Fiddelysquat wrote:
The scans, as sad as the whole situation is, might very well be real. Either that or someone took a very, very, VERY long time coming up with an elaborate hoax. I mean, if they did fake it, they wrote over 600 pages of a fake story and did a pretty amazing job of copying Marie Grandpre's artistic style...
Well, it's already happened at least once before. Someone pulled up an old article about the faux-hacking where they confirmed it was a fake, back in May or June.
However, the current book being passed around as the real one is a much better one, so good a lot of intelligent people are considering it a possibility. My current opinion is that parts of it are real, and parts are fake--hence why there are references to things Rowling would not put in a book youngsters will read, but the art is authentic GrandPre and the writing style is generally spot-on Rowling. I'm going to read the "leaked" book after I've read the real one, because it sounds darned cool.
And for now, I'm going to keep hoping that the epilogue I read was A) fake or B) just tacked on so no one could write and publish any more Harry Potter stories, and doesn't detract from the rest of the book.
"Oh, better far to live and die/Under the brave black flag I fly/Than play a sanctimonious part/With a pirate head and a pirate heart."