Simultaneous Worldwide Publication?

[olivierfouquet2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 85360

Del wrote:
> Huh, let me guess : you live in an English-speaking country, and you 
> always get the Hollywood's movies right when they come out in the 
> States, right ? Because if you lived in, say, France (like me, for 
> example ;-), you'd know that :
> a) unless you look for it, the probability is you won't learn of the 
> surprise ending. I remember watching a special premiere of "The Sixth 
> Sense" more than a month before it officially came out in France, and 
> I felt horrible at the end of it, because I felt it would be nearly 
> impossible to hold my tongue about the surprise end. But the truth 
> is, nobody cared about the movie until it came out in France. It was 
> a big thing in many other parts of the world, but here nobody cared 
> about it until we had it too. So what I mean is that unless a French 
> HP fan really goes out of his way to find out about the end of the 
> 7th book, he probably won't find out about it until it is published 
> in French (or until he buys an English version ;-)

I know many HP fans who speak only French and can attest that none of them have 
found out about Sirius's death, or Umbridge, or anything about l'Ordre du Phénix, as they call it. They all wait patiently for December the 5th. To the most obsessed of them, I even lent OoP in English and she refused to read it because she thought she could not really appreciate it. So I would be very surprised if she found out anything 
about book 7 beforehand.

All the best, 

Olivier