Shut Up About The Ending!!

For the next week or so we can all expect to hear a lot about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; the final book in the JK Rowling series. Thousands of people are already waiting outside their local bookstores for the clock to strike 12:01am so that they too can receive their copies of Hallows. There are many news stories out there about people who received the book just a few days early.

One woman in Chicago received a package that said "Do Not Open Until July 21." Obviously, not obeying the note her children opened the package and finished the book while a distraught mailman came to her house twice to try and take the book back. He did this but not before one of her children finished the book. Of course, the article ends with a statement from one of the children that she would not give away the ending of the book.

That statement seems to be what all of the news media is talking about. Who is going to leak the ending of this book. Who and why would anyone do that?? It's bad enough people spoil the endings of movies, but this is the most anticipated book of our generation, and no one has the right to take that away from these fans.

I talked to a few people and asked them how long they thought it would be before the ending of this book was all over the Internet. One friend said to me "12:15 a.m." and he's probably right. It's a sad truth. The news media is not helping by trying to get the ending out of a child that's giving an interview either. It's a retarded question to ask a child. Yes, I am calling certain reporters retarded.

Other news organizations are taking things a bit far. I will not say the name of the news organization but they wrote a piece about how children are going to cope with the loss of the "Potter" series, even going as far as talking to a child psychiatrist. I think this is the most benign article ever put together by a news media. Yes, children will be sad that the series is over, and they may have to deal with the loss of their favorite character.

The article goes on to say, "Keep in mind most kids under six don't understand that death is permanent." How about doing a story on how many six-year-olds might actually read this book? Or, if a six-year-old genius child has read all of the other books already, and is ready to read this final installment? That, frankly, is a much more interesting story than how they will understand the death of a character. This is fiction, and if it causes some sort of psychological damage to their characters later in life, well they probably believe they will go to college at Hogwarts anyway.