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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 08/06/2008 : 07:42:50
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quote:
Originally posted by Yukon
Hey ROCK Golf,
You have quite the massive spoiler for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows.
Be warned everybody!
Like we're gonna remember this by the time the movie comes out.
(Got everyone so far!)
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RockGolf 
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 12:42:07
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quote:
Originally posted by Yukon
Hey ROCK Golf,
You have quite the massive spoiler for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows.
Be warned everybody!
Quite the opposite! I've deliberately chosen a word that could mean that either Harry lives or dies. Re-read it. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 13:01:44
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quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Like we're gonna remember this by the time the movie comes out.
The point is that any spoiler for the film is a spoiler for the book. I really must get around to reading it! |
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 14:15:04
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| Its a multi-entendre (at least double) and thus is no spoiler - if you don't know the book it can't possibly be a spoiler. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 14:37:58
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Originally posted by turrell
Its a multi-entendre (at least double) and thus is no spoiler - if you don't know the book it can't possibly be a spoiler.
I was (clearly) responding to C.L.'s post about a spoiler for the film not having an immediate effect (though I know it was only light-hearted), not anything to do with whether this particular instance was a spoiler.
(I don't actually agree that it's not a potential spoiler, but elaborating on why would only make it more so.) |
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RockGolf
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 14:51:46
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The review, which I believe is spoiler-free, reads "Final tests. Harry passes." It could equally mean that Harry graduates from Hogwarts or in the final battle with Voldemort, Harry dies. The ambiguity is intentional.
I didn't want to spoil any of the good stuff, like Sirius Black's spirit taking over the body of Hermione. I wouldn't want to spoil that for anyone. |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 17:55:31
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I'm done here.
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[matt]
"Cinemattic."
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 18:13:49
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Me too. |
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chazbo 
"Outta This Fuckin' Place"
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 20:00:07
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Mi 3.
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Larry
"Larry's time / sat merrily"
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 21:08:40
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 21:17:14
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what a lot
you got
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 21:38:47
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 22:34:59
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Originally posted by R o � k G 0 1 f
The review, which I believe is spoiler-free, reads "Final tests. Harry passes." It could equally mean that Harry graduates from Hogwarts or in the final battle with Voldemort, Harry dies. The ambiguity is intentional.
Thanks for repeating it here so that it couldn't be avoided.  (I plan to go through all reviews for that pair of films once I read the book, so it does not matter from an F.Y.C.T.H. point of view that I skip over them in the meantime.)
Do I really have to spell out why it is still a potential spoiler? People might just be capable of reading between the lines, you know! By this, I mean that if Harry died I really do not think you would even say so ambiguously without treating it as a spoiler. It's therefore also a bit of a spoiler in telling us that he goes back to school, which is quite a major change from the end of the sixth book. (I hadn't read the review before and my thinking it was a spoiler was based on it having any wording that ambiguously stated that Harry lives/dies.) Please do not disabuse me if I am wrong in this -- hopefully I am and will get a surprise when I read it. |
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Josh the cat
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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Posted - 08/06/2008 : 23:52:02
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VR&VA
Personally I thought the end of the last HP book was predicable and rather disappointing.
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 08/07/2008 : 00:10:37
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Originally posted by Josh_the_cat
VR&VA
Personally I thought the end of the last HP book was predicable and rather disappointing.
Josh the cat
Personally I think all the HP books are predictable and disappointing. |
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Sean's FYCTH #428
