Actually, more than halfway. She won’t give me details but tells me I’m going to shit my pants. Her eyes are practically bugging out of her head.
Gah! Once I picked my copy up I was planning on locking all doors, drawing all curtains, and avoiding all media outlets until I finished the book in order to avoid spoilers. The book is online?
I’m off to my panic room now.
I like my eyes and brains right where they are thank you very much.
so… come on what happens? 
Incidentally, it’s possible many of the “leaked” versions on the Internet are, in fact, bullshit, probably written by fans. Just for shits and giggles, when Mrs. RickJay got her copy (which she cannot, by contractual obligations, tell anyone anything about) I looked at one of the “leak” Internet copies and asked her “Hey, did it start with this?” Her answer: “Uh, no, that’s not how it started at all.”
So maybe it didn’t get out.
Jeez. 9 days is rushing it? Absent interruptions, I expect to have read it by lunchtime on Saturday. I’ll get me a nice big pot of coffee and some nibbles, and sit and read it in the conservatory or in the garden.
Then I’ll read it again a few days later.
My tip is don’t turn on the TV or internet if you really really don’t want to be spoiled. I’ve had any number of movies ruined for me that way.
RickJay, is your wife a reviewer for some sort of media outlet?? I’m so jealous of her.
RickJay, is your wife a librarian? I saw (on Mugglenet, I think) that libraries are being allowed to open their shipments early in order to catalog them, and I’m betting that a lot of those catalogued library copies are going to get read before they ever see a library shelf on July 21.
All the copies on the internet except the photographed one are, indeed, fake. The one I’m referring to isn’t a text document or a PDF.
It’s literally a Jpeg photo of every page of the physical book, including the cover, the inside jacket, the chapter titles, the dedication, and one photo for every two pages of the book.
It’s real, though I won’t post the first sentence from it unless people want me to. It doesn’t have any spoiler potential at all.
I dont buy the whole leaked thing anyway. I have read 4 different spoilers and none of them matched up to each other. So either all are lies, or one is true and the other lies. Either way, I still have no real idea how it’s going to turn out!
Is it really ruined?
Ruined to me would be posting major spoilers in areas people might stumble upon.
Posting the book in advance just means avoiding spoilers earlier than Saturday.
Our library had to sign an agreement stating that it would not be read in advance.
Is RickJay’s wife not obligated in this way? 
Scholastic is suing a website to learn who leaked the book online. It was posted anonymously.
I see now that Wikipedia is also reporting that it is online in their Deathly Hallows article.
By the way, it’s 100% online now, not 60% as many articles are claiming.
I guess I’ll be sequestering myself from the Internet for the rest of the week. 
It wouldn’t be the end of the world to accidentally get spoiled, but still, I’d prefer to find out what happens by reading it myself on Saturday.
Since the book has been released online they are no longer offering any bets.
My wife works for a company that sells books.
They simply can’t release any information of any sort about the content. They don’t stop her from opening the book and looking inside. Actually, I think it’s the same for all books they get… it’s just that in most cases you don’t have tens of millions of people salivating over the release.
She won’t even tell ME, but now she’s stopped reading it so her and her sister can both read it on the weekend (well, that and she can’t take it home and has to work at work.) She didn’t get as far into it as I’d thought.
My forecasts:
Severus Snape will be found to be a triple agent, a wizard who is good pretending to be evil who pretended to be good.
Hermione & other Muggles (including Snape) will prove essential to triumphing over Voldemort, illustrating that being a full-blood wizard matters not in determining talent & courage.
Hagrid & Ron will die. Dumbledore will return, because his mascot & magic wand point to him being a Phoenix. Dumbledore may return as a child or some entity unable to resume the mantle of Hogwarts, because Harry has to grow up sometime. Perhaps Dumbledore & Voldemort will be found out to be cousins or Harry & Voldemort. Surprise familial relationships worked in Star Wars.
Jo Rowling will reveal something startling about Harry’s parents & Harry’s other relationships leading Harry to a life-changing revelation, not related to Snape, before he must face, defeat, & imprison/kill Voldemort.
The Malfoys will be unveiled as Death-Eaters, probably by Dobby & other house-elves. The deaths of Hagrid & Ron will occur immediately before or during Harry’s final battle with Voldemort.
Arthur Weasley will be offered the Minister of Magic job, but he will turn it down, probably because he likes his current job of fussing with Muggle gadgets too much.
Moderator forecast: this idiocy of speculation and counter-speculation will come to an end in a few days.
I’m glad you didn’t post a link to a website that photocopied the book and put it online. Doesn’t matter whether that is before or after publication, that’s a copyright infringement and illegal – and immoral for that matter. We’re not allowing such links here.
I’m going to pull another prediction out of my behind: we haven’t seen the last of Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback.
Absolutely 100% understood.
I wouldn’t even dream of posting a link or spoiling the book for anyone.
singersargent:
They’ve already been unveiled as such, after the Ministry fight in book 5. Lucius’s arrest and alliegance is already a matter of public record.