Yet another spoiler avoidance tip

[pegkerr]

fireriven warns:

I advise anyone who's looking forward to HP7 not to inspect their livejournal profiles for the duration. The trolls are no longer content to have subtle names for their journals, the better to lure you into checking them out and getting "spoiled" or spoiled. No, now they're just naming the troll-journals with the spoilers. So."

To turn off the option of receiving notices when someone friends you go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/subscriptions/ and uncheck the appropriate box.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Well, I've had the jpeg images of all the pages sitting on my hard drive for a few days now, but I'm actually reading book 6, which I hadn't previously read. There are various reasons one might want to wait for the official release, or the hardcopy releast; that's up to each individual now.

(The image quality is lousy, it looks like a very inconvenient way to read a book even after adjusting the brightness to give some contrast...and the model name and serial number of the camera used to shoot it are in the EXIF info in each picture, so if the publisher wants to make a serious attempt to prosecute, it should be easy. Obviously, I grabbed it out of curiosity about issues other than the actual content of the book. And no, I haven't looked at the end.)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I know that I'm naive, perhaps, for wanting to have the experience that the author intended: that all over the world, we would be reading the story for the first time and experiencing it as a surprise together. Maybe it's because, since I'm an author, I give extra weight to authorial intention. I thought Rowling's intention was so extremely cool: the world coming together for one night, discovering the ending for this marvelous story, and nobody spoiling it for anyone else. That would be a remarkable world event, something never seen before. And we had waited so many years for this night to come! So yeah, I feel a little bitter toward those who are reading the story ahead of when Rowling intended, that they are cheating somehow.

But I don't feel nearly as bitter toward them as I do toward the people who blew the book open ahead of time and are trying to spoil it for everyone else.