[HPforGrownups] Avoiding Spoilers (was Harry's fate WAS: Re: RE Snape and Petunia

[AnitaKH]

No: HPFGUIDX 155910


                                  Potioncat:
I've had two Spoiler situations--both involving Snape, oddly enough. 
[Two examples pruned]  
 
akh interjects:
So far I've been spared, but my boyfriend, who buys the books and watches the movies but hasn't yet started the books, heard about Dumbledore and was furious. I think he was particularly galled because it was his best friend's daughter who announced it to him.  As far as I know he's been spared the news about Sirius so far, but who knows how long that will last, given the media's penchant for dropping this information casually into an article s about the movies and books.  I've been rather startled by that more than once.

Potioncat again:
 Has anyone ordered the book to be delivered? Does it come quickly on 
 release day? 
 
 
     
         akh:

I ordered the fifth book through Amazon.com, and they guaranteed release-day delivery.  My friend who lived in a Chicago suburb at the time received it from FedEx around 9:00 a.m.; my boyfriend, who at the time lived in a downtown neighborhood of Chicago received it about 11:00 a.m., and I got mine in a far-north neighborhood of Chicago at about 1:00 p.m.  That gave Bob (bf) a couple of hours to gloat, but otherwise it worked out well.  I did see two trucks drive by my house (which I suspect had others' books being delivered), which leads me to ponder the wisdom of FedEx's delivery routes, but that's another issue altogether.

Interestingly, I've ordered the UK edition from Amazon.co.uk for the fifth and sixth books, and I've gotten those within a couple of days of the release, so they're very efficient, too.

akh, who's still trying to decide whether to go to the midnight madness or do Amazon.com again.  Sadly, there's plenty of time to make up my mind...






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