[HPforGrownups] Re: Looking at the last page.

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 163397

eggplant107wrote:

>But I do need some advice, should I read the table of contents in the
> very front of the book that lists the chapter titles? I have a
> horrible hunch, I think the second to last chapter, the one just
> before the one called "Epilog", will be called "The man who died". I
> think maybe I should just close my eyes when I turn over the first
few pages of the book and start with reading chapter 1. I could be
> wrong,your comments would be appreciated.

maria8162001:

I suggest not to read the table of contents. The american version or
scholastic have table of contents but the british version doesn't
have. My HP books are british version except for the 1st HP which I
bought in the US when we spent a holiday in California and this
scholastic have table of contents. But even with the first HP I never
read the table of contents as I always plunged directly to the first
chapter after reading the page on whom the book is dedicated to.
Actually with my first HP which have a table of contents I read the
table of contents last. You would have more fun with excitement and
thrill reading HP without knowing the table of contents.
Just a thought.
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Jeremiah:

Just to stroll down the path of past chapter titles... (and hopefully prove
a point)...

When book 6 came out there was a lot of talk about a chapter called
"Spinner's End." Everyone had an opinion about the nature of Spinner... it's
End... The End... The Spinner... I think I'd read things about it possibly
being Molly Weasly's death because she knits and possibly spins wool into
yarn... Others were sure it had something to do with spiders and maybe
Harid's giant spider friend died (and he did... but not in that chapter)...
Some people thought that it was Snape and he was going to die. Well, it all
took place at Snape's house but he did not die. Wrong again! It was the name
of Snape's town (? was it just the town or the street... anyway... not so
important)...

So, If there is a "hunch" that the title to the last chapter is "the man who
died" we have to recognize that it is just a hunch. No facts as of yet.
Also, Which man? Harry will be a man... Tom Riddle is a man and was
transformed... but is still a man... Ron is a man... Snape is a man, Mr.
Weasley is a man, Neville will be a man... Lots of men in the series now
since all the "kids" are turning 17 and are legal in the Wizarding World.
So, a title to a chapter will not give away the ending. JKR is too savvy for
that, IMO.


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