[HPforGrownups] Self-induced spoilers

[Amy Johnston]

No: HPFGUIDX 9728




>From: "Amy " <aiz24 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Self-induced spoilers
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:27:15 -0000
>
>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
>---------------------------------------------
>
I read the books in the right order, but I wanted to comment on your CSLewis 
quandry.  I too was upset by the renumbering, though the preface states that 
it was CSLewis' wish to have them presented with "The Magician's Nephew" 
first.  Of course he's been dead awhile and its kind of hard to check that.  
Anyway, I bought the repackaged set to read to my kids.  I started reading 
TMN to her first and I don't think she's quite into it, like I was growing 
up reading TLTWATW first (thus being hooked and finishing the whole set in a 
week when I was 10!).  Just a little aside here, carry on with HP talk:)

Amy J.

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