auch in den anderen Teilen gibt es auch hier eine Sektion, die sich mit der Handlung von "Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix" beschäftigt und eine weitere, in der Vermutungen über den weiteren Verlauf der Serie angestellt werden. Auch wenn inzwischen alles aufgeklärt ist, finde ich es dennoch faszinierend, die Theorien von damals zu durchdenken.

Un livre qui analyse Harry Potter très finement, et vous permet de relire les tome avec un regard neuf. 4 règles de lecture incontournables, une panoplie d'outils et un vrai plaisir au final, pour lire Harry Potter tel qu'on ne l'a jamais lu. J'ai découvert cet auteur sur le forum Moldunet il y a quelques années, et l'ai acheté aussitôt. Le livre est composé ainsi: un résumé d'un bout de chapitre, une analyse de cet extrait, puis on avance dans le chapitre, et analyse, etc. 400 pages de bonheur, ça en vaut la peine. Pur plaisir pour les Potteriens anglophones ! Dommage qu'il ne soit pas sorti en Français...!