so true, even the first book was better. I remember reading it before the movie when i was like 9 years old. I can still remember the images I came up with in my head about fluffy, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione got stuck in the thorn bush, and the chess set just blew my mind when I was reading. I stopped reading after halfway through the 4th book because it just became so much less imaginative because, imo, you could tell she was writing to make movies