So am I the only one?

[girlyswot]

*looks round sheepishly*

Oh yes, I've been reading those spoilers/leaks/scans...

No, you're getting nothing from me.  Promise.

I think I've mentioned before that knowing what's going to happen doesn't affect my enjoyment of a book, except perhaps to relieve some of the initial scramble-to-get-through-it-as-quickly-as-possible-to-find-out-what-happens tension.  So I won't have to worry about that this time.  

Unless the spoilers are fake.

But here is an interesting thing I've noticed about people's response to the leaks.  A number of comments are about how these aren't 'JKR's style'.  Now, I haven't read the whole thing (too lazy) but what I have read strikes me as exactly JKR's style.  Which got me to wondering about the effect of having read fanfiction on one's actual reading of the book.

I wasn't in the fandom before HBP so I've never had this experience before.  How do the rest of you deal with it?  Do you get so used to thinking of the HP world in the style of your favourite fanfics that JKR's style seems jarring?  Do you long for stmargaretsHarry and Ginny, or for rhetoretician's?  Do you start to find JKR's writing childish compared to some of the more 'adult' fics you might have read?  Or do you find that actually, her writing does stand up to the test and sweep you away compared to the amateur things you've become used to?  Can you still spot 'JKR's style' amidst all the competing voices?

Comments

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, this was way bigger than Ron-Lavender but there wasn't a why and so we still don't know how the story got to that point and that's what's interesting. I was just thinking of how many people would interpret this spoiler but how they could still be completely wrong about what had happened that lead to that point.

Any way, are you suggesting that this is bigger than which teenager goes out with which other teenager? Surely, that is far more important than destruction of Voldemeor and the fight between good and evil?

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I'm suggesting I've seen much bigger chunks of actual book than you. Hundreds of pages. *grins*

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

Oh I see. Thatr, obviously, is a deliberate choice to read on your part. What I was getting at, is it isn't actually going to make a big difference to people who didn't want to be spoiled if they saw what I saw. Anyone who didn't want to be spoiled but read as much as you have really can't complain.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Quite right. And there sort of comes a point where you think, this isn't a spoiler any more, this is just reading the book.