OOP: pre-release spoilers regret

[mtwelovett]

No: HPFGUIDX 62178

While reading, was anyone else sorry they had read/seen/heard some of
the pre-release spoilers that were floating around that prior to the
release? 

Things that I thought were harmless teasers that I was sorry to have
known:

1. Someone dies... because as I read it, I thought Percy was going to
die, then Mr Weasley, then Hagrid, then Hermione, then Umbridge (which
I would have cheered for) then Hermione again, then Ron (especially
with the blood bubbling from his mouth)... so by the time it got to
Sirius it was anticlimatic, and he had been such a icky character in
this one I really didn't care that he died, which is unfortunate,
since I really liked him previously, and last week would have told you
that I would have been really upset if he died... I did shed a few
tears for him but only when they were in Dumbledore's office and even
then it was really brief. I was more saddened by Dumbeldore's
regrets... and the way he treated Harry throughout this one, but
understood early on why he was likely to be doing so. 

2. Ron as keeper... it removed the suspense/surprise from it.. but
never would I have guessed that Harry would be removed from the team!!
(that woman is PURE EVIL... I wish she'd died in the forest, but
alas... she may return to haunt us some more... ) although her
undermining has been undermined since Voldermort is back... (I hope
anyway) 

I'm glad I didn't know the Prefect thing in advance. 

3. Wingd horses only seen by people who've whitnessed death... I only
saw this once, that is, it wasn't to my knowledge widly publicised,
and I don't even remember where I read it, but seeing that took a lot
of mystry out of Luna, and didn't play the "insane" card so well on
Harry since I knew the "key" at least to that upfront. 

4. Dementers attack Dudley and Harry saves him... I know this was
early on in the book, but I was expecting it, but then after reading
the chapeter title you could kind of guess it too... 

I'm still absorbing a lot of the book, so I'm sure there will be tons
of thoughts and theories later... 

Mtwelovett