The final book in the Harry Potter series was meant to be the most closely guarded secret in publishing history, protected by padlocks, barbed wire and a small army of lawyers.

But representatives of J. K. Rowling and her publisher were struggling to get the genie back in the bottle yesterday after every page of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowswas apparently leaked on the internet three days ahead of the official publication date.

Representatives of Rowling confirmed that some genuine material had been released online but declined to say whether the complete book was available.

One possible source of the leak is the 1,200 customers who were mistakenly sent copies of the book on Tuesday by an American distribution company. Scholastic, the book’s American publisher, announced last night that it was taking legal action against Levy Home Entertainment, a Chicago based distributor, and DeepDiscount. com, an online retailer, for allegedly breaching their sales agreements. It estimates that the early copies represent 0.01 per cent of its initial print run of 12 million.

The version available online appears to be the 759-page American edition. A photographer, who is unseen except for a hand holding the book open, has copied each page into a file which can be read like an electronic book. It contains 36 chapters and an epilogue purporting to explain the characters’ ultimate fate.

The document was available yesterday from file-sharing websites including the Pirate Bay, a Swedish site that habitually allows users to make copies of copyrighted material.

Neil Blair, Rowling’s lawyer at the Christopher Little Literary Agency, said that some apparently genuine pages had been posted on the internet. “There is a whole mix of stuff up there,” he said. “If we are alerted to anything that looks like it could be genuine, then we take action. There have been some photos of things up there that do appear to definitely come from the cover or the inside chapter title pages.”

Some file-sharing websites have removed the book after receiving legal warnings, but the Pirate Bay, which has a history of defying legal threats from aggrieved organisations such as Microsoft and Dreamworks, continued to distribute the file last night. It has been downloaded by more than 1,000 people.

If the text is genuine, it is the first time a complete version of the book has been made available online prior to publication. Previous leaks have consisted of selected pages and chapters.

Websites devoted to Harry Potter have appealed to fans not to reveal any leaks that would spoil the plot and are having to remove comments left by visitors who ignore the request.

Rowling has warned readers to expect at least two deaths, but the version online is a bloodbath, according to people who have read it.

The author has declined to comment, but previously asked that readers respected the embargo. “I want the readers who have, in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are going,” she wrote on her website.

She described those who ruin others’ enjoyment as “sad individuals”.

Bloomsbury said that it hoped fans would be able to ignore temptation over the next two days.

Harry Potter 0day

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Dear my brothers,
Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that’s true. And we knew that 2 days ago.
This is the end of the not yet published (someone could call that 0day) book
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .
At the end of the story Hagrid was killed by Snape in the attempt of ambush Hermione and Ron.
Ron and Hermione flees in privet drive but Voldermort, surprising them, engaged a magical duel with Ron and Hermione.
Voldemort attacked trough the imperius curse and Hermione, to protect the life of Ron fight hardly for more than 6 pages and then finally die.
(boring, very boring… it’s always the same story!)
Then, to make a long story short, Harry came up, killed all the bad guys and Hogwarts against became a good place to stay and have fun.
Ah, i missed one important information about Draco Malfoy, he started to create Horcrux (for fun and profit!).
The end.
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Yes, we did it.
We did it by following the precious words of the great Pope Benedict XVI when he still was Cardinal Josepth Ratzinger.
He explained why Harry Potter bring the youngs of our earth to Neo Paganism faith.
So we make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring.
The attack strategy was the easiest one.
The usual milw0rm downloaded exploit delivered by email/click-on-the-link/open-browser/click-on-this-animated-icon/back-connect to some employee of Bloomsbury Publishing, the company that’s behind the Harry crap.
It’s amazing to see how much people inside the company have copies and drafts of this book.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Who kill curiosity?
To protect you and your families
God bless you
Gabriel
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Received on Jun 18 2007

Look what I found !

Howdy yall, as it turns out and as I suspected this was a false alarm/bogus/ghey/FAKE. Its a “Fan Novel” like the ones recently listed on buzzfeed. Sorry for the bother.

The last Harry Potter book appears to have been leaked*. Its a PDF and around 650 pages long.

Download it here: Harry_Potter_and_the_deathly_hallows.zip

Alternate Download Site: http://www.MegaShare.com/192099

I zipped the copy that was emailed to me, so its easier to download. The file is about 1.8mb so it may take a minute or two to download unless you use a download manager.

I’ll keep you updated on the particulars of this HUGE leak. I bet J.K Rowling is pissed. If this leak is in fact real.

NOTE: There are alot of “Larry Pooter” books flying around china. People actually write fake Harry Potter books and sell them as pirated copies, but they aren’t really pirated, they’re trademark and copywrite infringements.

* This post, and the download contained in it, are products of investigative journalism and therefore covered by law as legal.

Harry Potter may have been hacked.  The mystery surrounding the end to fictional British boy wizard Harry Potter’s saga deepened on Wednesday with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details.  Immediately the publisher warned those looking for the spoiler ending that the details of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” could be nothing more than a hoax.

Harry Potter Hacked: JK Rowling Deathly Hallows Ending Leaked Online?

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 by breaking into a computer at London-based Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Uh-oh.

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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.  “Gabriel” has posted information at Web site InSecure.org 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 and he includes several details that he claimed came form the publishers computer, because of open access and exploits use that were located on Milw0rm.com.

“Dear my brothers,” is how the letter starts; followed by what many Harry Potter fans call pure rubbish. “Yes, we did it. We did it by following the precious words of the great Pope Benedict XVI when he still was Cardinal Josepth Ratzinger.  He explained why Harry Potter bring the youngs of our earth to Neo Paganism faith.”

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Kyle Good, a spokesman for U.S. 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.”

Advance orders for the final Harry Potter book are peaking at nearly twelve million copies that are to be shipped in July when the book is released.

Few would have expected that the name Ulysses Press — a small, independent Berkeley publisher — and the phrase “335,000 copies in print” would ever be used in the same sentence.

But it has happened: The publisher’s “What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7,” by authors from the No. 1 Harry Potter fan site, MuggleNet.com, has been on the New York Times Children’s Paperback best-sellers list for 20 consecutive weeks.

The book can be found around the world, thanks to unabated Pottermania, which is surging in anticipation of the seventh and final Harry Potter volume from author J.K. Rowling, due for release July 21.

Ulysses Press was founded in 1983 with the publication of “Hidden Hawaii.” It publishes 50 books a year, including a variety of titles on alternative health, fitness and spirituality, from a second-story office in South Berkeley.

For Ulysses, a successful book sells about 50,000 copies. “What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7,” with retail sales of five times that number, took in some $5 million, representing about a $2 million gross for the press.

“We were a $2 (million)- to $3 million-a-year publisher before it came out. But this book alone has brought in that kind of money,” said Ray Riegert, the 60-year-old publisher who founded Ulysses with his wife, Leslie Henriques.

A Harry Potter spin-off might seem like an odd fit for Ulysses. But the book’s runaway success reaffirms Ulysses’ practice, unusual in publishing, of developing its own ideas and finding authors to write them. No literary agents are involved and no authors show up at the door bearing manuscripts.

Early last year, Riegert, along with Bryce Willett, the company’s marketing manager, and Nick Denton-Brown, an editor, concluded in a brainstorming session that they would do a “prediction book” capitalizing on the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Denton-Brown had the task of finding an author. He found a chat room full of them at MuggleNet.com. The Web site is named for muggles, or people, as Rowling has reminded us time after time, who have no magical abilities.

The Web site, where all things pertaining to Harry Potter can be mined, was founded by Emerson Spartz, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Notre Dame, in the fall of 1999, when he was 12.

Spartz and Ben Schoen, a 17-year-old recent high school graduate from Moundridge, Kan., are the lead writers of “What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7,” which is an analysis of the first six books and a prediction of the series denouement in the seventh book.

Is Dumbledore really dead? Will Harry and Ginny get back together? Who is the mysterious R.A.B.? Whose side is Snape truly on? This is the stuff of the Ulysses Press book, which is being promoted largely through personal appearances by Spartz and Schoen.

“It’s a new Holiday Inn Express every night,” Spartz said from Los Angeles on Friday. A business major from LaPorte, Ind., he said his goal is to run businesses, not make a career out of Harry Potter. But he remains fascinated with the books — “a wonderful story with characters you fall in love with.”

Schoen this year applied to Notre Dame and was rejected. In his appeal he included a copy of the book, a copy of the New York Times review and a clipping of the newspaper’s best-seller list. Notre Dame reversed its decision and welcomed him with a letter congratulating him on his achievements at such a young age.

Riegert, who says other projects with MuggleNet.com are being discussed, is still marveling at Ulysses Press’s good fortune.

“We had no idea it was going to be like this,” he said.

For years, Ulysses mainly published travel guidebooks, but it has varied its titles in the past 10 years. Long a two-person operation, the staff has now grown to 12.

Another successful title for the company, “What Would Buddha Do,” has sold about 60,000 books since it was released in 2002. The MuggleNet.com book has shipped five times that in just eight months, Riegert said.

“There is phenomenal interest” in Rowling’s creation, “one of the biggest publishing phenomena of the last 25 years,” he said. “People are really keyed up, especially for book seven, because everything is going to be resolved.”