# Your theories for Harry Potter Book 7 (spoilers, obviously) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000 "2007-04-28T22:45:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![smhanse751](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@smhanse751](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smhanse751)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000/381 "2007-07-17T22:43:41Z")
pictures of the book and all the pages have been leaked to torrent. If you want a link I can provide it that shows the final chapter. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000/382 "2007-07-17T22:45:40Z")
C K Dexter Haven already shot that idea down, **smhanse751**. Not a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![smhanse751](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@smhanse751](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smhanse751)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000/383 "2007-07-17T23:22:28Z")
im glad I didnt post the link. I should have read befor posting :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000/384 "2007-07-18T00:02:22Z")
[QUOTE=shamrock227] \*Barnes and Noble has a terrific system. When you show up you get a wrist band with a number. At the stroke of midnight someone locally “important” (last time it was the Mayor) starts to read the book aloud. You get called up to the counter in groups of 50 by the number on your wrist band. It’s all very organized. There’s no pushing and shoving or fighting or cutting. I had the book in my hot little hands and was on my way home by 12:30. [/QUOTE] They’re doing it alphabetically by last name at our B&N - my surname ends with a “P”, so I’ll be waiting a while. I’m almost tempted not to go - when I went for HBP, there were an awful lot of idiots and my husband lost his temper with a teen that shoved past us to get to the register (of course, after he checked out he was outside sitting on the curb waiting for his parents - and not reading the damn book!) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000/385 "2007-07-18T02:42:00Z")
Here is a link to the BBC online. This starts out as an article about a pricing dispute between the British publisher and a chain of discount stores for HP7. I found the last few paragraphs interesting. This news is somewhat behind the times, since it is now the entire book that can be found (but not by me) online, but the stamps sound so cool! (or maybe I’m a bit too involved in this…) NO spoilers are in this link. [heatsensitiveHPstamps](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6902031.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000/386 "2007-07-18T03:04:48Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Here is a link to the BBC online. This starts out as an article about a pricing dispute between the British publisher and a chain of discount stores for HP7. I found the last few paragraphs interesting. This news is somewhat behind the times, since it is now the entire book that can be found (but not by me) online, but the stamps sound so cool! (or maybe I’m a bit too involved in this…) NO spoilers are in this link. [heatsensitiveHPstamps](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6902031.stm) [/QUOTE] Yes, that photo near the bottom of the open book is the exact copy I have found. My wife and I have read the first four chapters. Pretty good so far! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000/387 "2007-07-18T03:49:51Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] Yes, that photo near the bottom of the open book is the exact copy I have found. My wife and I have read the first four chapters. Pretty good so far! 🙂 [/QUOTE] So, is it true that Harry Potter is Luke Skywalker’s father? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000/388 "2007-07-18T12:40:49Z")
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM MODERATOR: Speculation and “prediction” is one thing, fact (and spoilers) something quite else. We have therefore opened a thread here: [Harry Potter #7: (SPOILERS APLENTY): Now that you’ve read it…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=429305) When you have any actual, factual information from reading the real live book (or from someone who has), please put your comments in that thread (and only there, at least for the first week or so). For those (many!) posters who want to read the books without having major plot elements spoiled, we want to be as accomodating as we can. I’m closing this thread, it’s gone on long enough, and I’m uneasy with the potential for real-life spoilers, the way the discussion has gone. If you want to post more guesses and speculation, try this one: [Potter 7 Final Predictions Contest - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=429238) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-theories-for-harry-potter-book-7-spoilers-obviously/402000.md?page=19)