Book-leak mole is hunted

Found on The Sun on Tuesday, 17 July 2007
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A massive hunt was under way last night to find the mole who leaked the new Harry Potter online.

American publishers Scholastic went to court to identify the person who revealed details of the novel five days before its official release date.

The mole breached the tightest security operation in publishing history to put the first two-thirds of the US version of the book on a website.

English publishers at Bloomsbury are said to be "spitting blood".

A source in America said last night: "Heads are sure to roll over this." Bloomsbury recently told how it spent £10million on a massive security operation to ensure no secrets leaked.

Its furious American counterparts at Scholastic launched a court order claiming infringement of copyright to track down the culprit.

Honestly, I had to laugh. "The tightest security operation in publishing history" wasn't so tight at all. Still, it might be some clever PR stunt to draw attention to the release. According to rumors, almost everybody dies and the surviving rest, Ron, Hermione, Harry and Ginny, marries. In five days, the fans will know if that's a fake, or the real release. Still, there's no reason to get as angry as the publishers did: sure, it leaked. However, the fans will still buy it, even if the cat is out of the bag. JKR will make millions again and nobody cares about the 5 people who actually read the 608 pages on the computer.