I got the ending of the book spoiled for me by accident, and I was really pissed off. The fact that there is a whole world with seven continents on it did not detract from my anger at having a surprise I was looking forward to be ruined.

So let’s look at this from a cost-benefit viewpoint. The concept of the shirt, ultimately, is what is funny–wearing the shirt in public and actually ruining the book for many people is (unless we’re talking about a complete asshole) only potentially marginally more humorous than the *idea* of doing so. On the other hand, having the book spoiled for any given person is significantly less enjoyable than not having it spoiled. Thus, by wearing this shirt in public, you are gaining a measly amount of pleasure in exchange for depriving many people of a significant amount of pleasure. It’s not the utilitarian way.

Nor is “there are better books” or “there’s a whole world out there” an argument. There are better things than sex, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay for you to hide in someone’s closet when they’re having sex and then bust out in the middle of it to scare the hell out of them because you think that would be hilarious. Like someone said, we live in a soceity, after all.

MY girlfriend is obsessed with the series, but she has the same views I have about the whole spoiler situation: she was pissed that it was spoiled, but the HOW and WHY wasn’t explained. Take a movie, there are previews. Those spoil parts of it. Just because you know what the climactical point will be doesn’t mean it will be less, just known.

My two cents on it: It’s a damn fiction novel. You have an entire world around you, complete with over 24 languages, 7 continents, wars, utopias, wonders, and grandeur. If the highlight of your world is something written by someone that is complete mass-published fiction, you need a little more substinance to your life. Not saying the books are bad, but they shouldn’t be some raging media frenzy. Anyone else seen “In the Mouth of Madness”? Yeah.. it’s almost getting to that in New York.

I’m at a loss of words, and yet an abundance of happieness.
I WILL buy one.

love, peace, chicken grease.
im out.

anywho there’s my two cents

Ps. Dumbledore’s dead… DEAD dead. His portrait was up with the other ex-headmasters and headmistresses and everything. Snape done Avada-Kedavraed his bony ass good an’ proper.

Pps. Rowling has been knocking off a character per book since Goblet of Fire. This is a trend that the last book will likely expound on.

after all, harry potter is great fun to even those who dislike (or rather hate) the series: wat else would all of u b flaming bout if not harry potter? in case u havent noticed, theres not much else thats such an international phenomenon.

newayz, i say keep ur anti-harry-potter-ism to urself and others like u, but its inhumane to torture little kids with things such as this shirt.

ps: i wouldnt b surprised if dumbledore does sumhow come back, as well as others like sirius or harry’s parents. i mean, if rowling can make up all that nonesense about inheriting a house, wat type of nonesense is there that she cannot do? the one thing i can unfortunately promise u is that in the end harry will triumph over voldy, cuz, after all, this is a children’s book and the good guys always win (personally id like a matrix-type ending were all the main characters die). ron n hermione will prolly come out of this more or less okay as well. :’(

“Oh! That’s hilarious! I’ll ruin a Potter fan’s day! Probably one too poor to buy it till it’s in paperback!”

Why does it offend you that someone is obsessing about something you don’t like? Because, there’s obviously too much joy and pleasure in the world, so by all means, we must buy shirts that are specifically designed to piss people off and ruin something they’ve been looking forward to for years.

On the other hand, this shirt does transmit an important message, that being “I’m a childish asshole that derives transient pleasure from making others unhappy.” That sort of warning, in and of itself, may make the shirt worth it.