Hermione is a dude!

[la_sonnambula]

The first one out the gate (for me anyway) is New York Times' Michiko Kakutani, whose review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the first review from a newspaper of record. It's remarkably spoiler-free and also one of the dullest reviews of hers I'd read. She should've done it in Snape's voice or something. Instead we get a sombre enconium

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[baggylettuce]

I saw a spoiler earlier and nearly puked with shock, but now I'm feeling like I ought to seek them out so I can read the book without shrieking.

Knowing the ship sinks at the end of Titanic didn't spoil it for anyone! Let's tell the kids that it was all a dream! Harry wakes up in his cupboard in Privet Drive and NONE OF IT HAPPENED.

[la_sonnambula]

Hmm, I wonder which spoiler made you shocked and vomitous. Thanks to sleestak and zooby I now know how the book ends; I don't think it's very shriek-inducing.

There's an immensely popular Japanese children's adventure comics about an underachieving boy and his robot cat called Doraemon. During the 80s, a rumour circulated that the ending of the manga series would reveal the main character to be autistic and that everything took place in his imagination. People were pissed.

[baggylettuce]

Despite warnings of "death is final" and knowing 2 favourites are set to die and having seen Sirius AND Dumbledore bite it...oh, and the fact that the whole series is set off by Harry's parents buying the farm....I'm STILL gadding about in an imaginary realm where nothing bad happens ever ever.

I just saw a list of deaths and was "..." and then "!!!" and then """"" like Woodstock. I was never interested in Dumbledore or Sirius that much but if the person I think is going to die dies (and there's a 50/50 chance!) I will explode like Peter Petrelli.

Then by Monday I'll be calm again and like "Harry Potter? Soooo over it. I'm a grown up! When's the next season of Heroes?"

[zooby]

I swear I'm not going to spoil you but... who do you think dies that you'd be super upset about? I won't tell you if you're right or wrong. I'm just curious.

[baggylettuce]

Twas two: Professor Hottie McWerewolf, because we're secretly getting married; and I read that one of the Weasley twins gets it.

I don't mind if it's George, but don't take Fred, not Fred!

[la_sonnambula]

""""" like Woodstock

Hee!

Peter Petrelli didn't 'splode. He went to a superheroe farm "upstate".

Like Zooby I'm curious which HP character's death you don't want happen the most.

[baggylettuce]

See above: Lupin (siiiiiiiiiiiigh, he's so dreamy), and Fred. So far all I know (or THINK I know!) is 50% of the Weasley twins gets it. I just hope that 50% is called George! (I swear they're different!)

10 hours to go...

[zooby]

Haha! I feel the exact opposite about the twins. I like George more than Fred!