New Harry Potter Novel May Have Leaked On The Net

The clock is ticking on the hotly anticipated release of the final Harry Potter novel, so it’s no surprise that conspiracy theorists, fans angry about supposed plot spoilers and paranoid bookies are out in full force.

By late Tuesday every page of ” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was reported to be circulating online, a potential deathblow to the spectacular security measures that have surrounded the book. “This is about as exciting as I’ve ever seen it in the world of books,” Ben McNally, a longtime Toronto bookseller and owner of Ben McNally Books said Tuesday. “The fact that it involves young people is pretty thrilling to my old flinty heart, believe me.”

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” arrives in bookstores at 12:01am on July 21, and that’s when the frenzied speculation about the ending of the most successful series of books in literary history should finally cease. J. K. Rowling says she’s killed off two major characters in “Deathly Hallows,” effectively sparking the most feverish episode of Potter-mania in the 10-year history of the books.

Reports of security breaches have become a daily occurrence in recent days despite the unprecedented measures taken by Bloomsbury Publishers in Britain, Raincoast Books in Canada and Scholastic Inc., the book’s American publisher, to make sure none of the millions of copies from the initial printing leak out before Friday.

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