Everyone should embrace the colophon.
I think I have found my new tag.
Aimee, don't let them scare you off Watership Down; it's a marvelous exciting, creative, and moving story. There are melancholy parts, but nothing that should break you. I enjoyed it immensely and reread it regularly.
How spoil-y?? Like on a scale from "Hermione shags Ron" to "Neville gets killed"?
They are middling spoilers (so-and-so will have an important role in the book 7) except the one about
Snape where she answered the question about whether he was on the side of the good or evil.
I LOVE that the biggy came as a result of Salman Rushdie asking a question.
Ok, I can deal with those.
More detailed report of the Q & A session: [link]
The spoilers are 90% certain. The way they are phrased, they could be tricksy foilers.
Apparently, Salman, Salman's nine year old son, and I have been sharing a theory since book 6 came out. I think that's almost as cool as it is that we're (spoiler if you're familiar with my opinions of HP)
"basically right"
.