Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 The kids and I saw this movie today … second time for the kids, they had already seen it first session on opening day on Wednesday (and got free tickets out of that due to some projector problems during the screening).  While the kids thought it great, I’m a bit lukewarm about it, just like I have been with book 4 onwards.  At least the movie didn’t drag like the book of Order of the Phoenix …I thought this to be the worst book, long and drifting about for no real purpose, with a lot of fat that could have been edited out (clearly JK Rowling’s editors don’t have the will to tell her to tighten up her writing).  Don’t know if either the book or the movie really advances the story that much, although I suppose that will become clearer after the last book, Deathly Hallows, is released next Saturday and we see how some of the threads from the earlier books get tied up.