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The probability that you have no grasp on the situation is high enough to justify an easy, simple, harmless test.
And I'd appreciate it if spoilers for the story were ROT13'd or something - I haven't read it.
You mean the plot point that Harry Potter tested the Magic hypothesis? I don't think most plot points in the introductions of stories really count as spoilers.
Yeah, that's not a spoiler any more than "Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Jedi" is a spoiler.
A "Jedi"? Obi-Wan Kenobi?
I wonder if you mean old Ben Kenobi. I don't know anyone named Obi-Wan, but old Ben lives out beyond the dune sea. He's kind of a strange old hermit.
Ah, of course. That's fine, then.
Although you might want to let EY know that someone posted unobfusticated spoilers for ... Chapter 10, was it? - in violation of community standards. ;)
I agree, though I think the particular test chosen in the story didn't make much sense - even if magic was real I wouldn't have expected that to have any effect.
The most astonishing thing about spoilers, I find, is that they are often provided to you with exactly as much enthusiasm after you announce that you haven't seen the story as before.
This isn't surprising at all.
People who give out spoilers when discussing a work generally don't care that you don't like to hear spoilers before you've experienced a work.
Considering you've read the rest of the posts in this thread, that's not a spoiler, just my opinion about what you've already been discussing.
I haven't.
Well, it was a bit silly to comment on it without context then. At any rate no major/obvious spoilers have been posted here.
That's a relief.