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.”
This is the first I’ve heard of this! I’ve tried searching for the spoiler and haven’t found it. I admit..curiosity is getting the best of me. I want to read it for myself and decide if I think it’s a load of hogwash!
I’m not even gonna look. I don’t know what this person is trying to do, but I think it’s mostly just a ploy to get more hits for whatever that site is. Or, it could be someone who despises J.K. Rowling and the whole Harry Potter franchise, and who wants to flush it all down the toilet, so to speak. In any case, DON’T GO TO THAT PAGE. The less that people go there and read it, the less the hype will be, and eventually, this person will probably take the “spoilers” off of that site. Or the administrator will. Because, even though they’re getting quite a few hits from the hype of the “spoilers,” that site is also getting a bad rep with a couple thousand people all around the world. If you spoil something as big as Harry Potter, YOU SHOULD DIE.
I fully understand why Bloomsbury and Scholastic will not state flatly that this is a hoax. If they flatly deny all hoaxes and someone actually posts a real spoiler, the publishers’ refusal to comment would stand out like a sore thumb. They’re much safer to simply say “no comment” about any and all spoilers.
I can’t believe I actually spent time looking this up. It’s not even an actual segment from the book. It’s some idiot saying this happens, this happens, then these people get killed, then someone makes a horcrux for fun. Please. Don’t even bother. What a waste of time.
I read it and I’m happy to say it’s complete bull.
What troubles me is that almost every major news company reported on it (Fox are idiots anyway, but why is CNN biting?), is it really such a slow news day?
Now every dumb—- who says he/she knows the ending of book 7 will get full media coverage.
I read it and I’m happy to say it’s complete bull.
What troubles me is that almost every major news company reported on it (Fox are idiots anyway, but why is CNN biting?), is it really such a slow news day?
Now every dumb—- who says he/she knows the ending of book 7 will get full media coverage.
Folks, this is a hoax. If you read the “hacker post” and then read everything you know about Book 7, including the story behind the dragon on one of the covers issued by Bloomsbury, then you know that the probability of events transpiring as this hoaxer describes them is utter rubbish. Put your thinking caps on.
I bet bloomsbury and scholastic can’t say a definitive “yes” or “no” as to whether or not it’s real, because if (God forbid) a real one comes out they certainly can’t say that it is indeed the book! This way people can still doubt each supposed “spoiler,” whether or not it’s real.
Why editors do not deny rumors/oaxes?
1 – They cannot lie
2 – Denying is a spoiler in itself!
Consider this simple math about deaths predictions.
We have say a dozen main characters, of which 2 or more may die (JKR says so). There are then 50-60 possible pairs. If only 2 die, 1 pair is ‘correct’; if more die, more pairs are ‘correct’. If 30 different hoaxes are spread naming different pairs that die, the probability that one is right (out of pure crude guess) is 70% or more; and if editors start to deny the wrong ones, they have also to confirm the right one. Even if none of them is right, the denial of so many possible pairs narrows considerably the field! and now, THAT would be a spoiler. So, I approve the policy of not commenting.
Yes there are a bunch of people who have access to the book but look at walmart their people are signing a contract not to tell any spoilers. I work for a trucking company that delivered the last book in the US and let me tell you as a company they were very strict on everything to do with those books. they come in on pallets that are black swrinked wrapped with no big signs that say happy potter. although I have to say I was drooling over the pallets. the only way anyone could get a hold of the book early would be to hyjack a semi and good luck with that. I doubt the publishers would let anything happen to the book. It is just too important to them and the readers.
this spoiler is not only a joke but as boring as he/she says about harry potter. I’m with everyone else, it doesn’t matter how many spoilers are out there(correct or not) it won’t ruin the read for me. I’ll be on couch, with a Pepsi and munchies and won’t move for 12 hours. I can’t wait to see if I am right about RAB and where the real necklace is :)
THIS IS GREAT PUBLICITY FOR HP7, BUT DON’T BOTHER READING IT!! YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME!! (AND DOWNLOAD LIMIT)
Good Publicity stunt. Either Gabriel is very smart or very stupid -
smart if it was an intentional ploy to get everyone talking about HP7, or an intentional ploy to get millions of Potter fans to log onto Insecure.org (more likely)
stupid if it was an attempt to decrease interest/sales/readers of HP or to spoil the book.
Personally i think it was a way to get millions of readers to log onto a website. we all did it (admit it – you read it too!)
I’ve read it as well and I don’t believe a single word of it.
A lot of it doesn’t seem to make sense nor does it feel right. The whole plot structure of that ending seems childish. It’s not even that well put-together in that writing style of J.K. Rowling.
No matter what we say about the “hacker” or his “spoiler”, we cannot change the fact that the book has already been written and that anything is possible, whether it’s the entire spoiler, part of it, other characters in their places, or none of it true.
We will just have to wait and see for ourselves when the book comes out.
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This is the first I’ve heard of this! I’ve tried searching for the spoiler and haven’t found it. I admit..curiosity is getting the best of me. I want to read it for myself and decide if I think it’s a load of hogwash!