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Harry Potter Book 7: Release
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On the 26th of July, 2007, the day before the official release of the seventh book, the Harry Potter 7 spoilers photographed all the 759 pages of the book’s UK edition and published it on the net. Soon, the news of this leakage spread all over the world, through the help of the media. Once released, the content spread drastically trough the peer-to-peer networks and was available on the internet in all nook and corner of the world. As a result of this, fans came to know beforehand that Harry Potter did not die, and that he was married to Jinny Wealsey and ... had two sons and a daughter.
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A grocery store in Canada accidentally sold several copies of the sixth Harry Potter book before the authorized release date. The Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books, obtained an injunction (PDF copy) from the Supreme Court of British Columbia prohibiting the purchasers from reading the books in their possession. This sparked a number of news articles questioning the injunction's restriction on fundamental rights [10] [11]. Canadian law professor Michael Geist has posted commentary on his weblog [12]. Richard Stallman has posted commentary on his weblog calling for a boycott until the publisher issues an apology [13]. Some versions of this creed have been circulated by email including a spoiler for one of the major plot points in the novel; whether this was actually the original posted version and was modified by Stallman is as yet unclear, though the tone of the sentence is substantially the same as that of the rest of the message.
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By the time of the release of the fifth volume, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the books began to receive strong criticism from a number of literary scholars. Yale professor and literary scholar and critic Harold Bloom raised pungent criticisms of the books' literary merits, saying “Rowling's mind is so governed by clichés and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing."[63] A. S. Byatt authored a New York Times op-ed article calling Rowling's universe a “secondary world, made up of intelligently patchworked derivative motifs from all sorts of children's literature … written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons, and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip".[64]
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The international poster for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" has been released in Japan. The poster shows the Tri-Wizard champions and Ron and Hermione in front of the lake and the second task viewing platforms. The tag line on the poster reads 'Dark and Difficult Times Lie Ahead.'
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China could not wait for the official release date of the seventh book in the worldwide Harry Potter publishing franchise, a little more than a week ago. It came out here with an identical title a full 10 days before the official worldwide English language release - in a wholly unauthorized version.
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