This is a warning to everyone who reads and follows the Harry Potter series. Do NOT visit this site until you have read the last book of the series. Why? I'll tell you.
Just mere days after Half Blood Prince came out, there had been a thread in the Fan Art and Fiction section of HPFF. It was titled, "A quick sketch I did of Harry." The poster's name was a user called Banastré or something like that. The "picture" was in a link, but the link did not direct you to a sketch of Harry. Instead, it was to a picture of one of the last pages of the Half Blood Prince. Deeply underlined was the spoiler that I am sure everyone has seen. (I am sure I do not need to tell you what that spoiler is.)
Fortunately I had already read the entire book. In an attempt to prevent this spoiler by being read to those have not read the entire book of HBP, I quickly made a post not to click the link. To get attention, I made the font as large as possible. Unfortunately, some users did not see this and witnessed the infamous spoiler.
Nearly everyone who viewed that thread flamed Banastré. He would respond by spamming all the boards with the spoiler. Users were flaming Banastré constantly. He would soon get banned but come back with a different username.
After about a month, he created a thread indicating he was sorry for putting up the spoiler and flaming all the users. I do not know his reasons for creating that thread as I was a bit skeptical of his apology. I could only think of three theories he would do this.
One: Banastré was sincerely sorry of what he had done. He realized that getting attention by being a jerk isn't a good thing.
Two: Banastré wanted everyone to get off his back.
Three: Banastré wanted everyone to think he was sorry so Admin wouldn't ban him again. He realized how much everybody hated him so he will strike again once the last Harry Potter book comes out and he will pull the same stunt.
Now I'm not sure if Banastré was sincerely sorry about what he had done. There is no way to be sure. But this thread isn't about Banastré, he was only an example.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is for sure going to contain the biggest spoilers of the entire series, possibly instigating people who dislike Harry Potter to ruin the book for other people.
Now DH isn't going to come out for awhile now so feel free to visit HPFF for the mean time. The book won't come out until July 21 anyway. But after July 21, do NOT come to this site until you have read Deathly Hallows. In fact just to be extra safe, I wouldn't visit here even a few days before July 21 in case someone gets an illegal copy of the book.
Now I am not confirming that someone will absolutely post a spoiler. I am saying that since this book will answer all the questions that every HP fan has asked to what will happen in the series, do not be surprised if an attention seeker posts a spoiler somewhere.
As far as I am concerned, July 21,2007-until you have read Deathly Hallows, do not visit this site.
This warning goes out to all the other HP forums as well.
Goblet
