For the Benefit of HP Fanentities:

[active_apathy]

I'll add as a disclaimer that I haven't read a scrap of HP. This may be surprising to many of you, but it's entirely true. Still, in the interests of the HP fanentities on my Flist, we have this entry.

We all know that the sixteenth is the release date for a certain novel. This might be because the HP fandom likes to keep reminging us, but that's neither here nor there. The real point is that, where there is Art, there are spoilers. I'm certain that this isn't a new trend - Picasso may have chased after people whispering "she's weeping", Leonardo may have been distressed at people telling everyone what happened at the end of the Sforza Horse*, and Tacitus probably wanted to slap someone for wandering into the Forum and shouting about what happens to Caligula.

No, it isn't a new phenomenon at all - but I think there is a solution. A simple, elegant solution that'll see all spoilers forever consigned to... um... somewhere else. Here, we have a post where you can write spoiler-spoilers. Tell us how the novel's about to be spoiled. Ruin the suspense of tiptoeing around spoilercuts. Be funny, for I suspect everyone can do with a laugh. Spoil spoilers for any fandom at all, because I'm feeling nice.

Go! Comment! Spoil the Spoilers! Ruin the Ruination! Topple the Threads! Demystify the Denouements! Herald the Heresies! Announce the... bah, you get it.

MAKE SPOILAGE HISTORY

*Not what you'd think. The brass was used to forge cannon.

Comments

[liadlaith.livejournal.com]

I don't consider anything a spoiler until 24 hours after the book's been published - after that, it's either a spoiler or lie; before that, it's just rumour.

So I've been hearing a rumour going round that Remus and Tonks get together.

And this has me slightly distraught. As you probably know, I'm a huge Sirius/Remus fangirl.

This is an extremely odd thing. I never used to care this much. I laughed at rabid shippers! And now I am one!

This is the stupidest thing ever! They're just peripheral characters in an engrossing, but admittedly not the best written, series!

Augh. I am so ashamed of myself. I don't know what I'm going to do if it turns out to be true. I don't want to know - I think I may hate myself.

[djcati.livejournal.com]

My mum worked in Tesco's when OotP was released, and one guy kept going into and out of the stock room from about 8pm, and every time he'd come and tell her a different name for the character who dies. My mum said, "Do you know who any of these people are?" and the guy said, "Um, no."

He eventually came out at about 11pm and told her the right name though. And was all, "Who's he?" My mum = *facepalm*

Spoilers usually come from people who don't actually know anything about the fandom, but happen to be somewhere they can get inside info. So they don't understand what it is they're spoiling.

I would come up with a witty example, perhaps Bible-esque, but crack doesn't seem to work for me 'til midnight.

[nekoama.livejournal.com]

No, no, you see what we do is wait until about 10 hours after HBP is released. Then post a long, uncut post about how tragic it is that Hermione dies in your LJ and any HP comm you're a part of.

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

McGonagall is the half-blood prince.
Harry dies about half way through, but his death means Crookshanks is able to kill Voldemort.