[pchelpers] News:Hacker's posted 'Harry Potter' ending a hoax?

Posted by Reverend on 21 Jun 2007 - 19:42 GMT
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 and a publisher warning that the details
could be fake. 

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, Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by breaking into a computer at
London-based Bloomsbury Publishing. 

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. 

Harry Potter publishers have taken great pains to keep the conclusion a
secret and preserve the multibillion-dollar entertainment enterprise
surrounding the boy wizard. 

A Bloomsbury spokesman declined comment on the hacker's claims.
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