All right, it’s been two weeks since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out, so I’ve decided to scale back the special measures I’ve had in place to prevent people from accidentally stumbling upon spoilers. In particular, new comments on all posts — including “That Which Must Not Be Blogged” — will once again appear on the recent comments page. So if you’re trying to avoid spoilers, I’d suggest steering clear of that page.
Relatedly, it is now OK to post Harry Potter spoilers in comments on some posts other than “That Which Must Not Be Blogged” — but only those posts which contain a spoiler warning in the text of the post. (At present, no such posts exist aside from TWMNBB, but I’ll probably post a few in the coming days; I have a couple of issues related to the book that I want to blog about.)
Basically, I want people who haven’t yet read the book, but intend to do so, to know which comment threads it’s safe to read, and which ones they should avoid like the plague. So please confine any discussion of plot details to posts with spoiler warnings. (And if you’re one of the people trying to avoid spoilers, please steer clear of posts with spoiler warnings, and of the “recent comments” page.) Thanks!
P.S. Apropos of which, a poll:
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August 5th, 2007 at 12:09:53 am
I don’t know if it lived up to the hype, but i wasn’t dissapointed either, this poll is flawed.
August 5th, 2007 at 12:14:00 am
Oh yeah, well the poll thinks YOU’RE flawed. :)
August 5th, 2007 at 12:47:02 am
So now we have inanimate digital signals with feelings and thoughts? Cheezburgrs being made defendants in lawsuits?
What’s next? Congress being found to be full of people with actual brains?
August 5th, 2007 at 5:25:15 am
Heh, last night when I was commenting, I was going to email you and ask you when you were going to remove the “that which must not be blogged” thing from all your posts. Good timing!
August 5th, 2007 at 2:59:47 pm
Well I think David & the poll & Andrew are all deeply fraud :).
“…which comment threads it’s safe to read, and which ones they should avoid like the plague.”
And here I thought we’d already Established that those would be, any threads about chipmunks. ;>
August 5th, 2007 at 5:08:23 pm
I’ll agree with David on this one. I read the book, didn’t feel it lived up to the hype, didn’t expect it to live up to the hype, and thus wasn’t disappointed…
August 6th, 2007 at 12:35:27 pm
What the book lacked in the quality of the narrative, it certainly made up for in “loose end tying.” I would agree that the story itself was not nearly so compelling as was OOTP or HBP, but JKR did manage to not leave countless streams of open-ended story lines and unresolved questions.
By the end of DH, at least we know what everything is, who everyone was, and why they did what they did.
I enjoyed the whole series.