[may not get to writing today because I’m going somewhere]

No limit Texas Hold’em is the best card game ever.

WARNING: SPOILERS.

I have to say, Harry Potter #5 was not as good as the others. Rowling put a lot of emphasis on the characters, which is good, but hardly enough emphasis on plot. The book really ambled along in the beginning. The course of one day taking up how many pages? At least it begins to pick up a little halfway through the book. Oh wait, but halfway is over 400 pages into it.

Towards the beginning, Rowling talks about how the classes are boring. I get enough of how classes are boring at school. I don’t need chapters on it. You talk about boring things and you’re going to bore your readers.

I still don’t know what a Squib is. I wished Rowling had written a little more backstory, and filled in the readers. Not everyone has the previous books to use as reference. (And some people are just too lazy to look it up.)

Oh, about knowing that someone dies, for a while, I thought for sure it was going to be Hagrid, but it didn’t look like it towards the end. So points for Rowling for not making it obvious.

It wasn’t all bad. I enjoyed it towards the end. Especially the bit with the Weasley twins and the battle at the end. (But can never compare to epic Yoda vs. Dooku.) I just think the book would’ve been much better if Rowling had compressed it to about 400 pages. A tighter book would’ve made a better read.

One final comment: That Umbridge puts me in mind of teachers at school. *shiver*