@@MusiqueFiend thats for a promise, do you even know what it is?? its when someone makes a promise, you accept it and if you break it, you die. its not for protection smh
HAHAH, i just learned there's someone who's Job it is to prevent Plot Holes and the like! IN HARRY POTTER! That's funny. Well, next time hire someone who actually does his Job. Also: Is that a common Job? Do other Franchises have someone like that? Because all Big Franchises I know, like Stargate and Star Trek for example, have entire Lists about their Huge Amount of Plot Holes and other problems. People make fun of them for Plot Holes so dump that no one CAN have thought about this twice or even once! These Questions i now have in mind.
After work the day it was released, my dad bought the 7th book for me, and instead of coming right home and delivering it like I asked him to...he sat in the parking lot of the book store and read the epilogue. Then he called me, asked "Who is Ginny?" and after letting me explain her entire backstory, he laughed heartily, and told me Harry marries her. Then he hung up and came home like normal, where I would lecture him for hours about how rude it was to do that. In retrospect, not a big spoiler really...but does take some suspense out of the big battle scene when both of those characters could die. No matter, it was an incredible read through of one of the greatest books of my generation. I'm not mad, just pleased that even my dad - who talked openly for years about his disinterest in Harry Potter - couldn't resist finding out how it all ended.
My mom did the same thing! I was 14 when it came out and couldn’t get anyone to get the book for me. I had to wait until she got off after 7pm. She read the epilogue so that way she knew what to prepare for with how I would act. Luckily she didn’t spoil it for me, just told everyone else in my family since none of them cared. I will never forget how excited I was getting that book.
I mean that does definitely ruin a lot because Harry getting married means you know how the entire story goes and who wins, although I doubt we actually thought Voldemort would
There was this girl who used to bully me growing up. The one thing we had in common was our love for Harry Potter. I was a faster reader than her and I finished HBP before her. And naturally my form of revenge was spoiling the fact that Snape killed Dumbledore. And to this day I still don't regret it.
I remember. It was July 20th 2007... I was a little 5 year old. Me and my mom drove to Barns and noble. She dressed me up in Harry Potter glasses, put a scar on my forehead in eyeliner, and stole my dads blue striped tie for me to wear (already called myself a Ravenclaw, still do #Ravenclaw Pride) and we waited until midnight. We cracked the book open, for the new book smell of course. And my mom promised she wouldn’t read it without me. We then spent 2 weeks reading it together whenever we had time. It was one of the best moments I have with anyone :)
My sister spoiled Dumbledore's death for me. The night it released we managed to grab ourselves a copy and, as the oldest, she got to read it first. she finished it by the next day and as she was handing it to me says "OH MY GOD I CRIED SO HARD WHEN DUMBLEDORE DIED. SNAPE KILLED HIM AND HE FELL FROM THE TOWER ." My desire to connect my elbow to a human jugular had never been stronger than in was in that very moment.
I didn't grow up with Harry Potter, and when I was born this exact movie came out but that was when I was born and I really had no passion for it back then, only the knight bus was what I cared about
I remember when the seventh book came out, I was strapped for cash, so I had to wait a week before I could buy it. And I luckily avoided spoilers for the most part, but a person on the nightly news let lose that Fred died at the end. It was the rudest thing ever, and the co-anchor told them off at once.
On TV?? That's so cruel! But I remember all the "fake"spoilers surrounding the 7th book. Idk how many times I'd heard from people that "Ron died at the end."
I remember hearing John Boyega was with a news person as they referred to something in _The Last Jedi._ They felt very embarrassed and Boyega reassured them it was clearly just a mistake.
I was working the night the last Harry Potter came out. The sale started at Midnight, that was our break time as well. it was like Mini black friday with the amount of people in the store for that book. I got to touch them as they sat unwrapped on the pallet. (I was one of the ones handing them out) Best believe I took my break right after the last person in line got their book and I bought my own copy and started reading it. I vowed that if any one (customer or co-worker) spoiled it for me, then I would go to federal prison because I would literally kill them. Thankfully I made it the rest of my shift spoiler free and got to finish my book the way J.K. intended.
I spoiled Snape killing Dumbledore for my 5th grade teacher. I bought it opening night and my friend and I raced eachother to see who could finish first. We both finished by the time our next book report was due... our teacher was only about half way through. I still feel guilty about that. But my friend spoiled Sirius's death for me because she thought I was further than I was. I still bring that up to her sometimes.
Emily TheSmiler He was SO pissed but also cool about it because its not like we knew we had finished it before our teacher! He called my friend and I all offically up to his desk and had our reports waiting for us. We thought he was going to accuse us of cheating but he was just like "what is THIS" and pointed at each line in our reports. I was so freaked out! I thought we were in so much trouble but then he explained that he just hasn't gotten that far lol.
During Order of the Phoenix, I worked with National Braille Press. Blind kids generally don't get to participate in things like Harry Potter and most books are years old (months at best) before getting translated to Braille. Also, there's usually one reader and one proofreader for a book. The Harry Potter books got a sponsor to try to get the books out to Braille libraries and even individuals at the same time sighted people would have it. To prevent spoilers and make printing easier sections were handled by multiple proofreader teams and no one got successive sections. There were also multiple Braille presses involved across the US. As far as I know, they managed to get the books out in time and no spoilers came out. Since I was just a part time sighted reader, I wasn't allowed to participate, but I was terribly excited to know all this was going on.
That's so interesting. I didn't know how hard it was to get Braille copies. My mom is a retired blind & VI teacher and I've worked with blind and VI kids on and off my whole life. Summer of 2005 when Half Blood Prince came out, I worked at a blind and VI summer camp as a counselor. One of the best memories I have is when we camped overnight in a huge teepee and took turns reading it aloud to the kids as they all sat around rapt. The mood in that teepee was electric. You could practically hear John Williams playing in your mind. Harry Potter brings us all together.
What about audio books? I know it's not the same as someone else's voice can affect the listener's interpretation of it, but it makes many books available.
The store I worked at when Deathly Hallows was released got a couple of boxes of them in the day before the release. They weren’t wrapped in black bags or anything, just stacked in a regular cardboard box like any other books would be. I read the first page of one that day. I swear my hands were shaking the entire time. It was the hardest thing in the world to not just run out of the store with one and read the whole thing. I think I was the only Potter fan who worked there and luckily no one was jerk enough to look at the last pages and spoil it for me.
I have read the story in 2017 (far after it came out), I knew what was going to happen and everything was already spoiled. But the story was still amazing and I can't wait to read the story again
I worked at UPS in damage processing I had to sign a NDC when they came through. I got to see the book almost a month before release. It was kinda cool
It is so funny to watch this as a French-speaking person. When I was younger, and not that fluent in English, I had to wait for the translation to come out. Ok, by the time Deathly Hallows came out, I had enough of it and decided to read it in English, even if there were chunks of text that I did not understand. Now that I think about it, HP probably played a huge part in my decision to become a translator, since I became really bilingual by reading it!
Samskie88 unlucky when my older sister was 10 she was reading the goblet of Fire and on a residential trip her friend said that Cedric died and she was so mad
I remember going to my local bookstore's midnight opening party for The Order of the Phoenix with my mom! I was 10, dressed up as Hermione. My brother dressed as Harry and won the costume contest for free tickets to the next Harry Potter movie! My mom was a huge Harry Potter fanatic, but she died of cancer before Half Blood Prince came out. I remember finding her crying in her room one day, and I told her not to cry, we'd be okay when she was gone, and she turned to me and said, "I know that! I'm crying because I won't see how Harry Potter ends!" I still think of her every time I read Harry Potter.
Because I'm dyslexic and get my book through a provider of audio books for people with disabilities, I have to wait longer for my copies of things. It can be over a year after release before I get to read a book. You can't imagine the work I need to do to prevent spoilers. I was told Dobby died years before I read it. I refused to believe it. I flat out wouldn't accept it. I loved the character too much. Then when I saw he died I was furious.
I spoiled Half Blood Prince for myself! :D I went in to the bookstore, opened the book at the exact page where Snape reveals himself as the half-blood prince. I immediately started hating myself, closed the book and went home. I was super angry at myself. Damn....
My brother spoiled Fred’s death for me so I just never finished the deathly hollows...until like 3 years ago... what’s worse is that when I got to Fred’s death I was in school and cried at lunch.
Imagine being non-english potterhead and waits months to get this book when huge bunch of readers already read it. Thank god internet wasn't that great back then.
I was about to say that... A friend told me and I was like: "I don't care about anything, who won?!" He told me... And yes, I'm one of the few who do like spoilers. Though I do wish he told me how painfully long the story was. I wouldn't have bought the book. (I like the beginning and the end, the middle was just tripe at the worst level.)
I am so pissed at myself. When Infinity War came out, I didn’t really care about Marvel, so I read about what happened in the end. About a week later though, I decided that I would watch all of the movies in order. I can’t get over the fact that I spoiled Infinity War for myself
I remember I was on the 4th book and at my friends house. First she said "RITA SKEETER IS AN ANIMAGUS" Then she says "SNAPE IS THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE" PTBHHHH
Snape kills Dumbledore has become what I call a "spoiler meme". Basically, it's that bit of spoiler trivia that everyone and their grandma uses when mocking the idea of a spoiler alert.
I spoiled myself about Snape killing Dumbledore by being dumb enough to visit mugglenet on the day of the release, before I had gotten my own copy of the book. And since then, I take every single spoiler warning very very seriously!
My husband and I went to four different cities in our area looking for it on release day. The copy he had reserved for me had been sold on accident. He finally tracked down a special edition copy that he paid $50 for. But I will always remember the determination he had to get it that day! That alone was magical.
When DH came out, I was 12 and not proficient enough in the English language to read an entire novel. So I had to wait for the translation - which came out MONTHS after the original release!! The only reason why DH wasn't spoiled for me back in the days was that I was not allowed on the internet. And neither were my friends. And even if we had been, we probably wouldn't have perused English websites anyway. But, at the day of the release of the translation, before my mom went to the bookstore to pick me up a copy, my mom told me about a friend of hers who worked at a bookstore who opened the last page of DH at midnight. She told me that her friend said that Harry would live. That was the only spoiler I ever received of the HP series. :D
Lp cat it actually isn't. If the spoiler was "Harry dies" would have been better, cause he actually does, but comes back. Meanwhile if you are spoiled that Harry lives, the whole Forrest encounter would be meh
OMG that sounds so much like me except the end: my mum knew someone working in a bookshop who accepted to sell her a copy at 5pm instead of midnight. When all the other French Potterhead were queuing to get their copy, I had already read the few chapters of mine in bed 😂
When I was reading Order of the Phoenix all of the books had already been released and I was talking to a friend who hadn't read the books yet. she told me, "the only thing I know about those books is that Fred dies."I have never let her live that down and that is how Freds death was spoiled for me. i nearly cried right then and there.
when he talks about someone spoiling the end of an amazing series and i start shivering and weeping remembering how my sister took the final harry potter book the day it came out right after we finally got it in our hands, opened the final page and stated "harry survives" (needless to say she wasn't even a fan)
when half-blood prince came out i was in year 5 or 6, and people were whispering among themselves spoilers that their faster-reading older siblings had told them. my best friend, bless her heart, heard about dumbledore, and because she knew i didn't want to know what happened, and how devastated i'd be if i found out, she made a big effort to make sure i didn't find out and no one in our year told me. of course, a week or so later, when my mum was reading it to me before bed, we got to that scene and i bloody bawled my eyes out lmao. but still, i'll always be eternally indebted to that friend for allowing me to have that gut-wrenching experience ^u^
In the US? If so, I've been to that printing company during the HP era. I worked for a publishing house (not HP-related) and was on a press check. They had security guards.
Guess not knowing English is more useful than I thought. Once the translation came out in stores, I was given a copy by one of my family members. Most if not all of my classmates absolutely HATED reading so they wouldn't even bother with it. I do remember very vaguely reading that Ron would be killed off.
@Kayla Oh just foreigner stuff If you can, ignore it. Try not to let it get to you to the point that it offends you, 'cause any minute spent offended is a good happy minute of your day wasted on some stranger on the internet.
I remember the period after HBP was released and my entire year was obsessed with it. In fact it was the only book everyone read during reading period. During one reading period (at that point I already knew about Dumbledore's death after reading it at home, crying and my mother wondering what the problem was,) there was a boy in my class who just spoiled that event to tge entire class and everybody who was reading turned on him and attacked with my teacher not bothering to stop it (She was a Potterhead as well.)
I worked at Borders Bookstore in Monterey, CA when the last book was released. It was torture handing over the books to person after person and not being able to read it for myself because I was on shift for the release. By the time we closed, it was the wee hours of the morning and all I could do was make it to bed with my copy of HP7 and fall asleep. When I woke up, I had to trudge back to the store for my shift. On the way to the store, still not able to have read a page, I saw that someone painted "Harry Dies" on the side of a hill. I don't know why some people are like that. Tiny little Voldemorts of joy.
I spoiled the end of Deathly Hallows for myself accidentally. I was in a funk and started flowing through the last few pages, not truly reading them but just flipping through. I accidentally read Peeves 's little "Death of Voldemort" song and was suitably pissed. I was at t he part when the trio had escaped the Ministry and couldn't go back to Number 12.
I made the mistake of watching ScreenJunkies' honest trailer on another movie, but Infinity Wars was spoiled for me when 'the epic voice guy' says "Mr Stark, I don't feel so good.... (pause)" and then the video ended. fuck! I'm not gonna lie. I wept.
he spiked over the fact that during the release of the 6th book, there was this new concept called, "per ordering". those who paid extra money could buy it online and have it shipped to your house a day in advance. So tons of ass wipes would drive around in their cars and outside of Barns & Noble yelling "Snape kills Dombledoor!"
EmJem i see your comments around many harry potter videos like the videos of thebakeey, seamus gorman, super carlin brothers and others. I would just like you to know that i am also a big fan of harry potter and i will actually start making harry potter videos when i turn ten. #harrypotterlovercommunity
even though I knew that the death was coming up, JK Rowling's writing was still so good that it made my jaw drop. Her writing also made me cry for a solid hour.
before I say what I am about to say I need to state that the HP book series is my all time favourite and I love JK she inspired me to get into writing short stories myself. With that out the way it needs to be said her writing isn't that good! she has a lot of good ideas and she writes characters and their profiles very well but, her story telling and structure make the outcomes of certain events too obvious. She overuses forshadowing which may be the culprit. Now when I am obviously not literary genius otherwise I would be in JK's shoes, but when I dabble with short stories I struggle with the overuse of foreshadowing it is a very hard skill to utilise correctly, too much of it and the audience will have a good idea of the direction you are going in and their will be no shock value, too little and it makes the plot twists seem out of no where and the whole plot will feel unstructured. More to the point of you look at all the "popular" novels that are regarded as greats such as HP, Dan brown's Robert Langdon series, the fifty shades series and many more they actually all share the overuse of foreshadowing giving them very predictable plots, by contrast authors with brilliant use of foreshadowing often have their works over looked and this is because the use of foreshadowing is so good that the plot ends up being too clever for the novels own good and people can't wrap their heads around what they have just read and as such put it down to bad story telling. I just needed to get that off my chest because as much as I do love the author it kind of Irks me to hear she is a great writer. Joannes strength has always come from her ability to paint a really vivid image of her characters for the readers and those characters being very well written.
My older sister dragged my mom and I to see Half Blood Prince in the theater before I started the book (I had just finished Order of The Phoenix) and even then I still was so full of all the intended emotions throughout that entire book.
The fear of spoilers actually might have saved my university degree ^^ My English was not the best when I left school and due to laziness, I stayed away from any english movies/books that could have changed that. But when the Harry Potter books came out, I knew I would see spoilers if I wait for the translated versions to be released. So I pulled myself together and read one of them in English. The first chapters took me ages but it got better with every page. For the last book I ordered the english version with midnight delivery and read it in 1 or 2 days. Why that saved my degree? Because in my last year of university I was told "oh BTW your thesis should be written in English" :-D
In Germany you were able to order the Harry Potter books with "midnight" delivery. Of course the exact time depended on what number on the list of midnight deliveries you were. I got my copy around 2am and felt kind of bad for the mail man ^^ But those two hours really felt like waiting for santa :-D
I was watching UA-cam and saw a spoiler one day. I somehow made myself think it wasn’t true and I literally forgot about it and it still was a surprise when I read the book
This is pretty impressive - I still vividly remember standing in line at the book store (was really close to the front!) and getting the book - OMG the feels. In the era of Netflix, the only way to really avoid spoilers is to binge watch the entire season in one night! I had to do this with Stranger Things because literally the same week there were explainer videos and theories & spoilers eeeeeverywhere!
On the topic of spoilers: How come there is no collective outcry towards the 2-3minutes long spoiler reels that are the movie trailers of today? I mean, sometimes I'm sitting in the theater with closed eyes and my fingers in my ears like a crazy person in order to avoid being robbed of seeing an upcoming movie with a blank impression-sheet. Is this really not something we value anymore? Not only do these things contain 2-3% of the total runtime, they also consist entirely of the most action packed or funny scenes, and some outright spoil major plot twists! Could you guys maybe fetch some pitchforks and join me walking from studio-door to studio-door? If not for shorter better trailers, at least for some solidarity? They don't have to be big pitchforks...
This is WHY i hate trailers of any kind, either movie or TV shows; I've gotten into the habit of "going in blind" to movies I really want to see, for fear that the trailers had spoilers in them.
I agree. This is one thing I really respect about Disney, for the most part they try and keep their trailers vague and not give away too much of the plot line. I don't think I've watched any Disney trailer and felt like I didn't need to see the movie anymore. Coco is a good example of this. They kept is super vague right up until the movie came out, and even the last trailers only said that Miguel goes to the Land of the Dead and nothing more. Other companies seem to so desperately need to convince everyone to go see their movie that they put all the best bits in the trailer.
I have a feeling its because there are so many movies coming out each year, so the companies have to really fight for attention to their products. Where as we know that disney keeps a good standard and that they make good movies, so they just have to say "alright these are the characters something interesting is going to happen."
Inifinity War was different to regular movies in that regard, as they added a scene in the trailer that the fact it didn't happen was a plot point, SPOILER, that being the Hulk running in Wakanda when in reality Bruce was unable to transform.
Awesome, co-forkers! I agree Disney seem to be able to keep it in their pants, at least sometimes. VII had EXCELLENT trailers, Solo was a little too indulging, I think (based on what I heard with my fingers in my ears going "lalalala"). I too mostly avoid predictions and things to look for, though sometimes I just fall in head first. It makes me feel bad sometimes for skipping material from UA-camrs I subscribe to, especially when it's on stuff I'm a fan of, but it's just too risky, blank minds make for the best movie experiences. The studio wanting to draw attention for products is a fair point, though I do not think it's a real fix for the issue unfortunately. I mean, the typical non-provoking action- and romcom-flicks can't really do much to hurt themselves, they'll pretty much do a safe box-office run and score a IMDB-6 no matter what they do. I hypothesize that trailers at half or a third the length would make no negative impact on the bottom line. And it's always a bummer when the best done CGI-explosion-jumping-out-the-skyscraper-scene is in the trailer and the undisclosed ones are only half as good (Or a recent Dwayne Johnson on top of a crane... Not exactly a movie revelation that one, I predict)
I few years ago I dint like reading and my best friend had been telling me for a year to read Harry Potter I never got round to it so she told me everything then about 10 months ago I started reading them and finished them after just 2 1/2 months and have been addicted to Harry Potter and now she regrets telling me about them because that’s all I ever talk about
XD. I'm kinda the same but, I love reading, I just never read the series for some reason, even though literally everyone I knew knew I would love it and this year I decided to finally get around to it and I read it in a total of 29 days, and now it's all I ever talk about.
As far as spoiler culture goes, for me when Infinity War came out I avoided/blocked every single thing related to Marvel (including your movie review, sorry guys!) and it was the most agonizing two weeks of my life.
I did the same thing (although it was only 5 days for me) and then for Endgame I went so far as to avoid every trailer or Marvel-related fan theory video for months, afraid that I’d accidentally come across something that I wouldn’t want to know. Luckily for me though, I happened to be in another country that got Endgame early at the time it came out so I saw it 2 days before anyone else I knew.
I remember about 4 years ago was when I started getting interested into the series and began reading them. Both of parents have read all of the books and so I was using their collection to read them. Thankfully they understood how bad spoilers would be for me and didn't spoil anything. When I finished book 6 they found me in my room, under my blankets, crying
No one spoiled any of the books for me, but a few days after book 7 came out I was at a party and the hostess begged my sister and me to tell her if Harry lived or died because she was too scared to open the copy she'd bought without knowing. We *did* tell her -- outside her apartment, in a "dead zone" at the end of the hall away from all doors, in a low whisper. :-)
She didn't want to have to deal with the disappointment of Harry being dead at the end, so a simple "yes" would've ended the series early for her. I first answered her question, "yes AND no" and my sister just shook her head both ways. She wanted *just* enough information so get over her fear of finding out he sacrificed himself in the end.
nairbvel I mean, if the question was "Does Harry live or die?" An answer could be "Yes." Because he kinda does both. But you would have to read to figure out how that works out.
A friend of mine told me a story where she was in class and some rich snobby kid who had got the Half-Blood Prince early and shouted when he got to class "SNAPE KILLED DUMBLEDORE!!!!". He was stoned on site
I care more about story structure than I do about spoilers, so even if something is spoiled for me, I still enjoy seeing how an author constructed a narrative and which techniques were used to get to that point. I'm infamous for flipping to the end of a book before reading it so I can reverse-engineer the story's blueprints as I go. Also...wasn't the entire book leaked on the internet before the book was released? I feel like I remember hearing about it, and for sure reading the epilogue at some point pre-release. I know because I remember the incredulous reaction to the name "Albus Severus" which is what people used to show that it couldn't possibly be real... lol.
Oh, this is an interesting topic! I may be a voice out of the crowd here, but I actually "like" being spoiled. Sometimes I even look for spoilers myself. When I read a book or watch a movie, I'm much more interested in *how* things happen rather than *what* happens. If I go blind, yes, I may feel surprised or shocked by a certain event, but still, it's a one time feeling and it distracts you from other details that you may miss on your first read/watch. When you get spoiled, instead, you start wondering why that happens, how it happens and so on. I didn't get spoiled Dumbledore's death, but if I was, my mind would have surely started thinking something like "what? Snape kills Dumbledore? How?! Why?! I wanna see it!". I take it as an incentive to experience it myself
Most people in my school aren’t big fans of Harry Potter so I’ve been trying to convince them to get in to it, during this mission last year our English teacher showed us this slide presentation on archetypes and one of the slides completely gave away the entire scene in deathly hallows where Harry died! I was so upset
I think I probably spoiled myself, at that age I had a habit of reading the final page or 2. Luckily thanks to the epilogue that didn't spoil much other than that the good guys won.
I did something similar When I was a kid, I didn't want to read every page the big Harry Potter books (books 4-7), so I would read sentences/pages of the interesting chapters, which were the last few chapters as well as chapters with interesting names or illustrations. I did this to read only the stuff that was very interesting to me at the time, which were fight scenes, scenes that took place in interesting locations (such as the brain room in OoTP), etc.
I've always loved the HP movies but I just bought my first set of HP books and i started reading sorcerer's stone last week. it's bittersweet bc i know once i read the books once ill never have this first time reading experience again :')
Victoria I was at the midnight release of Deathly Hallows and it was such a bitter sweet moment and there were so many people crying. Everyone was so excited to finally get the book, but at the same time it was the last new book, the last time we would have the experience of a midnight release, the last time we would have something brand knew and unknown to read. I know exactly what you mean! Then again, this was a long time ago, and it turned out there was another book made (cursed child) and there has been another movie made (fantastic beasts) and there are more movies in production that will come out.
voldemort and harry stands in the end of the 7th book duelling inside of the main hall. they walk around eachother in silence and talk before harry kill him with the expelliarmus spell. also dobby dies
I would totally be that idiot who starts talking about it with one friend, only to realize it's the wrong friend, and ruins the last book for the entire world
I was a midnight kid minus the dressing up I remember the pallet getting rolled out in Walmart and I had to wait for them to un wrap it like a big glorious present. Great times
When you were born in 2007 so you didn’t read the books until 2019 and no one cares about spoilers so you never had a clean slate with any if the books * cries in pain*
After your video about the Fantastic Beasts 2 screenplay book, I looked for other early Voldemort powers in the first movie, I have re watched it twice and figured out that there was an early version of the dark mark tattoo *THE* *DEATHLY* *HOLLOWS* *NECKLACE* when the wearer (Credence) touches it and then Graves/Grindelwald will apparate to him Just like the tattoo where voldemort wants the death eater to come, the tattoo will burn, they touch it and then instantly apparate to voldy
1119diamondlord 171 if they could have apparated inside Hogwarts, they could have chosen to do just that, though. The dark mark doesn't make them apparate to him, it just heats up to tell them that he's calling. They don't have to answer the call.
I vividly remember being in secondary school when the title of the book came out, because Evanna Lynch was going around the corridors pinning up handwritten sheets with the title on it. I still remember the two of us freaking out about the title. I will love her forever for that, even as an actress IN THE FILMS, she was a Potter fangirl first
I accidentally skipped the page where Dumbledore dies when reading Harry Potter for the first time so I was really confused until I reread that chapter.
I own a bookstore in Brooklyn, and yes there are a ton of wavers and contracts with all big books. Not to mention strict release dates and lock downs on advanced copies
Once I was going home from a soccer game with a friend and I was reading a Harry Potter book as an e-book and me and my friend had a one of those playful fights, and she decided to get back t me by looking up spoilers for the series. SHE LOOKED THEM UP. AND THE WORST PART IS, that fight, did NOT DESERVE THAT SPOILER. My mom also once "accidentally" spoiled that Harry and Ginny marry, and I never read the name Ginny the same way again. THANKS ALOT.
I’m 12 and I just finished reading all the books (it only took me 1 months) and I already watched all the movies and it was still my absolute favourite book series and I was still so into all the books
The secret could've been kept so much easier with a fidelius charm...
No, they should've made Jo or the guy carrying the manuscript secret keeper.
Or an Unbreakable Vow.
@@MusiqueFiend thats for a promise, do you even know what it is?? its when someone makes a promise, you accept it and if you break it, you die. its not for protection smh
raven sucks what I mean is that they could’ve VOWED to keep silent, and if they open their mouth, well, you know the rest.
@@MusiqueFiend ohhh i thought you thought it was a sort of unbreakable wall or something haha
Stan: falls off his broom
Harry: looks down and sees him literally falling to his death!
Harry: “whatcha fell over for!!”
I know I'm not supposed to, but I laughed out so loud!
Ha ha ha
Okay one, harry would never do that but that's hilarious 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
I this killed me. thank you.
@@melaniemagdalene1616 same
So they literally made the shop keeper take "The Unbreakable Vow" of protecting the books
HAHAH, i just learned there's someone who's Job it is to prevent Plot Holes and the like! IN HARRY POTTER! That's funny. Well, next time hire someone who actually does his Job.
Also: Is that a common Job? Do other Franchises have someone like that? Because all Big Franchises I know, like Stargate and Star Trek for example, have entire Lists about their Huge Amount of Plot Holes and other problems.
People make fun of them for Plot Holes so dump that no one CAN have thought about this twice or even once!
These Questions i now have in mind.
@@slevinchannel7589 I have one thing to say: harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Mistakes_in_the_Harry_Potter_books
They should have marked the books G-14 classified
Jaha
Haha
After work the day it was released, my dad bought the 7th book for me, and instead of coming right home and delivering it like I asked him to...he sat in the parking lot of the book store and read the epilogue. Then he called me, asked "Who is Ginny?" and after letting me explain her entire backstory, he laughed heartily, and told me Harry marries her. Then he hung up and came home like normal, where I would lecture him for hours about how rude it was to do that. In retrospect, not a big spoiler really...but does take some suspense out of the big battle scene when both of those characters could die. No matter, it was an incredible read through of one of the greatest books of my generation. I'm not mad, just pleased that even my dad - who talked openly for years about his disinterest in Harry Potter - couldn't resist finding out how it all ended.
It may have been the smallest of spoilers, but I'm glad you stood up to your dad, and gave him a hefty lecture of spoilers.
Good job 👍
My mom did the same thing! I was 14 when it came out and couldn’t get anyone to get the book for me. I had to wait until she got off after 7pm. She read the epilogue so that way she knew what to prepare for with how I would act. Luckily she didn’t spoil it for me, just told everyone else in my family since none of them cared. I will never forget how excited I was getting that book.
I mean that does definitely ruin a lot because Harry getting married means you know how the entire story goes and who wins, although I doubt we actually thought Voldemort would
There was this girl who used to bully me growing up. The one thing we had in common was our love for Harry Potter. I was a faster reader than her and I finished HBP before her. And naturally my form of revenge was spoiling the fact that Snape killed Dumbledore. And to this day I still don't regret it.
Leslie Gimps good job 👏
Hahaha nice revenge. You might be a Slytherin
Haha that is the ultimate revenge. Good job
You sick animal why would you do that even if she bullied you I would’ve just burned her books
Draco Malfoy you are HOUSEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was eleven in 2011 and was on book 4.
Friend: who's your favorite character
Me: Sirius
Friend: Oh he dies in the next book
You: Crucio!
Am I right?
@@ladvargleinad7566 nao ur wrong lol
@@gnomilius How do you know?
@@ladvargleinad7566 because that's the most cringe worthy thing I've ever seen.
@@ladvargleinad7566 and it was a joke but I still find it cringey.
I remember. It was July 20th 2007... I was a little 5 year old. Me and my mom drove to Barns and noble. She dressed me up in Harry Potter glasses, put a scar on my forehead in eyeliner, and stole my dads blue striped tie for me to wear (already called myself a Ravenclaw, still do #Ravenclaw Pride) and we waited until midnight. We cracked the book open, for the new book smell of course. And my mom promised she wouldn’t read it without me. We then spent 2 weeks reading it together whenever we had time. It was one of the best moments I have with anyone :)
YES RAVENCLAW PRIDE 💙
This is such a sweet and precious memory!💜
Wow the restraint your mom had! That’s amazing. What a great memory.
This is the kind if memory I wish to create for my child 😍
I was 1 day old when you were 5
My friend spoiled toy story 4 for me and he hadn’t seen Endgame, he regrets that
Instant karma
*drop a live grenade when killed*
My sister spoiled Dumbledore's death for me. The night it released we managed to grab ourselves a copy and, as the oldest, she got to read it first. she finished it by the next day and as she was handing it to me says "OH MY GOD I CRIED SO HARD WHEN DUMBLEDORE DIED. SNAPE KILLED HIM AND HE FELL FROM THE TOWER ." My desire to connect my elbow to a human jugular had never been stronger than in was in that very moment.
Oh my gosh
I didn't grow up with Harry Potter, and when I was born this exact movie came out but that was when I was born and I really had no passion for it back then, only the knight bus was what I cared about
@@Jeffees what
r/thathappened
Joy Hatake no this is realistic
I remember when the seventh book came out, I was strapped for cash, so I had to wait a week before I could buy it. And I luckily avoided spoilers for the most part, but a person on the nightly news let lose that Fred died at the end. It was the rudest thing ever, and the co-anchor told them off at once.
Robert Gronewold omg! Wtf! Spoiled by a professional! I'd be so angry!
I bet they got a lot of angry messages because of that.
That sounds like an interesting news clip. Is it online?
On TV?? That's so cruel! But I remember all the "fake"spoilers surrounding the 7th book. Idk how many times I'd heard from people that "Ron died at the end."
I remember hearing John Boyega was with a news person as they referred to something in _The Last Jedi._ They felt very embarrassed and Boyega reassured them it was clearly just a mistake.
I was working the night the last Harry Potter came out. The sale started at Midnight, that was our break time as well. it was like Mini black friday with the amount of people in the store for that book. I got to touch them as they sat unwrapped on the pallet. (I was one of the ones handing them out)
Best believe I took my break right after the last person in line got their book and I bought my own copy and started reading it. I vowed that if any one (customer or co-worker) spoiled it for me, then I would go to federal prison because I would literally kill them.
Thankfully I made it the rest of my shift spoiler free and got to finish my book the way J.K. intended.
Damn finished it in one shift huh. Hard worker
I went to one of these in Colorado Springs. It was surprising how big an event it was.
so were all Potterologists on vacation when Crimes of Grindelwald was being made?
Probably 😂
maybe they were fired after the Cursed child :D
They probably resigned after the cursed child...
I love it.
Lori Larson All of the fantstic beasts should be destroyed and memorys burned of them they were that bad ughh
Snape: "Turn to page 596!"
Ron: "You've killed Dumbledore?!"
Snape "Merlin's beard, 50 point taken from Gryffindor for this spoiler."
Nathan Beer Merlin* marlin is a fish not a wizard my dude
I just can't see Snape saying "Merlin's beard"
Ashleigh Cox *Always* 50 points taken from Gryffindor.
Ron should be the one saying Merlin's beard
Rachel Lazenby he did say merlin
I spoiled Snape killing Dumbledore for my 5th grade teacher. I bought it opening night and my friend and I raced eachother to see who could finish first. We both finished by the time our next book report was due... our teacher was only about half way through. I still feel guilty about that.
But my friend spoiled Sirius's death for me because she thought I was further than I was. I still bring that up to her sometimes.
Emily TheSmiler He was SO pissed but also cool about it because its not like we knew we had finished it before our teacher! He called my friend and I all offically up to his desk and had our reports waiting for us. We thought he was going to accuse us of cheating but he was just like "what is THIS" and pointed at each line in our reports. I was so freaked out! I thought we were in so much trouble but then he explained that he just hasn't gotten that far lol.
I remember a classmate getting rejected because they wanted to report on something the teacher was reading. Had to choose something else.
Chris East I don't think we had to submit our books for approval. We just kind of did it!
I would assume it is a personal call for teachers and usually more about making sure students don't slack off or something.
hahayourfunny94 teacher spoiled it for himself by not saying at the beginning of the report that the new harry potter book qas not allowed.
I got every spoiler possible for the series when I was a kid it still is my favorite series though!
Same here. But some small things weren't
During Order of the Phoenix, I worked with National Braille Press. Blind kids generally don't get to participate in things like Harry Potter and most books are years old (months at best) before getting translated to Braille. Also, there's usually one reader and one proofreader for a book.
The Harry Potter books got a sponsor to try to get the books out to Braille libraries and even individuals at the same time sighted people would have it. To prevent spoilers and make printing easier sections were handled by multiple proofreader teams and no one got successive sections. There were also multiple Braille presses involved across the US. As far as I know, they managed to get the books out in time and no spoilers came out. Since I was just a part time sighted reader, I wasn't allowed to participate, but I was terribly excited to know all this was going on.
That's so interesting. I didn't know how hard it was to get Braille copies. My mom is a retired blind & VI teacher and I've worked with blind and VI kids on and off my whole life. Summer of 2005 when Half Blood Prince came out, I worked at a blind and VI summer camp as a counselor. One of the best memories I have is when we camped overnight in a huge teepee and took turns reading it aloud to the kids as they all sat around rapt. The mood in that teepee was electric. You could practically hear John Williams playing in your mind. Harry Potter brings us all together.
What about audio books? I know it's not the same as someone else's voice can affect the listener's interpretation of it, but it makes many books available.
The store I worked at when Deathly Hallows was released got a couple of boxes of them in the day before the release. They weren’t wrapped in black bags or anything, just stacked in a regular cardboard box like any other books would be. I read the first page of one that day. I swear my hands were shaking the entire time. It was the hardest thing in the world to not just run out of the store with one and read the whole thing. I think I was the only Potter fan who worked there and luckily no one was jerk enough to look at the last pages and spoil it for me.
The Three Bookshelves ours had white bands that were not to be broken before midnight
I have read the story in 2017 (far after it came out), I knew what was going to happen and everything was already spoiled. But the story was still amazing and I can't wait to read the story again
I bet you could do it any time you want, what's keeping you?
Same here!!!
Potterologist sounds like the best job ever
Daudi Wampamba It does though!
I read this as poltergeist at first 😐😂
I would have fixed so many things if I was one
YAAAS!!! #dreamjob
It does
Bookstore: How are we gonna hide the books before release?
Employee: *puts Percy Jackson cover over the book*
Bookstore: perfect
Phillip Kindle ?
@@acey1590 thats my name what of it?
Phillip Kindle no I meant the joke I didn’t understand
@@acey1590 noone would buy percy jackson books
BUT PERCY JACKSON IS GREAT!
I worked at UPS in damage processing I had to sign a NDC when they came through. I got to see the book almost a month before release. It was kinda cool
You could download the pdf for the book a couple of months before it came out
It is so funny to watch this as a French-speaking person. When I was younger, and not that fluent in English, I had to wait for the translation to come out. Ok, by the time Deathly Hallows came out, I had enough of it and decided to read it in English, even if there were chunks of text that I did not understand. Now that I think about it, HP probably played a huge part in my decision to become a translator, since I became really bilingual by reading it!
When Order of the Phoenix came out, my friend told me in Art class about Sirius.. I was about 50 pages from it! I was so angry haha!!
Samskie88 unlucky when my older sister was 10 she was reading the goblet of Fire and on a residential trip her friend said that Cedric died and she was so mad
Yep I got asked “have you read the one where Dumbledore Dies?”
OMG so true. If you find my public comment you'll find the story of how it was spoiled for me. It's sad. But this one's the classic
Something worse than a spoiler
A CURSED CHILD!!!!
Alex Wong how dare you
Wow
Lol 😂
What do you mean
Wtf The cursed child was great
"We were on a break!!"- Elder Wand
Greatest spoiler ever:
"No, I am your father."
Stuart Smith and spoiler that all knows xD
It wasnt really a spoiler, the real life community was much better back then
-Snape
That's not true...that's impossible...NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
The ultimate spoiler!
I remember going to my local bookstore's midnight opening party for The Order of the Phoenix with my mom! I was 10, dressed up as Hermione. My brother dressed as Harry and won the costume contest for free tickets to the next Harry Potter movie! My mom was a huge Harry Potter fanatic, but she died of cancer before Half Blood Prince came out. I remember finding her crying in her room one day, and I told her not to cry, we'd be okay when she was gone, and she turned to me and said, "I know that! I'm crying because I won't see how Harry Potter ends!" I still think of her every time I read Harry Potter.
I'm sorry you lost your mom. She sounded amazing. I wish she could have seen how it ended.
i am so sorry for your loss. i am sure she knows how it has ended, someway, somehow :)
Awwwww, I'm sorry, boo. Your mom sounds like an amazing mom and friend. 🫂
I Wouldn’t be Able to be a Potterologist,I’ve Got a Super Short Attention Span
Because I'm dyslexic and get my book through a provider of audio books for people with disabilities, I have to wait longer for my copies of things. It can be over a year after release before I get to read a book. You can't imagine the work I need to do to prevent spoilers. I was told Dobby died years before I read it. I refused to believe it. I flat out wouldn't accept it. I loved the character too much. Then when I saw he died I was furious.
At least you didn't believe it tho
I used memory techniques to forget a spoiler that Dumbledoor told Snape to kill him, and it worked
@@lcex1649 What was your memory technique?
I spoiled Half Blood Prince for myself! :D
I went in to the bookstore, opened the book at the exact page where Snape reveals himself as the half-blood prince. I immediately started hating myself, closed the book and went home. I was super angry at myself. Damn....
Péter Káplár Nelson Muntz: Ha Ha!
You played yourself, well done, here have an upvote
Johny Ludvigsson And it wasn't the first time. I have a special gift to find out major spoilers for stuff. 😂
That's hilarious!😂
F*cking idiot, why would you just open it at a random page?
My brother spoiled Fred’s death for me so I just never finished the deathly hollows...until like 3 years ago... what’s worse is that when I got to Fred’s death I was in school and cried at lunch.
Itzjenni time how does a book make u cry
Lil Pug it because Fred was my favorite character
Lil Pug books are often even more emotional than movies because the author can go into as much detail as they want directors can only use visual
In the entire seventh book I cry more than 3 times. Its so emotional!! (Fred Death, Dobbys Death, Lupins death, etc.)
even when I read it now...for the 10th time or so
Imagine being non-english potterhead and waits months to get this book when huge bunch of readers already read it. Thank god internet wasn't that great back then.
I love that you say "not that great" instead of complaining about the internet the way so many people do today
Deathly Hallows was leaked!
Four days before the release date photos of the pages from the whole book ended up online
I was about to say that... A friend told me and I was like: "I don't care about anything, who won?!"
He told me... And yes, I'm one of the few who do like spoilers. Though I do wish he told me how painfully long the story was. I wouldn't have bought the book. (I like the beginning and the end, the middle was just tripe at the worst level.)
@@SaraNightfire1 You are one of the worst type of human...
@@SaraNightfire1 I was only making a joke about you liking spoilers. Not trying to attack you.
Alex Ryffel-Hughes sorry I just am used to trolls. I’ll remove it. 😀
Yeah. I actually read the leaked e book so that no idiot could spoil it for me
I am so pissed at myself. When Infinity War came out, I didn’t really care about Marvel, so I read about what happened in the end. About a week later though, I decided that I would watch all of the movies in order. I can’t get over the fact that I spoiled Infinity War for myself
JamesKC aww ): I'm so glad you've grown to like the series though!
I remember I was on the 4th book and at my friends house. First she said "RITA SKEETER IS AN ANIMAGUS"
Then she says "SNAPE IS THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE"
PTBHHHH
Whatever you say but I think that Snape being the Half Blood Prince is a more important secret than him killing Dumbledore...
Weirdly enough, Google was the one that spoiled who the half-blood prince was..
If only they made Bloomsbury the secret keeper for the Potter's 😧
Victoria Bryer Did you just.. 😢
You didn’t... 😬😬😬
HOW DARE YOU
My older sibling told me that something would happen to Sirius in Book 5. I didn't know that meant him dying, I thought he'd be freed. :(
Snape kills Dumbledore has become what I call a "spoiler meme". Basically, it's that bit of spoiler trivia that everyone and their grandma uses when mocking the idea of a spoiler alert.
Rosebud was the sled
I spoiled myself about Snape killing Dumbledore by being dumb enough to visit mugglenet on the day of the release, before I had gotten my own copy of the book. And since then, I take every single spoiler warning very very seriously!
My husband and I went to four different cities in our area looking for it on release day. The copy he had reserved for me had been sold on accident. He finally tracked down a special edition copy that he paid $50 for. But I will always remember the determination he had to get it that day! That alone was magical.
“Also, they were totally on a break.” Bahahah
When DH came out, I was 12 and not proficient enough in the English language to read an entire novel. So I had to wait for the translation - which came out MONTHS after the original release!!
The only reason why DH wasn't spoiled for me back in the days was that I was not allowed on the internet. And neither were my friends. And even if we had been, we probably wouldn't have perused English websites anyway. But, at the day of the release of the translation, before my mom went to the bookstore to pick me up a copy, my mom told me about a friend of hers who worked at a bookstore who opened the last page of DH at midnight. She told me that her friend said that Harry would live. That was the only spoiler I ever received of the HP series. :D
PotterheadGeeK7 What is your native language ?
That's a good spoiler though, right?
Lp cat it actually isn't. If the spoiler was "Harry dies" would have been better, cause he actually does, but comes back. Meanwhile if you are spoiled that Harry lives, the whole Forrest encounter would be meh
Same. Polish version of the halfblood prince came out 6 months (!) after the original release.
OMG that sounds so much like me except the end: my mum knew someone working in a bookshop who accepted to sell her a copy at 5pm instead of midnight. When all the other French Potterhead were queuing to get their copy, I had already read the few chapters of mine in bed 😂
When I was reading Order of the Phoenix all of the books had already been released and I was talking to a friend who hadn't read the books yet. she told me, "the only thing I know about those books is that Fred dies."I have never let her live that down and that is how Freds death was spoiled for me. i nearly cried right then and there.
when he talks about someone spoiling the end of an amazing series and i start shivering and weeping remembering how my sister took the final harry potter book the day it came out right after we finally got it in our hands, opened the final page and stated "harry survives" (needless to say she wasn't even a fan)
when half-blood prince came out i was in year 5 or 6, and people were whispering among themselves spoilers that their faster-reading older siblings had told them. my best friend, bless her heart, heard about dumbledore, and because she knew i didn't want to know what happened, and how devastated i'd be if i found out, she made a big effort to make sure i didn't find out and no one in our year told me. of course, a week or so later, when my mum was reading it to me before bed, we got to that scene and i bloody bawled my eyes out lmao. but still, i'll always be eternally indebted to that friend for allowing me to have that gut-wrenching experience ^u^
That friend is a keeper
She sure is ^u^
The WHOLE Harry Potter series was spoiled for me by my friends.....
(I still LOVE Harry Potter, and SCB)
Maddie Carney dobby dies in the last book, crap.
Yep. Same.
They aren't your true friends
My friends did that to me to
Yep same 👍
On of my daughter's friend's mother worked for a printing company that printed Harry Potter #7
Jennifer MacDougall that’s so cool
In the US? If so, I've been to that printing company during the HP era. I worked for a publishing house (not HP-related) and was on a press check. They had security guards.
Guess not knowing English is more useful than I thought.
Once the translation came out in stores, I was given a copy by one of my family members.
Most if not all of my classmates absolutely HATED reading so they wouldn't even bother with it.
I do remember very vaguely reading that Ron would be killed off.
whatt you talking bout
Lune - chan
What *are* you talking about
Sorry I was trying to be funny as you can see best comedian ever
@Kayla
Oh just foreigner stuff
If you can, ignore it. Try not to let it get to you to the point that it offends you, 'cause any minute spent offended is a good happy minute of your day wasted on some stranger on the internet.
@Ayden, I don't mind
We all make mistakes.
I remember the period after HBP was released and my entire year was obsessed with it. In fact it was the only book everyone read during reading period. During one reading period (at that point I already knew about Dumbledore's death after reading it at home, crying and my mother wondering what the problem was,) there was a boy in my class who just spoiled that event to tge entire class and everybody who was reading turned on him and attacked with my teacher not bothering to stop it (She was a Potterhead as well.)
I worked at Borders Bookstore in Monterey, CA when the last book was released. It was torture handing over the books to person after person and not being able to read it for myself because I was on shift for the release. By the time we closed, it was the wee hours of the morning and all I could do was make it to bed with my copy of HP7 and fall asleep. When I woke up, I had to trudge back to the store for my shift. On the way to the store, still not able to have read a page, I saw that someone painted "Harry Dies" on the side of a hill. I don't know why some people are like that. Tiny little Voldemorts of joy.
LOL
They weren't really wrong, because it does happen, albeit temporarily.
I spoiled the end of Deathly Hallows for myself accidentally. I was in a funk and started flowing through the last few pages, not truly reading them but just flipping through. I accidentally read Peeves 's little "Death of Voldemort" song and was suitably pissed. I was at t he part when the trio had escaped the Ministry and couldn't go back to Number 12.
wow! it's so amazing to know the lengths that were taken to keep it spoiler free! Loved this video!!!
I made the mistake of watching ScreenJunkies' honest trailer on another movie, but Infinity Wars was spoiled for me when 'the epic voice guy' says "Mr Stark, I don't feel so good.... (pause)" and then the video ended.
fuck! I'm not gonna lie. I wept.
EmJem i
Same
he spiked over the fact that during the release of the 6th book, there was this new concept called, "per ordering". those who paid extra money could buy it online and have it shipped to your house a day in advance. So tons of ass wipes would drive around in their cars and outside of Barns & Noble yelling "Snape kills Dombledoor!"
EmJem i see your comments around many harry potter videos like the videos of thebakeey, seamus gorman, super carlin brothers and others.
I would just like you to know that i am also a big fan of harry potter and i will actually start making harry potter videos
when i turn ten. #harrypotterlovercommunity
Me: *finished book 5*
Also me: *serched up tonks on youtube.*
UA-cam serch bar: Tonks death. Book 7.
:(
If you're behind you have to be so disciplined not to search characters or plot points, you'll always see spoilers!
IKR I did the exact same thing but for Lupin and I was just sitting there like 😐
Yep. It’s risky to search characters when you don’t know the full story yet.
Fantastic beasts needs a potterologist
Good triumphs over evil. Voldemort dies. I never saw it coming.
Rowling wanted to hide the fact of Snapes true colours and didn't want it spoilt for anyone
The why and how are what we care about we already know the what. Except in infinity war.... 😓😥
Did you you know that he died at the age of 71 though??
@@doggowithnosubs7935 Fun fact, did you know that his biological age then was 57?
Dude I was so surprised 😮 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
I wish I could read the whole Harry Potter series again without knowing anything so that I could read all the twists and turns and be shocked.
It would be funny if Snape killed Dumbledore in page 394
Moon Book not really cause then Dumbledore would have died even sooner 😭
That would be the best thing ever
Knowing J.K. Rowling, I’m surprised she didn’t do exactly this.
How did Harry Potter get down the hill? Walking! JK, Rolling!
No lie
i wonder how many people just didnt get this
Lol heart that before
F in the chat for Jk Rowling’s name.
even though I knew that the death was coming up, JK Rowling's writing was still so good that it made my jaw drop. Her writing also made me cry for a solid hour.
before I say what I am about to say I need to state that the HP book series is my all time favourite and I love JK she inspired me to get into writing short stories myself. With that out the way it needs to be said her writing isn't that good! she has a lot of good ideas and she writes characters and their profiles very well but, her story telling and structure make the outcomes of certain events too obvious. She overuses forshadowing which may be the culprit. Now when I am obviously not literary genius otherwise I would be in JK's shoes, but when I dabble with short stories I struggle with the overuse of foreshadowing it is a very hard skill to utilise correctly, too much of it and the audience will have a good idea of the direction you are going in and their will be no shock value, too little and it makes the plot twists seem out of no where and the whole plot will feel unstructured. More to the point of you look at all the "popular" novels that are regarded as greats such as HP, Dan brown's Robert Langdon series, the fifty shades series and many more they actually all share the overuse of foreshadowing giving them very predictable plots, by contrast authors with brilliant use of foreshadowing often have their works over looked and this is because the use of foreshadowing is so good that the plot ends up being too clever for the novels own good and people can't wrap their heads around what they have just read and as such put it down to bad story telling. I just needed to get that off my chest because as much as I do love the author it kind of Irks me to hear she is a great writer. Joannes strength has always come from her ability to paint a really vivid image of her characters for the readers and those characters being very well written.
@@ChaosCloud96
Hahahahahahaha!!! You actually think Fifty Shades has a plot!!
My older sister dragged my mom and I to see Half Blood Prince in the theater before I started the book (I had just finished Order of The Phoenix) and even then I still was so full of all the intended emotions throughout that entire book.
The fear of spoilers actually might have saved my university degree ^^ My English was not the best when I left school and due to laziness, I stayed away from any english movies/books that could have changed that. But when the Harry Potter books came out, I knew I would see spoilers if I wait for the translated versions to be released. So I pulled myself together and read one of them in English. The first chapters took me ages but it got better with every page. For the last book I ordered the english version with midnight delivery and read it in 1 or 2 days.
Why that saved my degree? Because in my last year of university I was told "oh BTW your thesis should be written in English" :-D
In Germany you were able to order the Harry Potter books with "midnight" delivery. Of course the exact time depended on what number on the list of midnight deliveries you were. I got my copy around 2am and felt kind of bad for the mail man ^^ But those two hours really felt like waiting for santa :-D
I was watching UA-cam and saw a spoiler one day. I somehow made myself think it wasn’t true and I literally forgot about it and it still was a surprise when I read the book
I know how it feels to be spoiled. Especially with Harry Potter
I feel the same way when it comes to movies getting spoiled especially if it's Disney, Pixar, or Marvel. Great video J!! Keep up the good work!!!
This is pretty impressive - I still vividly remember standing in line at the book store (was really close to the front!) and getting the book - OMG the feels.
In the era of Netflix, the only way to really avoid spoilers is to binge watch the entire season in one night!
I had to do this with Stranger Things because literally the same week there were explainer videos and theories & spoilers eeeeeverywhere!
Best line, "I dont know if your hiring but......🤚."
Sign me up for the Potterologist position. I know I'd kill the interview! #HPAlways ⚡💞
On the topic of spoilers: How come there is no collective outcry towards the 2-3minutes long spoiler reels that are the movie trailers of today? I mean, sometimes I'm sitting in the theater with closed eyes and my fingers in my ears like a crazy person in order to avoid being robbed of seeing an upcoming movie with a blank impression-sheet. Is this really not something we value anymore? Not only do these things contain 2-3% of the total runtime, they also consist entirely of the most action packed or funny scenes, and some outright spoil major plot twists!
Could you guys maybe fetch some pitchforks and join me walking from studio-door to studio-door? If not for shorter better trailers, at least for some solidarity? They don't have to be big pitchforks...
This is WHY i hate trailers of any kind, either movie or TV shows; I've gotten into the habit of "going in blind" to movies I really want to see, for fear that the trailers had spoilers in them.
I agree. This is one thing I really respect about Disney, for the most part they try and keep their trailers vague and not give away too much of the plot line. I don't think I've watched any Disney trailer and felt like I didn't need to see the movie anymore. Coco is a good example of this. They kept is super vague right up until the movie came out, and even the last trailers only said that Miguel goes to the Land of the Dead and nothing more. Other companies seem to so desperately need to convince everyone to go see their movie that they put all the best bits in the trailer.
I have a feeling its because there are so many movies coming out each year, so the companies have to really fight for attention to their products. Where as we know that disney keeps a good standard and that they make good movies, so they just have to say "alright these are the characters something interesting is going to happen."
Inifinity War was different to regular movies in that regard, as they added a scene in the trailer that the fact it didn't happen was a plot point, SPOILER,
that being the Hulk running in Wakanda when in reality Bruce was unable to transform.
Awesome, co-forkers!
I agree Disney seem to be able to keep it in their pants, at least sometimes. VII had EXCELLENT trailers, Solo was a little too indulging, I think (based on what I heard with my fingers in my ears going "lalalala").
I too mostly avoid predictions and things to look for, though sometimes I just fall in head first. It makes me feel bad sometimes for skipping material from UA-camrs I subscribe to, especially when it's on stuff I'm a fan of, but it's just too risky, blank minds make for the best movie experiences.
The studio wanting to draw attention for products is a fair point, though I do not think it's a real fix for the issue unfortunately. I mean, the typical non-provoking action- and romcom-flicks can't really do much to hurt themselves, they'll pretty much do a safe box-office run and score a IMDB-6 no matter what they do. I hypothesize that trailers at half or a third the length would make no negative impact on the bottom line. And it's always a bummer when the best done CGI-explosion-jumping-out-the-skyscraper-scene is in the trailer and the undisclosed ones are only half as good (Or a recent Dwayne Johnson on top of a crane... Not exactly a movie revelation that one, I predict)
I few years ago I dint like reading and my best friend had been telling me for a year to read Harry Potter I never got round to it so she told me everything then about 10 months ago I started reading them and finished them after just 2 1/2 months and have been addicted to Harry Potter and now she regrets telling me about them because that’s all I ever talk about
XD. I'm kinda the same but, I love reading, I just never read the series for some reason, even though literally everyone I knew knew I would love it and this year I decided to finally get around to it and I read it in a total of 29 days, and now it's all I ever talk about.
As far as spoiler culture goes, for me when Infinity War came out I avoided/blocked every single thing related to Marvel (including your movie review, sorry guys!) and it was the most agonizing two weeks of my life.
Roy Thingamajig, ya infinity war already got spoiled for me
I did the same thing (although it was only 5 days for me) and then for Endgame I went so far as to avoid every trailer or Marvel-related fan theory video for months, afraid that I’d accidentally come across something that I wouldn’t want to know. Luckily for me though, I happened to be in another country that got Endgame early at the time it came out so I saw it 2 days before anyone else I knew.
Any Ravenclaws
#Ravenclawpride
Josh Criste Yes Sir!!!!!!!
Yep right here
Present! 🙋🏻♀️
Ravenclaw for life
Nah mate hufflepuff is the shit
I remember about 4 years ago was when I started getting interested into the series and began reading them. Both of parents have read all of the books and so I was using their collection to read them. Thankfully they understood how bad spoilers would be for me and didn't spoil anything. When I finished book 6 they found me in my room, under my blankets, crying
Yoda dies in Infinity War
OMG why did you spoil it for me 😡🤬😂
Haha this made me laugh out so loud!
*gasp* HOW. COULD. YOU.
In Ep.6?
Nooooooooo
No one spoiled any of the books for me, but a few days after book 7 came out I was at a party and the hostess begged my sister and me to tell her if Harry lived or died because she was too scared to open the copy she'd bought without knowing. We *did* tell her -- outside her apartment, in a "dead zone" at the end of the hall away from all doors, in a low whisper. :-)
Well, you could have answered "yes" to that question. 😉 Then she could read to find out what you meant by that.
She didn't want to have to deal with the disappointment of Harry being dead at the end, so a simple "yes" would've ended the series early for her. I first answered her question, "yes AND no" and my sister just shook her head both ways. She wanted *just* enough information so get over her fear of finding out he sacrificed himself in the end.
nairbvel I mean, if the question was "Does Harry live or die?" An answer could be "Yes." Because he kinda does both. But you would have to read to figure out how that works out.
I almost smothered my cousin when she spoiled it
She has now learned her lesson
A friend of mine told me a story where she was in class and some rich snobby kid who had got the Half-Blood Prince early and shouted when he got to class "SNAPE KILLED DUMBLEDORE!!!!". He was stoned on site
I care more about story structure than I do about spoilers, so even if something is spoiled for me, I still enjoy seeing how an author constructed a narrative and which techniques were used to get to that point. I'm infamous for flipping to the end of a book before reading it so I can reverse-engineer the story's blueprints as I go.
Also...wasn't the entire book leaked on the internet before the book was released? I feel like I remember hearing about it, and for sure reading the epilogue at some point pre-release. I know because I remember the incredulous reaction to the name "Albus Severus" which is what people used to show that it couldn't possibly be real... lol.
I do the same thing lol
Totally Agree
I don't think you are infamous... Poor word choice.
i didnt do that with harry potter but i do it with most books now
My name is Connor. Hello Connor ;)
Imagine with Rita Skeeter, that Ron just saw her as a beetle and was like "Heh, a beetle," and just squished her
Oh, this is an interesting topic! I may be a voice out of the crowd here, but I actually "like" being spoiled. Sometimes I even look for spoilers myself. When I read a book or watch a movie, I'm much more interested in *how* things happen rather than *what* happens. If I go blind, yes, I may feel surprised or shocked by a certain event, but still, it's a one time feeling and it distracts you from other details that you may miss on your first read/watch. When you get spoiled, instead, you start wondering why that happens, how it happens and so on. I didn't get spoiled Dumbledore's death, but if I was, my mind would have surely started thinking something like "what? Snape kills Dumbledore? How?! Why?! I wanna see it!". I take it as an incentive to experience it myself
You know how obsessed we are with Harry Potter when people care about how it was printed...
Most people in my school aren’t big fans of Harry Potter so I’ve been trying to convince them to get in to it, during this mission last year our English teacher showed us this slide presentation on archetypes and one of the slides completely gave away the entire scene in deathly hallows where Harry died! I was so upset
were you disapointed that they know the ending now, or that you knew it?
I think I probably spoiled myself, at that age I had a habit of reading the final page or 2. Luckily thanks to the epilogue that didn't spoil much other than that the good guys won.
n8opot8oW I do that sometimes too but I made a huge effort not to with that final book. I knew I would regret it if I did.
I did something similar
When I was a kid, I didn't want to read every page the big Harry Potter books (books 4-7), so I would read sentences/pages of the interesting chapters, which were the last few chapters as well as chapters with interesting names or illustrations. I did this to read only the stuff that was very interesting to me at the time, which were fight scenes, scenes that took place in interesting locations (such as the brain room in OoTP), etc.
As a kid I liked reading the last word
n8opot8oW same
I've always loved the HP movies but I just bought my first set of HP books and i started reading sorcerer's stone last week. it's bittersweet bc i know once i read the books once ill never have this first time reading experience again :')
Victoria
That is me with every book
Victoria I was at the midnight release of Deathly Hallows and it was such a bitter sweet moment and there were so many people crying. Everyone was so excited to finally get the book, but at the same time it was the last new book, the last time we would have the experience of a midnight release, the last time we would have something brand knew and unknown to read. I know exactly what you mean! Then again, this was a long time ago, and it turned out there was another book made (cursed child) and there has been another movie made (fantastic beasts) and there are more movies in production that will come out.
voldemort and harry stands in the end of the 7th book duelling inside of the main hall. they walk around eachother in silence and talk before harry kill him with the expelliarmus spell. also dobby dies
ive seen the movies you dumbass good job on trying to spoil it tho
"WE WERE ON A BREAK!" - Ross Geller
its weird seeing someone call him ross geller since you barely hear people say his last name even though you know what it is
I would totally be that idiot who starts talking about it with one friend, only to realize it's the wrong friend, and ruins the last book for the entire world
"WE WERE ON A BREAK!" Said---
Oh, wait... that's a spoiler.
They WERE on a break. Rachel even said to Monica "Ross & I broke up" after the date.
kwelchans I know. I still call him a cheater.
They were also he got to hit it multiple times after that
mlp2be4ever yes very very true... he cheated there is no doubt about it
He didn’t cheat, it’s a dick move for sure but they were done so not a cheat
Deathly Hallows was the first thing I ever bought on the day it was released. Felt quite special. And even Ginny wasn't able to ruin that.
I dont think I've ever been more heated than the time UA-cam recommendations spoiled red 2s ending. I was mad and heartbroken at the same time
How on Earth was a HARRY POTTER book kept secret?!?
Just A Raccoon in The Trash it was 2007 tbf, if it happened now the book would've been leaked months before
this is how
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Magic
I was a midnight kid minus the dressing up I remember the pallet getting rolled out in Walmart and I had to wait for them to un wrap it like a big glorious present. Great times
When you were born in 2007 so you didn’t read the books until 2019 and no one cares about spoilers so you never had a clean slate with any if the books
* cries in pain*
After your video about the Fantastic Beasts 2 screenplay book, I looked for other early Voldemort powers in the first movie, I have re watched it twice and figured out that there was an early version of the dark mark tattoo
*THE* *DEATHLY* *HOLLOWS* *NECKLACE* when the wearer (Credence) touches it and then Graves/Grindelwald will apparate to him
Just like the tattoo where voldemort wants the death eater to come, the tattoo will burn, they touch it and then instantly apparate to voldy
Spaghetti Batman yeah but Hermione Granger did that for the DA in book5
no, she put new numbers and locations on a gallion. they didnt tele to them.
1119diamondlord 171 if they could have apparated inside Hogwarts, they could have chosen to do just that, though. The dark mark doesn't make them apparate to him, it just heats up to tell them that he's calling. They don't have to answer the call.
Sorry, I meant they didnt apparate to Hermione with the galleons.
1119diamondlord 171 they don't use the dark mark to apparate to Voldemort, either is my point.
I vividly remember being in secondary school when the title of the book came out, because Evanna Lynch was going around the corridors pinning up handwritten sheets with the title on it. I still remember the two of us freaking out about the title. I will love her forever for that, even as an actress IN THE FILMS, she was a Potter fangirl first
Once again, you nailed it! You amaze me with how much information you find on any particular subject.
I accidentally skipped the page where Dumbledore dies when reading Harry Potter for the first time so I was really confused until I reread that chapter.
I own a bookstore in Brooklyn, and yes there are a ton of wavers and contracts with all big books. Not to mention strict release dates and lock downs on advanced copies
The Emperor's New Groove clip 😂🤣🤣💀
I had to sign a form saying I wouldn't sell the book before the date!
Once I was going home from a soccer game with a friend and I was reading a Harry Potter book as an e-book and me and my friend had a one of those playful fights, and she decided to get back t me by looking up spoilers for the series. SHE LOOKED THEM UP. AND THE WORST PART IS, that fight, did NOT DESERVE THAT SPOILER. My mom also once "accidentally" spoiled that Harry and Ginny marry, and I never read the name Ginny the same way again. THANKS ALOT.
Infinity war? People are still yelling at me not to spoil endgame.
I’m 12 and I just finished reading all the books (it only took me 1 months) and I already watched all the movies and it was still my absolute favourite book series and I was still so into all the books
Ivy Aiken I did that too! But it took me 2 months and I’m 11
I read it when I was 10, I’m 13 now, and I can read the whole series in a week
Ivy Aiken I read it when I was 6 and finished when I was 7 (took me a few months because I was young)
Ivy Aiken When I was 8 I could read it in a week... Now I can read it in like 2 days! Not bragging though!!
i think i started reading the books in 2nd grade, so i read the series a lot of times, but i have never seen the movies