Dreadful Synopses/Spoilers (was: Joke?)

[psychic_serpent]

No: HPFGUIDX 57156

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "catherinemckiernan" 
<catherinemck at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hans" <ibotsjfvxfst at y...> 
wrote:
> > Is humour allowed in this group?
> > 
> > According to the Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-
> > 2003202221,00.html two copies of OOP have been found in a field 
in 
> > Bungay, Suffolk. There's supposed to be a THIRD copy in 
circulation 
> > as a mysterious stranger has asked nearly THIRTY thousend pounds 
for 
> > the first THREE chapters. Surely that field must henceforth be 
> > called "Potter's Field?" 
> > 
> > That's my THIRTY bob's worth.
> > (With apologies to Matthew 27:7)


What's really dreadful about this story is not, well, the story, but 
the blurbs by Tim Spanton for the first four books which appear down 
the right-hand side of the screen.  Not only are they riddled with 
inaccuracies (Harry does NOT use the Philosopher's Stone to defeat 
Voldemort in book one, Voldemort does not open the Chamber of 
Secrets--it's Ginny--and Voldemort never drinks Harry's blood, it is 
placed in the cauldron in which Peter PUTS Voldemort.  If anything, 
he takes a BATH in it.  And Harry is not transported to his 'lair.'  
A graveyard is not his 'lair.')  They are also just full of 
spoilers!  Every single synopsis spoils the ending of the book in 
question, sometimes by just plain getting it wrong!  Ack!  This guy 
should be run out of town on a rail!  I hope no one reads this story 
online who has never read the HP books.  Everything about them will 
be spoilt!

--Barb AKA BabsGeist, really wanting to throw a crate of water 
balloons at Tim Spanton