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July 19, 2007

Go Ahead, Spoiler Yourself

By now you know that some people claim they have photographed every pair of pages of “…and the Deathly Hallows” and placed everything up on the Net for all to download (gosh, I’ll just sit here all day and download these 350+ JPGs.)

Others have just trumpeted key plot points (who dies when and where, etc.) 

Other than keep Scholastic’s lawyers busy trying to stomp out a million little server fires, it has really brought to the fore the long established tradition of spoiling (i.e. ruining the ending for others who haven’t yet read book, seen the movie or TV show, sporting event, etc.)

Now Yahoo claims that it knows where all the spoiler sites are for Harry Potter as well as most popular TV shows and movies (BTW: Harry Potter currently accounts for 40% of their spoiler traffic.)

So if you can’t wait a few more days and want to see Yahoo’s spoiler lists, go here and then click on one of the ten links listed at the bottom of the article. 

If you’re too lazy to do that, I’ll just tell you upfront that Harry gets whacked by Tony Soprano in the cafeteria.  Tony leaves Carmela and takes up with Hermoine.  All of this happens while the Lovin’ Spoonful’s Do You Believe in Magic plays over the scene while random characters from the movie The Sixth Sense order cannolis. Powerful stuff. Please don’t spoil it for anyone else.


Gary Ward

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