When I first heard of the leak, I thought it was a bad joke. As I said above, if the story is true, the repercussions for the librarian involved are likely to be very serious.
Mary

I’ve tried to set my blog to no comments, and I think I have. I’ve changed the email notification to one that I rarely use, and I won’t be checking it till I’ve finished the book.

My blog isn’t such a problem anyway as far as attracting people looking for DH discussions–I’m still trying to get my thoughts down on OP and HBP before Friday, but that may not happen.

And I won’t be checking my live journal at all this week. Too bad, I did want to post something about the movie–but it can wait.

Pat

But, on the subject of prediction #2–I fully expect lots of twists and turns. And I look forward to Harry finally knowing the last pieces of the puzzle of his life and not just knowing but really understanding what Dumbledore (and Ms. Rowling) have been trying to teach him (us) all these years. My husband and I disagree on Harry’s fate. He thinks Harry dies. I think if Harry physically dies, he doesn’t stay dead. And I’m pretty sold on the idea that he has to follow the pattern he’s followed in each book of metaphorically dying (going to Hell and returning as John says–hope I’ve said that sorta accurately.)

I do believe it will be a sad book but also a triumphant book. I expect I’ll need my own box of tissues. I expect Wormtail to repay his life debt, and either he or Snape or both will play a role in saving Harry’s life from Voldemort.

Looking forward to Prediction #3.

Thankfully we aren’t into TV/radio media, etc. I’m going full blackout except here. I’m just hoping when we pick up the book Saturday morning we don’t hear anything.

I sincerely hope, John, you don’t recieve any spoilers. That would be such a shame. I’d also like to know about the BNU discussions. Missed them last time.

I also hope we get to discuss the OotP movie soon. We just saw it yesterday and there’s much that’s ripe for discussion.

May we all have stoppered ears for the next week.

Gaaahh! The kitties are fighting in the bookcase; there goes The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire again….

By the way – HBP was released two years ago today!

I agree with Beth – I’d enjoy participating in another BNU group, though it looks like they’re now calling them “book clubs”.

When you mention your “BNU post” — does that mean you will be moderating a discussion group/class again? If that’s the case, and if enrollment is still open and available, will you be posting some information about that?

By the way, I had a typo in my last post. That “fast majority” should have been “vast majority.” I guess the only things too fast were my fingers on the keyboard!

The dreadful silence seems to me to indicate the spoilers are real. Last time we had a “spoiler” claim (the hacker called “Gabriel”), the whole world knew about it – probably because it was so ludicrous. In this case, the MSM hasn’t reported it, and not many blogs are running with it, it seems. I wonder if the army of spoiler watchers hired by Scholastic has kicked into high gear and is doing everything in its power to squelch this.

On the other hand, one SoG commenter emailed me and said that there is a page discrepancy between the stated number of pages for DH and the last page page # for the “leaked” version. If that’s the case, then we’ve got the most elaborate fake in history, done by someone who needs to get a job, but who, at this point, would probably never be hired.