Rumors have been floating around the internet today concerning a ‘hacker’ obtaining a digital copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from a Bloomsbury computer and posting the alleged ending on the web. Reuters is reporting this evening that a Bloomsbury spokesperson ‘declined comment on the hacker’s claims,’ while Kyle Good, a spokesperson for US publishers Scholastic, is warning readers ‘to be skeptical about anything on the Web that claims to have inside information on the book’s plot’ saying:
“There is a whole lot of junk flying around,” she said. “Consider this one more theory.”
It is highly unlikely that any documents containing information as well protected as the seventh Harry Potter book would be on a Bloomsbury computer and as Trend Micro, a computer security company, spokesman David Perry was noted as saying:
“We’ve had hypes like this on the last couple of Harry Potter books… There is a very high level of spurious information in the hacker world.”
YIKES! This is the kind of post that makes me want to turn off my computer and not turn it on again till after July 26 or whenever I’ve finished reading the book (I won’t get it done in 12 hours like those of you who are still young).
I trust Leaky, though I’ve scrolled through the comments without reading just in case. I don’t want to know. Even if it’s not true, I don’t want to know because it just might be true and I DON’T WANT TO BE SPOILED!
I took this as a grain of salt right from the beginning, but even so, I cannot deny there are feelings of uneasiness… (even though this is obviously a hoax, I still refuse to read it…)
I was actually planning on doing a one-month hiatus before DH came out, and then this happened! Very convenient, so I’ll be signing off now. I’ll miss you all, and happy non-spoilage! See you at the release parties. _
oh my. i am definitely hiding from a lot of sites. i don’t visit any site but leaky for harry potter updates. paranoid? yes!
But how silly all of this is. Seriously, hacking into one computer and supposedly finding a digital copy of HP and Deathly Hallows? What can be accomplished by doing this? No official site is going to reveal any info. gathered, people are still going to buy the book, and no one is going to believe you…silly person
Wow. I seriously doubt that is legit! But even if it is, it wont be the end of the world for me. I knew the ending of Half Blood Prince and that is still my favorite book! SO i am hopeing that is fake, for the sake of….everyone! lol. But i am a Potter fan through and through! :-)
Go ahead. Read it. Once you do you’ll realise it is complete bs. “Gabriel” cannot even spell the simplest of words. I highly doubt his ability to hack open a bag of chips let alone Bloomsbury servers. And all in the name of Catholicism? hahahaha completely laughable I assure you. It reveals nothing than what you may have speculated about already. So calm down, and have yourself a good laugh at this moron. I bet Jo’s having a good chuckle right now.
I gave in and read it as well…completely laughable. The grammar, punctuation, and spelling are terrible. From what we have seen on the covers, the hoax doesn’t sound accurate at all. Still…I can’t say that I’m not a tad worried. I’m going to have to stay off the internet for a month.
Quite curious as to why Bloomsbury declines to comment on it. The title for this article is a little misleading, TLC. Nobody knows if it’s a hoax or not.
I agree with jayjay. The “spoiler” is absolute crap and I don’t think it ruins anything. In fact, I thought it was highly entertaining. The fact that it was supposedly done in the name of Catholicism makes it even better. Rowling is protecting Hallows from people just like Gabriel and I’m sure appropriate measures have been taken to ensure its safety.
Never mind. I found it, and it’s not worth reading. I don’t know why Bloomsbury doesn’t say “This guy’s a fool who has never read Harry Potter” at once.
This stuff just makes me mad. Someone told me a kinda-spoiler today. I think they were full of it, but I am really naive about everything that is going on right now. Are there any credible spoilers out there at this point? I really belive that what they told me was bs, but I went off on them anyway. Will someone please tell me its okay and the spoiler was most likely untrue because I’m really upset right now/
A friend sent the questioned file to me a few days ago, that he saw on a torrent site. I was highly skeptical, and asked him to send it to me, and I read it, and recognized it a little bit. But a quick Google search told me that the story was ‘The Seventh Horcrux’ by Melindaleo. I remember when I read it for the first time a few months ago, I was like “THIS COULD BE BOOK 7!”
Obviously, it wasn’t. It was just a really good fanfic.
Have some more faith in the security surrounding the book. Hackers just want to be badass and pretend they have the new book.
Love, Amanda
Posted by Amanda from California on June 21, 2007, 04:35 AM
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YIKES! This is the kind of post that makes me want to turn off my computer and not turn it on again till after July 26 or whenever I’ve finished reading the book (I won’t get it done in 12 hours like those of you who are still young).
I trust Leaky, though I’ve scrolled through the comments without reading just in case. I don’t want to know. Even if it’s not true, I don’t want to know because it just might be true and I DON’T WANT TO BE SPOILED!
:::::sigh::::: people can be so evil!