So much for spoilers

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 56027

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dicentra spectabilis" 
<dicentra at x> wrote:
> I found this on Book Magazine online
> (http://www.bookmagazine.com/archive/issue10/potter.shtml)
> 
> It was written in May/June 2000, right before the release of GoF.  
At
> the end of the article there are a bunch of "spoilers."  Check 
these out:
> 
> * Harry turns fourteen, and the Hogwarts pupils begin to notice the
> opposite sex, as hormones kick in. J.K. Rowling wants it to be true 
to
> life, so they all fall in love with the wrong people. Harry will not
> date either Hermione or Ginny though.
> 
> I guess this is true enough, but does this apply only to GoF or to 
the
> whole series?  Is this the demise of H/H and H/G?
 
Not Hermione - she's a friend and tutor; nor Ginny - she's like a 
little sister to Harry! Cho is the one Harry has a crush on - but he 
and Ron went to the ball with the Patil-sisters...

> 
> * The first truly evil female character makes her debut.
> 
> Would this be Rita Skeeter?  She's a pain in the anatomy, but "truly
> evil"?  I don't think so, unless we're going to find out more later.

Well - it needs not be Rita Skeeter. It could be Mrs Lestrange in the 
Pensieve, it could one of the Veela's, could be Mrs Malfoy; could be 
one of the DEs Harry saw;

> 
> * There will be a number of deaths, including that of one character
> readers have grown to love. Rowling has said Voldemort will be shown
> not as a mere pantomime villain, but as a truly evil entity. Only by
> the killing of someone that readers care about, she says, does one 
get
> a sense of how evil it is to extinguish a human life.
> 
> Cedric Diggory was a decent enough fellow, but someone readers have
> grown to love?  Hardly.  And "a number of deaths"?  We had Cedric's
> and Crouch Sr's.  As far as Voldemort not being a mere pantomime
> villian in GoF, the jury is still out on that.

As have been mentioned, there was Frank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins and 
Crouch Jr. And of Voldemort... "Kill the spare" that's one thing, 
considering poor Cedric a "spare"; Not only that, he has his DEs 
suffer...
 
> * Harry is in contact with Sirius Black.
> 
> True.
> 
> 
> * Another Weasley, Ron's cousin, appears.
> 
> Not.  The character was written out.
 
Then again, two of Ron's brothers arrive - "cousin" was false, 
though. But of Ron's cousins, aunts, uncles - I do wonder where they 
_are_!

> * We learn why Voldemort is who he is . . .
> 
> Not really.  We learn what happened to Voldemort post-Harry and how 
he
> got back into his body.
 
Well, there _was_ the thing about immortality - that he took steps to 
conquer death - explaining why he didn't _die_ there. CoS tells us a 
part of it; he does tell them about his becoming that immortal, evil 
spirit - Voldemort, not Tom Riddle...
 
> So you see, whatever spoilers we've read so far about OoP might or
> might not be true, or at least not true in the way we might imagine.
 
Yes, well - they could tell the plot in extremely general terms, 
everyone would get an idea of how it'd be, all different and none the 
same as JKR's... That's the way these things are. 

About Hagrid - who would have believed that Hagrid invites Harry to 
watch, invisibly, when he has a date?

-- Finwitch