Do spoilers really "ruin" things? Or make things more interesting?

[Shaunette Reid]

No: HPFGUIDX 168782

Shaunette wrote:
> before HP, I would have agreed that spoilers don't really "ruin" 
> anything, I remember reading The Hobbit when I was little and 
> skipping to the last page, just to make sure Bilbo would make it 
> after all, before I could go on reading.
> 
> I suppose HP is different in that the twists are part of the fun 
of 
> reading, it's a bit more of a mystery novel than pure fantasy. The 
> shock of Dumbledore's death was very real and strong because I 
> didn't know whether, when or how it would happen.
> 
> I had great fun trying to guess who would go in book 5, until a 
boy 
> I was babysitting at the time shouted, completely 
> unprovoked; "Sirius Dies!!!" ohhhh how I glowered at him...
> 
> Incidentally, my boyfriend works in a shop that sells HP when it 
> comes out, he brought home an early copy of HPB from the back room 
> when it arrived (about two weeks prior to release). He read it in 
a 
> day, and was thus threatened in as many ways as I could imagine 
NOT 
> to tell me ANYTHING. We were out at a restaurant that week and he 
> whispered what happened to the hostess...the look on her face...I 
> kept my fingers in my ears all the way home, just to be sure.


ACK! forgot to sign my name! that was me, Shaunette. Sorry again, 
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-Shaunette