Do You Peek?

[Melinda Leydon]

No: HPFGUIDX 81736

--- 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'm a notorious peeker, I ALWAYS peek.  Always, that is, until Harry Potter.
I haven't peeked at any of these books, that would ruin it for me so I go
thru at a ridiculous pace, then re-read more slowly.l

Book 6 will be the same - hopefully next summer I'll get it and sit on the
couch for about 24 hours and let my kids wreak all the havoc they want
unsupervised until I'm finished!  Then I'll rehash it all here for days on
end!

Book 7, however, will be different.  I'm going to peek.  If Harry dies, I'm
not reading it at all and just leaving it at chapter 6 and letting fan
fiction continue the story of me.  May be childish, but that's how I feel
and plan on doing it!

Melinda