Any plans to avoid Book 7 Spoilers?

Book 5 was spoiled for me inadvertently by reading a small fanart summary of OoTP showing clealy in a paragraph a farewell to Sirius. I blame me and partly my friend for not making "spoiler" more visible. But mostly me for not reading right that day.

Book 6 was spoiled for me by an AIM chat who linked me to a wonerful YTMND webpage about one week away from the release of the book. Needless to say I wasn't very impressed with the person and I'm negging him to oblivion for that mistake.

I'm a moderate HP fan. Haven't posted on here since after HBP. But considering that HP is a good series, I do want to be at least surprised by the ending of it all, especially for the last in the series and no doubt chock full of juicy revelations. Even though 2 years is quite far away, does anyone have any plans on how they'll avoid book 7 spoilers at all? Would they avoid the forums here? Would they cut themselves off from people or even the internet?

Me personally I'd take a small hiatus from the internet, at least a week or so from the release. I don't live in a metropolitan area, so there is little chance of what infamously happened on that HBP spoiler video happening here (though I might be moving soon). But ultimately I'll minimize my BBS rovings in general since I don't go much on the internet anyways. But yeah the internet is basically the only thing that would have to change in my day to day activities.

I love spoilers! I can't help but to read them!
I'm happy that I read that DD was going to be the one to die in HBP before I acually read it. I still had my doubts, and as I read his death I stopped reading and I cryed! Not just little sobs, but I CRIED! My entire family was asking if I was OK. You really don't know what's gonna happen till you read it, even if you've read the spoilers you're still have to feal it.

My plan is simple. I'll likely avoid HP discussion for about a month before the release, I will buy the book the day it is released, and read it immediately, just like I did with HBP. I think really that it's fairly simple to avoid spoilers if you want to -- unless of course someone comes up to you on the street and randomly tells you the ending, but most people wouldn't do something like that.

The great thing about the books is that they're realeased worldwide on the same day (mostly) so there is less spoilage than the movies. All I knew before HBP was that someone would die (and I admit I flipped through to the end to find out who before I read it).

Though I have to say that since book 7 will be the last, it seems a terrible shame not to experience it the way it was intended - from start to finish.

i know when HBP came out there was massive 'security' (cant think of another word to use) to avoid spoliers. also seemed like 90% of the forum members volunteered to have anti spoiler sigs on show, and from my recolection it work on the whole here, so i would imagine something similar will happen when book 7 is out.

... although i dont think we need to worry yet since its about 2 years away :)

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The Protéger Plan



Mission: Avoid spoilers for Harry Potter book seven.




WhenPublishing Starts:

Don't read/view any news media,
Only visit trusted sites, which will not reveal spoilers,
In forums, be careful of what you are viewing.

When book is released:

Take something to distract you incase somebody/something reveals spoilers while waiting for book,
Continue protection until in a safe place where to spoilers can be revealed, e.g house,bedroom etc,

When you have the book:

Read only in safe places where no spoilers can be revealed to you,
Do NOT read/view any news media until finished book.

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If you want to add to this, & make the plan more stronger. Please reply to this thread. Thanks.

Post your plans for avoiding book 7 spoilers

The Protéger Plan



Mission: Avoid spoilers for Harry Potter book seven.




When Publishing Starts:

Don't read/view any news media,
Only visit trusted sites, which will not reveal spoilers,
In forums, be careful of what you are viewing.

When book is released:

Take something to distract you incase somebody/something reveals spoilers while waiting for book,
Continue protection until in a safe place where to spoilers can be revealed, e.g house,bedroom etc,

When you have the book:

Read only in safe places where no spoilers can be revealed to you,
Do NOT read/view any news media until finished book.

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If you wish to add to this plan and make it stronger please reply to this thread. thanks

How About:

When the Book is published, "read it in Snape's Dungeon because it is so quiet and desolate" and nobody will reveal to you anything because they cannot find you? XD

Well i will get it the moment it comes out.. And read it the same night.. I doubht we will have to worry about media spoliers though.. By that time we will have so many therorys that we wont belive them.. I however dont listen to the news... Plus the only sites about Harry Potter I go on are this one and jkrowling.co.uk.. :D

i love spoilers.

or Use These Spoiler Tags!!!

Here's a secret,
You can't hide from spoilers.

It would be very difficult know to descuss the plans and topics without book six spoilers. Because then you would only know the info from book five and in a sence, be descuss what you thought was going to happen in the sixth book.

Only visit mugglenet, and don't go online until I finish my book.

plan looks good to me

love the way its been written out, looks like a government quick response plan to something hehe :P

i want nothing to do with spoilers this time around..i just wouldn't be able to forgive myself :p

I haven't been a member of CoS for long, but still managed to avoid spoilers on here. I didn't get the book until a week or so after it came out and didn't begin reading it until another 2 weeks later (I wanted to finish re-reading the series). A few friends at work had already finished it and, with my nagging, were kind enough not to discuss it around me. I think the best way to avoid spoilers is to read the book as soon as possible and to be on guard and alert when you're around HP fans, either in person or online.

I avoided Book 6 spoilers and I plan on avoiding Book 7 spoilers. I avoided Book 6 spoilers (it was not hard to do) by making sure to avoid any newspaper article about HP for fear of learning who was the character rumored to die. I just refused to be spoiled like that. The week before the book came out I wouldn't talk to anyone on the internet or chat room who I knew was a fan of HP for fear they might have said something to me.

That's just how I do it. I will not allow myself to be spoiled for Book 7... why would I want to ruin the surprise and then spend my whole time reading trying to figure out if the spoiler rumor was true?

My advice: don't even read it yourself, and NEVER post about it. Don't be a jerk and spoil for yourself and especially others.

I'm just gonna get Book 7 right when it comes out and read it in a couple of days :)

After reading the entire series, all without spoilers, it would be horrible to have the last one ruined. I don't want to know anything about it until I sit down at 1:00a.m. after having waited in line to buy it. No internet, no newspapers and no TV for at least a week before the release date until I finish the book.

OotP was spoilt for me but I avoided spoilers in HBP by basically not coming out of my room til I finished it and that was a pretty good tactic. As for pre-release internet spoilers I just stay off anything HP related except mugglenet.

I'm going to not partake in much discussion for a while before it comes out. And then I will stop looking at Mugglenet's editorials and stuff. Ouch. This is going to hurt. And then, when I do get the book, I will stay off of forums, stay off of IM's and lock myself in my room until I finish. And then I will resume all normal activity. Yes. That will work.

Oh, and while reading the book, I will not look at the last few pages like I usually do. I spoiled HBP and OoTP like that.

Well if you pre-order the book from somewhere like amazon.com and don't leave the house till it arrives you can avoid spoilers :P
Then you have to read it none-stop before leaving the house though...

Alternatively, make a holiday for the same day, makesure your on a plane or else your not driving, pick up the book whilst wearing loud music in your earphones and then read it through the journey (worked with me on the last book-release).

I dont really get too many spoilers all I do is look at the release date, and if I can preorder it. and then when i get the book I stay up all night reading so that no one will spoil it for me.

my friend isnt so lucky he likes to "savor" the books and read them really slow. but he had book 5 and 6 ruined for him.
I try to spoil it for him by "accidentally slipping in a piece of paper say ing that ginny or ron died just to make him mad.

As cool as it would be to go to a midnight release party, I think I'll just order the book off amazon in order to avoid spoilers. Also, I'm going to try to avoid the internet and T.V. for a few days.

Those who said to read it quickly are the smartest, that is the best way to do it.

Although, didn't you know Dumbledore was going to die when he was on every cover of every edition of HBP except for the Dutch one?

Book 5 was spoiled for me inadvertently by reading a small fanart summary of OoTP showing clealy in a paragraph a farewell to Sirius. I blame me and partly my friend for not making "spoiler" more visible. But mostly me for not reading right that day.

Book 6 was spoiled for me by an AIM chat who linked me to a wonerful YTMND webpage about one week away from the release of the book. Needless to say I wasn't very impressed with the person and I'm negging him to oblivion for that mistake.

I'm a moderate HP fan. Haven't posted on here since after HBP. But considering that HP is a good series, I do want to be at least surprised by the ending of it all, especially for the last in the series and no doubt chock full of juicy revelations. Even though 2 years is quite far away, does anyone have any plans on how they'll avoid book 7 spoilers at all? Would they avoid the forums here? Would they cut themselves off from people or even the internet?

Me personally I'd take a small hiatus from the internet, at least a week or so from the release. I don't live in a metropolitan area, so there is little chance of what infamously happened on that HBP spoiler video happening here (though I might be moving soon). But ultimately I'll minimize my BBS rovings in general since I don't go much on the internet anyways. But yeah the internet is basically the only thing that would have to change in my day to day activities.

I say stay away from the internet for a month before release.

It is super hard to stay away from spoilers because they just pop up. I heard about the death of Dumbledore on television before I got the book. To be completely safe, you have to avoid all forms of media from newspapers to internet sites.
Also, when you get the book, do not absent mindedly flip through the book. I did that with OOTP, and accidently flipped to the page where Sirius dies.
Only one more book, and then, it is over. We must savor the last release the most.

I plan on locking myself up in my room and not coming out until I finish the book. Before the release I'll stay offline for the two weeks and I'll avoid all spoilers and theories for book seven for at least six months.

You know, I might plan my holiday on the releasedate (on purpose this time). Because that worked out great for HBP.

...getting the book and reading it right away? then you'll know them before anyone else...

yeah I read OotP between 1 and 6 AM on release day. That was a pretty good way to avoid spoilers... if only I was where it came out FIRST. I guess hypothetically i could have read a spoiler from someone in england who read it in the same timetable as me and would have finished it by the time I got the book, but I dunno. Just read it right away, that's a good plan.

Thankfully none of the books were spoiled for me before they got released, and I used to check into Mugglenet every two minutes to find if any spoilers were released and it used to take every ounce of willpower to stop myself from highlighting the texts :D I was in Vegas when the Half Blood Prince came out and considering how, erm, interesting the people there are, I was really worried that someone might just shout out the ending of the book in a passing car or something. And I was relieved that nothing of the sort happened, the only drawback being that I was too eager to get back into the hotel room to read the book for at least two minutes only to be dragged out again.

The forums have their anti spoiler policy, which is a really good thing, and it's safe to visit Mugglenet because you have to click on the text to read the spoiler. But I probably won't sign into Mugglenet or the forums, or I won't even sign into the net and avoid the radio and television the day book 7 gets released, read it in one night and then dive into the forums :D

But I probably won't sign into Mugglenet or the forums, or I won't even sign into the net and avoid the radio and television the day book 7 gets released, read it in one night and then dive into the forums :D
That's what I did for a whole week before HBP was released and it worked. I only watched things like Food TV and the History Channel. It was very tough, but I kept telling myself I was building character.

Isolation is my plan. Avoid people or any Harry Potter websites. Actually, just stay off the goddamned internet until you finish reading. Then you can come out of hibernation.:D It won't take long if you don't stop reading and I don't plan to...And also do NOT, turn to the back of the book. I did this and managed to find out that Dumbledore died before I had reach the 5th chapter of HBP. Terrible huh? But I didn't mind so much because I'm usually desperate for spoilers but if you try to avoid them like the plague, take my advice from up there ^^^:)

As soon as the book becomes public(if that makes any sense) and when one JKR interview is published im banning myself from anything hp

For Half-Blood Prince's release, I stopped reading HP sites about 6 months prior to its release. As soon as the book was released in the UK, I got offline completely. I really avoided all the spoilers, because I didn't want to ruin the book. Turned out I'd predicted all of the important bits, but I still was surprised by a lot of the details.

I'm not sure I'll do this for the last book. I think I kind of missed out on the fever pitch of anticipation, plus reading it at the same time as a bunch of other fanatics and discussing it with them instantly seems like it could be a blast.

I cannot resist spoilers.

For example Wikipedia had an article about Book 6 I was reading and it's form of not revealing spoilers was "It has been leaked that this character will die in Book 6" The underlined word was a link that took you to the Wikipedia article on that particular character.

I resisted looked for about 5minutes before I gave up and looked. It was Dumbledore's Wikipedia article.

I still thought it might not be true and when Dumbledore did die in the books I was still incredibly shocked and my eyes got all misty.

Lol yes the plan is to avoid any HP convos at least a few months b4.... and if mugglenet posts some spoiler warning theorys then i am going to try and try not to look at them (i couldnt resist with the ** one for HBP....i had to know if it was going to be a weasley) i dont care what happens... i have waited 8 years for this book, and by the time its out it will prob be 10.... and im not gonna let some hot headed freak ruin the bigest thing in my LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am a fairly new fan to the Potter series. I had seen the movies, but just started reading the books in the beginning of October (I think) and I am already on my second time through them. But I was lucky enough not to see any spoilers for the first 6 books and I hope I do not see any for the next book. I allow myself to listen to some of the theories on mugglenet and such, but that is all, and once it gets closer to the release I will stop reading all news about the book to avoid any spoilers that may get leaked.

I think I'll try my best to avoid spoilers..

spoiling movies is fine but books....cant have that!!!

will be staying well away from anything to do with book 7 until I have read it cover to cover (starting at the front:p ) twice!!!!!!!!!
And if someboby I know reads is frist (like thats going to happen:lol: ) and say anything to me about it, they better start running:grumble: :lol: :p

I love Spoilers! :D

I don't mind the little spoilers, but the huge ones kill me. Someone spoiled book 6 for me. They had the username "SNAPEKILLSDUMBLEDORE" on godric's-hollow.com. Kind of hard to miss.

My plan is going to be to not go on the internet a week... okay, five days before the release. The problem is that's going to be really hard for me to do. I'm addicted to the forums.

I know how you feel, I got into HP after the first five books were already out. I was actually on a website with an interview by Jo and she mentioned the death in book 5 being necessary, so I knew someone died, then a GREAT friend went and told me who it was. So for HBP I stayed away from anything Harry Potter related online for about a week before release until after I'd read the book. I plan to do the same for book 7. Also, I'm not reading any "Theories on Book 7" posts for fear that someone got something right, I want it to be a complete surprise. And then obviously don't read anything that says SPOILERS.

Yeah the same the I did for book 6, go camping for three days and finish it in the wilderness where no one can tell me what happens. I'm not kidding, the 6th book came out the same day as my camping trip so I broguht it along and finished it in 2 days, no interupptions, not sure if I'm going to do it again.

What will you do when you get book 7 in x many years. I know I won't leave my room until I'm done, because it was ruined for me at camp when sirius died and when dumbledore died (although i was just 3 pages away). For book 7, to ensure that it is not ruined, I'm not going to leave my room, except for bathroom breaks. I won't watch TV or go on the computer or anything, and even miss school if i have to.

When you get your book 7, what precautions will you take?

Well assuming I get it at midnight I'll read a chapter or two, then sleep, then read it all the next day.

I'm pretty sure that it'll go the same way that OotP and HBP went ... plan the running length from *** front entrance to the book store, run in on the day itself, qeue (sp?) up, hand over my reciept, recieve book, squeal with happiness, and maybe dance around a bit before plopping myself onto a chair and reading slowly, yet quickly. If you get what I mean. ;)

I will hopefully get it at midnight but won't be able to read it since I will have to go to work the next day. After work I will do nothing but read the book and hopefully finish it in a couple days.

Well, I never get the books at midnight because I really don't see the point. Actually I didn't get HBP until like two weeks after it came out and no one ruined it for me. I think I'll want to stretch out Book 7 as far as I can, even if I do have to wait so long for it anyway. I'll get it when I get it and take my time reading it. I could probably finish it all in one day, but I won't because then it will all be over, nothing left to look forward to. To avoid spoilers I won't visit HP websites for a week before it comes out until after I read it, same thing I did for HBP.

Our family always gets the recorded book and the printed book simultaneously. My son devours the printed book and I listen to the recorded book (Jim Dale is WONDERFUL) while I commute to/from work. Can't wait for book seven!!

I know that I won't be able to get it at midnight but I would preorder it. I would love to read nonstop but I have to share it with my brother which really stinks. I hate reading a chapter at a time.

Order it from amazon as I did in the last years, then make sure that I have time to read it...and I will read it very fast, like I always do the first time... (so I'm able to enjoy it the second time I read...).

Oh, and I have to defeat my cos-addiction and normally internet-addiction, because I don't want to read any comments (although I think there'll be a spoiler-policy again on cos) before I end it.

It's great that not so much friend of mine read the english version, so I'm not afraid that someone spoils me (I'm more afraid that clumsy-gertie spoils someone...:shrug:). On the other hand it's hard not to be able to talk someone...

So, short: I'll put myself in my room, chocolate and coffee at the table and read read read...:)

I will preorder it and do as I did with HPB. I will read it carefully, staying away from spoilers, PC, TV, music, friends, world… After I’m done with it, I don’t know what I will do…probably get a very good sleep. Then start rereading the whole series :D

I'll try to shut myself off from the modern world! Thats what I did last time for the 6th book. I happened to be going camping the same time the book came out, so I read it for 2 strait days and was done, no iterupptions! This time I don't think i'll be going camping again, so I'll try to shut myself away some using some other method. Hmmm...

Read and read and read until I've read every last word!

I'll have to take it away from my kids so I can read it.. :-)

Well, during the initial read session, and somtimes several days before as this seems to be the time when those who have aquired the book early, post spoilers, I stay off the forums. I will usually peruse Mugglenet or The Leaky Cauldron, but I won't read any of the comments until I have finished the book.

I stay well away from forums if I haven't read the latest book. Sometimes it helps to stay well away from the internet altogether. You never know where you will read "@#*%! dies in book seven!" or whatever. One of my MSN contacts declared that Dumbledore dies in her screen name not long after I had finished reading HBP. I would have been so annoyed if I had seen that a few days earlier!

I will get book 7 on opening night then I will stay away from the internet untill I finish the book, then I'm going to lock myself in my room and read it straight through.

I'm so scared of getting book seven spoiled for me, I think I'm going to go to drastic measures and stay away from the internet two weeks before it comes out. Then, when I'm finished with it I'm allowed to go back online again.

I will get book 7 on opening night then I will stay away from the internet untill I finish the book
The thing is, I can't avoid the book after I start. I'm going to refuse meals until I finish it.

Naw, I kind of like the spoilers,,,besides Jo is very good about not letting big things out in the open,
I view the spoilers as a kind of appetizer, just to get ready for the feast.

my friend was visiting new york when hbp came out and so he got the book 3 hours before i did ... i suppose in his excitement he either forgot he was not in california with me or that when midnight comes in new york it's still only 9 pm in california. either way he is the type of person to reach the last chapter first, which is what he did and then he called me and was like "oh my God can you believe .. killed ..?!" and that's how hbp was ruined for me. for book 7 i am unplugging my telephone and turning off my cell phone as soon as the book is released in ANY country!! and it will remain off until i have read the book. i'm also going to be careful of spoilers online, but i really didn't have a problem with that last time so i'm not too worried.

I think it's safe to still visit the COS forums (and only the forums) though. The general attitude toward spoilers around here is very negative, and people are always staving them off with those aggressive anti-spoiler sigs. :p Then again, I wasn't here very much during the few weeks preceding the HBP release so how would I know?

I don't really have any big plans to avoid spoliers, really. I still plan to visit these forums and mugglenet and most of the regular sites that I go to because they seem to have low tolerance against spoilers. Besides, if I did come across a spolier I wouldn't know if it was one really until I had read the book. I don't fancy spoilers very much, but I wouldn't go hay wire if I happen to read something that is spoilerish. I plan to get my Harry Potter book at midnight when it comes out and reading it non-stop till I'm finished, so hopefully that will cut down on getting it spoiled.

I am going to shut-myself away from the world until I have finished the book. Just Kidding, I am accually a pretty fast reader so I don't have to worry about spoilers. I always try not to mention the book in front of my friends who haven't finished it yet, just in case I let something slip.

I am going to shut-myself away from the world until I have finished the book. Just Kidding, I am accually a pretty fast reader so I don't have to worry about spoilers. I always try not to mention the book in front of my friends who haven't finished it yet, just in case I let something slip.
So do I, but when it reaches October and they still haven't finished it I start to get angry. And then somebody else spoils it for them so it's not my fault! Haha.

Evanescence - You're right, Chamber of Secrets is probably safe, but people just forget about the spoiler warnings sometimes, and if the admin don't get to the post where that person slipped fast enough then the results probably won't turn out too well. But it's still pretty safe on here.
Though I plan to shut myself away from the world, so that most likely will not be a problem. :D

I have a real love/hate relationship with spoilers. I hate surprises because I get so worked up wondering what it will be.

I already had a feeling about who was going to die in HBP, so I don't count that as spoiler since it was my own thought. What did surprise me was HOW!

I did find myself flirting with spoilers before HBP came out. The funny thing was that when someone posted the Chapters, I didn't believe them to be real (except for the ones JKR already released) because I couldn't imagine that JKR would ever have a chapter called "An Excess of Phelgm". It just sounded so fake! Goes to show ya, doesn't it?

But I feel that for the last book, even though the suspense is great, I will try to forgoe spoilers as best I can so that I can read it fresh and new. And I am a fast reader as well, so once I have the book in hand, it will be done within a day. I mean, it'll be the last HP and I don't think I want to ruin that moment of reading it and not knowing what's going to happen.

From the day before the global release date, I will not be looking at any HP-related websites whatsoever. HBP got spoiled for me because I was looking at some HP sites on the day of its release, so I will definitely be avoiding that.

I don't mind mild spoilers, but not great big story-ruining ones.

I borrowed books 1-4 from a girl friend not too long before the release of book 5 was scheduled. She told me about Cedric's death. Also due to seeing a fanart on deviantArt with spoilers, she told me of Sirius' death.

I was doing fine staying away from HBP spoilers by not visiting certain forums or websites. I received a copy of the book a week after it came out from another girl friend at college. However, less than an hour later another girl's boyfriend walked into the apartment, saw the book and without consideration proceeded to blurt out who died. I had to go home ASAP to play Dead or Alive Ultimate or else this guy was going to get physically hurt.

To avoid spoilers for the final installment, I am staying away from people, both virtual and real. Lock myself in my room and watch anime all the while until I get the book in my hands if it comes to such measures needing to be taken.

I am really worried about stumbling on spoilers for book 7. I have accidently found spoilers on EVERY SINGLE BOOK before I read them; everything from Cedric's death to Sirius', betrayers and all! :grumble: All this has almost ruined the series for me, but I am going to do my best to stay away from anyone that knows anything about the books. I might not stay away from mugglenet or these forums, but I will be very careful as to were I post so I won't find a spoiler. If I find a spoiler this time it will be my own fault where as the other times I was an innocent victim caught in the wrong place at definatly the wrong time!!

I'll try not to talk to my friends that much while I’m reading since they all read harry potter and are faster readers then me, I won’t check my blog or any one else’s, and I will read the book at a faster pace so that any thing that I may run across by accident wont ruin the entire story for me.

Yes! I have huge, enormous, elaborate plans to avoid spoilers for book 7. No joke! HBP was spoiled for me (my own doing ;)), and I was very sorry for it. I am going to be very careful next time. The spoilers in this book are probably going to be really big and numerous, but if I aquire it as soon as possible and read it right away I should be able to avoid ruining it for myself :p It's still so far away, though!...:(

I'm not going to go on CoS for a few days before [I think last time that someone spoiled it before it was out, but I didn't happen to be on, luckily] and I'm not going to talk to my friends on MSN. I'm going to shut myself in my room and read the book as soon as I have it in my hands, and won't stop until I've finished.

I hate spoilers of every kind. So most likely I'm going to be staying away from the internet until I've read it.

Of course I would do anything to avoid them, but some strangers might tell you something

When HBP was in stores, someone went online and told everyone the stuff between Dumbledore and Snape. The exact page number too, so when I got a copy I couldn't help but take a peek. And darnit, it was true.

This time, when the book is about to be released, I'll cut myself off from the internet. Too many morons who purposely post threads saying "SO AND SO HAPPENED HAHA NOW YOU KNOW" these days.

Don't get me wrong, when new information comes out on the book, I'll read about it... But for the main part, I don't want it to be spoiled.

When it comes on I probably won't come on the Internet at all. If I do though, I will only come on this site and mugglenet since I know how anti-spoiler they are :)

For Websites: Make Spoiler Warning Large and Visible. Use Contrasting Colors.

I will try to avoid spoilers. However, I know I don't have a lot of willpower. I read spoilers for everything from figure skating competitions, soap opers, to HP. I spoiled myself silly on the night HBP was released.

Perhaps next time I'll be able to go and buy the book at midnight, and then stay up all night reading. If I do that, I'll avoid spoilers.

I wasn't a member of CoS until after I had read HBP, so I don't know how it was on this forum when the book was in the works. But I'm going to avoid spoilers and rumors like the PLAGUE. I don't want to know ANYTHING.

Lock myself in my room and avoid any outside contact, emerging only to collect food and go to the bathroom?

Ha ha just kidding, seriously I don't care about spoilers that much.

my plan for when HP comes out:

stay off any HP sites for a month before HP comes out
pre-order my book as soon as possible
stay away from all media at least 2 weeks before the release date

the release date:

get up at 7
be over at the shops before 8
have the book by 9
be home by 9:30
shut myself away in my room untill the book is finished- only emerging for food and toilet breaks

I hate spoilers and I don't want to know anything about book 7. About two weeks before the publishing of the book I will most likely not go on any Harry Potter website exept for J.K.'s offical site and Mugglenet (because I know Mugglenet wouldn't post spoilers-and I would certainly not read any comments on the site - only the news the Mugglenet cast will post). I will even stop reading newspapers and watch the news becasue it's so easy to get a glimpse of headlines, and I am not going to want to read something like this: 'Harry Potter will die at the end of book 7!' before I finish the book! It will all be ruined for me then.
I don't think I'll be coming in here either. Just to be on the safe side!

When I go and buy the book I am going to have my ipod in my ears and playing loudly becasue I heard of a woman that was in line to get HBP at midnight on publishing day. Just as she was paying for her copy, someone who was in front of her in the line and had already got his/hers copy, turned to the last pages of the book and shouted accedentally (I wish to belive) that 'you-know-who' died in the book and was killed by 'you-know-who'!
I don't want that to happen to me!!!

Drastic measures, I know, but it's all worth it because I want to experiance everything in the book for the first time while I read it. I don't want to know X is going to die and then I'm just waiting for it to happen on every page!

Staying from HP sites and all forums will be enough, I think. Hate spoilers.

Uhuh, including lack of communication with anyone apart from my two cats while I read the book :P

Spoilers have a love/hate relationship with most people. Cuz I love them, but as soon as i read an HP spoiler I get mad at myself, for being so curious. But a day later I'm glad i looked at it.

but there not bad when you do this:
put spoiler tags. they are really fun 2...

1: Pre order as soon as I can.
2: Stay in my room with no contact to anything for 3 months before it comes out.
3: Have my mom/dad/sister/brother pick it up for me.
4: Read in order.

I didn't read any of the spoilers and the book was 7 times better. I hop eto do the same.

I'm planning to travel before the book is released. I did that when I was reading HBP, but that was not enough because I had read everything that was written before. I will leave my house weeks before the release date, and I will make sure that I don't have a computer near to me. I will ask someone to read the newspaper before I do it and to warn me if there's something that could spoil the end or the deaths of certain characters.

I hope that I can avoid spoilers for Book 7. I avoided spoilers for HBP. When Book 7 is coming out, I am going to be careful on what I read on Mugglenet. When it comes out, I will just read the book, so I will not have to worry about spoilers.

i'm going to pitch a tent on the moon and stay far away from YOU PEOPLE!


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Someone on another HP site I am a regular on spoiled it because they were angry about some moderating decision. They posted HUGE pictures of "That Page" on all the threads in quick succession before the mods could stop him, even though we already had our Spoiler board in place. I had it ruined, and remember crying an awful lot.

This time around, I'm not cutting myself off from the internet. The atmosphere was too amazing that night, and this'll be the last time so I want to be there to appreciate it. However, I will scroll down all pages VERY slowly with my eyes half shut, so that if I see any hint of spoilers I can run away fast.

I will scroll down all pages VERY slowly with my eyes half shut, so that if I see any hint of spoilers I can run away fast.
:lol: Sounds like a plan!:lol:

This is actually my first book release since I've become a major HP fan so I have mixed feelings. I want to enjoy the excitement and such online but I also REALLY don't want to read ANY spoilers... I'm not sure.

Originally I was going to cut myself off from the internet (well HP related sites) about two weeks before the book comes out, re-read the series, then read the seventh at midnight when it comes out.


Any suggestions?

I was going to cut myself off from the internet (well HP related sites)
You might want to make it just "the internet"--and all other forms of media--whether HP related (normally) or not. :lol: It seems like everyone jumps on the HP bandwagon near the release of a new HP book! :D

:lol: Sounds like a plan!:lol:

I didn't say it was practical :D

I've tried avoiding spoilers, God, believe me, I've tried. :D When the whole betting scheme came out about Dumbledore dying, there was spoiler box which stated these news on Mugglenet. I couldn't help it, I had to see. :rotfl: I don't think I'll be able to avoid spoilers this time round either.:sigh: Oh well, the atmosphere of excitement all around was worth it.:p

What really annoyed me, like Snivelly said above, was the betting scam that was revealed by the stupid Sun newspaper. Okay, if there's a big bet or a lot of bets on a certain character to die, fine, report it, no big deal. But please - PLEASE - do NOT reveal who they've placed the bets on!
I wasn't surprised by DD's death, because the newspaper pretty much ruined it. The bets were placed by people who worked at the factory where they printed the books, so it was obvious they had some sort of info.
It completely ruined it for me (HBP was a bad enough book as it was without me knowing the ending) so what I'll be doing is keeping right away from newspapers, especially stupid tabloids like the Sun which put their money before their readers.
Btw, it's not as though people read the article and found out from there, it was on the front page, GLARING at you, so you couldn't ignore it even if you wanted to. Thanks a lot, Sun newspaper. You suck. :td:

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As my new thread was rudely shut down without even giving me a chance to defend my position.... I suppose I will have to do so here, since this is one of the 2 links that were provided before my thread was closed.

The thread I started was not specific to HBP (as the first link was) or Book 7, as this link is.

What I was trying to start was a thread discussing spoilers IN GENERAL and how they affect readers... I wanted to have a place where people could tell their spoiler stories - whether they were the ones spreading spoilers or the ones reading them accidentally. No matter which book it was.

If whoever shut down my thread read it completely before closing it down, they might have understood what I was doing, instead of focusing on one key word, like "spoilers".

Being a responsible forum poster, of course I searched my thread title to see if it had already been posted. And nothing like my intended thread content came up - which is why I posted the new thread.

It might also be nice if someone sent an owl before shutting your thread down, to give you a chance to clarify your point, or maybe to change the thread a bit to make it fit the rules... especially for new first year students like myself.

It's a bit off-putting to come to the forum to read your post replies, and see your thread shut down just like that.

This forum styles itself after Hogwarts, right? And Hogwarts is a school - not a reformatory. A little instruction would be better than punishment.

Thanks for listening.

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Well, I'm a significantly new fan to the Harry Potter books (just been a fan of the books since last November!). So when my brother, who is a huge fan, asked me if I wanted to know who was going to die in book 6, I let him tell me. This was relatively soon after book 6 came out, and I didn't really care much then because I only liked the movies, and I'd never read the books. Now I'm really mad at myself for ruining the surprise!

And one time I was on another web site and someone posted something about Harry and Ginny together. That was after I had read the first 3 books. And I was, again, very upset with myself!

Since my brother told me that he won't let me read his copy of book 7 until he's finished, I'm just going to avoid Muggle Net and any other Harry Potter fansites until I get my chance to read it. I don't want anything spoiled!

its gonna be hard but im going to go on an internet break from the minute exerpts start coming out and once Jo starts telling us what to expect etc. i didnt do that for HBP and it wasnt ruined or anything but as this is the last book i cant possibly risk it being ruined. no, i'm going to borders to get my copy the night it comes out without knowing anything but the title...and to stop myself from getting on i'll wear a rubber band to snap whenever hp comes into my mind for any reason other than to go read the first 6 books

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As my new thread was rudely shut down without even giving me a chance to defend my position.... I suppose I will have to do so here, since this is one of the 2 links that were provided before my thread was closed.

The thread I started was not specific to HBP (as the first link was) or Book 7, as this link is.

What I was trying to start was a thread discussing spoilers IN GENERAL and how they affect readers... I wanted to have a place where people could tell their spoiler stories - whether they were the ones spreading spoilers or the ones reading them accidentally. No matter which book it was.

If whoever shut down my thread read it completely before closing it down, they might have understood what I was doing, instead of focusing on one key word, like "spoilers".

Being a responsible forum poster, of course I searched my thread title to see if it had already been posted. And nothing like my intended thread content came up - which is why I posted the new thread.

It might also be nice if someone sent an owl before shutting your thread down, to give you a chance to clarify your point, or maybe to change the thread a bit to make it fit the rules... especially for new first year students like myself.

It's a bit off-putting to come to the forum to read your post replies, and see your thread shut down just like that.

This forum styles itself after Hogwarts, right? And Hogwarts is a school - not a reformatory. A little instruction would be better than punishment.

Thanks for listening.

:no:

I see what you're saying as I was a bit annoyed when my Pancake thread got shut down in favour of one that wasn't really that relevant. :) But you have to remember that sending owls to people before closing their thread would be a lot of extra work for the mods, and it would in most cases be wasting their time - the majority of threads that I've seen closed have been started by people who haven't found the threads that already exist on the same topic. Closing threads isn't a punishment, it just makes the site run more efficiently. That's what i think, anyway. :shrug: :D

As much as I would like to say that I will avoid the spoilers I find that I simply can not avoid them. I say I won't read them and then they are there and I do nothing but read them. So bring 'em on!!

...the majority of threads that I've seen closed have been started by people who haven't found the threads that already exist on the same topic.

I have no beef with mods who shut down thread topics that already exist.

What I'm yelping about is their shutting down a thread based on one key word.... that would be like saying there can only be one thread with the word "Hermione" in it. There are many different topics you could discuss about Hermione - thus there will be many different threads with her name in them.

I wanted to start a new thread regarding spoilers.... with a different focus than the ones which already exist.

:(

Okay, I'm done complaining -I'm sure someone will yell at me about this, too. On with the discussion of BOOK 7 SPOILERS.

I'll get it on the morning of release here in the UK and read it for the whole day, finishing it sometime in the early hours of the next morning. So I won't have any time to read spoilers :).

Everyone will do what they can to avoid them I believe. No one will want to know what happens, they all want to read and find out at their own pace. The unlucky ones will be those who cannot read in English and have to wait for translations. For my part, I will try to avoid contact from my contacts about the last book until I have finished it.

Well, I don't really see a problem... I'm simply going to read it without doing anything else until I'm done.

I think a lot of people don't realize that someone is likely to spread spoiler information before the book is released! Of course "spoilers" will be "everywhere" once the book is officially released (and at that point anyone who has read or is reading the book is "safe"), but what will you do to avoid the ones that come before the book does? :eyebrows:

Just an example: 11 July 2005 (five days before HBP) a full list of the chapter titles, the first three pages and various tidbits could be found on the internet (along with "fake" versions of the title chapters and other false tidbits). 14 July 2005 saw a photocopy of p. 606 of the UK edition ("the death" and who dunnit)--two days before the release.

Some spoilers are unavoidable. For example, it would be impossible not to see "Harry Potter dies!" in capital letters on the front page of a newspaper. But I do hope it doesn't happen!

Apart from that, I think it's possible to avoid spoilers. I intend to take a "Harry Potter vacation" after the book release that will end just when I finish reading it. In the meantime, there will be no HP foruns, no HP sites, no chat about HP, etc. Of course, everything will also depend on how much you want to stay away from spoilers. You may also think it won't be worth losing touch with Harry Potter world. It's up to you.

Before reading OotP, I didn't do it and I ended up finding out who was going to die. It ruined the book. Before reading HPB, however, I did what I said and I really enjoyed the book. I didn't know who would die or who would kill. Actually, I didn't even know somebody would die!

Buy the book exactly at midnight so that the whole world reads with me... and then when i finish, i'll go sing to the world of what happens(j.k)

I'm not going on this site until I'm done, that's for sure! :)

Like the plague...I was angry enough that I clicked on the inside of the cover pic when HBP came out...This is the Ultimate book..in the purest sense of the word...I imagine people will read it the first free day they get and do NOTHING but read it.

Oh yes, definetely. I am glad someone brought this up. When Half-Blood Prince came out, I heard the leak about Dumbldore's death. I didn't want to believe. I saw it on the news.

I watched this thing on the internet. Some guy waited outside Barnes and Noble to get his book. He was the first in line to get it, or at least one of the top few people. He fast forwarded to the last chapters so he would know what happened. This all happened in like the first five minutes that it was released. He got in his car and drove by all the people in the long long lines. he came to a stop and shouted "DUMBLEDORE DIES!" He drives all around the parking lot, shouting it.

What I will do to avoid spoliers:
Not watch television before the last two nights of the opening
Not go on the internet, including, sadly, this site. Who knows, right?
Be on the lookout at midnight for spoilers, possible bring earmuffs.
Get at the store early so that I don't have to wait long. Just get out quick.
I know it's like stealing the NOC list, hehe.

Nope, no plans. Spoilers all the way! Nah, not really. I'll just ask someone if Remus and/or Tonks die in the book. If either or both of them dies, I won't bother reading it and I'll just stick to writing AU fanfiction for the rest of my life.

As for other spoilers, I won't go on the Internet at all until I finish reading the book. Otherwise, the Internet is sure to have spoilers.

I never go to the midnight things, one because I have a life and thus have better things to do than stand in a que in the rain.
Secondly, because of some retarded HP fangirls who get their copy, open straight to the back, and start squealing for everyone to hear: 'OMYGOSH HARRY DIES, OHMYGOSH!! SQUEEE!!!'
I get my wonderful mum to buy my copy. One, so she can pay for it. And two, because if she hears spoilers, she won't care! She buys it on the day it comes out, brings it home, I finish it in eight hours straight including toilet breaks, dinner and possible pacing of the room to get my senses together after a death/shipping revelation/sudden understanding of something foreshadowed four books back, etc. So then I go online and chat away with the other sensible people who read the book front to cover as soon as they got it.
I don't get why people take weeks to read it and then, before they've even finished, go online and get it spoiled for them. Ignorance, I call it. Finish it now! Now, I say!

OMG i was so MAD when i was reading the HBP...i was like half way into it when i deicided to go play sum counter-strike....i am playing and sum1's name is SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE....i thought about it for a few seconds than litteraly shouted out NOOO!! ....my plan is that, once the book date is released and before i have read the entire book, i am goin to shut myslef away from the world...maybe the little broom closet under my stairs :)

My plan is to do what I did for book six....avoid all media contact. I mean I did a really good job avoiding spoilers for movie four. I didn't watch any of the trailers or see any of the pictures beforehand. It was great because I didn't know how they were going to pull off the triwizard tournament on the big screen.

Yes, fenrir, please do!
I can't believe people get their hands on a book they've waited for since forever, and don't even bother to read it through all the way! Just read it straight away really fast, then nothing can be spoiled for you. If you want to read it leisurely, you can do so later on.
Seriously, it only took me eight hours straight to read HBP! Anyone can do that.

If there are spoilers released, I will avoid them like the plague! Seventh_Child - it took me 12 hours to read HBP - I stopped for dinner and I took my cousin to the cinema that night and it took me about an extra half hour to read the last three chapters cause I couldn't see for crying!!

I imagine it'll be worse in the last book - I'll be crying just cause I know it's all coming to an end...

Frankly, anyone who leaks information deserves a slow painful death - did you see what happened to the guy who sold copies of HBP early? He got jail time! I mean, it's just evil to do things like that. JK doesn't do it to annoy us... she does it cause she likes us to be surprised

.. My sister ruined book 5 for me... She'd never read Harry potter, but, one day, while I'm reading book 5, she says "Sirius dies ya know" ... I was so mad..
No one ruined book 6 for me... And, no one will ruin book 7 for me...
I plan on actually taking a week off work starting midnight the day it comes out..,.. 2 days to read book #7 alone and spoiler free... And, 5 days to mourn the end of Harry Potter.

I will do the same thing I did for HBP, get it and read it the day it comes out. I spent all day reading HBP. I read fast, so It was done in one day.

I can almost always avoid the spoilers for the books. I wish I could do the same for the movies. I always have good intentions and fail miserably.

I like the spoilers that JKR gives out, I don't want anyone to tell me what happens after the book comes out though.

I don't think there will be any guaranteed way to escape spoilers for book 7. The hype will be unheard of. I have no doubt that security on the book will be ten-fold but it never seems to hold out. I had avoided all media spoilers for HBP but as I was walking out of the store I passed a little boy and he said as he was flipping through the book, "OMG, Dumbledore dies!". It took all my strength not to whack him with my HBP book :p

I'll try to stay away from the internet. Note: I said TRY. I might give into temptation and scrounge for it. :evil:

I'll also avoid highway overpasses with suspicious banners... XD

With all the attention that book 7 will be getting once the release date is known, it will be very difficult to avoid spoilers. I could say that I would stay off the net, as it is probably the most prominent place for spoilers, but I daresay that is almost impossible. I will do my best, however, to avoid them.

Post your plans for avoiding book 7 spoilers


The Protéger Plan



Mission: Avoid spoilers for Harry Potter book seven.




When Publishing Starts:

Don't read/view any news media,
Only visit trusted sites, which will not reveal spoilers,
In forums, be careful of what you are viewing.

When book is released:

Take something to distract you incase somebody/something reveals spoilers while waiting for book,
Continue protection until in a safe place where to spoilers can be revealed, e.g house,bedroom etc,

When you have the book:

Read only in safe places where no spoilers can be revealed to you,
Do NOT read/view any news media until finished book.

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If you wish to add to this plan and make it stronger please reply to this thread. thanks



That's pretty much what I did for book 6. A week before the book was to be released I shut down my computer and refused to talk Harry Potter with anyone, less they say "Oh you're a Harry Potter fan? Did you hear about Dumbledore dying in the new book??"

I remember four days after HBP can out, I had already read the book, when someone found out that I was a HP fan and blurted out - "Dumbledore dies!" really loudly.

Even thought I already knew this, I still thought it was very rude of him and I nagged him a good five minutes about it. He doesn't talk to me anymore... the stupid git. ;)

I will try not to be spoiled, for HBP I had been avoiding Harry Potter message boards anything HP on line. I went to Charlie and Chocolate factory IMDB forum and someone title was Snape kills Dumbledore. Though I was spoiled I didn’t feel spoiled and it didn’t ruin the book for me because I didn’t believe. I figured it was a joke, but just in case I didn’t go and read the thread. I truly thought Snape would extend his hand to Albus and pull him up.

For Book seven I’ll avoid any message board unless its one I trust that I wouldn’t be spoiled some people are so inconsiderate on the web and in real life too

Sadly both book 5 and 6 were spoiled for me. In book 5 my friend and I were on aim and he was like omg i finished the book and sirius dies and i was like *** did you tell me for. Then for book 6 my cousin calls she sounded sad and told me omg ginny and harry break up and snape kills dumbeldore though i did not beliave her because Harry and GInny were not together at the place and time of the book.

For book I have promised myself not to talk to anyone.

Books 5 and 6 were spoiled for me too. For the 7th book I'd go hermit-mode, create a name tag and hang a sign on the door that says, "This is a Harry Potter spoiler-free zone. Violators will be severely punished..." Ermm...something to that effect. However as this is the final installment, I'm pretty sure all forms of media would carry spoilers one way or another, whether intentional or otherwise. Avoidance and consideration should be practiced.

Sometimes one can't help but hear spoilers. There are always blabbermouths somewhere to ruin the story. I take spoilers as warnings to prepare myself for the worst, It kept me from being shocked with the Half Blood Prince ending.

i plan on doing wha ti do everytime... barricade myself in my room for a month no computer no cell phone no tv. jus me sleep my other 6 books and the movies. so far it's worked!

I usually can't resist spoilers for TV shows that I watch, but I am determined to stay away from all book 7 spoilers. I want to savor every page since it's the last time I'll get to do so. I've already started avoiding Divination Studies in here!

Oh, my friends know not to ruin anything for me.(My real friends, anyway.) Other than that, I plan on keeping my ears shut, and sticking to Mugglenet and the CoS Forums only. Plus, I plan on reading Book 7 the instant it comes out, so there's less chance of me hearing spoilers anyway.

As a word of advice, I urge everyone to be strong and not get tempted to look for spoilers and not read the chapter titles before you've read the book. I used to have that problem and it ruined a few really great stories for me.

Shut the computer, TV, and radio off; not read any newspapers announcing the release date (for HBP, the newspapers here had a "Who Will Die?" odds game/article that had the odds listed out of each character. The odds for Dumbledore were 2 to 1. Needless to say, they got it right!); avoid listening to any type of theory I have heard/read/thought over the past year; and finally, look myself in the room and stick my fingers in my ears! :lol:

I'll just avoid harry potter related media. I'm not worried about friends spoiling it because none of my friends are fans.

I'm just planning on not going on any HP related sites or forums apart from MuggleNet and maybe CoS for a couple of months beforehand. I'll read the book the day it comes out so I'm not bothered about people spoiling it for me or anything like that. (I read OotP in about 5 hours.:D) But if I go to the release party, like I want to, I'm going to take my MP3 player or something in case some saddo drives past telling everyone what happens like I know happened a lot with HBP.

I hate spoilers! I am not going to read news and stuff before the book comes out. When I have bought it, I am going to read the whole book, without reading any news or log on the computer. I will be very afraid to look at the TV too....

I am a HUGE spolier junkies, so I really dont think i'll go to any great lengths to avoid spoilers. I mean, I anyone told me that snape killed dumbledore in book 6, I would have went out of my mind. But I do like to get a general idea of what the book is about before it comes out.

Well avoid all sites that are potential trouble. I trust that the staff here will do there best to battle the spoilers, I am sure they will manage fine with the anti-spoiler policy. Last time I wasn't here when the forums reopened, so I didn't get spoiled.

If I see a spoiler accidently I would be angry, but I am not going to let it ruin the book for me. Will read it anyway and enjoy it.

Not really. I definitely don't want to stop posting on CoS or any other forums, so I'm just gonna be as careful as possible.

Im just gonna try not to be anywhere near topics where there might be spoilers cause I dont wanna be off the computer at all.

I never plan on reading spoilers, but I inadvertantly wind up seeing them anyway. For book 7, I plan on doing the same and attempting at all costs to avoid spoilers, then getting the book at midnight and devouring it as quickly as I can.

I'm going to avoid all Harry Potter websites until I'm done reading the book. Just incase.

Im buying the book at midnight and avoiding all my fellow Potter fan friends until I've finished the book. Also, I intend not to go online until I've finished just in case i get tempted to peek. However, I know mugglenet has really strong rules about spoilers, so

Is it safe to go on Mugglenet and CoS before I'm done reading? or will there be discussions already about the book within a week after the book has come out?

I will absolutely be doing my best to avoid book 7 spoilers. In modding the forums before book 6 was released last summer I had the Dumbledore death ruined. I don't want that to happen again.

I'm just keeping locked up in my room until I'm done reading it. I'm not even going to come on here. I'm just going to cut myself off from all human contact. This may seem over the top, but I'm serious last time I had to go to camp like the day after HBP came out and I couldn't take it with me, so I had to wait till I got back, and so I got back I was talking to some friends and one who had read HBP already(not potter obbsessed though!) completly spoiled DD's death and who killed him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I acted like I didn't care but I wanted to kill her!!!!!! So, this time I'm not talking to anyone!

I plan to avoid the internet in the weeks leading up, except Mugglenet (I trust them!). Myspace, etc. will probably be the worst place for HP fans in the days leading up to book 7. I plan on going to a party, but I will be very careful...that means sitting in the bathroom the whole time if I have to, with the iPod on full blast. If book 7 is spoiled for me...I will die.

After the book is released I'm not going on the internet and only leaving the house if I must, to make sure I don't hear or see anything until I have read the book. Also I am going to be a lot more carefull when I read it because with HBP I saw the White Tombe chapter so I new someone was dying and I was pretty sure it was Dumbledore. So I am going to keep my eyes were they belong until I have finished the book.

I think I'll just stay away from the internet once the release date comes closer. No need to have it ruined for myself.

I will avoid the internet, newspapers, television, and friends who read Harry Potter until I finish reading the book.

I'm going into quarintine. Locking myself away, avoiding anything that might lead to the book being spoilt. If this means avoiding friends, family, and all mass-media - so be it. The weeks leading up to the publication will be spent re-reading the series ready for book 7 so that will keep me busy anyway. I shall read the book in less than a day so after that I will be free of spoilers.

I am not even going to visit these forums when a book is out and I haven't finished it (usually a 5 hour period).

I'm going to avoid
1)my Potter fan friends and cousins because they sort of ruined book 5 and 6 for me
2)the internet apart from Mugglenet
3) all the TV channels that could spoil book 7 for me
4) the radio
5) newspapers

before I've read book 7, I will not
6) skip pages to see what's going to happen
7) see what the last word is
8) read the chapter titles

While reading
9) a page on the left I won't look at the page on the right
10) I will be careful not to turn to the wrong page

And when I finish reading book 7 I won't spoil it for the others:)

I'm going to avoid
1)my Potter fan friends and cousins because they sort of ruined book 5 and 6 for me
2)the internet apart from Mugglenet
3) all the TV channels that could spoil book 7 for me
4) the radio
5) newspapers

before I've read book 7, I will not
6) skip pages to see what's going to happen
7) see what the last word is
8) read the chapter titles

While reading
9) a page on the left I won't look at the page on the right
10) I will be careful not to turn to the wrong page

And when I finish reading book 7 I won't spoil it for the others:)

:clap: :clap: :clap: Great list!

I won't be on my computer until I finish the book. I will only come on COS on Mugglenet and I think they will have any spoiler material clearly marked so I don't stumble into it.

Only go on mugglenet, and when im waiting in line for the book im going to blast my i-pod incase someone shouts the ending. Then lock myself in my room till its read completely.

I'll disconnect my internet for probably a month prior to the book release (that and maybe I'll just avoid any HP-oriented sites as soon as the title or date is released so that I won't end up finding out chapter titles or whatever), and then avoid all human contact until I finish the book (except my family, who I trust wouldn't be that cruel). I'll pre-order the book so I won't have to risk hearing some depraved soul yell out what happens while I'm at a store buying the book.

The news of it might be leaked (no pun intended to the cauldron) on the news in all media. You would have to avoid cable, radio, internet media, even cell phones. I want to know though and heck with the plot. That could be read after I find the ending.

I'll try to avoid all spoilers, but i don't know if i'm strong enough...

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I really don't know. I would like to avoid spoilers though. When I was at the book six party and Borders, a girl there said she saw an open copy of Half Blood Prince in the library office (she works there) and flipped to the end and read it. First she told me and my friend that the Half Blood Prince wasn't good and he kills Dumbeldore. Then she told us it was Snape. I wish I hadn't allowed her to tell me.

My new Security Method. Don't listen to anyone who says they know the end. Even if you think that they are joking, they may not be.

Avoid CoS for a few days before, only go on Mugglenet. I like some spoilers but not a lot.

it's going to be really hard to not go on the internet before the book 7 release date, but i'm going to try to do that... i hate SPOILERS! even if i don't really care about the book, i always get mad when i find out something before

i didn't get spoiled for any book except HBP (which was my most anticipated HP book)... so hopefully i won't get spoiled for the last book because that would really stink... and i'm probably going to read non-stop until i finish and make sure that no one (especially my sister!) will spoil it for me

I try to avoid spoilers as much as I can, especially after finding out that it was Sirius who died in OotP...
I don't want that to happen again!

It's AFTER the release that you want to stay away from the Internet until you've read every page of book 7. Before the release it's just rumours. I HATE the fact that a lot of people just want to know the spoilers before they read the book itself. This is completely disrespecting Jo's writing, because it's like saying 'screw the build-up, I just want to know how it all turns out'.

I was disappointed when I found out that even the mugglenet people had done this with previous books. I'm going on record saying you're an IDIOT if you do this with book 7.

To avoid spoilers, when it says "Spoiler Ahead", it's generally a good idea to not click ahead if you don't wanna know what's happening.

Also, to avoid spoilers. I won't go looking for them.

But I doubt that there'll be any leaks. The details are more top secret than the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices! (Type up KFC on Wikipedia to read about how top secret the recipe is. It's actually quite shocking!)

i have no intention of reading spoilers for book seven. i want to enjoy it then i will come back here and talk about it.

I cant help but read spoilers but I am going to try and stay away from them

well it took me 6 hours from HBP opening to have the book finished... so i think i'll slowly but surly read book 7

Spoilers are fine with me

I will pre-order the book, and if I'm allowed to go to the midnight party, I will make sure I have my iPod headphones on and the volume on high, just in case some idiot tries to scream out that so and so kills so and so. But prior to the book I will only come onto Mugglenet and the forums but I will be VERY careful! I'll pretty much cut my self off from newspapers and the news channels.

Yeah. I'm not going to come here or to mugglenet until I finnnish the book. I'll also probably lock myself up in my room and not go anyplace until I'm finnished.

Before the release it's just rumours.Sadly, some of those "rumours" were because people had obtained a copy of the book before the release and some were malicious enough to post them somewhere. I saw the "death page" (not typed out by someone else, but a photocopy/scan image) and several paragraphs from the first chapter...along with a correct set of chapter titles and an "incorrect" (made up 'rumour') set--all more than 3 days prior to the release. So unfortunately, spoilers do pop up before the release and they aren't all just "rumours"--though knowing which are real and which are not can't be verified without also having the book!

All that being said, none of it "spoiled" the book for me. I rather thought Albus would be killed before the end of the series, though I didn't envision Snape being the one to take him out! I thought the (actual) paragraphs from the first chapter were rubbish made up by someone else...and I still find them incredibly blah. (I really expected more from a chapter "13 years in the making", so I was bound to be disappointed with it!)

I'm just going to do what I did for the rest- pre-order, pick up the day it comes out, then read as fast has humanly possible!

I will not move from my reading chair until i reach 'skar'. I had the mistake of reading a review of the sixth book before reading it (I couldn't resist not finding out what was coming), and I saw who, unfortunately, died.

If I come within eight meters of my computer, I will cut my legs off. If I try to hear something on television, I will rip my ears off. If I try to read something in the paper, I will gouge my eyes out with a wooden spoon.

I'm just gonna stay away from all HP sites, newspapers and the telly. The only way i can see book 7 being spoilt for me is by my friends.

Last year there was this complete ******* that yelled what happened at the end of the book outside of Barnes and Noble. This year I'm gonna order mine off the interenet even though I will have to wait three more days. Then avoid all email and tv.

I'll stay away from here and walk around town with ear plugs! I think it's a good plan :). Really though in the past just staying away from the internet has worked for me and the books have not yet been spoiled to me!

None what so ever and anybody is free to owl me with any that they find :)

I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and say "lalalala" for the next year.

I'm staying off the internet for the first week the book is out. I was spoiled about Dumbledore's death by coming into a forum that wasn't Harry Potter related. They just made a random comment saying, "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!" with a scan of the page & everything. I was devastated so now I'm staying off the net

The only thing I'll probably avoid is this forum until I've read it. It doesn't really bother me if I'm told things, I knew that someone was going to die before I read Order and I still sat there going "no, no, no, not Sirius" when I was reading that bit.

And with HBP, I did ask my step son if Snape really was a baddy when I had read the bit with the Unbreakable Vow, and he said yes, and that didn't spoil the book, and I still came to my own conclusions.

Yes, I'm planning to stay away from comment boards and highlighting spoilers. No editorials starting three months before too. And, read it in the privacy of my home.

OOTP was spoiled to me by people going around at school saying "doesn't Sirius die?" "Sirius dies, did you know?" "Sirius Black DIES" and then one of my friends brought OOTP in to school with them and shown me the page he died! I was so annoyed. HBP wasn't spoiled to me at all because I read it before I went back to school on the Monday. So for book 7, its going to be the same plan as usual, stay away from the internet, newspapers, TV...people. But I'm planning on going to the midnight release for book 7, its the last book! So I suppose I'll have to keep my hands over my ears and hum incase anyone shouts it out.

i'll do what i did for the sixth book. i'll just stay from the spoilers on here. no one else really can spoil it for me unless they read the book faster than me and i won't allow them to tell me what happens.

Last year I was on vacation when the sixth book was released, so I wasn't able to go to a midnight party. Next year I wish to go to a final book release midnight party, but I'm too afraid that someone will spoil it for me (like those instances that occurred last year with HBP). It seems foolish to put my trust into complete strangers who are capable of anything. I mean, what's to stop someone from flipping to the end and shouting 'Everyone's dead! Last word is scar! etc.? No, I think I will order the book from the Internet or else send one of my nephews who don't care about HP to fetch the book for me. I will also avoid Mugglenet and these forums, once there is any hint of spoilers in the air. Even though both sites are protected very well, there can always be someone who creates a thread that says 'Harry's suspected to die!' Even if it isn't true it will ruin it.

The only spoiler-danger for me would come from either the internet or my son. So no-computer-until-I've-finished-the-book (which should be a few hours after the release party) should keep me safe...I read much faster than my boy!

I'm really frightened of spoilers, particularly with book seven imminent. I was lucky enough to escape them around the release of book six, but i've heard horrific stories. Especially the ones where complete idiots drive past the book releases and yell out the spoilers! Why would someone want to ruin something that so many of us treasure? I think it is cruel and uncalled for and it just makes me worry at times when I should be enjoying myself. I want to really have fun on the book seven release, but I don't want to be spoiled! Is that so much to ask!

I plan on doing what i did with book six:
1. Stay off all internet forums beginning five weeks before the release of the book.
2. Do not buy the book on the night of its release. wait until the morning after to buy the book, thus reducing the chance of hearing someone say somthing like "Oh! One of the chapters is called-" you get the idea.
3. When you read the book try to isolate yourself from the outside world: don't talk to any of your friends, don't read any reviews for the book and above all DO NOT GO TO ANY WEBSITES.
4. Don't read the chapter index.
5. Only go to online forums after you have read the whole book.

This won't be a problem for me since i have every intention of ordering a copy before it comes out, having my grandmother pick it up, and as soon as she puts the book in my hands that night not releasing it until i finish it.

I'll put on my "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR HP SPOILERS" top. I won't listen to the radio, watch TV, or wisit any site on the net. It won't last long I'll finish book 7 in a mo'. :D

If by plans to avoid book 7 spoilers you mean that I will read every interent post with spoilers, watch every newscast about it I can, check all the forums, pre-order the book and read the end before I read the rest of book then yes I have plans....lol

I don't care about spoilers I love them in fact, I'm just that way.

:lol:no way, I try and gather all there is to know, then as I'm walking away from the shop, I'll tell the person I'm with what'll happen then say "But then again, I could be wrong" *flips through book * "oh would you look at that, I was right" *gloats* :lol: besides, I'm impatient and the spoilers are keeping me going!:D

and if it wasn't for spoliers, I wouldn't have bought the sixth book!

Yeah, I'm not going to read the chapter titles or the summary on the back. I always manage to avoid spoilers on the Internet pretty well, but those darned chapter titles always get me. The summaries haven't been as dangerous since...shoot, was that PoA with the big spoiler on the back? I can't remember. Anyway, it seems like they've been better about that since that book came out and everyone threw a fit, but you still have to watch yourself with the chapter titles.

Phase Zero: Restart the Anti Spoiler Association.

Phase One: Put my faith in Morgorth and the admins on here to cut it out and when possible, help them to stop the spoilers.

Phase Two: Upon Pre-Order time, beg, borrow and steal money from the folks to get the money to pre-order a copy that'll be sent on release day by courier.

Phase Three: Throw my brother out of the bedroom.

Phase Four: Read book.

Phase Five: Spend an hour or so digesting information.

Phase Six: Read book again (trying to break my speed read record held by HBP - 6 hours (twice in that time))

Phase Seven: DO NOT go into Spoiler zone (if there is one) on here as, chances are, it'll be too painful.

Phase Eight: Help Admins with the Divination forum in the battle against spoilers.