Making its way around the web is some news shaking up the Potter community. Heres what one site had to say:
This is London is reporting that "a betting website has been inundated with bets on the death of [a character in the book] - all from the town where the book is being printed," causing betters to think that a copy of the manuscript of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has leaked, despite the extremely high security at the printing plants.
Ed Pownall, of the internet betting site Blue Square told The Sun: "We have taken nearly £6,000 worth of bets on [the character] in the past seven days. All have been played in Bungay [a printing town] or nearby Beccles. A lot of punters have opened new accounts and placed a maximum bet of £50 each on what is an obscure market. That made us sit up and take note."
And Warren Lush of Ladbrokes said: "We weren't foolish enough to take the bets. There are obviously people out there who have read the manuscripts."
The complete article can be read here(
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/18829632?source=Evening%20Standard#). Although it's always possible that a copy of the manuscript has leaked, take this report with a grain of salt, as it seems to have originated from The Sun (a British tabloid newspaper).
