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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.