Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (SPOILERS)

[innerSpaceman]

I'll lend you mine.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I'll lend you mine.

awesome thanks!!! Love your quote btw

[Gemini Cricket]

I don't know if Ian McKellan would have been a good replacement for Harris either...

[wendybeth]

I see no spoilers from the books here at all, unless you consider a vague foreshadowing regarding Dumbledore a spoiler. However, if someone hasn't read the HBP by now, I think it's unfair to expect people to not discuss it here, as this film leads to the HBP and what happens in this film impacts the next.

[innerSpaceman]

Plus, there's a big Darth Vader is Luke's Father type spoiler material in Half Blood Prince ... so big that I hope no one on earth is expecting it to have remained a secret.

I don't intend to discuss Half Blood Prince here, and I respect people who haven't read the books, but see the films. Yet the movies are based on what is perhaps the most famous book series of all time, and major plot points become common knowledge a couple of years before the counterpart movie comes out.

I'm sure we'll all try our best, really .... but there can be no reasonable expectation of non Half-Blood spoilers in the world at this point ... and no such expectation for Deathly Hallows about a month from now.




And I think Robin Williams should have taken over the role of Dumbledore.

[wendybeth]

I've scanned past movie threads and what happens in the next book always comes up- it's inevitable. I don't know how someone could expect people not to discuss what happens next in the midst of a series based on books that have already been published and in the public domain. (I understand the blackout on TDH, as many people are still reading the book, but HBP has been out for a very long time now and has been discussed quite openly at these and other boards, in print and so forth for some time now). I think if a person has not read HBP and wants to be kept in suspense until the movie comes out they have every right to try, but it would be unreasonable to expect others to do the same.

[Alex]

It's a fuzzy area (I remember the same thing coming up with the Lord of the Rings movies where book fans would discuss the movie within the context of the entire series and movie-only fans would beg them not too).

I personally don't really care (I've read all of the spoilers on Deathly Hallows, but I have no idea what happens in Half Blood Prince (well, one thing and that may be the hinted at).

I also don't think there were any real spoilers here just a suggestion that things were getting close to spoilers. With the spoiler tag available, though, I think that offers a reasonable compromise about specific next movie spoilers.

[innerSpaceman]

I have a great HBP spoiler story, so I'll put the spoiler in tags.

My friend, James, was in line to buy the book at midnight at a Barnes and Noble in Burbank, but his position in line would have put the book in his hands around 1am.

So he went to a nearby Ralphs that was open 24 hours and bought the book in 3 minutes, but ...

Spoiler:

the pimply-faced clerk at the check-out counter scans the book and then says, "Oh, I hear Dumblesomebody dies."

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I have a great HBP spoiler story, so I'll put the spoiler in tags.

My friend, James, was in line to buy the book at midnight at a Barnes and Noble in Burbank, but his position in line would have put the book in his hands around 1am.

So he went to a nearby Ralphs that was open 24 hours and bought the book in 3 minutes, but ...

Spoiler:

the pimply-faced clerk at the check-out counter scans the book and then says, "Oh, I hear Dumblesomebody dies."

Now, that's an asshole.

Alex is right- we can try to remember to use tags, but I think people need to realize that in most HP circles it's a given that people have read the books, so it's not really even discussed (after the obligatory grace period) that someone might not have read them and is relying on the movies to provide the surprise. We can try to be careful, but lets not be too angry if anyone forgets and posts something that could be considered spoilerish.

[Stan4dSteph]

Fine with me. I'm sure I'll get spoiled anyway, since no doubt someone will tell me assuming I've read the books. I'll just leave all the HP discussion to the die hards then. Ta ta!