I finally finished reading the Harry Potter series

[NotStan]

Mordred11 said:

NotStan said:
I thought movies didn't do the books much justice and have stopped watching them after the Goblet of Fire, Prisoner of Azkaban was particularly atrocious to me.

As books they are OK - better than most but not the best to me.

Film wise it's just too mainstream, oversimplified, and in some cases parts of the plot are missing - otherwise the films would have been extensively long, more of an entertainment than story telling.

Although there are fantasy books that I rate higher than Potter, it's still good to see an author of a BOOK garner this much success in such a short time.

That's pretty ironic,since most of the fans consider PoA to be the best HP movie after DH2.And I'm one of them .

I can't recall EXACTLY which bits were missing, but I've re-read the book a few weeks before I watched the movie, and I just remember myself sighing and facepalming after certain things were altered or missing.

Again, I haven't read the series in the long time, and I think I've borrowed DH a week after it came out, read it in few days and gave it back