So, PoA is the short answer, the easy answer, and mostly the full answer. I'll really say probably the first three, though. I love all of them, or I wouldn't be here, but the first three are when Harry and company are still young, so the books aren't as heavy. I understand that they grew with him, but I liked the lighter tone and more playful moments in between where everything wasn't just gloom, doom and everyone is going to die soon.
As for PoA specifically, I could go the easy route and say it's the book that gave us the boys, and that's true, and a large part of it. But it's also the book with the most detail about classes and exams. We get details about Hogwarts, we get introduced to Hogsmead, there's just a lot of Wizarding culture in that book. Hagrid gets to be a teacher! It just gives us a lot of the good things that help carry through the darker stuff later.
The movies? I haven't seen them. I've seen small snippets of the first three, but that's as far as that goes. I was so put off by some of the decisions made (costumes... the costumes killed me... how do you make all the Muggle clothes jokes if they wear Muggle clothes!!! A lot of the incidental humor was going to go away that way.) that I couldn't make myself sit through them. Now that I'm more patient and could probably watch and enjoy them I rarely have the time for movies anymore.
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Date: 2017-11-29 01:14 pm (UTC)As for PoA specifically, I could go the easy route and say it's the book that gave us the boys, and that's true, and a large part of it. But it's also the book with the most detail about classes and exams. We get details about Hogwarts, we get introduced to Hogsmead, there's just a lot of Wizarding culture in that book. Hagrid gets to be a teacher! It just gives us a lot of the good things that help carry through the darker stuff later.
The movies? I haven't seen them. I've seen small snippets of the first three, but that's as far as that goes. I was so put off by some of the decisions made (costumes... the costumes killed me... how do you make all the Muggle clothes jokes if they wear Muggle clothes!!! A lot of the incidental humor was going to go away that way.) that I couldn't make myself sit through them. Now that I'm more patient and could probably watch and enjoy them I rarely have the time for movies anymore.