Harry Potter leak

by Bill Osler Jul 20, 2007 8:53AM PDT

It appears that there have been multiple leaks of the new Harry Potter book. The New York Times web site had a review a couple of days ago based on a book that one of their staff bought earlier this week.
A couple of bittorrent sites that host pirated stuff had 'photocopies' available for download, although Scholastic apparently has been moving swiftly to remove the copies from the sites as they learned about them.
It's amazing how excited people are about this book.
Info from the NYT at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/books/19potter.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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So what's your professional opinion, Doc?

by drpruner. Jul 20, 2007 11:09AM PDT

Will the world's children be twisted irreparably by the leak? And did Harry and Gandalf really go over Reichenbach Falls?

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'No' to both ...

by Bill Osler Jul 21, 2007 8:30PM PDT

I don't see any reason the books would irrevocably damage anyone unless they get used for projectiles. Some of them are big enough to do some damage!

I doubt Gandalf and Harry ever meet. I haven't read all the way through the last book yet so I can't be sure but I'd say its unlikely.

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Hey, at "The Special Low Price" of

by drpruner. Jul 22, 2007 5:55AM PDT

twenty bucks, they had better be big! (Local store)

No Gandalf in Potter? Drat! No wonder I don't get invited to the cool parties.

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and for different reasons :-(

by jonah jones Jul 20, 2007 7:17PM PDT

over here a bunch of religious jews decided that launching the book on the sabbath was "desecrating the sabbath" so they put up a synopsis and the ending at 18:00 friday evening.....

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My daughter is a Harry fanatic...

by EdH Jul 20, 2007 9:36PM PDT

since the series began. She's been up all night reading the last book, which she bought at midnight. She was interviewed by the local paper and quoted extensively. She saw one of the "spoiler" websites and was outraged, but it won't diminish her enjoyment of the book.

I read the first five but kind of lost interest about a quarter of the way through book six, but I may pick it up again some day. They are very well written, but the mania seems overblown to me.

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Jimmy Kimmel's writers:

by drpruner. Jul 21, 2007 8:52AM PDT

"The author is disturbed about the piracies ... That will cost her a lot of money in lost sales ... Now she won't be able to buy Puerto Rico."

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Did you see the "reading" on Jimmy Kimmel last night?

by EdH Jul 21, 2007 1:00PM PDT

"Will there be an English translation?"

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(NT) Nope, so I don't get it. Rowling is English, of course.

by drpruner. Jul 21, 2007 2:57PM PDT

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The guy reading it....

by EdH Jul 21, 2007 10:58PM PDT

who may be a regular on the show (I don't watch it that often) ...was reading it with a heavy Hispanic accent and mispronouncing half the words. Not exactly highbrow humor, but goofy.

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(NT) That would be Guillermo, Jeemee. :-)

by drpruner. Jul 22, 2007 5:49AM PDT

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My wife

by James Denison Jul 21, 2007 8:35PM PDT

Second daughter picked up at mall after midnight Friday, wife didn't put it down except for food and potty breaks all day Saturday, all evening Saturday, late night Saturday, early morning Sunday. She finally came to bed around 2-3am. I have this perverse hope the preacher today will run overtime

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