What would happen if I ruined Harry Potter 7 for thousands of little kids?

Sub-topic: How do you feel about the new harry potter being leaked online? I just saw it on the news, an employee of one of the stores took a picture of every single page. Did they ever catch him?


Anyways, my story:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...quite possibly the most anticipated book of the last decade. The last of a fantastic series in which Harry Potter is to either die, or kill his nemesis, Lord Voldemort.

Ever since the first book's release in 1997, Harry Potter has been the number one series among all age groups; each book topping over 100 million sales.

The time has come, in 2 short days, the final book in the entire series is to be released. People everywhere are already lining up outside of book stores, waiting until midnight on Friday to get the book they have been longing for. But what would happen if I ruined it for them?

Since the book has yet to be released, it would be impossible for me to know what would really happen, so I went with the next best thing, lying. But who would fall for a something that everyone knows is impossible to predict. Little kids.

I chose the game Maplestory, to get my message across to the kids. At any given time, Maplestory has over 10,000 players online. It was perfect. I shed out the 5 dollars required to buy a 'Super Megaphone', an item that with one click of the button, sends a message to every player online. It's almost as if they wanted me to ruin Harry Potter for them.

I logged into the game and thought about what message I wanted to send. I only had a certain amount of letters, so I had to be skimpy, yet powerful. I thought about just writing, "Hagrid dies on page 547," but that wasn't powerful enough. Then I thought about going all out, since I'm lying, why not have a lot of main characters die? I suspected it might of been too extreme; no one would ever believe it...then I remembered kids are stupid.

I decided to go with the message, "Ron DiesPG574 Hagrid DiesPG648 Voldemort Dies PG704...Cheers." It just fit in, and it revealed enough about the book to get people pissed off.

The moment of truth came, my hands were sweaty as I typed in the lie. My hand trembled over the SEND button. Maybe I was being too cruel? Some people have waited a good part of their lives for this book. Nah.

Within seconds of posting it, I was flooded with hate messages. Here is a picture of my conversation window 10 seconds after posting.



I'm hurt and confused at the same time. One called me a "fcknbitc," while another just said, "Well Done."

I left Maplestory open for another hour or so and the messages did not stop. I was bombarded with people hating me. One person even said they were going to kill me because I, "ruined their life." Emo.

If there was any part of me that felt bad about posting this, it was gone. Reading the hate mail entertained me, and made me realize how stupid the average kid is.

Source:
http://makefunny.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-would-happen-if-i-ruined-harry.html


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Sub-topic: How do you feel about the new harry potter being leaked online?

 

Well I think it could be upsetting for some kids and especially the author because of it being the last book millions of people were going to buy it now you can expect those sales to down but ahwell it's a book lol get over it!

 

Aww. Don't ruin it for the kids! I know they would buy the book anyway. I'm sure they read them over and over again.

 

Is there actually a leak and we can you find it on the internet? Because so far I have just seen people taking the piss out of the leaking of this. Like on a TV show last night they pretending they had a copy of the leaked and this is what they said something similar to this: "Ok we have a copy of the leaked Harry Potter Book and I'm going to read the first page, it says Harry does something, he does something else now I'll turn to the end and spoil it harry dies."

 

I myself hate being spoiled!

 

I would be very happy. Its a ton of crap and nothing else.

 

Yea, search the torrent sites mininova and thepiratebay. I have the PDF version. It is readable, but annoying.

Btw I didn't ruin it for the kids, I made up that spoiler.

 

Most kids will buy the book in order to confirm whether or not the 'spoilers' are indeed true

 

That's horrible, but amusing in a strange sort of way...

x_x

 

I am terrified of hearing what happens before I read it! I am almost certain that it will happen though. Just sucks - 'cause I am not in a position to go on full media black out.

 

are you the guy who also left the same comment on my blog( http://5hr.org )?
if so some guy left this comment for you:

 

Lmao, I hope that was meant for me, that is classic. For a parent, that person has terrible grammar. Also if they actually read my story, I made up the spoilers.

 

From what I have read the OP is wrong about at least one person that they say dies in the seventh book...uh uh! I think you fell for the wrong spoilers!

 

Hey that's funny way to go .

 

haha i think its hilarios,how sad people are claiming its ruined there lives how
sad is that!

 

I enjoy reading Harry Potter so much and I have the sense not to poke around where the leakage is posted.

 

i somehow feel that it had not leaked at all.. i still hope that this leaking thing is nothing but some fan-fiction version doing the rounds

 

THERE's no PG704 last page is 607

 

Oh I can't wait to read the new Harry Potter book. I am trying to earn some extra cheese (see sig lol) so I can buy my kids and my niece and nephew the new book.

WHAT do I think about SPOILERS? I honestly think they suck. It ruins the fun for those of us who want to enjoy the quality of the book, and read page by page, letting the anticipation boil up inside of us until we get to the climax and the end of the novel! I'm an ADULT and I would be terribly upset if I found out the ending and all of the details of the book!

 

I've read the seventh book. T'was identical with the leaked book (the photographed one).

Really.