Seventh Harry Potter Book Named

Croakyvoice writes "JK Rowling has today given fans of the Harry Potter books the name of Book 7 of the very popular series via a Christmas present on her site, to get to the name you need to follow a complicated procedure but thankfully the name of the book has been revealed as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

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Re:Celebrity author syndrome

[mkoenecke]

That's a nice comment with which I agree. But I'm starting to wonder if there is some sort of code on Slashdot that turns every instance of the word "lose" into "loose," like the way Fark changes "naughty" words.

I mean, I can live with people who do not know that "I could care less" means the opposite of what they intend, and can understand misspellings of complicated words. But "loose" for "lose?" I cannot imagine it's a common typo, like "teh," since it's not all that easy to do an inadvertent double tap with the right ring finger. Those sorts of things introduce jarring bits of error which compromise the message. Especially from someone in the publishing industry, who ought to know better.

Yeah, yeah, I know this has been discussed ad nauseam. But unless you're deliberately going for humor (and I can just see responses to this like "I think you should loose your attitude"), please stop.

So

[admiralh]

when will you be leaving Middle School?