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PDF file doing rounds on net no Harry Potter book
Expelliamus! Gulf News has solved the mystery of the e-mail book that some believed was the seventh and final instalment in the Harry Potter series.
- By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:48 July 21, 2007
- Image Credit: Megan Hirons/Gulf News
- The Palan sisters Vaibhavi, Janvi, Shreya and Vandana were the very first to receive their copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows yesterday at 3am in the morning at the Jashanmal book shop in the Mall of the Emirates.
Dubai: Expelliamus! Gulf News has solved the mystery of the e-mail book that some believed was the seventh and final instalment in the Harry Potter series.
As reported in Gulf News, some UAE residents have received by e-mail a 659-page PDF file called HarryPotter_thedeathlyhallows.pdf.
Some readers thought it really was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which went on sale in the UAE at 3.01am yesterday.
However, it turns out that the e-mail is in fact a book called The Seventh Horcrux, written by internet author Melinda Leo. While the internet book does feature Harry himself and the other cast of characters, it has nothing to do with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
On her website www.melindaleo.com, internet scribe Melinda has posted two other Harry Potter books that she has written, Harry Potter and the Power of Emotion and Harry Potter and the Curse of the Damned.
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She has also written several short stories about Harry, whose favourite magic phrases include expelliamus, accio and crucio.
Charanya Kannan, 32, a Dubai-based housewife who read The Seventh Horcrux thinking that it might have been Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, said she was "a little bit disappointed" to discover the book was not the real thing.
"I did enjoy the book. When I read it I thought it was the real one," said Charanya, whose 13-year-old son Vishvak also read the e-mail book.
J.K. Rowling has said the new book will be the last one in the series and she has no plans to write any more books about Harry.
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