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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201 Jul 20, 2007 at 22:28 by yosimatiy

all harry potter books are gay movies all the way

202 Jul 20, 2007 at 22:30 by yosimatiy

harry potter turns out to be gay a has a fling with ron and percy

203 Jul 20, 2007 at 22:33 by yosimatiy

then ron and harry go to china and adopt a baby witch turns out its cho chang kid that hagrid and her

204 Jul 20, 2007 at 22:37 by yosimatiy

then ron and harry go to china and adopt a baby that turns out to be cho chang kid she had with harry
and her dad forbid her to keep it because hes a mean daddy that only beviles in real things no like magic you pathic losers go out and play a god damn sport

205 Jul 20, 2007 at 22:50 by football kid

yosimatiy is right go play a game of pass and harry potter is gay

206 Jul 20, 2007 at 23:04 by Ethan

im not a big Potter fan and i dont know all the details nd im not sure i know the storyline but i dont think that harry is a horcrux simply because voldemort has been trying to kill him. Why would he want to kill himself? please explain

207 Jul 20, 2007 at 23:12 by Fawkes

All this is rubbish!!! In 6 hours the truth will be revealed!!!

208 Jul 21, 2007 at 00:11 by muggle98

i am angry too if all this is true.
is all this true?
is it . . . . well is it?
do we need to read blood jack for the weekend?
this sounds so violent and so horrible . . ..
and the scene w/ malfoy and voldy?
what!!!!!! i hope that is not true.
anywho, i get my book in only a few short hours at an opening party . . .
so we’ll see.

209 Jul 21, 2007 at 00:37 by Bree

I dont think all those people know about the new book. I mean how will they know if harry dies or if voldemort dies. They havent read it yet. I dont even know myself. Thats because I havent read the book yet. When they read the book and watch the new movie they will see if they are right or if there wrong. I even herd thre was 7 Boooks and Movies of Harry Potter. But thats probably a rumor. Dont believe what the other people because they dont even know yet. PS. Harry Potter is a really popular movie!

210 Jul 21, 2007 at 01:09 by jack

morderwarg @ googlemail.com

it is official the true story is that harry,ginny,hermy,ron and luna and neville all survive

snape was true - this was the tuesday leak and since ive already read it im confuseed

who manages magic very late in life?

can someone send me that fake story in which hermione dies and the one where ron dies? - basicly send me any fake HP7’s please

211 Jul 21, 2007 at 01:12 by jack

ps i know its true as i have the book in front of me - the dodgy photographs of all the pages was the real one.

212 Jul 21, 2007 at 03:14 by Mysteryman

I myself have been through many websites looking at spoilers (i have finished the book) and many are different and incorrect. This one is no exception believe me.

213 Jul 21, 2007 at 04:09 by Tash

People i already have the book. Harry is not dead. Voldermort dies, Charity the muggle studies teacher at hogwarts dies. That is what i have found out so far.
email me for more news at catzgetzmyce@yahoo.com

214 Jul 21, 2007 at 05:03 by SPOILER

harry dies on the last page while trying to kill bellatrix lestrange

215 Jul 21, 2007 at 05:13 by anonoumous101

yall keep sayin that the dag on book is on the internet then y the freak cant i find it got darn it

216 Jul 21, 2007 at 06:21 by Sunny

Hey guys i’ve been looking for the book seems all the torrents have been taken off so could somebody plz plz send me the book on this address sunny_raj_oberoi@hotmail.com. Thankz alot plz send me the book plz people a very eager fan of harry potter plzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!! tahnks alot love sunny

217 Jul 21, 2007 at 07:09 by vineet

Why are fans waiting in queue for purchasing harry potter and the deathly hallows?

Well they can buy this book online only for $20(avg. cost)

There are several online store that offers home delivery/shipping to the buyers.

Like that
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Deathly-Hallows-Book/dp/0545010225
Bordersstores.com
http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=harrypotter7
Aggarwaloverseas.com
http://www.aggarwaloverseas.com/booksDetail.aspx?productID=74371&catId=&detail=t

and many more to list…

218 Jul 21, 2007 at 07:27 by don

Did Harry Married Hermione ….Please say yes !!!!

219 Jul 21, 2007 at 07:52 by taniece

what the heck u guys keep sayin that the dag on book is on the freaken internet but where the freak is it i spent the last couple days on this freaken website looken for it and i didnt see anyting so if anybody knows where i can find it please point me in the dicecton gee wis

220 Jul 21, 2007 at 09:01 by i work at chapters and had to put up with the crazy line up from harry potter.

[quote comment="134453"][quote comment="134251"]OMG I HATE THE GUTS OF WHOEVER DID THIS!

WHY THE HELL DID YOU HAVE TO RUIN THIS ONCE IN A LIFE TIME EVENT FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

IT HAS BEEN BAD ENOUGH WITH PEOPLE WHO WALK AROUND SAYING “HARRY DIES” AS IF IT IS FACT.

NOW I HAVE TO CONTEND WITH THE FACT THAT WHAT SOMEONE SAYS MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY BE A LIE BECAUSE THEY COULD HAVE READ THIS AND ACTUALLY SCREWED UP MY ENJOYMENT OF IT!

I HATE YOU!

sigh… If they kept it to themselves I would have cared in the slightest.[/quote]

Wow man, how dense are you. Rowling has the worst literary style ever. This has only done well because of the “muggles” aka morons, allow it to be popular. I wish the newspapers worldwide would tell everything that happens and ruin worldwide sales.
Besides., if you have ever read a real classic. Such as, “The Lord of the Rings”. You would notice that Rowling ripped off Tolkien!
So as far as I am concerned, SPOILERS UNITE!![/quote]

okay im sorry but to you, you like to call these people “morons” for likeing the harry potter books? well im thinking that i work at chapters and hear ALOT of different opinions on books and your “classic” LOTR isnt a “classic” in alot of peoples eyes. it all depends on what you want to read and you cant judge people like you are. i personaly dont read very often but personaly if i had a choice between a book with the greatest “literary style”, which i probly wont care to much about or be interested in or a book with something that i honestly like and REALLY fully interested in reading id pick the one i like reading not the one that is written SUPER well or what ever. i dont care i work in the kids department in a chapters and even some of the books that are 80% pictures i sometimes enjoy more then the ones that have words i could care less if i even knew the meaning of. the book does not need to be written by a freaking genious it just needs to make the person reading it interested thats all so stop insulting the people reading harry potter its a personal preference and a choice.

As for the “spoilers” i agree with the fact that for the people who are pissed about it…why exactly would you go to a thread for “exposing the book” if you honestly didnt want to know what happend?..hmmmm…

221 Jul 21, 2007 at 09:12 by joey

What happen in the End ???

222 Jul 21, 2007 at 09:49 by fanta

harry potter doesnt die he kills voldemort and snape and mad eye moody die and hedwige and i think more but my bros readin it and he does not die soo sux u fags who said he did!!!! it says 19 years later harry and his wife jenny (rons sister) send there son albus(after dumbeldore) off too hogwarts soo he must live coz it claerly states 19 years later!

223 Jul 21, 2007 at 10:13 by catzgetzmyce@yahoo.com

I have the book and know exactly who dies
Collin Creevy
Voldermort
Lupin
Tonks
Hedwig (Harrys owl)
A couple of death eaters
Mad eye moody (Alistor moody)
So far that is all i know
I am only up to page 116.

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