Biting ones tongue

[hert0661]

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From: hert0661
Subject: Biting ones tongue
Date: 8/24/00 5:39 pm  (ET)

For the last few days some of my relatives have been visiting and,
of course, HP came up in conversation.

My Aunt has read all 4 book, my Uncle finished PS while he was here, the
12 year old finished CoS while he was here and the 10 year old is still
on PS (the kids are boys and read very little). They have a 8th edition
paperback of PS, which has the non-Dumbledore chap on the back cover.

The youngest kept going on about how Snape had cursed the broomstick and
how bad he was, etc... It took my brain actually taking notice of what I
was saying to stop me from blurting out the ended of PS. They have gone
now so I do not have to worry anymore!

Also the talk turned to the hype surrounding the release of book 4. We
came to the conclusion that it was good marketing. For other books there
would be no reason for so many to own their own copy. Instead it would
be more normal to lend a copy out to friends and family. But with GoF
the hype basically got to the stage where the populatiton were lead to
believe that they must have their persoanal copy.

We also agreed that none of us wanted the movie and that it will only
spoil our own interpretations of the books.

Simon (Yahoo is really getting annoying now!)