Hi S-L-F!!
yes, tanuki is right. This forum is meant to be a place that those who have read HBP can come and discuss the book...but since it's not even out yet, we shouldn't really have much. if anything, to post here. AND the biggest reason we try to adhere to this type of thing is that Paul and the Mods have to manually move each and every post from this area into the general area once the book has been out long enough. I'd imagine the task is time consuming so the general practice on this forum has always been to only post if you are making an actual contribution. When I say only post if you are making an actual contribution what I mean is sometimes you see threads that are 5 pages long -- 5 pages of active discussion and then someone goes and posts "I agree". It's a waste of space for all of us to post silly, non-essential stuff like "I agree" or "uh-huh" and on top of that, it's a waste of time for members to open a thread and see that there is nothing new posted even though the marker showed as a new post. So the general rule is to NOT post things like "I agree" and only post if you are actually contributing to the topic.
Anyway, I'm getting off track....but yes, this new area that Paul just made is really meant for us to use as we've begun reading the next book -- that way if someone hasn't read the book, they will know there may be spoilers in this area.
Hope that makes sense. I tend to ramble too much (as if you hadn't realized that by now!)