Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (SPOILERS)

[Alex]

For a thread discussing the 5th movie would not a discussion of events in the sixth movie, not yet made, be spoilers?

[Chernabog]

I guess I'll reserve judgment on the Harris/Gambon debate until borrowing a copy of DH, but I always saw Dumbledore as a slightly kooky grandfatherly type when I was reading the books rather than a scary old homeless man. (It seems I am in the minority here) Granted, I've only read each book once, but still......

[innerSpaceman]

I'll lend you mine.

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Spoilers for Half-Blood Prince?!?!? Um, not that I will do so on purpose, but the spoiler alert for the previous Harry Potter book is no longer valid.

I haven't read the books, but I have seen the films. I know there are others in the same situation. Posting spoilers from the 6th book would be bad, since the 6th MOVIE has not been made yet.

My understanding is that this is discussion of the 5th MOVIE.

[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.