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Bogus Harry Potter Book In China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-to-make-some-ebay-scratch dept.

elveu writes "Chinese Harry Potter fans have been blessed with the fifth book early -- only it's not the real one. The title translates to 'Harry Potter And Leopard Walk Up To Dragon.' The story has Harry getting turned into a fat hairy drawf and being void of his powers."

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  1. Barry Trotter, anybody? by stevey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is completely different because it's a parody - but it amused me:

    The first chapter is available online - and is hugely funny..

  2. What'll Really Leave J.K. Rowling Mad... by IronTek · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I bet you this thing, sadly, is going to become some sort of rare ultra-expensive collector's item stateside in the very near future... ...and this is a shame. I for one don't read the Harry Potter books, but even I have respect for J.K Rowling and her story (not referring to Harry Potter here)...so to turn something as fake as this "new" book is quite the shame, and I think I'd be upset if I were Ms. Rowling.

  3. Fan Fiction Popularity by totallygeek · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I think it is funny that fan fiction can become more exciting than the canon storyline (from the author). Look at the craze over Fett with Star Wars. Can you imagine the popularity of a story about Yoda or the birth of the Jedi?

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  4. BBC Report by jt007 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The BBC also has a report about this here

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  5. Harry Potter fanfiction by Bonker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I read the article at another source, but am left wondering how the content of 'Leopard Walk up to Dragon' is any different than the reams and reams of bad Harry fanfiction available on sites like Fanfiction.net.

    While it's being sold as Rowling's work, that is the only crime I see being committed, unless the publishers want to stamp out all original Harry fiction in the name of 'protecting their copyright'. Even the most zealous of intellectual property holders, Paramount, doesn't do a thing to inhibit the vast, vast legions of Trek ficcers and slash writers because they know exactly badly they'd alienate their fan communities. Lucas doesn't either. In fact, SW stories flourish on sites like theforce.net.

    I imagine that 'Leopard Walk up to Dragon' is probably a fanstory that got snapped up by an unscrupulous pirate publisher. The real author is probably not getting the credit he or she deserves for being so dedicated as to write a novel-length fan story and the legitimate Harry Potter publishers are going to make everyone's lives miserable because of it.

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  6. Oldest Technique by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When Miguel de Cervantes was taking too long to publish the sequel to his masterpiece, Don Quijote, some industrious person came out with a fake version as well. It's always happend, and always will

  7. Re:They used her picture on the back of the book.. by Zeinfeld · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A word of advice to people over fourteen (esp. males): Never recommend Harry Potter books to anyone, and never freely admit having read them. Doing so, (1) reveals your lack of intellectual sophistication, (2) hints at your inability to read books from start to finish (unless they are "For Dummies..." or nine-year-olds, and (3) makes you one of those annoying asswipes that insists that everyone read the all-seeing, all-knowing work of infinite philisophical importance that is the last book you managed to complete (mostly).

    Actually the books are very sophisticated intellectually. The sophistication is generally lost on American readers however who are unaware of the cultural and litterary references that Rowling ads in for the amusement of older readers.

    For example Hogwarts Castle is a parody of Mallory Towers. The use of Magic as a substitute for technological mod cons is a homage to the Flintstones.

    This simply carries on a long tradition of British Children's works, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe is an allegory of the New Testament. The Harry Potter series as a whole is an allegory of a series of works by Foucault. The Dumbledore character is an anegogical reference to Derrida. The Dursleys are of course a reference to Proust.

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  8. Re:Figures this is newsworthy by pinkpineapple · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let see:
    - Huget firewall=FBI carnivore.
    - Control of entertainment media=Disney and its senator minions.
    - Ran by one party dictatorship=Bush administration.
    - Minimum human rights=DMCA and other bills against terrorism.
    - 60% of the country empoverished=lots of workers from other countries are under minimum wages.

    For one minute, I thought that you were referring to the US. Phew! I'm glad that you were talking about China.

    PPA, the girl next door.

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