Trying to get through Book 7 spoiler-free

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This posting is going to seem silly years from now when we know the outcome of the book, just as people know the ending to Narnia, but what the heck:


With the impending release of Harry Potter this weekend, and the high probability of spoilers running throughout the internet before the book can be finished, I've taken a couple of precautions to prevent being spoiled. My methods don't work perfectly, and don't guarantee not being spoiled, but it does limit a great deal of in inadvertent spoiling.


First, I've modified a censorship script for Greasemonkey to filter out Harry Potter-related words. The script doesn't work perfectly, and a couple of odd things do slip through.


Second, I'm placing a moratorium on my use of the internet for the next couple of days - absolutely no media related sites. No Amazon, no imdb, no yahoo, no google reader, and no google search. No blogging and no e-mail. Instead, I'll be playing through Final Fantasy 12 until the book arrives, and then plowing through the book.


What triggered me to take such extreme measures? Finding out that the entirety of Harry Potter Book 7 had been photographed and placed up on the internet. That means, at this moment, some die hard fans are plowing through the pages now, and that within the next couple of days they're going to want to discuss it on Harry Potter message forums and the like, but they have a way of filtering down through to the general populace. It's very strange that I feel I need to protect myself from spoilers like this, and it makes me wonder how I've managed to get through Books 5 and 6 without being spoiled. Books 1 - 4 were relatively easy to get through without spoilers as the movies hadn't been released yet, and with the exception of adults who read children's literature, Harry Potter was largely unknown prior to the release of the first movie.

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