The Sun reports that inexplicably, recently lots of people having been placing bets on Harry's ex-girlfriend, Cho Chang, dying in the next novel, Half-Blood Prince.
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And last night internet firm Blue Square reported a flood of bets on love interest Cho Chang — played on screen by Katie Leung — dying in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.
Spokesman Ed Pownall said: “It’s very odd. Even the betting pattern has been a bit mysterious.
“A lot of people have opened accounts in the middle of the night and placed their first-ever bets on Cho Chang being killed off.
“This suggests they at least think they know something.
“The maximum punt for this kind of bet is £100 and we’ve had a few of them as well as several of £50.
“This has forced us to cut the odds on Cho by more than half from 8-1 to 3-1.”
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Ed joked: “We’ve yet to see the name Rowling appear on the betting ticker, so these mysterious bets haven’t spooked us completely yet.
“But much more money for young Cho and it looks like she could be hanging up her wand forever.”
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One of JK's representatives dismissed the rumor as “pure speculation”, he said: “Only JK knows what’s in the book she is currently writing.
“Until it’s finished and edited, no one can be sure what happens.”
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The Sun via
Mugglenet.