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I read Harry Potter, finally finishing it tonight. no spoilers here don't worry.
I ran around for the past few days, fearfully and obsessively getting through it as fast as I could despite a crazy schedule...I was so terrified of having something be spoiled for me, especially working at a camp with 11-14 year olds. I bribed them with D&D fries (really good) if nothing was spoiled for me. And nothing was.
Even on the train going to and from Second City I read the book in a furtive, half-hidden way so as not to attract strangers attentions. Even if they weren't going to tell me anything about the book, I didn't trust them not to let some random comment slip. I simply did NOT want to talk about the book, even tho because everyone's reading it just having it out in the world seems to be interpreted as an invitation to talk about it.
Many of my kids who'd finished it asked me where I was, and I refused to talk about it with them.
Now that I'm done, I went to leakycauldron and read a few things, and even though I've already seen what happened in the book, it shocks me that people can post on message boards the things that happen so blatantly. Don't they have the respect to just wait around a week or so to give people a chance to read it?
This is all the more important for me this time because this is the first book I read fresh. I read books 3 through 6 last year, already having heard that Snape kills Dumbledore...it was all spoiled. So I desperately wanted to read at least one book without knowing what was to happen. And I succeeded.
Yes, I recognize the hypocricy of posting an LJ post about how much I hate when people talk about Harry Potter. But I'm done and made it through unscathed by spoilers so it's all good now.
I ran around for the past few days, fearfully and obsessively getting through it as fast as I could despite a crazy schedule...I was so terrified of having something be spoiled for me, especially working at a camp with 11-14 year olds. I bribed them with D&D fries (really good) if nothing was spoiled for me. And nothing was.
Even on the train going to and from Second City I read the book in a furtive, half-hidden way so as not to attract strangers attentions. Even if they weren't going to tell me anything about the book, I didn't trust them not to let some random comment slip. I simply did NOT want to talk about the book, even tho because everyone's reading it just having it out in the world seems to be interpreted as an invitation to talk about it.
Many of my kids who'd finished it asked me where I was, and I refused to talk about it with them.
Now that I'm done, I went to leakycauldron and read a few things, and even though I've already seen what happened in the book, it shocks me that people can post on message boards the things that happen so blatantly. Don't they have the respect to just wait around a week or so to give people a chance to read it?
This is all the more important for me this time because this is the first book I read fresh. I read books 3 through 6 last year, already having heard that Snape kills Dumbledore...it was all spoiled. So I desperately wanted to read at least one book without knowing what was to happen. And I succeeded.
Yes, I recognize the hypocricy of posting an LJ post about how much I hate when people talk about Harry Potter. But I'm done and made it through unscathed by spoilers so it's all good now.