Harry Potter 7: Hacked?

[Gan]

BOSTON (Reuters) - The mystery surrounding the end to fictional boy wizard Harry Potter's saga deepened on Wednesday with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details and a publisher warned the details could be fake.

The hacker, who goes by the name "Gabriel", claims to have taken a digital copy of author J.K. Rowling's seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", by breaking into a computer at London-based Bloomsbury Publishing.

For months now, leading up to the book's July 21 release, legions of "Harry Potter" fans have debated whether Rowling killed Harry or one of his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, in the final book.

Gabriel has posted information at Web site InSecure.org that, if true, would answer that question.

"We make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring," Gabriel said in the posting.

"Harry Potter" publishers have taken great pains to keep the conclusion a secret and preserve the multibillion-dollar entertainment enterprise surrounding the boy wizard.

A Bloomsbury spokesman declined comment on the hacker's claims.

Kyle Good, a spokesman for U.S. distributor Scholastic, would not say whether the posting was accurate, but did warn readers to be sceptical about anything on the Web that claims to have inside information on the book's plot.

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN2028966520070621

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Lies! All Lies!!!

:medieval:

[Miss X]

I don't wanna know omg!

[Asha]

Hahahaha omg

[Khariz]

I read the spoilers at the site. I seriously doubt that's what happens. I personally wouldn't care enough for that to be a major impact.

[Augie]

I read the spoilers at the site. I seriously doubt that's what happens. I personally wouldn't care enough for that to be a major impact.

Yeah I read them too. It doesn't seem likely that is what happened, but who knows? We'll have to wait until July 21st to find out.

Either way, even reading the spoilers, my enjoyment of the book won't be lessened.

[Drisco]

Hoping it's all a lie cause I like Hermione:(

[SpunGirl]

That's stupid. Doesn't this "hacker" realize that people who like to read will read the book because, um, they like to read? Posting a spoiler doesn't diminish the rest of the work, which will definitely be entertaining.

-K

[TheEschaton]

Those spoilers don't even make sense with how the current story has gone.

Though, I just realized there's less than a month to go!!!!! Amazon has this thing where they're shipping it to make sure it gets TO YOUR HOUSE exactly on 7/21. I'm gonna wait by my mailbox all day that Saturday.

-TheE-

[Jayvn]

is this the one where she finally gets pregnant?

[Khariz]

is this the one where she finally gets pregnant?

I'd do her.

[StrayRogue]

Heh, do any of you guys have the original (non-American) versions of the books? I hear they lose like 10 pages each when they get ported over the ocean.

[Nieninque]

That would be the space they save from missing out "u"s

[TheEschaton]

I have some of the original ENglish ones, when I was in Africa, there were far more Europeans than American aid workers.

[LordBacl]

J.K. Rowling hints at Harry Potter date rape...

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/j_k_rowling_hints_at_harry_potter

[Nieninque]

lol

[Skeeter]

I would read the book if there was a date rape

[Hips]

I bought the first four books while I was in England four or five years ago, so mine are most likely the non-American versions.