Do You Peek?

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 81674

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> 
wrote:
> When I got OOP home, I settled in to read it from front to back, 
just 
> like I had with the other books, "dying" to know who was going to 
> die.  However, after the chapter about Mrs. Weasley's Woes where 
we 
> were teased with Dead! Everyone Weasley, that did it for me -- I 
> thumbed through the book until I found out who really did bite the 
> dust. I peeked.
> 
> So, am I the only one? Did anyone else get their book out of the 
> wrapper and immediately look for the death scene? 
> 
> So, then -- how are you going to be reading the last two books in 
the 
> series? Are you going to Peek? Look at the last page or two, just 
to 
> see who is still there, saying goodbye on the Platform as they 
part 
> for the summer?
> 
> 
> 
I am ashamed to admit that I am a lifelong peeker.  

Actually, in some ways the best kind of book is one that defies 
this.  There are many where a look at the last few pages will give 
no real indication because the "catastrophe" occurs a good many 
pages before the actual end - LOTR is a good example of this.

Sneaking to the back is only successful if you just want to know who 
lives - it is not so good if you want to know who dies - because 
that rarely happens at the very end.

June