Rowling: Please don't give away Potter details

POSTED: 2:01 p.m. EDT, May 14, 2007

Story Highlights

• J.K. Rowling: Keep Potter details to yourself
• Final book out July 21; lots of rumors flying
• Webmaster of Potter fansite also pleads for discretion



NEW YORK (AP) -- J.K. Rowling has a request for those with inside dirt on her seventh and final Harry Potter book: Please keep it to yourself.

"We're a little under three months away, now, and the first distant rumblings of the weirdness that usually precedes a Harry Potter publication can be heard on the horizon," Rowling wrote on her Web site Monday.

"I want the readers who have, in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are they going."

The author's comments came in response to an April 28 editorial by a leading Potter fan site, http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org, which noted that it had been receiving "spoiler" e-mails -- and expected many more -- alleging advance knowledge of the book's contents.

Rowling has said two major characters will die in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which comes out July 21. Although the Potter books are released under tight security, copies often are obtained before the publication date.

"If Harry dies, we don't want to know about it until J.K. Rowling decides to tell us," Leaky Cauldron webmaster Melissa Anelli wrote. "And if you decide to tell us before that, you'll incur the wrath of a staff of almost 200, most of whom have been waiting almost 10 years for these final revelations and can NEVER get back the moment you rob by spoiling them.

"That's some wrath right there. We own pitchforks, hot wax and feathers. And we're not afraid to use them."

On Monday, Rowling seconded the fan site's plea.

"Some, perhaps, will read this and take the view that all publicity is good publicity, that spoilers are part of hype, and that I am trying to protect sales rather than my readership," Rowling wrote on http://www.jkrowling.com. "However, spoilers won't stop people buying the book, they never have -- all it will do is diminish their pleasure in the book."

More than 300 million copies have sold of the previous six Potter books. "Deathly Hallows" has more than 1 million pre-orders on Amazon.com alone.


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Heck... READ the above article, and remember, there are those of us, on this site, that DO NOT want to have the book ruined for us, with spoilers!!!!

Heh-Heh-Heeeeeeeeeeeh.

Just because Rowling asked... I'm really gonna do it now.

-HECK!

Heck, I know that you're a total jokester, and everything... but I have to say that if you did decide to leak the book onto the board, I would leave, and wouldn't return. I haven't spent all these years reading the series, to have it spoiled. So, don't joke about this, punk... because now that you're living in SD, Sherry and I will rip your ass to pieces. Capiche? :rant:

I like how they say they've received spoilers and go on to say "if you know Harry dies in the end, don't tell us"

I'm like.... what? Have people been... spoiling the book for you by telling you Harry dies? What the fudgeschnickens? Is that for real


Gaboman's going into overdrive.

I don't want to hear ANY spoilers. Last time, some dj's put out on the radio, the day before the book was released, that Dumbledore dies at the end. I was SOOOOOOOOOO frakkin' pissed off. FUMING MAD! WHY do people think that it's a good thing to spoil a book for others?

Lawless wrote:

...Dumbledore dies at the end.

He WHAT???? Oh man, how DARE you spoil that for me.

Wait... wait... I read that one, right? Ah, it's all good. Pounds and hugs, Kris.

I didn't read or watch the news the entire day before the last book came out, and didn't watch or read it at all the day the book came out until after I finished reading the book. Didn't go out, didn't move at all.

I learned my lesson from Order of the Phoenix. Got it in the morning, read it most of the day, then around dinner time my sister-in-law came by to take us to dinner (it was good, we went to this fancy restaurant which was completely white, and to get inside you have to walk up to a wall and slide your hand inside a hole, then the wall will open as the door to the restaurant. No signs or nothing outside,I don't know why it was so packed. The food was interesting, I had prawns in some sort of marinade that was really great. But I digress) and she spoilt the ending. I was like what the hell, woman.

Who is Harry Potter?

LICKETY wrote:

Who is Harry Potter?

He's a news Reporter on channel 10 in Australia.

Oh, THAT guy....right.

I tried to find his picture online ('cause there really is a Harry Potter who reports the news in Australia), but every time I do a search for him I end up with some punk kid who seems to have been in one too many gang fight (has this hideous scar on his forehead).

hahaha....