Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows leaked to BitTorrent

Written by Smaran on July 17, 2007 

The final book in the Harry Potter series has been leaked to BitTorrent. A torrent with photographs of each page of the American edition of “Deathly Hallows” has shown up on multiple torrent sites.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

We first got wind of this when two torrents of the book appeared on Demonoid.com. They became immensely popular with over a 1000 leechers and seeders each. But after some time were removed by either the uploader, or more likely, the moderators, in a move to avoid the attention of bloodthirsty publishers.

Not surprisingly, both those torrents spread over to mininova and several other sites and are still going strong (update: mininova removed the torrents). One of the torrents only has the first 495 pages of the book, whereas the second is the complete book.

Over the past couple of weeks, numerous torrents have surfaced online claiming to be the 7th and last Harry Potter book. They are all fakes. Fan fiction. This one, on the other hand, is the real thing. Someone has managed to get their hands on the American edition of the book and has photographed each page of the book and uploaded it to BitTorrent.

The main complaint that’s coming up in comment threads on these sites is that the quality isn’t great. You can just barely manage to read each page. And as some downloaders promptly noted, a few pages cannot be read at all without editing the images in Photoshop.

Die-hard fans of the series will undoubtedly rush to grab a copy of the torrent for themselves. But anybody else would really have to see whether reading the book a week before the rest of the world is worth risking their eyesight and brains, squinting to make out what happens when Harry confronts He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named for the last time.

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151 Jul 20, 2007 at 09:24 by Rachel

NOOOOOOOO Not Ron I Love Ron hes hottt

152 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:11 by Ryan

these are several theories that i have:

Malfoy will atempt to kill Hermione, only to have Ron jump out in front.

Snape will block Voldemorts spell on Harry and die, and Harry will not be affected because of the amount of love shown, abaling Voldemort to destroy the scar, or the horcrux, and not harm harry.

good theories?

153 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:13 by Ryan

can someone please tell me where i can see hp7 on the internet?
i would love that

154 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:16 by harry potter

guys you have it all wrong!!!! harry marries herminee and ron marries gimmy!!!.harry has 2 kids called siririus and rose!. the movies doesn’t show you that ron has kids!
HARRY MARRIES HERMIMIEE

155 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:17 by Ryan

oh yea that thing that number 106 john said up there about the real cover being the trio jumping out of gold
thats the uk edition the american adition is harry standing in the arena and on the back voldemort is reaching his hands out

the USA deluxe edition shows what looks like harry ron and hermione riding over a village (supposedly godrics hollow) on a dragon

156 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:41 by 20th 7th 2007 at 7:37pm

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!
EVERYONE has got it all wrong. this is what i think compared to all of you silly harry potter retartds. (joke)
# RON marries HERMIONE
# Harry and Hagrid die
# Draco will die (cause it said in the last book draco malfoy says “he will kill my whole family if i dont do it”)
# Harry dosent marry anyone
This is posted by N.R of Queenslans
not typing in my full name.

157 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:45 by 20th 7th 2007 at 7:37pm

[quote comment="134472"]Why all the fuss. Just buy the book. There should be plenty of copies available. I totally agree with you. PEOPLE IF YOU ARE READING THIS I COULDN’T GIVE A S**T WHAT HAPPENS IN THE FINAL BOOK. scuse my language.

158 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:48 by 20th 7th 2007 at 7:37pm

Wow that last blog whoever sent that is a very bad language. But i really agree with her/him
Go to your local store where they are selling all the harry potter books and get one. There are like 1 million copies in every book store in the world
GET ONE WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!!!!

159 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:52 by 20th 7th 2007 at 7:37pm

quote comment=”135069″]can someone please tell me where i can see hp7 on the internet?
i would love that[/quote]
Of course that is TOTALLY A REALLY GOOD um oh year really good therios.
You wont belive where i am standing. I am in England which is nearly morning. And i am in the line for the book. About 10 people in front of me hang on ill just count……. no made a mistake there are 16 people in front.
Bye bye harry fan

160 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:55 by 20th 7th 2007 at 7:37pm

I AM A TRUE HARRY POTTER FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIGGER THAN ALL OF YOU. i seriously know book 4 and 5 off buy heart. he he go me. nah i am not a true i am OBSESSES1!!!!!!!!!! YEAH

161 Jul 20, 2007 at 10:57 by 20th 7th 2007 at 7:37pm

[quote comment="134110"]Hedwig dies too, just to add.[/quote]

162 Jul 20, 2007 at 11:01 by 20th 7th 2007 at 7:37pm

I have my cordless laptop with me standing in line to get the last and final (possible) Harry Potter book. Buy the looks of it there are like let me have a look….. Wow…. wow. oh um ok well i am guessing that there are like 50 000 people here at the moment. I am SOOOOOOOO EXICTED. just a little hint.
LOOK AT THE HARRY POTTER WEBSITES IN 24 HOURS TIME. YOULL GET THE FULL THING POSTED ON THE INTERNET.

163 Jul 20, 2007 at 11:07 by ME

heres a gd 1….y dont u wait a couple of hours for the REAL book 2 actually come out???

164 Jul 20, 2007 at 11:19 by Jes

all i have to say is that if you need that badly to look at the book look at it……….you will never turely know if its real or not till you read the book.

and for you guys who are spoilers just shut the hell up……all you are doing is writing crap……and i think you guys are a bunch of losers who have nothing better to do than to ruin peoples reading…..oh and i also fell that i should say that the spoilers are most likely losers who are so upest about there life that they want people to be like them to make them feel better

people dont let them destroy your reading….the book is gooing to be great.

165 Jul 20, 2007 at 11:20 by I HAV THE REAL ENDING!!!!

HERES A NEW ONE:

DUMBLEDORE IS REALLY ALIVE COS VOLDEMORT REVIVED HIM (COS THEY’RE ACTUALLY BEST FRIENDS)

DUMBLEDORE IS ALSO A DEATH EATER

HARRY DISCOVERS THAT THE ONLY WAY 2 DESTROY A HORCRUX IS 2 EAT IT, SO HE FINDS EVERY HORCRUX….AND EATS THEM ALL!!!

HARRY KILLS RON, HERMIONE, HEDWIG, KREACHER, GINNY, THE DURESLYS, THE WEASLYS, THE MALFOYS, SNAPE, PEEVES, LUPIN, HAGRID, WORMTAIL…..PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE IN THE BOOK….AND GUESS WHAT?? HE EATS ALL OF THEM 2!!!

THE FINAL SHOWDONW IS IN HONEYDUKES. YES!! HARRY KILLS VOLDEMORT (ITS TRUE) AND THEN HE MARRYS DOBBY AND LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER….

THIS IS TRUE EVERYONE…I HAVE READ THE !REAL! BOOK BECAUSE I WORK AT FLOURISH AND BLOTTS!!!

I AM SORRY IF I HAV RUINED THE BOOK FOR U!!!

166 Jul 20, 2007 at 11:51 by Kat

SPOILER ALERT

Harry doesn’t die Voldemort does…big suprise, not

I got hold of the origional script from a friend, the whole book is about how much Harry loves Ginny, and he ends up sleeping with her…nice for young children to read huh!

I’m hoping the book I read was a fake cos it was rubbish, Lupin and Tonks die, as does Pansy Parkinson, Bellatrix Lestrange is dead as well as Narcissa, Malfoy has his entrails spilled by Voldemort but lives anyway and becomes friends with HP and co. Oh and Percy Weasley dies defending the Order, what a turnaround! Harry’s a horcrux, so has to end up making his own horcrux in a snitch when he kills voldemort, lucky it only took part of voldemort n not Harry! Dudley is really a wizard, which explains Dumbledore’s words to Petunia as he took Dudley of the Hogwarts list in exchange for them looking after Harry. Dudley kills his parents at the end in mirror image of Voldy, great ending Rowling! great ending for a sequal in fact…big suprise.

Hermione and Ron get married, so do Harry and Ginny who have a son named James in the epilogue, Lavendar Brown and Oliver Wood marry, Fleur has lots of babies, oh and it was her who killed Greyback

Snape does not die! Harry decides to le him live so he has to watch HP be famous etc.

OH and the minister for magic is killed by Voldemort and Dolores takes over….tried to make a deal with Voldemort turns out he goes back on his word ofc, she’s killed by a pack of werewolves, oh how ironic JKR

well i can’t be bothered to tell you anymore seeing as it’s out in like 12 hours anyway.

167 Jul 20, 2007 at 12:04 by űΝИATuRāĹ™

Anyone who needs the pdf of the real full book instead of squinting over the pics, mail me shurtugalelf@gmail.com . If you think mine is a fake, it’s your loss, remember. Although, there ARE a few typos in the pdf. The whole book is about 1.5 MB .

168 Jul 20, 2007 at 13:52 by yosimatiy

harry dies that so sad

169 Jul 20, 2007 at 13:52 by yosimatiy

harry dies thats so sad

170 Jul 20, 2007 at 13:54 by HARRY + HERMIONE

HARRY & HERMIONE should be together !!!…..
If they not then JKR is the worst Story Writer in my opinion !!

HARRY & HERMIONE should be together always…….All the rest can Die !!!

171 Jul 20, 2007 at 13:57 by FAN

I have been always a big FAN Of COMEDY Stories & COMEDY Movies……..

BUT THIS HARRY POTTER ……THIS IS THE MOST FUNNEST THING I EVER SEEN !!!

172 Jul 20, 2007 at 13:59 by TRU

I wanna Marry HERMIONE…….She is mine !

EMMA WATSON…….is mine !!!

All the rest will die !!!!!
DIE……..
DIEEEE………
DIEEEEEEE……….

173 Jul 20, 2007 at 14:01 by yosimatiy

does harry get laid in the end or not because if he does i would love to see that movie

174 Jul 20, 2007 at 14:41 by BA

Wow, there’s a lot of crap been posted in here.
I don’t understand why people are still reading fake versions and posting fake spoilers when the actual version has been available on the torrent sites for a while.
All I’ll say is that it’s a great read and I look forward to reading it again when I get my hard copy tomorrow.

175 Jul 20, 2007 at 14:49 by KKA

Harry Potter is GAY !!!

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