HPGIRL21053: I'm actually a librarian at Barnes and Noble and this is actually what happens: in chapter 1 Dumbledore wakes up with Sirius lying in his barrel of cheeesecake that dumbledore fell into and sirius got transported there from the veil, but then snape comes along and kill sirius...but Dumbledore stuffs some cheesecake down Snapes throat and whacks him with a cat he found. then in the last chapter: Ron trips over Hagrid and dies then Harry ties Voldy to a tree and sends fang on him...and poors some bat droppings on him

I read it, if it´s real it´s not very spoilery. I wonder who the two men could be.....hhhhmmmm.... Ah well it doesn´t make any plot reveals so i´m not that worried about it. And the hacker person... Does anyone know if there was a conclusion to that? Like did the info turn out to be fake? I hope so. I duno why, I didn´t read it, but I guess it would be just sad for JKR if her most important book´s plot leaked.

this is crap. look at the weak dialogue. what snape says doesn't suit his character at all..i still can't wait for the book and everything there is not j. k. rowlings style at all.....

784 pages people! not 759

rob15, wow, i am actually amused now, i think i BELIEVE ur new spoiler, and am very interested, i think the cheesecake is VERY important....... now my interest in the book has skyrocketed, and from a LIBRARIAN at B&N, just amazing........ :D

The "epilogue" can't be real. Who in their right mind would name their child 'Scorpius'!? If I flip to the back of Deathly Hallows on Saturday and find that epilogue in there, I will no longer have any respect for JKR. ANY.

Gah.......I.WANT.THAT.BOO K! I think this may be a legit excerpt--the chapter title is interesting to say the least. 'Nuff said.......

I don't think it's legit. I may be wrong but it's my intuition it's fake. First of all, I really think it's highly unlikely we would get a direct snippet from the new book from anyone other than Jo herself or her publishers. Secondly, it doesn't sound like Jo at all.... the wording, it's not Jo-esque at all. It sounds fanfiction-ish to me. Of course, I could be wrong and it's legit but who knows. I just really have doubts. I can't believe it's only 5 days away! AHHH! First thing friday morning I'm bee-lining it to Borders to get my wristband! With the last book I didn't know they were doing that so I didn't get one til I got there around 8pm. I want to be in the first group this time! I'm so excited!

Ugghhh I couldn't help it so I read it! But true it's not spoiling anything except the title of the first chapter really. And people I wouldn't be calling the dialogue crappy and bad yet until July 21st when we can see if The Guardian was right (keep in mind The Guardian is not some tabloid newspaper either..).

Sakibou: I sure hope this is a fake but I've seen scans of other pages from a different source and the title matches. I have read the epilogue and said it SUCKS.

Well, she did say that some people would loath the book.... uh oh...

Well, that epilogue is just terrible. I mean, it really is. I can't imagine anyone except a ten year old liking it.

that doesnt sound like something snape would say...

I am so NOT reading this. I want the book to be a surprise!! Every single word of it!! But i did read the the chapter title "Dark Lord Acending"!! AHH!!! NOT GOOD!!!!

It may not sound like something he would say but you have to consider who he is talking to....and right now we have no clue who that could be. Remember, whatever side Snape is on, he is a great actor. Who knows how he talks when he's having a conversation with Voldemort. Probably sounds like a high pitched girl :P

CRAZY_FOR_HAIRY: i thought it sounds like a low pitched dirtburglar with a hint of pepper...but that's just me

goodness gracious!!! and wht abt those rumours of neville being the chosen one??

I couldn't help myself and I read all the spoilers. I am now MORE excited for the book to come out! I almost hope those scanned chapter titles are genuine because they sound awesome. However, I am APPALLED at the Epilogue. That CANNOT POSSIBLY be genuine. It is my worst nightmare of an Epilogue...EVER. I am certain Jo did not write that...still, I am nervous that it will show up in the book when I get it Saturday....WTF!?!?! That BETTER not be the real epilogue...it just better not be!

I want to see these chapter pics that people keep talking about.

I think this part is real, because it is written in a very famous newspaper's online website. But the part doesn't give that much away...

welll it doesnt exactly sound like J.K's writing....i dun thinkits real

Actually, I just reread the Epilogue and it is growing on me. For anyone that says that Scorpius is a bad name, I point directly to 'Draco.' Enough said.

if it is real it gives away nothing

If this is talking about Dumbledore? why would JK go back in time? at the end of the book, it has been days since his death, and this sounds, if its remarking on Dumbledore being killed by Snape, the chronology is so confused. Oh could it be Snape talking to Dumbledore? but i dont think so. i think this is pure fake.

Yeah, that sounds fake to me. Not what Jo would right. Besides, October 23, 2006. She could have changed it by now. Oh, I really hope that isn't the opening.

Kid_A: you're right. Everyone else: why does everyone rule out that it's real just because it says "for a second" and it uses "Snape" instead of his full name? Maybe that's why JKR let the leak happen, to see if we'd be able to tell if it's her. I'm just hoping that it's real so that we can find out what Snape's been up to when he left Hogwarts, as I'm sure everyone wants to know. Where else could she put a chapter not directly about Harry? It's always the first chapter.

Mugglenet take the spoiler people off please! I can't even read peoples comments without having to skim down the page cus someone has posted Chapter titles (apparently!)

Ah, well this is interesting. I now ponder several things. Is this true? Who is the "taller man"? Could it be a different Snape besides Severus? There is likely more than one Snape in the Wizarding World. Now, my greatest wish to fast forward in time and read the book!

OMG!!! I just read the so-called spoiler and wondered is this for real??!!

EVIEGRL941: thank you, i know i'm right that's why my middle name is "right" (yesterday it was flippin)

I. Hate. You. What about the anti-spoiler policy???? I know it's not definitely a spoiler, but what if it is? I haven't read it. This is a test of my resistance to spoilers. Well, I sort of glanced at half the first line. But I'm not going to read any more than that! *cry* Leaky better not have reported this! I can't believe you're tempting me like this! Five more days left... Five days, ten hours, and 42 minutes. I'm not going to read it!!! I will resist and you have know power over me!!!!!!!

WICKEDDDDDDDDDD

rob15: wow!!!!!!!! where do you get these amazing theories??????? personally, I think that they are the best ones on this site ^_^ laughing like a drunken hyena ;)

omg...I can't decide...ok I'm not going to read it....oh forget it I have no control

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. ......................... .....I BURST OUT WITH SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A LAUGH AND A GASP JSFKGHSD;LFKHNM SO EXCITED

THE SCANS ARE FAKE, BUT THE EXCERPT IS PROBABLY REAL.

Oh, and I've read that "Epilogue". If that isn't the fakest thing I've ever seen I don't know what is. I agree with who ever said it sounded like bad fanfiction. The photoshopping is pretty well done but seriously... if they wanted to make it believable they would have remembered that the book is 784 pages, not 759. Idiots. They have nothing better to do than freak people out. It's just like that moron who drove around the parking lot screaming Snape killed Dumbledore. Some people have no respect. Oh, and as fake as I believe this is... if in some nightmare of a situation it turns out to be true then I will take to heart what Jo has said recently about people loathing the book. Let's hope that doesn't happen :)

well just so you know that is the real title yeah i got the links to the chapter titles and that is indeed the chapter title and yeah thats cool i'm sad because i know what happens.

Here is my final thought: 1. The excerpt from the beginning is real. 2. The chapter titles are most likely real.... 3. The Epilogue is fake (and this is also WISHFUL thinking) because it absolutely stinks, and because it ends on page 759 when Scholastic has already told us that the book is 784 pages long.

rob15: I was talking to Kid_A, unless you have 2 usernames. michael_xxx10: If you mean the Epilouge, it's not talking about Dumbledore, it's talking about Harry's second child, Albus Severus Potter. They may be talking about Dumbledore's death with Snape, but they're talking about it with a stranger in the Guardian thing, and it may not even be the death they're talking about.

ummm that's pretty interesting!!! i didn't read the whole thing, but yeah, there's not much to say, i guess!!!! but yeah, i just finished the 3rd book last night, and i starting the 4th one today, cuz i'm planning on reading them them all for the second time before friday!!! yay!!!! only 5 more days!!!!!!!!!! =]

It doesn't sound like her writing. I doubt it is real.

I honestly believe that this is real. The chapter title is the same as a leak that we had a few days ago from a different source in the US. Although the other leak yesterday, is absolutely fake, it was four pages, did not explain anything, and if Harry and Ginny have a baby called Albus Severus I will have to stab myself in the eye.

Yes 784 pages, that is the key!

EVIEGIRL941: sorry, i thought KID_A was codeword for ROB15

I want to read it but I can't decide!!!!!!!!!

I've never heard of it, but what if the Epilouge is more than one chapter long, and that was only the first one. I expect to be shot down with this one. Thank you for listening to a weirdo's theory.

omigod...i want the book so bad right now

Ohhhhhhh, I wonder if the taller guy is lik RAB or someone lik that. Cause he wouldnt be someone we know or the would use his name lik the used Snape's unless they didnt want us to know...

NOT TRUE. I KNOW j.k.'S WRITING STYLE. SHE WOULD NEVER START A BOOK THIS WAY.