Self-induced spoilers

[Parker Brown Nesbit]

No: HPFGUIDX 9721

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy " <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Cindy's intro post and the various warnings to her reminded me that 
I 
> actually read the books in the wrong order.  I was lent the tapes 
by a 
> friend who accidentally gave me CS first.  Naturally, I had no idea 
> what the order was, so I went along, briefly wondering that the 
series 
> picked up after one year of school, idly wondering at the author's 
> decision to hint at me about a recent confrontation with Lord V 
> instead of showing it to me, but not tumbling to the fact that I 
was 
> really, totally out of whack until I was halfway through.  I 
should've 
> stopped much earlier and checked with someone, but I was already 
> addicted and I would've had to wait several days before getting a 
hold 
> of PS/SS.
> 
> Fortunately, it really didn't ruin PS/SS for me--all I knew for 
sure 
> was that Harry wasn't going to die at the end, not a big surprise--
but 
> it could have been a bad scene.  Gosh, imagine reading GoF before 
> PoA--PoA would be ruined by the time you'd gotten to chapter 2.
> 
> Anyone else read 'em out of order?
> 
> Amy Z
> 
> ...who worries deeply about those poor children who actually pay 
> attention to the numbers on the spines of the newer Narnia editions 
> and read The Magician's Nephew before they read The Lion, the Witch 
> and the Wardrobe
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> Crabbe and Goyle chuckled trollishly.
>              -HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
> ---------------------------------------------

Yeah, Amy, I did.  The first time.  I went to the library (oh 
innocent me) to see what "all this *Harry Potter* furor was about & 
had to put the books on reserve.  CoS came to me first, then SS & 
then PoA.  It didn't spoil it too much for me.  Once I bought the 
books, I re-read them in order.  

Parker (who's on her 20th(?!) rereading of the series)