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.”
Guys…there is some real junk going on out there. On P2P sharing networks there are ways in which a copy of a certain Deathly Hallows can be downloaded. I’m almost definately sure it’s all rubbish. There is nothing we can do but follow JK Rowlings’s advice and rise above this kind of rubbish. It’s really sad that people still do stuff like this
Hackers don’t have the have best grammar, not all hackers are English speaking people, most of the hackers are from Japan, and they only care about hacking what is un-hackable (if that is a world) so I do believe this hacker, some of you are forgetting that the book has to be store in the data base of the publishers, there are many drafts of the book until they draft is done…also this book has been printed in many places, so that data has to be send to the printing places, plus HUMANS package these books into boxes to be delivery to the libraries…there is a lot of people who get in contact with this book. I have to say that I do think it is a sad ending but it is very probable, especially since the spokesperson for Bloomsbury is not denying it
Ok, I have already read it…it seems very fake!..%$”#$ figthing for more than six pages with $”$”!!! I can’t believe it!!!! And if he really read it and says that it was boring, the only thing that I could say is: “Dude your out of your mind”
this can’t be true,
i read the letter from this gabriel
but i dont think any of this is true
this person just wants attention so she/he made all this junk up *
I hate this. I can’t go anywhere on the net but Leaky. I am super paranoid. Even if I do just shun my computer for the next month, I have four brothers and sisters who would love to ruin the book for me. I appreciate Mellissa’s tough stand against spoilers, but I unfortunately not everyone is so nice. :(
I just want to say, that this whole thing/story IS total junk. First off, I know some of the best hackers in the world, and THEY weren’t able to get to this book. And second, I know some people who actually read parts of the book. They told me teasers, and it goes against what this dumb jerk said.
So seriously everyone, rest assured, this is Not real.;)
I came on here after not-thinkingly doing a technorati search to see if other people had blogged about it being a month to go and accidentally saw some of it. I really hope its not true, or at the very least – no one says it is or isn’t true! And I must make sure not to do stupid things like that again – no idea why I did it!
Ok, I just did a search for this and came up with the ‘leaked novel’. It is definitely made up. Also – you should know the person that made it up must be a complete retard, it is that un-Rowlingish. Ok, got to go, that’s my amusement for the day!
The intelligent Harry Potter reader would know right away that it wasn’t true. But I have to admitt that when I saw the headlines I got a little scared and signed out. God help those people.
I don’t want the ending spoiled for me, just like the rest of you. But my enjoyment of good literature comes not at the ending but reveling in the beauty of a story well told. No one can ruin Jo’s books for me, ever.
‘The posting was made in an attempt to “make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring”’
Ha!
Clearly the people who plotted this fake spoiler don’t understand the first thing about what makes fiction great or the joy of being in suspense about every detail of beloved characters, much less the brilliance of the HP series.
Even if this spoiler was from the actual book – which is incredibly unlikely – how many of us would refrain from reading Deathly Hallows because of it? It’s not just about the ending, it’s the fun of Harry’s journey to that ending that makes me read.
Well even if it isn’t true, I am not going to read it to be safe, I am getting off all these Harry Potter sites and basically the internet for the next month. People for some reason cannot keep things to themselves and like to spoil it for the rest of us and I refuse to be spoiled. So catch you all after July 21st!
A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen.
Guys…there is some real junk going on out there. On P2P sharing networks there are ways in which a copy of a certain Deathly Hallows can be downloaded. I’m almost definately sure it’s all rubbish. There is nothing we can do but follow JK Rowlings’s advice and rise above this kind of rubbish. It’s really sad that people still do stuff like this