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The disaster that was HBP 
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Shadowwolf
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I think the reason I dislike HBP so much has more to do with the disaster that was TDH rather than HBP itself. I was very much expecting the Harry that we loved (or, rather, didn't hate) for five books to be back in TDH. I was expecting Harry to try and reconcile where the heck HBP!Harry came from. To me, HBP was Harry (not to mention a few other characters) hitting rock bottom, and TDH was to show him trying to claw his way back out of the hole he dug.

HBP had it's good points, but it was surrounded by poor quality, plot holes, and terribly sudden personality changes, which overrode the rest of the story.
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For me, the main reason I was dissapointed with HBP is that OotP had set up so many interesting possibilities: House Unity, The Sextet, House-Elf Rights, Grawp, and of course, Harry's intriguing relationship with Luna. HBP was written as though none of this had taken place -- it really felt as though JKR had handed off the writing of the books to a fan who decided to do a not-so-subtle 180 and ignore much of what had preceded it, it was that jarring. The unrealistic personality transformations (with few exceptions) weren't particularly appealing, either.

All in all, HBP was the perfect manifestation of Promise Unfulfilled -- OotP set the reader up for some really wonderful things, which, in the end, was thrown aside to make room for a few rolls in the proverbial hay....
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