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British printer of the 7th Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, steps up security.

EDP 24:
In the run-up to the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in 2005, word about the plot was thought to have spread when a rash of bets on the ending were made in Bungay. And in May 2003, Donald Parfitt, a forklift truck driver at Clay’s, pleaded guilty to stealing pages from [...]

Will Harry Potter survive J.K. Rowling’s The Deathly Hallows??

This New York Times article, gathering external opinions, is very skeptical on Gabriel’s claim that he hacked some of the Bloomsbury’s computers, giving more weight to impression that Chris Masse is a total sucker whose skull is filled with salted water.
And the Wikipedia entry on the book is regularly vandalized, by the way. [...]

Such is the rush of money for Harry Potter’s demise that William Hill has stopped taking bets as Harry Potter mania builds ahead of publication on July 21, 2007.

The Telegraph


Harry Potter will survive The Deathly Hallows.

© NewsFutures

The interrogation is centered around the discrepancy between the William Hill indication (Harry Potter will die) and the NewsFutures message (Harry Potter will not die).
Previous: YES, Harry Potter will survive J.K. Rowling’s 7th installment of the saga, The Deathly Hallows.

UPDATE: eWeek.com
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YES, Harry Potter will survive J.K. Rowling’s 7th installment of the saga, The Deathly Hallows.


Via Matt Drudge, via EITB 24, a hacker whose pseudonym is “Gabriel” tells you the ending of the book, The Deathly Hallows, yet to be published. He claims to have hacked one of the computers of the publisher. The bottom line is that Harry does not die, it seems.
I have just bought all the NewsFutures [...]

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