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brightTopic: Copyright-Infringementish
Tsk, tsk. Somebody at a Scholastic subsidiary has "some 'splaining to do"!
Now, this is a problem, ain't it? But the reaction from fans has been kinda strange. Several people have gone on record as saying that there would be "no point whatsoever" in reading this last Potter book if they knew the identities of the two characters that get offed, and how the book ends.
...riiiiiight...
I'm all for this whole 'turning a generation of kids onto reading' business that Rowling's managed, and the lady has one hell of an imagination (her overreliance on getting out of jams by having a 'Wizard do it' does kinda speak to a weakness in creating coherent plots, though....) but the fact that a large number of Harry Potter fans share this 'no point in reading if I know' sentiment is troubling (you can be justifiably pissed, but don't tell me you won't read something you keep yammering non-stop about...)
Two years ago I read the Count of Monte Christo- which is a kinda large book- even though I had knowledge of the whole plot and knew how it was likely to end for most of the cast.
Good literature can be read no matter one's knowledge of the plot. A friend of mine watched the Sixth Sense knowing that Dr. Crowe was a ghost, but he still says that its one of the best films he's ever seen.
Seems to me that most of the Potter fans would be appeased by the movies, alone. The books, I guess, are merely so many scripts churned out for their benefit.
