its_a_fake: The biggest proof that it can't be fake.

nott5 (

nott5) wrote in

its_a_fake,
@ 2007-07-18 03:57:00

The biggest proof that it can't be fake.
The US version of DH is supposed to have 784 pages.
The leaked (carpet) US version of DH has 759 pages plus 25 pages of blank pages, title page, table of contents, etc.
It is not just unlikely, but virtually impossible to write a fanfic thats the exact same length of the actual book along with eerily realistic artwork for each chapter and perfect formatting that matches every US edition of the previous books.

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	purpleplague 2007-07-18 08:07 am UTC (link)
	A-freaking-men. (Reply to this)

	ora_sama 2007-07-18 08:08 am UTC (link)
	That's why it's a hoax by Rowling or the publishers, d'uh. Next please. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	just_discover 2007-07-18 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	Hahaha exactly XD (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rainforestelf21 2007-07-18 08:09 am UTC (link)
	All you need to do is browse the 40+ entries in this community and you'll see that the page numbers are a minor detail when you look at the blatant out of character dialog, the grammatical errors, and the horrible cover, that you'll realize that the evidence pointing to this "leak" being a fake, is really quite logical in proving that it is indeed, a hoax. (Reply to this)

	meamcat 2007-07-18 08:09 am UTC (link)
	plus 25 pages of blank pages, title page, table of contents, etc. WAIT WAIT WAIT aren't the table of contents and shit included in the carpet leak? Also, 25 pages? Seems like a lot of blanks. I donno; maybe I'm lol ignorant as to how the books are designed. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	smartmilk 2007-07-18 08:11 am UTC (link)
	25 blank page would be a total waste of paper! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	ora_sama 2007-07-18 08:15 am UTC (link)
	Isn't the fact there are 25 pages of blank paper proof enough of it being a fake? There usually isn't that much blank paper, right? And since we've known the page count for ages, if it wasn't some big hoax by Jo (and instead a joke by some group of fans), wouldn't it be easy for them to add a bunch of extra blank pages, so that the numbers matched up? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jaeislemonpie 2007-07-18 08:15 am UTC (link)
	there are only 6 blank pages in the carpet version. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	meamcat 2007-07-18 08:17 am UTC (link)
	Ah. Okay, thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	petit_tresor 2007-07-18 08:12 am UTC (link)
	Perfect formatting? Pfft. Yeah, right. Since when does Rowling include poems/excerpts from other works after the table of contents? Plus that lightning bolt dedication is just a little to cheesed-out for me. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	alovelyfailure 2007-07-18 08:18 am UTC (link)
	i read something from a scholastic employee who said he had read a copy of the book, and he said that there would be a poem in the prologue. THIS WAS BACK IN APRIL. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	petit_tresor 2007-07-18 08:31 am UTC (link)
	You mean the Scholastic employee who did that chat or whatever where he gave out "spoilers"? Because he was revealed to be a fake, so.... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jaeislemonpie 2007-07-18 08:12 am UTC (link)
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2092661.stm who says they can't just get better with time? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jaeislemonpie 2007-07-18 08:14 am UTC (link)
	and there are only six blanks in the leaked version... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	nott5 2007-07-18 08:15 am UTC (link)
	Nah, there are exactly the amount required. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	petit_tresor 2007-07-18 08:14 am UTC (link)
	OMG ILU. SRSLY. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jaeislemonpie 2007-07-18 08:23 am UTC (link)
	They act like people have lives and wouldn't do something crazy like this. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	meamcat 2007-07-18 08:23 am UTC (link)
	Aw, thanks for bringing back that great memory. Brought tears to my eyes! :D (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jaeislemonpie 2007-07-18 08:27 am UTC (link)
	:D And this will be an even greater memory. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	aoi_no_neko 2007-07-18 08:13 am UTC (link)
	omg, so I write this epic long fan fic and then see in the info regarding the new book that it has to be x number of pages, so I write a bit more and stick in enough blank ones to make it match up and voila! It's the real thing! You got to be kidding. This is the proof? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aoi_no_neko 2007-07-18 08:22 am UTC (link)
	Yup, and I imagine the "author" will out themselves after the book release thinking how cool they were to pull this stunt. Hey, it's the most read fan fic ever. No comment on what the reaction will be. At least I learned from all this that Kinko does book binding. Now that is cool. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	wish_meluck 2007-07-18 08:20 am UTC (link)
	-sigh- I'm going to believe it's a fake until the book comes out. So it's not like what you say will change my opinion. But I'm a conspiracy theroist. And anyways, I know of plenty of fanfics written past the length of OOTP. Not impossible. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lovergirl933 2007-07-18 08:21 am UTC (link)
	I completely agree. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ora_sama 2007-07-18 08:29 am UTC (link)
	I know entire series rewrites that are longer and were written faster than Jo's stuff. Maybe I am just in denial, but writing a fake really doesn't seem that impossible to me :/ (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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