Asymmetrical Information

I would also stay off of the internet. People are burying the spoilers in youtube videos, MP3 files, comments on random sites. I have been spoiled about 10 times in the last two days.

OK ironically I am posting this on the Internet, but I am only perusing trusted non-spoiler sites (no Slate or Fark) via Google Reader until at least Tuesday, when I finally have a chance to finish the thing (due to traveling I won't have my copy in hand until late Sunday night).

I had dinner last night with a friend from London who had drinks with one of the editors from the publishing company. He told me two of the three stories that he knew: he told me two plotlines for the last book that were originally proposed and then didn't make it. He also knew one that did, and promised it would be "amazing," but as we are friends and not mortal enemies he did not tell me what it was.

While I am normally a spoiler whore I can't bring myself to spoil this one. The book is being delivered via Amazon sometime on Saturday at which point I will lock myself in my bedroom and read until my eyes bleed, I pass out, or the dog needs to be walked, whatever comes first.

On Friday I have dinner plans with a friend where we can hopefully speculate without spoilers.

I haven't seen a single spoiler for it.

Probably because I haven't read a word of any of the books, or seen the movies, and thus, by natural perversity, I'm immune to spoilers for it.

(Oh, and having seen the "snobbery" thread below, I assure you my lack of interest in Potter isn't snobbery - it's just never appealed.

I'll happily read trashy fantasy novels, let alone good ones.)

Who would have thought that Voldemort was really Luke's ... er... Harry's father?

Optimus Prime is killed in the early chapters.

Well, I've read it **Fake Spoilers Ahead**

- Hermione is diagnosed with diabetes and finds she can only cast sweet spells. This annoys her to no end.

- Ron dies from a melanoma on his bum which everyone thought was just a big freckle. Hermione blames herself for not seeing it -- that's right those two are at it like two rabbits in a hat from the first chapter. The Weasleys file a lawsuit against Hogwarts based on the unsafe levels of ultraviolet radiation released during magic classes. (Word is that Hugh Laurie will play the wizard doctor who gives Ron the bad news, and Stephen Fry the barrister who defends Hogwarts.)

- Despondent over the loss of Ron and finding no solace with the now less interesting Hermione, Harry falls into a deep depression, develops an addiction to a magical herb from Snape's private stores and winds up in the gutter turning tricks and offering to let people touch his wand for a pound.

- Moaning Myrtle marries the Tidy Bowl man and they sail off in his boat.

Well the New York Times just printed a spoiler-containing review*, so I say nothing short of a full-on media blackout will guarantee a spoiler-free two days.

*I haven't read it, so I don't know to what degree it spoils the book. My guess is, only a little.

Hmmm, those bleedin' eyes'll getcha every time.

Don't like spoilers, a-Tall. I go around with a 5 lb. sledge and smash-em, whether they're on a car or not...

I was disappointed with the ending, as it seemed a bit contrived to have all the major characters mowed down by a speeding lorry.

c'mon kids! just a few more days... my advice is to head for the country and put the world on ignore... as long as fedex can reach your cottage of course. :D

I usually wait till all the friends read it, and THEN I read... because once I am done, I am in the mood to talk, but not in the mood to meet anyone with a 5# hammer and an evil look in their eye.

The first word in the book is "the".

I was disappointed with the ending, as it seemed a bit contrived to have all the major characters mowed down by a speeding lorry.

Yeah, but since they had all spontaneously combusted and been reduced to fine ash first, the lorry driver can hardly be faulted.

Until you've... what? What? You complete loser. And after the If on a winter's night a trveller post, too. Fer cryin' out loud. What's your encore going to be, Goodnight Moon?

I can recite Goodnight Moon by heart.

Got a problem with that?

Voldemort kills Hermione.

No spoilers? Then I probably shouldn't tell you that Harry and Voldemort wind up getting married, right?

For a mere $250, you could have found out already: Harry takes poison & Voldemort stabs herself; Hogwarts sinks.

Voldemort repents thanks to the magic of Christmas.

Can't any of you people manage to download with bitTorrent?

---------------
The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands directed at each other's chests; then, recognizing each other, they stowed their wands beneath their cloaks and started walking briskly in the same direction.

"News?" asked the taller of the two. "The best," replied Severus Snape.

Comments are Closed.