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Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked
darkonc writes "The CBC is reporting that about 15 copies of "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" were accidently sold at a 'Great Canadien Superstore' in a suburb of Vancouver BC. The Canadian Distributor, Raincoast Books managed to get
an injunction prohibiting the people who recieved the books from talking about them and demanding that they return the books to Raincoast until Friday. To add a carrot to the stick, raincoast is offering various goodies including a signed bookplate."
...to publish the first and last chapters.
Using ROT13 encoding.
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Raincoast Books managed to get an injunction prohibiting the people who recieved the books from talking about them
O.K., so from now on I'm no longer going to listen to any more crap from any of you Canadian Slashdotters criticizing free speech in America.
(Now watch the Kanucks and Newfies mod me into oblivion!)
World's tallest building rises in the desert
Literature for 10 year olds is "leaked"! Now the kids will have no interest in reading! When I was 10, I never read a book that was older than 3 days. Someone has to pay for this.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
Hermione grows up.
Which explains why he had only half his blood....
Yes, yes I'll be here all week...
this one wasn't listed under IT and Security
Harry Potter's coming out? About freakin' time! I mean, it's been pretty obvious since day one that he's got a thing for Ron, so it's now a big deal anyways... Oh wait, "Harry Potter books"!
...reliece...
WOW.
That took my breath away.
No, actually DRM. Just old-fashioned DRM.
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
Its a real shame, there doesn't seem to be a bittorrent for physical objects...
Of course I'd return my copy for a signed bookplate in a heartbeat.
I'd try to trade mine for sex first, and if that didn't pan out, I'd take the bookplate.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
Oh! Oh! Me too! Here goes:
1. Pupkins and the Warblesnarker
2. Pupkins meets his DOOOM!
3. Pupkins and the snupkins
3. Harry meets Pupkins
4. Pupkins meets his DOOOM! revisited
5. Harry meets his DOOOM!
6. Hermione meets Harry's DOOOM!
7. Hagrid gets Sloshed
8. Hagrid meets his parents
9. Hagrid meets his DOOOM!
10. Pupkins strikes back
11. Flubugern drives the hollyhock
12. Herk smacks Hagrid with a fish
13. The Verisimilator
14. The lint remover
15. Hagrid beats Harry with a smock
16. Hagrid apologizes in the nude
17. Harry kisses Hagrid accidentally
18. Frumpalorn engorges Dundathor with an Archaeopteryx
19. Bimballon disgorges an Apteryx into Harry's Christmas stocking
20. No More Wimbledoots!
21. The Wozzlies get Trashed
22. Harry and the evil menace of badness and evil
23. Harry and the evilorn menacorn of baddnessalorn
24. Death to the smilies
25. Reflective Slapping Contest
26. Tournament of the Snail Lord
27. The Final Finality of DOOOM!
28. Pupkins gets beaten with a tire iron
29. Hermione gets sloshed
30. Froophthet and Znoosed
31. Harry goes on the rampage
32. Happy Iron Kettle and the Twisted Wrench
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
"More Questions then Answers" needs a comma in the middle, and indicates narration of events in time (first more questions, then answers). "More Questions than Answers" means the number of questions was greater than the number of answers. Always use than for comparisons, kids. Incidentally, you probably meant "preliminary injunction" rather than "protective injection".
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Yes, yes I'll be here all week...
You misspelled "I'll get my coat"
Ok, I'll stick my neck out:
...hmmmmmm!
My review:
Something evil threatens Harry. His friends tag along for the adventure. Malfoy is an asshat. Dumbledore says some words of wisdom. Hagrid gets into some form of trouble but comes good in the end. Ron just about cocks up every spell he trys. Hermione is a swat (but kinda cute). Someone tangles with a mythical beast. It's a fight to the death but Harry and his friends come good in the end - oh and someone is not who they seem to be
Either that or they all go on a nice picnic and the lemonade is especially agreeable.
AT&ROFLMAO
he was modded "Interesting" not for what he had to say, but for how he spelled what he had to say.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
"reliece" ?
Tut Tut - I thought everybody knew
I before E except after C
How you doin' with those thetans, Tom? Give my regards to Xenu when your head finally explodes from all the mental dissonance.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton