JKR's silence (no spoilers)

[justcarol67]

I was (and am) disappointed about the lack of clues on JKR's website.
That was part of the fun of waiting for HBP. And I'm puzzled by her
lack of reaction to the NY Times article and especially to the
supposed scan of the last two pages of the book. I haven't seen either
one as I don't want to be spoiled, so I'm working in the dark here.
Can it be that she doesn't want to draw attention to them or credit
them as being accurate? Or maybe the NY Times spoilers are minor and
the two-page spread (or whatever it is) is a gigantic hoax? Surely, it
can't be that she's unaware of them. If they're real, she must be fuming.

At any rate, I'm not going to write to the New York Times (even though
I've mentally formulated a letter) until I've read the review, and I'm
not going to read the review until I've read the book. It does seem
irresponsible, not to mention inconsiderate, to post a review before
the millions of HP fans can possibly have read the book even if the
spoilers are minor. Maybe they're thinking of it in the same terms as
an advance review of a film, an enticement to readers (instead of
viewers)? People do read film reviews to decide whether a film is
worth seeing, and we do watch movie trailers. Surely, that can be the
Times reviewer's only motive. And yet who in the world is planning to
read DH without having read at least the majority of the other books?
No one here needs background information on HRH or the Dursleys or
Voldemort or Snape or Horcruxes or whatever the article talks about.
Again, I have not read it and will not do so until after I've read the
book.

As for the revelation of the last two pages, assuming that it's real,
it's reprehensible. Sure, some people don't care about spoilers, but
what about those of us who do?

BTW, there's a poll at Leaky (which I couldn't access because so many
people were apparently using the site) where you can vote on what to
do with people who spoil the books. The choices include handing them
over to Snape and handing them over to Fluffy. I think Filch is also a
choice (he'd need his whips and manacles to be effective) as is
Umbridge. Too bad they didn't offer "All of the above" as a choice.

Carol, wondering how any unauthorized person could have obtained a
copy of the book and why any authorized person would so blatantly
violate the trust that was placed in him or her