Book Review - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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I've seen the movie a couple times and watched it again tonight to compare to the book I just finished. No comparison. As I've seen before with the other books I've read, followed by the movie, the movie appears to be a trailer for the book. The Order of the Phoenix is 870 pages and I've been told there are some among you who have read this book in a matter of days. My son read it in one day. I don't know how he did that. I'm a slow reader, it took me a couple months to read it. However, the book is a page turner and hard to put down. Harry and his cousin are set upon by dementors at the beginning of the book, and Harry performs a patronis curse in the presence of a muggle. Whereupon Harry must attend a hearing for practicing under-age sorcery and could find himself expelled from Hogwarts. There are a lot of twists and turns in this story, and you really find yourself hating Professor Umbridge with every fiber of your being, right from the very moment she appears in the hearing. This story has everything - giants, centaurs, and the Weasly twins up to their own high jinx. And you cannot leave out the main character - Lord Voldemort. How Professor Umbridge goes from being the Undersecretary of the Ministry to a lowly professor of the Dark Arts, to High Inquisitor, to Headmistress and demoted and thrust from Hogwarts is in itself worth reading. Author J.K. Rowling is at her best as usual in this book that takes you from #4 Privet Drive to #12 Grimmauld Place to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter isn't alone as he faces Lord Voldemort - his friends - Ron and Hermione, along with Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasly, Cho Chang, and Luna Lovegood all back him up. It's a great book and I give it a thumb's up and 5 stars. If you have only watched the movies, I highly recommend you read the books. There is so much more for you to experience. Thanks for reading.