Harry Potter ending ’revealed’

Harry Potter ending 'revealed'

By Jim Finkle in Boston

June 22, 2007 07:46am

THE mystery surrounding the end to fictional British boy wizard Harry Potter's saga deepened today 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 Plc.

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.

(Guys..if u dunt wanna spoil da enjoyment..dunt read it) Gabriel has posted information at website **** 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 multi-billion-dollar entertainment enterprise surrounding the boy wizard.

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

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

"There is a whole lot of junk flying around," she said. "Consider this one more theory."

David Perry, a spokesman for computer security company Trend Micro, said there was a good chance Gabriel's claim could be a hoax.

"We've had hypes like this on the last couple of Harry Potter books," he said. "There is a very high level of spurious information in the hacker world."

But if true, it could be a problem for Bloomsbury. The Harry Potter books have been global best-sellers with fans buying some 320 million versions worldwide, and anticipation for Deathly Hallows is high.

In April, US retailer Barnes & Noble said advance orders for the book had already topped 500,000 copies, setting a chain record. Scholastic plans to release a record 12 million copies of Deathly Hallows to meet demand.

A stolen copy of the sixth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince surfaced in Britain about a month before its official release in July 2005. Two people were charged after reportedly trying to sell a copy to the London newspaper, The Sun.

Four Potter movies made by Warner Bros. film studio, a division of Time Warner Inc., have brought in $US3.5 billion in global ticket sales, and a fifth film is due in theatres in early July.

- Additional reporting by Bob Tourtellotte in Los Angeles and Kate Holton in London.

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I agree with sirius. Wat a mongrel,
go eat slugs,
no way am i touching that site

But heck... Even if ending is revealed... As if it will stop fans from reading the book!! My friends hollered into my ears that Dumbledore dies before I read the sixth book... But tht didnt stop me from reading the book and hoping that Dumbledore wouldn't die...

Curiosity killed the cat... read the spoilers... I dont think they are true... I mean the spoilers are too obvious... As in this Gabriel has only listed who all are killed by Voldemort and the death eaters... Nothing more than that... 🤢 🤢 🤢
Now that list I hope is not true... 😭

Actually its not a list... Its the names of the two people who will die...
Rowling has said that two people will die in the seventh book...

y r ppl so spoil-sport????? 😡

Ok ok ok STOP it, no angry faces, no rumours or leaks here please. IF supports JK Rowling, and we will all read the book. Link removed, Topic Locked.

-Sam