Do You Peek?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 81705

--- 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?
> 
> 


Geoff:
As I said in an earlier posting, I have to know the end of any book I 
read...

I did go through OOTP at a fair pace, reading about 200 pages a day. 
But since then (and this is true of the earlier books), I have read 
and re-read them all about another five times at a gentler pace 
taking in more of the landscape.

At one time, I used to read LOTR every year and have certainly now 
read it about 25+ times. Each time I read it, I find a new little 
nugget, something I haven't noticed before. And that is also true of 
the HP books. Mark you, with x million people on hpfgu, so many 
little nuances are revealed here that the plot analysis must be 
reaching the level of the significance of the number of full stops 
per square metre!

:-)