Half Blood Prince

Badly done Harry/Ginny. Ginny becoming "the new Cho Chang," that being the popular girl, Quidditch ace, most desired female at Hogwarts, and the one Harry pines over like a lovesick puppy.
Dumbledore being disarmed by Malfoy, killed by Snape. Malfoy outwitting Dumbledore with the Vanishing Cabinets.
Ron/Hermione/Lavender love triangle was just horrid.
Slughorn. He was a totally irritating character that the book would have been better off without. All of his "parties" fell into the same pile as Quidditch matches and Potions lessons, that being complete filler for when Rowling has nothing better to write about.
Harry being mediocre.
Harry being "Dumbledore's man through and through."

Deathly Hallows

Harry killing Voldemort by casting Expelliarmus.
The epilogue.
Molly Weasley killing Bellatrix.
Snape's pensieve memories
Ron imitating parsletounge.
Snape's death.
Harry was so pathetic in the book.
Harry saving Malfoy.
The Kings's cross scene.

Which is worse?

 

Well... I enjoy both quite a bit. They aren't the best books but they're good, and I like them. Not as much as some fics, but it still remains that I like them.

Also your sig is too long, 5 lines or less bub.

 

I felt that the DH was a better read than the half-baked plot and romance in HBP even though it has elements of Deux Ex Machina in it.

HBP on the other hand was interesting in the portions where Tom Riddle's dark past is explored in detail.

If it's a vote, I'd vote for DH as the better book of the two for a single reason-' It had Grindelwald in it'

 

HBP was worse. My biggest issue with DH is that a few key plot elements had not been previously established or even hinted at. However, HBP should have been the book to establish any key plot elements hitherto unestablished so you could argue that this is more a fault with HBP. DH might not have given you the ending you hoped for, but at least it put a cap on the series, so at least it did its job.

 

Are you trying to present those lists as facts? Because most of the entries there are clearly subjective.

I voted Half-Blood Prince, though neither book was my favorite in the series. I feel like Half-Blood Prince had a lot more wasted opportunities.

 

Shut your whore mouth, the King's Cross scene was epic. (the one featuring dead!Dumbledore)

 

I feel like every topic you post is an attempt at appealing to what you percieve as DLP's collective opinion.

Or maybe it's just 3 AM and I'm irritable.

 

How the hell is that epic? Its basically Harry reverting to child mode and letting Dumbledore provide answers instead of figuring it out for himself.

 

I'm struggling to remember the name of one of Taure's threads. This one had to do with stages an HP fanfiction reader goes through.
Go read that. Read the books again. Then read more (good) fanfiction. You need to shake the stupid out of you.

 

Each to their own. I absolutely hated that scene.

 

Abouth the 6, I liked Slughorn a little, but I felt that his parties had amazing potential, only to be wasted as fillers. Ginny/Harry was retarded, when I was a dumb kid I liked her a lot, then I met DLP found a brain and learned to just hate her and love the bomb. Ron/Lavender was believable, Hermione's reaction, not. Then Lav become the crazy ho. Harry was mediocre and that annoyed me, but no more than in OOTP.

I agree with Republic21, the King Cross scene was awesome, but no need to get this annoyed, both of you, really. Snape pensieve memories were meh, the other points? Such utter bulshit was Ron's parseltongue, a very annoying asspull. The epilogue to me, was JK way to show how Harry became the ultimate mundane and boring high middle class person. Yay. Molly killing Bella is a joke and I'm sure it was an hallucination, for ai know the true killer.Ewoks, they were the ones that killed her.

Now, Alexx your signature is too long, no really.

Edited after Rache kind criticism. No really, compared to some stuff I saw here, it was very nice.

 

They both had their problems. Half-Blood Prince had the pointless scenes showing us about Riddle's past, when Dumbledore could have just told Harry these things. It had a lot of poor characterisation, especially from Hermione. Lots of people were dying, but it was happening in the background, and to people we never really knew, so it felt as if there was little threat.

The main problem I had with Deathly Hallows was the unbearable camping trip that really accounted for nothing. It had major plot elements that should have been introduced earlier. Not enough major characters dying, which I thought lessened the feel of the conflict (I expected Neville and Ginny to die, actually).

On the whole, I felt that Deathly Hallows had far more interesting scenes, such as the opening battle on the brooms, breaking into the Ministry, breaking into Gringotts, the various stuff that happens during at Malfoy Manor and Hogwarts. However, to me it all felt so rushed and cluttered, as if these things were thrown in at the last minute to make the book more enjoyable.

 

I liked both.

I know right? What a shocker.

 

You drunk mate?

 

He's still learning English.

 

Half Blood Prince:

Voldemort's origin story
People acting like teenagers, if you think the Harry/Ginny or Hermione/Ron/Lavender were stupid then you have probably forgotten when you were 16.
It had more funny parts than the rest of the series combined.
Slughorn was a fucking Pimp.


Deathly Hallows:

They broke in to Gringotts and escaped on a mother fucking dragon. By a long way the cooolest thing that happened all series.7
He killed Voldemort.
He fucking died and came back to life. You say he was pathetic and he did Jesus' signature move just faster.
He sees dead people.
RIP Colin Creevey ;_;
Did I mention the motherfucking Dragon?

Both were awesome.

 

I didn't like Half-Blood Prince. It felt as though it was in a separate universe from the first five books.

Book 3 developed the understanding in the reader that the world outside of Hogwarts (Sirius, in that case) could pose some threat. Book 4 gave us other magical countries besides Britain as the enemy, though it brought the threat back home as Voldemort. Finally, book five looked at the threat that the backwards ministry posed as Voldemort loomed from the shadows with perilously few acknowledging his existence.

Book 6 pulled back from the outside world, caging the trio in the walls of Hogwarts in the same manner as the first two books, but there wasn't even an obvious threat. There was Draco, but he seemed so insignificant by that point in the story that moving him into the position of 'mastermind' was trite. To fill in the gaps, we were given two things: a lot of badly written romance and the back story of Voldemort.

The latter was actually interesting, but as the story of the horcruxes became more and more obvious, I remember feeling more and more displeased. Perhaps the reason I hated HBP more than anything was that I knew what would happen in DH before I ever read it. There would be a horcrux hunt, and Harry would succeed at this horcrux hunt.

Other than the Deathly Hallows themselves, that was the entire final book. It was well written, and I liked how she tied together the cloak, Dumbledore's hand, Grindelwald; all of it. But I knew the main plot before hand because of the poorly written HBP book, which is why I feel the DH was superior to the HBP, yet it was equally flawed because the HBP was it's obvious progenitor.

 

Worse? I did like both books but DH had this thing called an ending that made me sadface for a while. I'LL NEVER LET GO~

 

The OP is assuming that DLP as a group doesn't like either HBP or DH. Obviously, from the posts in this thread, he's wrong. I certainly didn't like HBP, and I said why, but I didn't expect anyone to agree.