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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Suga Foot on July 14, 2005, 07:12:57 AM
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) -- Harry Potter's latest secret has slipped out in Canada, and publishers of the best-selling books hope the magical allure of author J.K. Rowling's autograph will get it back under wraps.
Rowling's sixth book about the young wizard is scheduled to be released July 16, but a store near Vancouver briefly put the book on sale last week.
Raincoast Books Ltd., which distributes the books in Canada, said a "small number" of the books were sold, and it has won a court injunction barring the buyers of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" from disclosing the plot.
The court also ordered all the copies be returned to Raincoast, which has promised the early buyers book plates autographed by Rowling once the embargo is lifted.
Millions of copies of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" are expected to be distributed to stores around the world, and publishers have launched big security efforts to keep the wizard's adventures a secret until the official release date.
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Not that anyone really cares, but it happened at a grocery store about 10 minutes from my house. :D
(http://www.cpci.ca/images/sectionpics/potm/62001/pom2001-06a.jpg)
fuckin guys
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lol...the store was The Real Canadian Superstore
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yeah it was at Westwood Mall in Coquiltam
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they could get sued like 1million and harry potter people can choose not to let em sell anymore
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I dont think it leaked in the N. Delta Superstore or da surrey one
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no it was just that 1 store. Someone opened the box and put them on the shelf.
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O HAHAH LOL
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no it was just that 1 store. Someone opened the box and put them on the shelf.
my buddy was telling me how easy it is to jack those books...if he actually gave a damn, he'd take em lol
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no it was just that 1 store. Someone opened the box and put them on the shelf.
my buddy was telling me how easy it is to jack those books...if he actually gave a damn, he'd take em lol
Black market Harry Potter books...now that's gangsta.
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haha 'harry the pothead' the gangsta version
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man i dont even no why that shits sooo big wats sooo goood obut harry potter anyway?
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harry potter is magical
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haha 'harry the pothead' the gangsta version
harry pothead is real magical..
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i really wanna no wats soo good bout harry potter!!
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i really wanna no wats soo good bout harry potter!!
Ask someone who reads the books. I hope no one here reads them. But it's for kids, and parents like it, so that's why you hear about it so much.
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alright ill prob ask someone who read it
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I really don't get the hype.
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I really don't get the hype.
i dont get your sig lol
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I do read them actually...and with good reason too,they're great. Obviously,a non-reader will think their childish or silly but really they aren't. They belong to the most enjoying books I've read and that's quite something for a series that's allready 6 books long.
J.K. Rowling is a great writer and when even Stephen King says that you 'created the best make-believe villain since Hannibal Lecter..'..something's quite allright,I should say. Even after 6 books,Rowling is still able to interest,mislead and surprise the reader,which sounds suspicious of well-written books to me.
I'm not saying people have to like them,not at all. But please do not think this is writing on the level of Sesame Street or silly American-written comics (which tend to suck).
By the way,it's allways nice to read people's comments to things they know nothing about and this particular thread is full of them.
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I do read them actually...and with good reason too,they're great. Obviously,a non-reader will think their childish or silly but really they aren't. They belong to the most enjoying books I've read and that's quite something for a series that's allready 6 books long.
J.K. Rowling is a great writer and when even Stephen King says that you 'created the best make-believe villain since Hannibal Lecter..'..something's quite allright,I should say. Even after 6 books,Rowling is still able to interest,mislead and surprise the reader,which sounds suspicious of well-written books to me.
I'm not saying people have to like them,not at all. But please do not think this is writing on the level of Sesame Street or silly American-written comics (which tend to suck).
By the way,it's allways nice to read people's comments to things they know nothing about and this particular thread is full of them.
is it full of hard words??da book?
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I don't know what are hard words for you so I can't say too much about that.
Some of the spells might be a bit difficult but most of them sound quite cool
'expelliarmus'- to disarmour someone
'protego'- to cast a protective shield
'expecto patronum'- to conjure positive energy in the form of an animal that will knock out nasty enemies
'tarantellegra'- to make someone's legs do an unstoppable dance :D
'avada kedavra'- the killing spell (one out of three Unforgivable Spells)
stuff like that. It's quite fun.
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I don't know what are hard words for you so I can't say too much about that.
Some of the spells might be a bit difficult but most of them sound quite cool
'expelliarmus'- to disarmour someone
'protego'- to cast a protective shield
'expecto patronum'- to conjure positive energy in the form of an animal that will knock out nasty enemies
'tarantellegra'- to make someone's legs do an unstoppable dance :D
'avada kedavra'- the killing spell (one out of three Unforgivable Spells)
stuff like that. It's quite fun.
lol all the magical terms..i like the movies but im not the book type but i heard if u enjoy the movie
you will enjoy the book even more
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That's true.
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I don't know what are hard words for you so I can't say too much about that.
Some of the spells might be a bit difficult but most of them sound quite cool
'expelliarmus'- to disarmour someone
'protego'- to cast a protective shield
'expecto patronum'- to conjure positive energy in the form of an animal that will knock out nasty enemies
'tarantellegra'- to make someone's legs do an unstoppable dance :D
'avada kedavra'- the killing spell (one out of three Unforgivable Spells)
stuff like that. It's quite fun.
wow dats some weird shit man
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yeah thats fucking wayyy too weird for me, why should kids be reading this? makes no sense to me
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people read this because it's fun and because J.K. Rowling is a great writer. The books aren't all about casting spells. First and foremost,they are about trusting,betraying and being loyal to one another. Besides,the books are full of witty remarks,sharp answers and plain humorous things. Rowlings way of writing makes the reader allways be careful and aware and think things over instead of being simple,clear and therefore boring and predictable. Minor things in one book can be very important in another. On top of that, Rowling has great and psychologically believable characters.
I'd advise all of you to try them. Chances are you''ll greatly enjoy them. Especially once you've gotten to the third book and onwards from there on.