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07-01-2004, 11:52 AM
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 HP Hoaxer "Speaks" - HP Hoaxer "Speaks" Summary:
A Short Interview With The Book Six Title Hoaxer Article:
HPANA has a short interview with the Book Six Title hoaxer, in which the "anonymous" person (who says he didn't expect all the attention yet e-mailed every HP news site with the hoax) says, "If I had not started the hoax, would we all know the real title to book 6 right now?"
The prankster, a 19-year-old male student at the University of Florida, speaks:
Quote: Firstly I would like to offer two apologies. I owe an apology to all of the Harry Potter fans that I lied to; I never thought my hoax would go so far and I felt awful when some of you got so excited about knowing the title. I am sorry. I also would like to apologize to J.K. Rowling, as I did an awful thing by impersonating her. I consider her a literary genius.
In the end, the hoax was all in good fun. I thought the title was rather funny and had hoped that at least some people would get a good chuckle out of it. | Read the rest of the interview over at HPANA.
Reluctant as we are to give more publicity to the hoaxer, something must be corrected right now. Yes we would have the title. Absolutely. Read it right from JKR herself.
Unfortunately, however, the door opened on the very same day the 'Pillar of Storgé' hoaxer struck, which left a lot of Harry Potter fans bemused ...
Unfortunately - owing to circumstance or chance, a purely coincidental relationship leading to negative consequences - so, unless you think she is misleading, which she says outright she will not do on that site, she did not release the title as a response to the hoaxer. There was never a reason to expect she would. The trick brick wall couldn't have been whipped up over Monday morning coffee; it was planned, as, it seems, were all her other updates (excepting, of course, the ones about the hoax).
Below is the original news post he sent to TLC to make it spread. Quote: A friend found this source, and sent it to me, but I'm not sure exactly how reliable the source is. It does seem like JKR, and the screencaptures do look like her website, but I'm not sure if it is true or not.
The message is located below the dotted line.
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JKR released the title of book 6!!!!!!!*
so i was fooling around at http://www.jkrowling.com (an awesome site if you haven't been there before, with lots of information) and i don't know what i did but that door that no one has been able to open suddenly opened after a big gust of wind. (Peeves?) inside was this book with a message from JKR herself where she released the name of book 6!
i think it was a software glitch or something because i have no idea how i got the door open... then again, i was fooling around with the web site for hours yesterday, so it might have been something i did. the reason i think it's a glitch though is because the date of the message is the first of July, which is like a week away. i think we weren't supposed to find it until then.
anyway, i turned on my screen capture software and went back to the book room to record what happened. i captured the movie and uploaded it (although it would be better if someone could host it for me because geocities might clunk out). you can find it at this link:....
you can't really see what her message is in the video, so i retyped it below: Quote: 01/07/04
Erm… it is perhaps time for me to reveal the title of Book 6! I am nearing completion of the first draft and have definitely decided upon a title. I had numerous possibilities in mind, but as I wrote, I realized that only one did the book justice.
The more clever Potter fans may recognize that the title relates directly to both 'Order of the Phoenix' and 'Chamber of Secrets.' I will be highly amused if one of you can guess exactly what's going on!
On a side note, the length of the book is growing so fast, I could swear Filius has put anEngorgement Charm on it; an editor's nightmare! I promised myself not to exceed the length of 'Order of the Phoenix,' but every day that passes makes that undertaking more difficult. Incidentally, I have much more work ahead.
Alas, the time has come! Here is the reward for you lot that so diligently figured out all the puzzles on the site. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page, I will reveal to you the title of Book 6!
The title of Book 6 is:
Harry Potter and the Pillar of Storgé
***end message*** | I was sooooo excited when i read it! i can't believe she's released the title so early! what pillar? where is it? who/what/where is Storgé? to me it sounds like the name of a powerful wizard... Dumbledore's relative perhaps??? if you have any theories about this, i'd love to hear them.
i have a better quality video of the open door and the message. you can email me at hpstorge@yahoo.com and i'll try to send it to you (it's a big, big file). i'd also love to hear what you have to say about the title! i'm sooooo excited, i can't believe it! | Thanks to The Leaky for the heads up and their insight to the whole thing.  | |
07-01-2004, 12:07 PM
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i think the hoaxer is totally bored and stupid for doing such a thing....i mean they would have known the effect it would have on the whole world! | 
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07-01-2004, 12:40 PM
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|  K.O. of Mr Tennant's specsBanshee
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the Hoaxer seems to have a very hight opinon of what they did the seem toactualy thing it was a good thing to do.
IT WASNT it was stupid and Jk has already said that she would have said the tile of book 6 regardless of the hoaxer. | |
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07-01-2004, 12:45 PM
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Don't get too heated about this! Some of the members form HPANA were ...
Put it this way, it's jsut a simple little hoax, it didn't do SERIOUS damage..besides the fact that some of us wasted our time over it, but it WAS all in good fun...  | |
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07-01-2004, 12:54 PM
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| | Faerie
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I don't see why people are mad at the guy.
Yes, it's obvious he's lying when he says he "didn't expect all the attention" but who cares?
It was super cool fun! We got to speculate some about what will coome from it and we eventually got the REAL title from Jo herself!
So I don't see what the big deal is.  | |
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07-01-2004, 01:00 PM
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 I look at it on the bright side, it was just a lot of fun! You have to be pretty smart yourself to fool half the world so well done to him. The great thing is that this made JK reveal the real title to us! So it was all worth it, it's just another chapter to the HP fan world and let us all move on and start counting down for book six! | |
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07-01-2004, 01:17 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Dumbledore@Jul 1 2004, 11:28 AM
I don't see why people are mad at the guy.
Yes, it's obvious he's lying when he says he "didn't expect all the attention" but who cares?
It was super cool fun! We got to speculate some about what will coome from it and we eventually got the REAL title from Jo herself!
So I don't see what the big deal is. | I agree | |
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07-01-2004, 01:22 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by HermionePotter89+Jul 1 2004, 11:51 AM-->| QUOTE (HermionePotter89 @ Jul 1 2004, 11:51 AM) | I agree [/b][/quote]
I third that.
also i think it was a very brave thing to do, just how many of you would do that? Make an public internet apology? you he screwd us but still as said it was a lbit of a laugh
i say well done | |
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07-01-2004, 01:33 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by HermionePotter89+Jul 1 2004, 04:51 PM-->| QUOTE (HermionePotter89 @ Jul 1 2004, 04:51 PM) | I agree [/b][/quote]
me too | |
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07-01-2004, 01:57 PM
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| K.O. of Mr Tennant's specs Banshee
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I am nont angry at him i just think that it was a stupid thing to do also he seems convinced that it was him that made JKR anounce the title of book 6 it wasnt she says she was going to do it anyway. | |
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07-01-2004, 02:07 PM
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| Waffling Chizpurfle
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Well, he deserves a little credit for coming forward knowing that a lot of Harry Potter fans would be angry with him... | |
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07-01-2004, 02:21 PM
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| | Yeti
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Meh, attention-seekers. | |
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07-01-2004, 03:24 PM
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I agree with everyone we shouldn't get mad at the guy, I mean for that very very moment that you read it, you have admit that a lot of people got excited of the "book 6 title" so as much as it was just a hoax a lot of people were still happy about it, but then thought about it real;izing it was a pretty bad title and Jo wouldn't let us down like that. I think it was relly brave and good of him to come forward and apologize. | |
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07-01-2004, 03:48 PM
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I'm not mad at the guy. I'm thanking him because think about it. If he hadn't come up this fake title then we really wouldn't know the true title right now. Anyway, he was just having a bit of fun. | |
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07-01-2004, 03:55 PM
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People shouldn't be mad at the kid because of something he did. It's not like he did anything illegal and he was sorry for what he did so there should be no reason for somepeople to be mad at him. | |
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07-01-2004, 03:59 PM
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Wow, they had a lot of time on their hands. | |
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07-01-2004, 04:09 PM
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Yea so the hoaxer did get people's hope up about the title of book 6 but still It was just a hoax so its not that big a deal and pluse JK told us the real title faster bc of the hoaxer LOL | |
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07-01-2004, 04:41 PM
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It wasn't funny.
And he sounds like he thinks too much of himself. :sorcerer: | |
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07-01-2004, 05:06 PM
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I thought it was pretty funny... but then, I'm a prankster and encourage this sort of behavior. What does annoy me is that he believes we owe him for now knowing the true title... that's a little arrogant. | |
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07-01-2004, 05:29 PM
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lol i actually thought the whole thing was kind of funny...*ducks as people throw things at her*...er....just kidding... | |
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07-01-2004, 05:36 PM
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lol I have to agree it was kinda funni, i mean all the excitement it caused | |
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07-01-2004, 05:38 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Lupin Jr@Jul 1 2004, 05:34 AM
I look at it on the bright side, it was just a lot of fun! You have to be pretty smart yourself to fool half the world so well done to him. The great thing is that this made JK reveal the real title to us! So it was all worth it, it's just another chapter to the HP fan world and let us all move on and start counting down for book six! | true | |
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07-01-2004, 05:41 PM
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I just learned awhile ago in Psychology that Storge also means "Companionate Love", or the love that resembles friendship.
Thanks for this info! :sorcerer: | |
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07-01-2004, 05:53 PM
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It is good that he is apologising.I mean he might have thought it may be a little joke but they've caught him now. | |
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