JPNOO1:okay, so you're saying the spoilers are real? Can i just say though that if they were real, there would be alot more being done about it that an internet ban. i mean, come on. *im tired* *yawns*

i didnt see anyone named hugo when i read the epilogue. the pictures i reading has the last page at pg 758 i think its the real one

I agree that it's disappointing that someone would go to such lengths to ruin it for everyone else. I hope that doesn't really destroy people's love for reading. As much as I am aware that knowing what happens in a 7-part novel can damage the experience, I am also aware that the majority of people who read can choose to put certain things out of their minds. If it's a video you saw, then why would you choose to continue watching it? If it's a post you saw somewhere, they why keep reading? That's my major issue here. Also, it's come to my attention that Scholastic isn't going after Gaia Interactive, but the person who posted the information therein, which is as it should be. You can't blame an entire website for the actions of one idiot. Comments such as "I hate Gaia," etc., are a bit crude, and somewhat unworthy of .. just about anyone.

Well I saw one webpage. At the top of the page it says Ron dies. At the bottom of the page it shows the book and you can read parts of it and Ron is there. I really shouldn't even be looking at it!! I am trying to control myself. But is the consensus that Ron dies or lives?

I KNOW THE TRUTH TOHUGHT I WOULD LET U KNOW ANYWAY DEATHLY HALLOWS HAS INDEED BEEN LEAKED HUNDREDS OF PICS OF THE PAGES I DUNNO HOW MANY AS I DONT WANT TO DOWNLOAD IT AND RUIN IT FOR MYSLEF THOUGHT I WOYLD LET U KNOW IT HAS BEEN LEAKED

JERKYFAG-HOLE, OR HOUSIFA DIRTBURGLAR, YOU AND YOUR DEATH AGGIES WILL ONE DAY DIE FROM THE ALMIGHTY WARRIOR PC MASTER YUNGCHEESECAKE AND WE WILL LAUGH AS YOU SQUIRM LIKE RATS WHILE WE EAT CHEESECAKE IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU WILL REALIZE HOW EVIL AND UNCHEESECAKEY YOU ARE AND YOU WILL THINK, R.A.B. ACTUALLY STANDS FOR RADCLIFFE ACTUALLY BARFS!!!

Just because scholastic got a subpoena doesnt mean that anything they posted is real. All the spoilers would have to do is post a single chapter illustration (from any book) or a single sentence without proper permission and that's enough so infringe a copyright. Heck even if the spoilers posted the book cover without permission that is copyright infringement.

Seriously, the person that leaked the book is probably the dumbest person on Earth. They aren't going to make money off of it or anything. They just leaked it, to leak it, and now they are going to suffer major consiquences, and not only that, but they are going to go down in history as one of the mosted hated people in history. He's right up there with Hitler now.

look i am almost possotive that 19 years later is fake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean according to that all of the obvious couples wedd and have many children and the old enemies are still enimies. I mean come on so much for a shocking unpredictable movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

Well if that part is a fake, then the other things that person says aren't credible.

CONGRADULATIONS, DALIGIRL AND TANNERINACOMA!!!! YOU ARE OUR LUCKY 457TH AND 458TH COMMENTS!!! YOU HAVE BOTH WON A BARREL OF CHEESECAKE AND SOME CATS!!!!! A TEN DOLLAR VALUE, YOURS FREE IF YOU CALL 1-800-WHY-DID-I-FALL-FOR- THIS-?-633!!! CALL NOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!!!

tannerinacoma, I don't think this dude killed ten million people, nor did he start a war that killed thirty million more. there's something horribly, ridiculously simple to this problem....get off of the internet. now. don't read anything you don't want to read. don't click on anything you don't want to click on. we all have a choice in this, and that's NOT TO TEMPT OURSELVES into reading it. free will....isn't that what the entire Potter series comes down to? making a choice, the right one, and sticking to it?

Guys there are 700 something pages of the book uploaded on bit torrent. If you think its all a fake and its absolutely impossible that someone got their hands on the book and took an hour to take photos of the book, then thats fine by me. It is a few days before the release, book stores would have gotten the book by now, and there is not much security in the smaller stores, simply a written agreement. We all know how much those mean.

I don't know whether the spoilers are real or not. I do know how Title 17 works, and Scholastic is taking the first steps to protect a copyright interest from infringement. Could other action be taken? Yes, after the subpoena, Scholastic’s lawyers will sift through the records (as necessary), identify a likely culprit, petition a federal court for an immediate injunction, and then file a civil complaint for infringement. They may turn the person over to a US Attorney (Federal Prosecutor) to determine whether criminal copyright infringement charges are to be brought, but the US Attorney will determine if such charges are appropriate. And, once again I don’t mean to be rude (although accidental rudeness, as we know, is all too common), but just because we don’t know what else may be going on does not mean that the images are not authentic or that nothing else is going on. I don’t know about you, but I do not work for the US Attorney’s office; however, if Scholastic wants another IP attorney, I can send them a resume ;-).

all the books we sent out on today in the uk and europe to the book stores, i dont no about the us but these scans have been on for a few days now so i doubt tey are real

TOO MANY SPOILERS!

tylermiller - This is the end of literature. God forbid that JKR doesn't appeal to everyone with her epilogue. The universe will now proceed to fold in upon itself. If Nineteen Years Later it's true, it's TRUE. If it's not, it's NOT. Heaven knows, God won't smite you today for disliking something the almighty JKR did.

I think that it might be legitimate however because scholastic is really freaking out and the gaurdian posted matching spoilers almost the same time as gaia. I mean this was even on the local news! How do u explain that????????????????????? ????????????????????????? ??????????????????????

ROB15 and nezza01, please switch off the caps lock. Learn some netiquette before posting. Also your comments hardly make any sense - why do you bother to post anything at all?

In my opinion the spoilers look real. The epilogue makes sense if you think about how JKR said she wants to write a book for younger kids- cause there are--------------spoiler alert-------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ---------------- YOUNG ER KIDS in the epilogue. Kinda like Hogwarts: The next generation. There are some discrepancies with the spoilers online but I think, generally speaking, the scans of the book pages are real. So far about 456 pages have been scanned. I think the whole book will be online by tonight. If you dont want to be spoiled any more than you already have then DONT GO ON THE INTERNET for the next 3 days.

its a shame I use Gaia. fun site its all over the GD ..mmh..shame shame on them shame shame shame

These pages (I've seen 3 from this group) seem like FANFIC writing to me. The inclusion of Dean in the Dobby pages - nobody writes about Dean Thomas except FanFic writers (sorry Dean). I just think these pages are too corny to be true. And remember, JKR slipped and accidentally implied that the trio live during her Harry, Carrie and Garp interview in August. You can see that on, um, mugglenet.com!

rubys the entire book is scanned now i found a torrent that was upped 30 mins ago. i didnt dl it though but i looked at the files it looks real enough

i'm going to bed now, i'm tired lol. Severus Snape rules, and bring on saturday! x

ROB15 OUR LOYAL LEADER IS BACK AND NOW CHEESECAKEIANS I'M GOING TO HAVE SOME DELIGHTFUL PLEASURE FROM STAYING AWAY FROM THESE MORONIC SPOILERS AND READ ME SOME HBP.......DEATH TO ALL WHO DENY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE MIGHTY CHEESECAKE.....OH AND I THINK THE SAD ATTEMPTS ON HERE AT SPOILERS ARE QUITE FUNNY.........AND WE ALL KNOW THAT CHEESECAKE KILLS VOLDY AND SAVES THE DAY.

Ah, yes indeed, copying any of the artwork without permission would be an infringement, but be careful to note I have not said that the spoilers are the infringements -- the posted images are the alleged infringement. And yes, posted images of the artwork could be the impetus for the subpoena, although I would find this quite unlikely given the wide dissemination of the artwork. Indeed, given the expense of this type of legal action, I would hazard a guess that something much for serious than cover art is at issue, although I admit that is just a guess (but I do believe my guesses on this are rather “close to the mark,� if you will).

@SPEQ07. Like I told you before, the epilogue is indeed real, as much as I hate it.

how do you find these downloaded pages. Oh and don't freak out because I asked. God.

and everyone who is anyone that knows everyone but not no one knows that R.A.B. stands for either Radcliffe Actually Barfs or Rusty Axes (hurt like a) B****h

Man, I still stand. The toughest systems have their cracks. And I find that a lot easier to believe than the idea that this Joe Guy had ALL of the resources necessary to print a faux book in the exact same style, JUST TO DUPE PEOPLE. Why he'd risk it for a farce, I cannot even fathom it it's so dumb. I guess that's why I believe it's real. The spoilers have discrepancies because no one DARES read the details. X dies, but then X is alive at the epilogue. WTF mate, read the rest of the book. Either X lives or dies, or X dies and comes back to life somehow. Or X is believed dead (remember we're seeing through Harry's glasses). WHO HERE HAS READ THE DETAILS ANYWAY? All we know is X dies, Y dies, A is actually B, Z is (fill in the blank). SIMPLE STATEMENTS. Who here knows the details? NO ONE. And no one DARES find out the details. That's why this is all so confusing for some people who don't know what to believe.

BurntFlower: Well, if the Epilogue is real, then the other spoilers can't be. Because there are some serious contradictions between them. lol

I disagree with u Trunks2598. I mean U.S. bookstores don't get the book until a day before the release. Plus Scholastic has payed like a billion dollars to keep the book safe. The only people who had it were librarians and i doubt they would ruin the pleasures of reading for children. I am sure that this is definately fake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why doesn't Scholastic/Bloomsbury ask for our help? There is no group of fans in the world other than us Potter fanatics that would track down every last shadow of a leak and report it to the publishers. Yet there is no "Report Leak HERE" site. I suppose there are technical difficulties to overcome with sorting through thousands of reports, but I think the publishers are losing a HUGE opportunity here. Good luck to the subpoena-waving lawyers whose job it is to track down online felons one case number at a time.

“LOOK . . . . AT . . . . ME . . . . .� HE WHISPERED. THE GREEN EYES FOUND THE BLACK, BUT AFTER A SECOND, SOMETHING IN THE DEPTHS OF THE DARK PAIR SEEMED TO VANISH, LEAVING THEM FIXED, BLANK AND EMPTY. THE HAND HOLDING HARRY THUDDED TO THE FLOOR, AND SNAPE MOVED NO MORE.

Stripe how do i find this

I wish that they wouldn't be so bloody "no comment" about this and just come out and say "THEY ARE REAL, ABANDON HOPE YE WHO READ. YE WHO HAVE NOT, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, SHIELD THY VIRGIN EYES." or "They are fake, all is well."

The libraries have had the books and have pictures of OPEN BOXES... its not that hard to take one home and hit up the scanner... ;)

stripe 1 is a retard and obviously that cheap knockoff is a sham!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stripe- Do Ron and Hermy finally get together?

"LOOK.....AT.....ME...." HE WHISPERED "MY CHEESECAKE HIT ME IN THE EYE" and snape ate no more

I was actually on Gaia when the thread was posted with the spoiler, read and commented on it even.

Sorry, it's real. And yes, Ron and Hermione are married in the epilogue. :)

lol hpgirl... that was funny.

I don´t blame Mugglenet for reporting about the article in the newspaper guardian and to reveal the first sentences of chapter one. But I have to admit that it attracted indeed a lot of spoilers on the comments. For my own pity I was to curious and therefore I snapped some of them. Luckily I only read the name of the chapters and the first page of the first chapter. For me the main point is that I didn´t read the epilogue, so I still don´t know how it will end. But I read some of the comments, too. Some say that R... will die trough B... . But they also say in the epilogue that R... will marry ...(no hint here who). When I first relised the spoiler-pictures of the book in the web I was imidiatly aware that they were not fake. It is and it was the style of JKR, as also is the ecxerpt from chapter one her style. And I like it. Therefore I have to conclude that the spoilers are true. But for example I still don´t know how R.. will manage to marry someone in the end when he is supposed to be dead. This is one of many other reasons why I still looking forward to the book. And because of I already have read enough spoilers I say now good by Mugglenet until the release of the final Potter-book.

There were men holding up the Deathly Hallows book COVER, and then filming the COPYRIGHT page. They then preceded to go on about spoilers. It seemed very genuine, yet why hasn't ANYBODY mentioned it yet??! Now do not click on this website if you don't want to be spoiled but it's: http://funnyordie.com/v ideos/0c8fab9e8c If you don't want to be spoiled, then don't click it. If you want to see the book, then they only mention the spoilers after they show the book. How did they a copy of the book and they're admitting spoilers! Can someone please determine if it's real or fake?!?!

I hope that they catch the b*stard. It's horrible with all the people trying to spoil DH. I saw some of the table of contents, and they looked realistic....however, I saw two completely different versions. I refuse to look any further into the matter. Jo didn't want any of the hard core readers and fans in general to be spoiled, and I refuse to be spoiled. We've got three more days, and we'll make it. Happy Horcrux hunting and happy reading! :P

“Then, with a bright white flash and a crack, a crystal ball fell on top of Greyback’s head, and he crumpled to the ground and did not move. ‘I have more!’ shrieked Professor Trelawney from over the banister of the balcony. ‘More for any who want them! Here-’ And with a movement like a tennis serve, she heaved another enormous crystal sphere from her bag.�

I had a feeling of the spoilers i read were real!....Oh well, atleast i haven't seen the MAJOR spoilers like some people had seen... like the deaths..etc!!...I guess i will try and forget them!...dayz like this i wish i had a time-turner to fast forward to midnight friday!...And the people who thought it would be really cool to leak book 7....it ain't!!...its a really stupid idea so STOP!!!!....alot of people including myself have waited since we were little kidz to read the last book soo don't spoil it!!!!!!!!!

So these are genuine spoilers then? How the heck did people get their hangs on them? I never bothered reading them, but I've heard a lot of opinions. Some people believe that they seem legit, while others believe that none of the spoilers match JKR's writing style. I don't know, but I'm staying away from any spoiler someone might post.. fake or not.

Reading through these comments is like going through a fricken mine field... SHIELD YOUR EYES!!! lol