Vancouverite found the latest Harry Potter book
A 33-year-old Vancouverite has downloaded what appears to be about 60 per cent of the seventh and final Harry Potter book - even though the children’s novel isn’t officially supposed to be released until midnight Saturday.
The apparent discovery of major portions of the novel on a European website is part of the continuing Harry Potter hype over the imminent release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
It also follows on the heels of the recent release of the fifth movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Byron Ng said he started on his search for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on Monday after reading a newspaper account of the heightened security around release of the book - including using measures such as global positioning technology to track the trucks delivering the books to retailers.
Oddly enough, Ng doesn’t consider himself a big Harry Potter fan. “I know the basics and I’ve watched some of the movies but I don’t really pay attention to it,” he said in an interview.
“This is a high-value release so I looked at it for fun.” Ng said he went online and found what appear to be the novel’s first few paragraphs mentioned in an article that appeared Sunday in The Guardian, based in the U.K. He used that information to Google to find the rest of the novel.
On a peer-to-peer-sharing website where directions to pirated movies and other material are located he found that someone had posted what purported to be the first 495 pages of the 794-page book.
So he downloaded it too.
“It is not an E-book or Word file, which is what people would normally do” he said.
“What some guy did was take pictures of it, 500 little files, each with a picture of a page. Someone took the trouble to do that.”
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