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Old 01-31-2005, 05:51 PM
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Post UPDATED: Rowling updates website

A few weeks ago a site claimed it had copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Jo Rowling, author of the books, now warns us against falling for any further online scams.

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You should NEVER trust any Harry Potter e-books offered for download from the internet or on P2P/file-trading networks. Setting aside the fact that these books are illegal (there are no authorised HP e-books to date), they may infect your computer with viruses, leave you vulnerable to the dangers of hacking and/or credit card fraud and may also contain content that has nothing to do with Harry Potter.
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Please, please protect yourselves, your computers and your credit cards and do not fall for these scams. The only genuine copies of Harry Potter remain the authorised traditional book or audio tapes/cassettes/CDs distributed through my publishers.
Jo has also added a piece to her rubbish bin, under the category of 'Starting to Smell'.

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I was deeply amused to read recent reports in UK newspapers that we have just applied for planning permission to create a fifteen-bedroom-home - after all, even Dudley only required two bedrooms. It’s quite true that we have been doing building work on our house in Edinburgh, but as we are not setting up a hotel we went for a slightly more moderate number of sleeping quarters -divide fifteen by three and you might find yourself a little closer to the truth.
There is also an update in her Extra Stuff section, in which she makes a comment on the assumption that the rise in the popularity of owls as pets, is down to Harry Potter.

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If it is true that anybody has been influenced by my books to think that an owl would be happiest shut in a small cage and kept in a house, I would to take this opportunity to say as forcefully as I can: YOU ARE WRONG.
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The owls in the Harry Potter books, which deliver the mail by magical means, were never intended to portray the true behaviour or preferences of real owls. If your owl-mania seeks concrete expression, why not sponsor an owl at a bird sanctuary where you can visit your owl and know that you have secured him or her a happy, healthy life?
UPDATE: Jo has now edited the section concerning owls:

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In Britain there is a superstition that it is unlucky to see an owl by daylight, a superstition I had fun with in the first chapter of ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ where, of course, the sudden explosion of owls flying by daylight represented something very lucky indeed, though the Muggles did not know it.
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Poor Ron gets Pigwidgeon, who is a Scops (these are very small owls with ears – cute, but distinctly unshowy). Poor exhausted Errol is a Great Gray, which in my opinion is the most comical-looking owl in the world – just Google the Great Gray to see what I mean.
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Naturally I gave my hero what I consider to be the most beautiful owl of the lot: the Snowy Owl, which also goes by the name of Ghost Owl. These are not native to Britain, so I felt that she would give Harry kudos at Hogwarts (there is no other snowy owl there, as I trust you have noticed).
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Only after Philosopher’s Stone had been accepted for publication did I realise that Snowy Owls are diurnal. I think it was during the writing of ‘Chamber of Secrets’ that I discovered that Snowy Owls are also virtually silent, the females being even quieter than the males. So all of Hedwig's night-time jaunts and her many reproving hoots may be taken as signs of her great magical ability or my pitiful lack of research, whichever you prefer.
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Old 01-31-2005, 05:54 PM   #2 (permalink)
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thats why i'm not gonna buy it from the net. cant trust
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Old 01-31-2005, 05:56 PM   #3 (permalink)

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^ You can trust the net to buy the actual books, but not e-books, because as she said, they don't actually exist.
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Old 01-31-2005, 06:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I never buy ebooks anyway. I like her rubbish bin thing 'Dudley only needed two bedrooms.'
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Old 01-31-2005, 06:19 PM   #5 (permalink)
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^ Same with me, I always buy my stuff from a store not on the net. It somehow feels easier, incase there's any backorder type stuff. But whatever floats your boat!

Fifteen bedrooms? Whoa, I imagine that less than what Malfoy Manor has.
Good info!
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Old 01-31-2005, 06:22 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Amazon i trust Amazon if they fraud me well good luck on staying on the internet i'll sue them!!
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Old 01-31-2005, 06:34 PM   #7 (permalink)
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It's lovely how she's always warning us to prevent scam.
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Old 01-31-2005, 06:40 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I'm too excitable to wait for books online! Plus I'm stil antsy about online ordering all-together. As for the rubbish, 5 bedrooms sounds quite good enough for a family. Who has stuff to put in fifteen rooms?!? (aside from me )
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Old 01-31-2005, 06:57 PM   #9 (permalink)
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@ the bedrooms!

And nice to see that JK warns us too!
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Old 01-31-2005, 07:03 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Thats cool, i'd never buy anything like that online anyway. I'm even to scared too order off amazon , not because of the site it's the posting of it and it getting here that worries me!!
I liked her little "even dudley only required two bedrooms" i actually laughed out loud at that.
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Old 01-31-2005, 07:07 PM   #12 (permalink)
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lol, i think i'd rather read the book by holding it in my hands than looking at the screen though... i like her rubbish bin update!
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Fifteen bedrooms? Whoa, I imagine that less than what Malfoy Manor has.
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^She actualy says 15 devided by three which is 5
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^ Yeah, the whole 15 thing is in the rubbish bin, 'cause it's rubbish. I always knew Jo wouldn't be that frivilous with her money. Fair enough, have a nice home, but she's right, 5 bedrooms is more than adequate.
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Old 01-31-2005, 08:36 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Very kind to Jo Rowling to warn everyone personally (I don`t mean face-to-face)!
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Old 01-31-2005, 08:58 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Thanks for that Em, very cool! yay! go Jo!
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Old 01-31-2005, 09:35 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I loved her comment at the end, "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" Next thing you know, she'll warning us not to carry copies of the books in our back pockets ;-)

Quite possibly because trying to would leave us with battered books and broken pockets, judging by the size of them!
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Old 01-31-2005, 09:45 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Thats nice for her to warn us like that... lol at the bedroom thing!
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Hmm lots of juicy tidbits... LOL Ms. Rowling is brilliant!!
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That's brilliant to post about scammers since anyone really quite dedicated to her knows about her website.
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Old 01-31-2005, 10:06 PM   #21 (permalink)
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aww i love JK!she's ace, i love that she looks out for us and she sounds like shes pretty down to earth if shes only got 5 bedrooms in her house i would kill for 5 bedrooms, why does nothing ever fit back in drawers, cuboards, under the bed, wardrobes etc etc when you pull the stuff out???!! hehe
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lol!! cool! i think its nice of her..
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JK thanks alot .
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Aww bless Jo - you just gotta love her!
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Ooh fun!! *runs over to JK site*
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