With the release of the new Harry Potter book, I’ve been looking around, curious for the major clue in that book: JK Rowling killed off a main character of the series. I haven’t read any of the books. I have seen half of the 3 movies (time wise!): that was either because I got bored with the commercials in between or because I fell asleep (I hear Alfons has a somewhat related problem). Don’t get me wrong: these books are probably brilliantly written by an equally brilliant author, but for some kind of reason they just don’t move me. Good for the kids who read them. I lose, I gather. (Oh: I had this one in my bookmarks for the longest time: a long CBC article about Umberto Eco and his latest book ‘The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana’).
So: plenty of kudos to the ones who’ve read the book and (morally?) refuse to give up the clue. I feel like a sore loser, so maybe it’s time to get some money together and actually buy the books. Or DVDs.
Which reminds me of a dream where mr. Rove revealed the clue of ‘The Half-Blood Prince’ (does he read anyways?), before it was released. I dare not tell what happened, nor do I dare to explain why I would dream such weird dreams.
update: Boring (via Metafilter).
update 2: More spoilers at Kuro5hin (you do not want to click this link!)
update 3: Google ‘knows’ it too…