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07-31-2007, 01:28 PM
| | |  Headteacher spoils Deathly Hallows for whole school
Carolyn Banfield, headteacher at St John's Church of England school in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, spoiled the ending of Deathly Hallows for 400 children when she read it out in an assembly. Quote:
A spokesman for St John's said: "The school held an assembly on the last day of term to say goodbye to the children and staff who were leaving.
"At this assembly a very small passage from the new Harry Potter book was read aloud.
"The passage was carefully chosen to reflect the theme of saying goodbye.
"The school felt that this reading would not spoil the children's enjoyment of the book and its plot.
"Many of the children and staff at the school are fans of the Harry Potter series, and we used the text as a way of illustrating how uncertainty can sometimes accompany new beginnings."
However the decision has been "condemned" by the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations. Quote:
Spokesman Margaret Morrissey said: "It beggars belief as to how someone could even consider doing something like this. It spoilt the book for a number of children.
"The good thing about Harry Potter is that it has encouraged a lot of children to pick up books and read.
"Whatever the motive there wasn't sufficient thinking behind this.
"It is something that the children at the school would have spent the majority of the holiday reading rather than saying they were bored.
"It is very hard to understand why anyone would do that, most of all a teacher in a primary school."
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07-31-2007, 01:30 PM
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thats horrible that she spoiled it! Who cares if she was doing it because it fit the theme! thats still bad!
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that is horrible! 
outragous!
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07-31-2007, 01:33 PM
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07-31-2007, 01:37 PM
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THAT'S HORRID! -chases after Headteacher- -stabby stabby- | |
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07-31-2007, 01:39 PM
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Oh thats horrible. All those students must have been so angry. 
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That's completely horrendously unacceptable!  I am in complete and utter shock right now! Especially a teacher, who should now how much this series means to a lot of people. | |
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Hmmmm, it doesn't say what passage was read. Maybe it wasn't so spoilery after all? I need more info.
And, have to admit, I'm related to an even guiltier party. My mom. She wore my a "Dumbledore Dies" t-shirt on the first day of school after HBP was released. At least it had been a couple of months after the release though. | |
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Oy! Is that even legal? *pokes the teacher*
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That's true though, they didn't exactly state which passage it was, if it was in the beginning, middle, or the ending, or if it really contain a spoiler. Because after all, it could've been some random set of paragraphs which doesn't say much yet still has the theme of "Saying Good-Bye."
But then again, I have to agree, they should've just chosen a previous Harry Potter, seeing as they pretty much all contain that particular theme or one close to it rather than pick the 7th and last book which many still haven't read yet and read from it. Ah well...
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That's horrible.
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Horrible...i would be so upset.
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07-31-2007, 03:13 PM
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i would've been sooo sad if i were one of thoes students!
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07-31-2007, 03:22 PM
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Shame on that teacher! Shame, Shame, Shame! Big, huge, mega big shame on the person who ever thought of that. They must be idiots!
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07-31-2007, 03:26 PM
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that is terrible. I say we sick a pack of pygmy puffs on her.  | |
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07-31-2007, 03:29 PM
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that teacher is absolutely HORRIBLE!! who would even THINK of doin something like that and ruining the book for 400 students?!?!?! I would hate to have been one of them.
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HOW RUDE I WOULD HAVE died IF MY TEACHER TOLD ME!!!!
WHO ON THE FACE OF MOTHER EARTH WOULD DO THAT??? I AM OUTRAGED!!! THAT IS 100% UNACCEPTABLE!
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Originally Posted by sakura11  That's true though, they didn't exactly state which passage it was, if it was in the beginning, middle, or the ending, or if it really contain a spoiler. Because after all, it could've been some random set of paragraphs which doesn't say much yet still has the theme of "Saying Good-Bye."
But then again, I have to agree, they should've just chosen a previous Harry Potter, seeing as they pretty much all contain that particular theme or one close to it rather than pick the 7th and last book which many still haven't read yet and read from it. Ah well... Yeah, hold up a second... what if it wasn't really all that spoilerly? I was thinking she opened to the last chapter and read it aloud, but it seems like she just picked a passage that had to do with saying goodbye (possibly during the death of a character in the middle of the book that wouldn't have ruined it at all?) I dunno, I need more infore before I make my decision on this one.
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