CONTEST: Clarification on spoiler-related guesses. (only little spoilers)
TK Kenyon
tigerpatronus at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 16 23:34:13 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 171944
This post contains info from the David Yates interview and the
Guardian newspaper first chapter spoiler. No Epilogue spoilers.
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Random said:
>However, you've banned interpretations and guesses about the
identity of the other character, which would be equivalent to
banning any guesses as to HOW Kreacher will be involved. If I
guess "The character appearing with Snape in the first chapter is
Aberforth Dumbledore", that is equivalent to predicting, say
(assuming this wasn't part of the spoiler), "Harry will summon
Kreacher to help deal with one of the horcruxes other than the
locket". which is NOT, to my understanding, off-limits. Why does
this spoiler have so much stronger of a ban than the other ones?
It goes without saying that it would be completely unreasonable to
discard entire entries based on the presence of references to such
spoilers, rather than simply assigning zero points to specific
predictions as with the other off-limits spoilers, but you haven't
made it clear this is what you meant.
--Random832
Here's why.
The Kreacher thing from David Yates was a piece of information. No
actual text.
The opening of chapter one and chapter title was text from DH and
therefore (at least a rough draft of) canon.
Many things can be read into the specific wording of canon that
cannot be read into a comment about the presence of Kreacher.
Therefore, it is a much huger spoiler than Kreacher.
TK-- TigerPatronus -- Ruthless, Arbitrary, and Final
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