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Why is Chamber of Secrets Nobody's Favorite?

chloe from Pomer... chloe from Pomerania View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 10:28 PM Post #1
Eeylops Owl Cage Cleaner Posts: 242 Joined: 9:14pm April 4, 2006	Now i am curious -- an inordinate number of people say CoS is their least favorite book? Why is that? I am curious if the reasons are the same because there is certainly consensus that it is almost everyone's least favorite...(I for one love it if only for the fact it is at the end of CoS that DD says "It is our choices that make us who we are.") -------------------- [/img]

hpboy13 View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 10:45 PM Post #2
Gringotts Dragon Tamer Posts: 1,926 Joined: 1:57pm May 20, 2006 Location: Probably at a Harry Potter fansite!	I really like CoS, but it's my 5th favorite (last goes to OotP). I think it's not anybody's favorite because nothing spectacular happens in it. No humongous elaborate plot, no ultra-cool characters appear. Maybe it's the lack of Hermione. I honestly don't know. -------------------- Hurrah for censorship! Apparently I'm not allowed to say that I wasn't allowed to say something in my sig. Point is, PM me if you wanna know why I've stopped posting.

sdcurtis View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 10:59 PM Post #3
Disgruntled House-Elf at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 419 Joined: 4:30pm March 12, 2006	I think this book and book 6 are my favorites because there is so much background information. CoS because of the founders and HBP because of the history of Voldemort. --------------------

helyx View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 11:04 PM Post #4
Shopping the sales rack at Madam Malkins Posts: 2,536 Joined: 1:36pm August 4, 2006 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe	For me it's hard to place one book over another. I just look at the Harry Potter Books like the Lord of the Rings: It's one complete storyline. I think people will later n time start to think of the Harry Potter Series as a whole. Since many of us have waited for books to come, or had the advantage to read 4 books at one go (like I did) - then it does give you a different perspective on preferences. Cheers, Helyx This post has been edited by helyx: Feb 1 2007, 11:04 PM

Carlotta Pinksto... Carlotta Pinkstone View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 11:07 PM Post #5
Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 33 Joined: 10:41pm January 8, 2007	I love CoS. Its not my favorite, but I don't have a favorite. I think some don't like it as much because it appeals more to younger people. I think older readers find so much more in later books that they overshadow CoS Still, its very suspensefull, and very intense at the end, and hugely significant for the series as a whole. And it introduces Dobby, how could you not love that?

redshelle74 View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 11:32 PM Post #6
Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 135 Joined: 2:49pm January 5, 2007 Location: Tessering through space and time.	CoS, just doesn't stand out in my mind. I know it gives a lot of info and brings out Dobby (I love him) I guess it just doesn't "move" me like the rest of the books. I don't know how to explain it. Sorry. -------------------- "I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the most of, the more you give away?" "Oh, love, I suppose." A wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

stewiegryf View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 11:40 PM Post #7
Gambol and Japes' Research Department Posts: 1,365 Joined: 7:01pm January 27, 2006 Location: Sneaking food from the kitchens	The reason it seems to be the least favorite is, as pointed out above, nothing spectacular happens in it. SS introduces the entire world of Harry Potter and the characters in it. PoA brings in Sirius and the rest of the Marauders as well as the major plot twists in it. GoF sees the return of Voldemort. OotP has the DA, the Battle in the Ministry and the prophecy. HBP has lots of new information about Voldemort's childhood and the battle at Hogwarts. Compared to all that, CoS is not as action-packed and most of the information it gives us is more setting up things to come later. Most of what we learn in CoS aren't stand out, jaw-dropping things. I will say this, though. After reading CoS in the Reading Groups here on the Lounge, most people agreed that there was a lot more to this book and held a deeper liking for it than before we started reading. -------------------- You got no time for the messenger, Got no regard for the thing that you don't understand. You got no fear of the underdog, That's why you will not survive.

lydsr View Member Profile	Feb 2 2007, 05:50 AM Post #8
Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 277 Joined: 7:58am January 9, 2007	i think for me, its not my fav cos there are a couple of chapters i dont really like... cos and ootp are the only two books where i skip chapters on re reads... it is however one of my fav 'possesions' as i have a signed first copy. -------------------- www.ljrjewellery.com

dagamma View Member Profile	Feb 2 2007, 06:06 AM Post #9
Buying a Half-Kneazle Posts: 542 Joined: 7:51pm July 16, 2005 Location: Singing a heartbreaking serenade in front of Snape's door	It's too young-targeted for me. You would say Philosopher's Stone was even more young-targeted, but it's not the same: it was the first one, my first contact with the HP universe and that was enough to make it, well, magic. -------------------- [Sorry for my english, it's not my mother tongue] "The Bravest Man I Ever Knew" The Prince's Tale Video: Caution! Addictive. I'm not the author: Phoenixproductions05's work.

Oli View Member Profile	Feb 2 2007, 06:07 AM Post #10
Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 163 Joined: 5:33pm January 4, 2006 Location: Trying to find my own Ginny	I liked CoS, especially the moment when Harry and the others step into McGonagall's office after he saved Ginny from the chamber. A wonderfull moment right there and it gives me the chills everytime I read it. The return of Hagrid from Azkaban is also one of those moments that I just love reading. -------------------- "That's the second time we've saved your life tonight you two faced b------!!"