Harry Potter: the spoiled, the unspoiled, and the Deathly Hallows...

[fajrdrako]

I was determined not to be spoiled for the last Harry Potter book. After all, I thought, if I'm going to read it at all, and I am planning to, I want it to be worth it - I want the full pay-off. I seldom read books where I know the ending beforehand. Why would I? It removes so much of the pleasure for me. I love suspense. I love not knowing. I'm highly spoiler-phobic.

But yesterday I stumbled across a huge spoiler for the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by accident. And after my first flash of dismay - oh no! why did I read that? - I felt suddenly immensely liberated. Now I don't need to rush to read the book, I can pick it up at my leisure. Now I don't need to worry about spoilers on my flist or in the email lists.

I am highy amused by the sense of strategy and compaign and conspiracy surrounding this books. Armies of trucks with books in warehouses. Midnight costume parties at bookstores. Disapproval from religious leaders. High-level security, lawsuits, and the kind of secrecy that usually surrounds military compounds and international secret weapons. And it's fiction, and it's for kids, and it's fun.

I love this planet.

Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Loved it that it was Emma Thompson's image and voice inside Harry's little glass sphere of prophecy...
Was it really? That's so cool.

Yes. Had to look closely. But that's who's in there, all right.

You really want me to? In one more day you can read it for yourself!

Well, I got my copy on Saturday, and almost immediately decided to read it from the beginning. I'm at the end of the second chapter. I had to stop when reading made me too disoriented (I picked up a stomach bug that was going around work, and Sunday and today have been home,t rying to live through it). So... yes, if you want to say, go ahead! Might be fun.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear your stomach is bad. I'm 5/6 of the way through the book at present, hoping to finish it at lunchtime so I'll have read it all when I meet lmondegreen after work. She's bound to have read it all - she's a real fan.