The world and its dog is reading the last book in the Harry Potter mega-franchise, all except me and a few mates I know. The sensitivity around this has baffled me to the point of being disturbing. As soon as the book came out, I only wanted to know one thing - who dies!? I tried asking a few people that were reading the book what happens in the end, the response was a mixture of looks of disdain and downright madness, with one person even putting their fingers in their ears, singing "la, la, la, la". Not one TV or radio journo has dared to even utter the ending, until one brave soul by the name of Johnno Coleman let it slip on national TV yesterday. When I say, let it slip, he actually joked about it and made up a bogus ending. The show's response to this was to initially suspend him, then today hold a phone poll for viewers to vote on whether or not he should have his job back. Let's get this in perspective, they didn't hold a poll on whether the government should be doing more to fight global warming, or if whether there needs to be a bigger crack down on drugs in professional sport, nope - something far more important - Should Johnno Coleman get his job back after daring to even joke about telling people the ending of the book. My solution to this - I'm getting right behind Johnno. As of today, I am going to go up to every person I see reading Harry Potter, and say "He dies in the end, he kills two innocent puppies, the girl becomes a crack addict and the fat bloke dies of a heart attack". "So there, wasn't that interesting anyway, welcome back to the real world".
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