[Kitana85]

I finished the book the day after it was released. I thought it was great, don't get me wrong, but it really ISN'T a 800+ page book. There are huge spaces between the lines, and very large margins, I understand this is for younger children, but it is quite misleading. Indeed, shorter books such as Jane Eyre and Crime and Punishment have taken me much longer to read.

I love Harry Potter, I agree this book was not as good, and I could see no plausable reason to kill off the character she did... it was a useful character, in fact, the only one that really gave Potter a personality. Dumbledore has become more of a father figure though.

Truth be told, this book was "slightly" to long and combersome to serve as a "bridge" between the last book and the next, which is, for all intents and purposes, all that it did.

It was good, I'm glad I bought it, but it certainly could have been better... can't wait for the next one though!