Why to doubt the Deathly Hallows Hacker rumor

June 21, 2007 by admin

The Nimble Books Blog » Blog Archive » not a very credible Deathly Hallows Rumor

Harry Potter transcript claim doesn’t convince | The Register

The posted message claims to expose the names and ways in which two of the characters die, something that has been the subject of much speculation by fans of author J.K.Rowling and the boy wizard. For those not allergic to potential spoilers (of dubious provenance) the post can be found here.

One technical point I haven’t seen made is that most publishers work with manuscripts in separate chapter files for 99% of the production process. The full manuscript would be quite a lengthy file. I would be quite surprised for an electronic copy of the full manuscript to be sitting around in Bloomsbury. Surely chapter files would be much more widely dispersed within the organization. That fact that the hacker didn’t refer to finding and copying 30 or so separate PDF files casts doubt in my mind on whether they were really inside the Bloomsbury network as he claims.

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