I found one potential plot-hole: If Harry's Invisibility Cloak provided absolute concealement, then how Moody's eye penetrated it in the GoF?

 

I was wondering that too... And didn't it say somewhere that harry's invisibility cloak was made out of demiguise hair... all invisibility cloaks were made out of that hair...

They kept talking about spells wearing off and the cloaks loosing whatever it was they used to stay invisible.

Like I said, very contrived.

While I'm at it, didn't ron say he would stay with harry over the summer? They didn't even touch on that.

How did dumbledore even see through it then if it was so impenatrable?

And they really dismiss voldemorts knowledge of the deathly hollows.

They explain it away as voldemort being raised muggle and havign no one tell him about it... but I mean come on... he has proven the myth of the chamber of secrets true.. he has discovered the secret to horcuxes and how to make them... something practicly myth in its secrecy.

He regularly discovers secrets he should have been able to.

And I refuse to believe that the grey lady was so charmed that she revealed a thousand year old secret to voldemort, when she never talked about it ever before.

... so many inconsistencies. Definetley fake.

But an epic fake. He managed to get every news source talkign about it.... I've heard it on z95 (radio station) no less than 6 times today.

not to mention the frenzy they got mugglenet and the news stations.

Best prank ever.

 

is it just me or are there no non-verbal spells in there either? It would be weird of JKR to bring them in during HBP then completely forget about them in the next book

 

There's one or two but their use is definitely not as widespread as I would have expected, especially from Hermione who took to nonverbal magic better than others.

 

I don't see any reasonable way that it could be fake; the uploader would have had to write a plausible story in JKR's style (and have you seen even *one* fanfiction of that length with no typo's?), have it bound, and then create all of the Grandpre art from scratch...

If it's a fake, then the creator is a god (with way too much time on their hands).

 

WOW...if this is not the real one, the person behind it gets genius-status.

Brilliant.

 

There is at least one typo. On page 90something, it says Barry Crouch instead of Barty Crouch.

It was definitely worth reading.

 

i am still leaning toward the whole this is a publishers prank. It would explain so much.

but there is no doubt in my mind... this is a fake.

 

OK, this one's definitely for real. It was posted in my old hometown newspaper. Stay with the post, as for some reason it includes comments before the body of the review.



An inevitable ending to Harry Potter series

Review: Final installment a coming-of-age tale about maturation of title character
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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final installment in the series, was supposed to be held until Saturday.

By Mary Carole McCauley | Sun Reporter
7:05 PM EDT, July 18, 2007

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When you have read the last sentence on the last page of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, you will say, "Of course."

That's how inevitable the conclusion to the seven-book series seems. And it's a tribute to author J.K. Rowling's skill that, once you have finished Hallows, no other ending seems possible.

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the order of the phoenix left too much of the book out the conversation with dumbledore was barely touched on in the end and sirius' feelings were not included enough. very disappointing

Submitted by Mitchell

8:18 PM EDT, Jul 18, 2007

Does Harry die in book 7?

Submitted by Fainelys

8:17 PM EDT, Jul 18, 2007

i thought it was brilliant! 5 stars!!

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7:08 PM EDT, Jul 18, 2007

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The ending incorporates so many of the speculations, many opposing, that have been rampant on the Web for years. (We're not going to reveal any plot twists here, but fair warning: If you read on, you may learn more than you care to know.)

Taken as a whole, the Harry Potter series is a classic bildungsroman, a coming-of-age tale about the maturation of the title character. In each of the six previous books, Harry has learned one important valuable life lesson -- about the importance of choosing well, about the importance of learning to trust others, about the importance of recognizing the humanity in enemies.

Book seven, which goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, is about coming to terms with death. (I read the book in advance.) As she attempts to grapple with the inevitable, Rowling evokes everything from learning to accept and even embrace that eventuality, to Christian notions of resurrection and redemption.

At the start of book seven, Harry and his two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, set out to complete the task they set for themselves at the end of book six: to find and destroy the remaining magical objects, called "horcruxes" that contain the soul of Lord Voldemort, who is seeking world domination.

But the trio soon learns of another trio of magical objects that are equally mysterious -- the "deathly hallows" of the title, a wand, a ring and a cloak, said to have the ability to defeat death.

And through it all, the friends struggle to evade the determined efforts of the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters to capture them.

Though it makes for engrossing reading, book seven lacks much of the charm and humor that distinguished Rowling's earliest books. Even the writing is more prosaic.

But, how could it be otherwise?

In her earlier books, Rowling was busy building a world. Her characters were still children, and much of the enjoyment of the books came from watching them struggle to master powers that they did not full possess. So, for instance, a boy or girl mounted a flying broomstick -- and it promptly bucked the child off.

Following the travails of the young witches and wizards at Hogwarts as they learned to swoop through the air, defeat dragons and cast spells wasn't unlike watching real-life children learn to walk or read -- activities that, if you think about it, are no less magical, even if we've come to take them for granted.

But by book seven, Harry, Hermione and Ron are grown. They have as many skills as they ever will have. Rowling no longer has to create a magical world, with portraits that travel from picture frame to picture frame, or in which weeding a garden means clearing it of gnomes. Instead, her characters fully occupy that world. It has fewer surprises for them -- and by extension, for us.

If there's a theme that runs through all seven books, it's the saving grace of a parent's love, and in particular of motherly love. It's hard not to imagine that in writing this book, Rowling is drawing on her own experiences, both of her mother's premature death, and of the author's love for her own children.

That theme is repeated over and over in Deathly Hallows. It's examined not only in Harry's relationship with his mother, but in Luna Lovegood's bond with her father, and even the nasty Draco Malfoy's connection with his malevolent mother, Narcissa. So strong is that bond that it can redeem even the most seemingly evil characters.

So it's fitting that, at the book's end, Rowling gives her most beloved character, Harry Potter, the best gift she can devise.

She gives him a family.


Notice how ambivalent the ending to the review is, however. It could mean that he's either runited with James, Lily, Sirius, and Dumbledore in the afterlife, or that he does indeed marry the Breeder and produce James, Lily, and (gag) Albus Severus.

 

Wait... I knew that several books went out early due to to a a fuck up by one of the distributors, but I'm pretty sure they aren't allowed to put anything in the press on it. I'm still hoping its not real. Maybe the one they talked about is the one circulating on the internet? All I can say is that if it's real, they are going to get raped by JKR's publishers.

EDIT- Can you put a link to the article?

 

Sure, Lorelei. just type Baltimore Sun into your preferred search engine and it'll take you right to the story once you click. For some reason I'm having difficulty inserting this link. But it's legit..the paper has a somewhat heavy circulation, and this was certainly vetted by their in-house lawyer, as well as given the green-light by The Tribune, their parent company.

 

Article

Here you go.

 

New York Times now carrying review; no mention of whether or not Harry survives. It does, however, reveal some major plot points. For those who have the leaked version, do those points roughly correspond with what you have read?

http://ww.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/books/18cnd-potter.html?pageanted=2&r=1&ref=books

Edited: Can't get this one into links, either.

 

all the plot points in this article fit to the leaked version I read..

 

This one appears to work
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/books/19potter.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The way it is written it appears that Dark Harry fics could get a boost in AU 7th year fics.

I mean we know it won't turn out like we would want but we just need some things to work of and this sounds promising in that respect.

 

The funniest thing about this whole leak deal is that people in LJ have already started shipping Albus Severus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy- ASS for short. They have communities and icons and everything.

EDIT- Here you go, QuaziJoe. Laugh while you can, because soon, the ASS shipping shall completely take over fandom.

 

Where... seriously... I need to visit this site just to chuckle at the stupidity of it all

 

Jesus Christ! I don't bloody believe this. Now I'm seriously praying the scans were a fake.

 

Kill them. KILL THEM NOW BEFORE THEY SPREAD LIKE A PLAGUE!

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