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Wow, guys, make with the spoilers why don't you?...

Okay, for the weak of heart, this post deals with the sixth Harry Potter book, so if you don't want to hear about it, jump on down to the next post and enjoy some minor post-election ranting.

Okay, so I was reading over the Sydney Morning Herald website, when I stumbled across this gem: Potter character to be killed off
Well, okay, so she's revealed ahead of time that someone else will die. That's not a problem really, unless you were hoping to be spoiler-free and the headline just ruined that for you. But that's okay. We can deal with that.

The problem I have stems with the fact that, after blathering on about how J. K. Rowling likes to tease her fans online by releasing tidbits of spoilers, the article goes on to talk about how she did that for book five. Which is okay too, really.

What I take issue with is the last line of the article: "Potter fans had to buy the book to discover it was Sirius Black who met his end."

Wow, guy, way to destroy the climax for anyone who hasn't read it yet. I mean really, would it have been that difficult to say "Potter fans had to buy to book to discover which of the beloved characters met their end."? You know, something with a little bit of subtlety.

I'm reminded of a bus trip in to uni one morning many years ago, when two girls were loudly discussing the plot twist of The Sixth Sense. Now, I understand their right to sit and talk about a movie they had just seen, but it had only opened the night before, and I'm sure most of the people on the bus were interested in seeing it at some point. But now I still haven't been bothered seeing the movie, because I already know what happens.

Sure, that was an old spoiler, but still, I don't expect to see my newspaper going on about Anakin losing his hand in episode ii, and I don't want my newspaper to be telling me what happened in a previous book unless it's in a book review where it fits.

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