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From where I'm sitting, this is an inappropriate level of spoilers to include in a comment here. Could you perhaps edit (or cut) your next to last sentence?

by Steuard 12y ago

logfromblammo 12y ago
To be fair, the bit about the horcrux is speculation. The author never explicitly states what that particular character was actually doing at that particular event of real-world historical importance. But anyone with two brain cells to rub together and some ability at predicting the behavior of storybook villains could figure it out.
Jach 12y ago
Or just prefix with a spoiler warning. However I think they are appropriate. Some people need a little more incentive to start reading or watching something besides a link to it, or an empty recommendation from a friend or community, and the "spoilers" often found in some reviewer's blurb on a back of a book/movie box serve that purpose well. And anyway, those "spoilers" from the perspective of the whole story are really just cool little blurbs about what you might expect without spoiling the actually interesting parts of how, why, and the aftermath. A succinct blurb about what to expect plot-wise could be something like "covers many of the events of the actual series, but all in the first year and more rationally". If someone has read the canon HP books, they can probably infer Azkaban, Horcruxes, Polyjuice, portkeys, Quidditch, and so on will make an appearance in some fashion. They might not think about the time turner though, and if you're trying to get someone to read the book, and that someone knows about NP problems, mentioning the author addresses possibly solving NP problems with time travel, that's such a small spoiler but can pique the interest enough that someone may read it who otherwise wouldn't have. (Can you get talk about NP problems in fiction outside of sci-fi? Would you expect it from a Harry Potter fanfic?)

From where I'm sitting, this is an inappropriate level of spoilers to include in a comment here. Could you perhaps edit (or cut) your next to last sentence?

by Steuard 12y ago

From where I'm sitting, this is an inappropriate level of spoilers to include in a comment here. Could you perhaps edit (or cut) your next to last sentence?

logfromblammo 12y ago

To be fair, the bit about the horcrux is speculation. The author never explicitly states what that particular character was actually doing at that particular event of real-world historical importance. But anyone with two brain cells to rub together and some ability at predicting the behavior of storybook villains could figure it out.

Jach 12y ago

Or just prefix with a spoiler warning. However I think they are appropriate. Some people need a little more incentive to start reading or watching something besides a link to it, or an empty recommendation from a friend or community, and the "spoilers" often found in some reviewer's blurb on a back of a book/movie box serve that purpose well. And anyway, those "spoilers" from the perspective of the whole story are really just cool little blurbs about what you might expect without spoiling the actually interesting parts of how, why, and the aftermath. A succinct blurb about what to expect plot-wise could be something like "covers many of the events of the actual series, but all in the first year and more rationally". If someone has read the canon HP books, they can probably infer Azkaban, Horcruxes, Polyjuice, portkeys, Quidditch, and so on will make an appearance in some fashion. They might not think about the time turner though, and if you're trying to get someone to read the book, and that someone knows about NP problems, mentioning the author addresses possibly solving NP problems with time travel, that's such a small spoiler but can pique the interest enough that someone may read it who otherwise wouldn't have. (Can you get talk about NP problems in fiction outside of sci-fi? Would you expect it from a Harry Potter fanfic?)