Harry Potter and the ... art of misinformation

With now only days to go until the release of the latest (and supposedly last) instalment in the Harry Potter series, there's no shortage of leaks about the plot line. In one case, someone has posted photographs of every page of the book to the web (which is more than the publishers will do ... Sorry, can't help myself - just take it as yet another plea - falling on deaf ears - for an ebook version of the young wizard's adventures!). But it's hard for the impatient among us to know which spoilers, excerpts and leaks to take as the genuine article - some of the versions on the internet have different endings; and, wrote The Daily Telegraph's Justin Vallejo, "punctuation and spelling errors a seasoned wordsmith like J.K. Rowling would be unlikely to make". Looks like we'll all just have to take our turns lining up first up at 9.01am Saturday Sydney time to get our copies. (Hopefully there will be enough time to finish reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows before The Simpons Movie hits the big screen next week!)