Avoid the internet, HP fans

There's irony in my title, huh? You're visiting the internet in order to read this. Avoid the internet after you finish reading this post. All kinds of killjoys are trying to ruin the intense surprise and enjoyment that comes with reading a Harry Potter book. There are spoilers everywhere. And no, you can't just avoid them my staying away from Harry Potter related sites. Here's an example:

A couple of years ago before I began reading Harry Potter books at all, I started getting heavy into Myspace. Most of the students at my church had accounts and invited me to join, so I obliged. One of my friends created a Myspace page and added me as a friend. In her Top 8 was one of her friends whose screen name was "BLANK kills BLANK" (substitute blank for the name of two primary characters in Book 6). Again, I had never read Harry Potter books at that point; this was about a year before I read Book One.

Of course, by the time I picked up Book One and began reading, it didn't take long before I learned of both characters mentioned on my friend's myspace page, and I remembered instantly. Talk about being TICKED!

So if you don't think it's that serious, haphazardly click and drag away as much as you like. But for the rest of you HP book fans reading this, don't say that I didn't warn you. :-)