Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It was ok...

This entry in the series has been until now the one I´ve struggled the most to get through. The story is uneventful and boring.
I understand that this book serves as a setup for a future big battle with the one that should not be named. We still have a lot to learn for a great payoff at that battle.

My main problem does not lie in the story, in fact, I found the character of Dolores Umbridge a good choice to break up the monotone and boring school year. But I believe she was an underused asset.
The greatest problem I had with this book is how unlikeable Harry Potter was. He is the main character and therefore I should support him and want the best for him, but his attitude throughout the book was simply irritating. Suddenly he becomes an egocentric idiot that thinks he now everything better than the rest of the world. Props to J.K. Rowling for writing an accurate teenage boy, but accurate teenage boys don´t make for great main characters...

I previously mentioned Dolores Ambrige to be an underused asset, and this is because the only moments in the book where I sympathized with Harry were when he was interacting with her. Turns out Dolores is a Character even more unlikeable than a teenage boy, which is great when you have her to be the main antagonist throughout the school year.
She was indeed a great antagonist, but she was just portrayed as a dumb puppet of the ministry. I would have liked her to be more mastermind evil, at the end of the day she got outsmarted by 15-year-olds several times... I would have preferred if she was always one step ahead of the main characters and they only got to outsmart her at the very end, I would surely have been a lot more satisfying in my opinion.

All in all the weakest entry in the series until the moment. The story was more interesting than the source's stone, but Harry being an ass the whole book took it down a lot and made it a chore to get through the book.