The Guardian reveals opening of Deathly Hallows?
The Guardian reveals opening of Deathly Hallows? With extreme caution for lack of authenticity, we bring you this article from The Guardian's online website. It holds, what they say, is the opening to Deathly Hallows dated October 23rd, 2006.

According to their site, this small portion can be seen in video from the upcoming JK Rowling documentary we told you about a few days ago.

We've posted it in the black area below in case it is removed from The Guardian's website. Highlight in between the arrows if you wish to read.

-->'Chapter One. The Dark Lord Ascending. The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands pointing at each other's chests: then, recognising each other, they stowed their wands beneath their cloaks and set off, side by side, in the same direction.

"News?", asked the taller of the two.

"The best," replied Snape.'
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Please remember that it is still unknown as to whether or not this is real. Interesting, nonetheless. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed with the tip!

Emily's edit: I emailed Andrew saying I didn't think the excerpt was real. Here's why: There is a mixture of British/English grammar - the British spelling of "recognise" and the American use of "a few yards." There are also odd punctuation errors - a colon after "chest" and then ?", when only a question mark before the quotation mark would be used. Would Jo really make these errors? We'll find out soon.
Posted by Andrew on Jul 14th | 1648 Comments
Visitor Comments
Posted by sbwilson2 Jul 14th 2007

http://one.fsphost.com/po tterspoiler/ this site is the real deal...WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES IN THE BOOK


Posted by rjsweeney Jul 14th 2007

that looks/sounds like a fanfic. I dont think its real.


Posted by Mlays Jul 14th 2007

I can only imagine what the good news is!!!!!!!


Posted by HotSauce202 Jul 14th 2007

Top 10,000! FINALLY I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING IN MY LIFE! I FEEL MY ENTIRE LIFE HAS BEEN VINDICATED. Anyway. . . In a few days we'll know, so keep your pants on, everybody.


Posted by harrypotteraddict Jul 14th 2007

uhh...i kinda couldnt help highlighting it....but its funny that the book starts off with snape. i like that chapter title............. all i know about this is that im going to be nonstop crying when i have the book in my hands


Posted by Thombob Jul 14th 2007

That's fake. Jo would describe where the men were, and Snape wouldn't say that...


Posted by PerriHaughter Jul 14th 2007

Hmmm, it just seems like someone trying to copy JKR's writing style.. I don't know if I believe it, interesting none the less..


Posted by Serinity Jul 14th 2007

I read it, but I sort of think it's fake...I guess I'll see in 6 days. The Chapter title...well, really it reminds me of..has anyone ever seen xmen evolution?..yeah, the title of the last episode, Ascension. It seems...uh...fishy.


Posted by jklatham Jul 14th 2007

Meh... Seem to fake, so not Jo. Still fun to wonder though =] What idiots to post a fake though on their site though. silly guardians, nice for some more hype though!


Posted by Widdi2k7 Jul 14th 2007

I call fake. Even when it's a known character speaking the words JK never says "__ said" until the character's name has been stated by someone else in the scene. If it were true the line would have read "The Best," replied the shorter of the two men."


Posted by hallowsaint Jul 14th 2007

that sounds like more or less the second chapter of HBP but only it's not narcissa and bellatrix this time. plus JK's had 4 letter chapter titles before and that opening sentence sounds a lot like most of her opening sentences.


Posted by lovexlaugh_potter Jul 14th 2007

I really doubt it's real. Idk, it doesn't sound like Jo. But you never know...


Posted by Michaelds16 Jul 14th 2007

ANyone else notice there are also spelling errors in it?


Posted by Lucas Jul 14th 2007

http://one.fsphost.com/po tterspoiler/ Link is a giant spoiler... don't click on it unless you want to know alot. the top shows who dies so just scroll down as fast as you can without looking. I made the mistake to look don't do it.


Posted by JonathanMalfoy Jul 14th 2007

OH MY GOSH! The taller one of the two has to be Voldy. Voldemort is supposedly taller than Snape. and the chapter is about the Dark Lord. OMG I WANT THE BOOK NOW!!!


Posted by Thaliowen Jul 14th 2007

This is obviously fake. After re-reading it with a friend, we both agreed that the scene was very rushed. Jo likes to go in depth with her setting, especially towards the beginning (a quality I like about her) and this scene just seemed to jump in on a alleyway. And as previously mentioned, "Jo" uses a lot of US sounding language in this "excerpt". This does not all seem her writing style. So, 54th approx?


Posted by berts_birthday Jul 14th 2007

i think that its making us wonder whether the people snape's meeting is from the order or from the death.eaters..and its as if its pushing us into thinking that its from the de because of the chapter's name..but we won't know for sure until july21..we're not even that positive that its jo's work..


Posted by SIriusEcstasy Jul 14th 2007

HOTSAUCE202...Haha! You are funny. I hate it too when people put that stupid top whatever crap, what's the point?!?! Anyway, I'm not sure what to think. I mean it sounds a lot like Jo to me but there are some things about it that make me think, "Jo wouldn't do that, would she?" Hmm...Interesting all the same and...I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THE 21ST!!!


Posted by GABZx3 Jul 14th 2007

So far, ive spoiled EVERY hp book and i swore to myself i will not spoil anything for this book...and then i read how jkr said kreacher was important =/ and now this is so hard to resist but im NOT reading it..no..no..if i do ill punish myself how Dobby does =)


Posted by Mlays Jul 14th 2007

i think this is true....omg omg omg omg ogm fhsdfjkgh fkjdghdfkxjbhkfjb i cant wait 5 days i need it NOW!!!!!


Posted by HotSauce202 Jul 14th 2007

I just read it over, and I am now choosing to believe that it is fake, seeing as there are several grammatical errors.


Posted by oh_noble Jul 14th 2007

Real or not...it's a good hook.


Posted by obsoletein2007 Jul 14th 2007

I don't care. I want my book. Now. -bangs head on desk- -pouts- Why has the past week gone. by. so. slow.?! I. Can't. Wait. Any. More! Neither can my friends...of course, none of them will read it. They just want to know what is going to happen...but I'm not going to tell them. But gah! I think they might want this book to come out because I won't stop pestering them... -dies-


Posted by merry_muggle Jul 14th 2007

I don't know whether or not to read it....


Posted by maki Jul 14th 2007

I don't think this is real...it is two rushed and the "appeared out of nowhere" sounds just weird to me...not Jo Rowling at all... well, at least I hope it is fake !


Posted by Jman61568 Jul 14th 2007

thats not real at all. she doesnt write like that in the slightest. and she wouldnt start the book off like that. thats way to sudden.


Posted by jklatham Jul 14th 2007

"http://one.fsphost.com/p o tterspoiler/" How the heck r u surposed to know if it's the real deal if u have not read the book? Ugh probs rubbish.


Posted by pink_carebears Jul 14th 2007

OMG!! I swear I felt like a was hyperventilating when I read that post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! But seriously, I need to know... Is The Guardian known for reporting the truth, or for printing lies? I looked it up on Wikipedia, but nothing came up...


Posted by hallowsaint Jul 14th 2007

hey sbwilson2 don't give us websites to spoilers if you don't want us to see them and if you want to live cause we will hunt you down


Posted by xano Jul 14th 2007

I have a suspicion its real. But anyway if it is, it was written last year and she must have changed it around by then.....?


Posted by berts_birthday Jul 14th 2007

the news on mugglenet is just proof that there are people just staying on mugglenet and perhaps not leaving it..because in 2 minutes the comments of 30 went to 66..*random*


Posted by Travis Jul 14th 2007

I think that this is a fake. I agree that the opening sentence seems more like fanfic writing than Jo's writing. It's also pretty hard to read something on camera unless Jo really let them linger there for a long time, which seems a tad unlikely. On the other hand, I remember when the HBP chapter titles were leaked, everyone was saying "those titles are so stupid...there's no way that they're real," and then sure enough they were the real chapter titles. Sometimes things seem strange when you don't read them knowing the context.


Posted by PerriHaughter Jul 14th 2007

Ok, I definately take my first comment back. This is definately fake. I've read it over several times. It's poorly written. Jo would've included better vocabulary .."The two men appeared out of nowhere"? That just sounds so informal. She usually would describe the surroundings more, the smells, sights etc.. and as someone had mentioned before, she wouldn't use a character's name until it was said out loud. This is totally fake.


Posted by JonathanMalfoy Jul 15th 2007

I dont know about this...... It seems awfully jkr storyline like. But the writing is sort of... weird. The "the's" sort of caught me. The men and The alley. I dont know.....


Posted by Lucas Jul 15th 2007

Read the chapter list for this http://one.fsphos t.com/potterspoiler/ T he first chapter is called the Dark Lord Ascending


Posted by DesDiamondS Jul 15th 2007

I really doubt that this is real, as some of the others have said it doesn't strike me as her writing style and I really doubt she would start the book so bluntly.


Posted by melissanc09 Jul 15th 2007

i have a serious problem of reading spoilers! i love spoilers! i can't help myself from reading them! :-)! i'm addicted to spoilers! Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler SpoilerSpoiler Spoiler Spoiler SpoilerSpoiler Spoiler Spoiler SpoilerSpoiler Spoiler Spoiler SpoilerSpoiler Spoiler Spoiler SpoilSpoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoilerer :-)


Posted by hallowsaint Jul 15th 2007

yeah normally when she starts out a book it gives surrounding before characters so i conclude that this is a fake....end of story


Posted by SevenAndMoreToGo Jul 15th 2007

It's not Jo-like. I'm sure she'll start with a long, rather artistic paragraph without dialogues like she did with most of her books


Posted by PirateEmery Jul 15th 2007

For the past several days, I've been fishing through Deathly Hallows. This makes the third version I've read a part of. In my opinion, they are all fake. The complete 700 page version of DH that I read through reeked of Fan Fiction. I disproved another version that just had a page scan (kinda like what happened with HBP), as the spell that Hermione utters is not italicized. Dark and terrible times lie ahead, Mugglenetters, and I have a feeling that just about everything that comes our way is fake. This book is under lock and key.


Posted by srose2270 Jul 15th 2007

being this close to the book, i am avoiding all possible spoilers at all costs. i'm not saying it's tempting, i actually highlighted the first 5 words and then decided to not go the rest of the way, lol, but still. even though i doubt that the first page says anything about who dies and everything like that.


Posted by snuffles101 Jul 15th 2007

I don't know that its real. I mean, would Snape REALLY say "The best"???


Posted by berts_birthday Jul 15th 2007

i hope its fake..because [stupidly] i went to that link and i just can't bare knowing that i already knew something..its the last b0ok people!..why can't they give it up already!..


Posted by lunamothgreen Jul 15th 2007

gack! weird.


Posted by Holylampposts Jul 15th 2007

This is fake. Not her style at all.


Posted by ayumidah Jul 15th 2007

*flails for Snape* ... Dude I had some dream last night that a spoiler regarding Snape was released on here last night... it's not the spoiler IN my dream, but it's close. I scare myself.


Posted by tristero07 Jul 15th 2007

I'm surprised so many people think this is real. Bad title, HORRIBLE DETAILS. "The two men appeared out of nowhere," very articulate start to the most anticipated book in history. It doesn't even make sense! And for those of you who are asking, the person who invented this paragraph obviously meant the "best news" to be Dumbledore's death. But this is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO fake. I believe the chapter titles that people are posting are true (and so many people on here are proclaiming those fake, I'm starting to doubt the intelligence of Mugglenet readers...). At least, I hope they are, because it makes it sound like a really good book. If this is true I think I'll shoot myself...


Posted by Corbus52 Jul 15th 2007

I don't know whether to believe it!! If it's true....we're reading the LAST HARRY POTTER book!!!! AHH! I seriously....can't......W AIT!!!! I wish I could hibernate for the next six days!


Posted by JonathanMalfoy Jul 15th 2007

Not her style... no. But still that chapter thing, people said it was fake. YELLED it was fake in fact. But they turned out to be right. I dont know. Off Topic: PirateEmery, do you play VMK?


Posted by drikgreen Jul 15th 2007

not only that, but today i've seens scans that look pretty real all over the internet, even the whole last chapter! i didn´t read anything but a lot of people on orkut believe it´s real. the first chapter's name is the dark lord ascending on the scans too: chapters titles: http://img66.ima geshack.us/my.php?image=5 9897800td5.jpg http://im g66.imageshack.us/my.php? image=59897800td5.jpg ht tp://img98.imageshack.us/ img98/117/ixvn1.jpg http ://img98.imageshack.us/im g98/1133/10341013rz4.jpg http://img440.imageshack .us/img440/7291/viict7.jp g epilogue: http://i1 3.tinypic.com/6b9k6tl.jpg http://i17.tinypic.com/ 6cfi4p5.jpg http://i10.t inypic.com/61nud1d.jpg h ttp://i10.tinypic.com/6ft a6hs.jpg ;*




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