OOP: pre-release spoilers regret

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 62438

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mtwelovett" <mbush at l...> wrote:
> 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. 


I wonder if JK told us on purpose becuase I kept doing the same thing 
anytime anyone got in trouble--rather than figure, "Oh, they won't 
kill off that person" I thought maybe that was the one to die.  The 
situations kept seeming more perilous because I thought someone would 
die.  The spoiler I'm regretting now is the "Harry, it's time I told 
you the everything I should have five years ago" from Dumbledore, 
only because I knew he would not die in the fight with Voldemort 
which made that seem somewhat anti-climatic.
> 
> 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!!

I guessed it.  Otherwise, it didn't matter how much Ron sucked--Harry 
just had to catch the snitch early on and then would cover for Ron.  
This way Ron comes into his own as keeper (and Ginny as chaser?) so 
when Harry joins the team next year, Ron won't be resentful of Harry 
always "covering" for him.


Serena