I’d heard there’s a supposed Book 7 spoiler out, so I peeked. I’d have to say I don’t believe it due to the internal evidence – that is, the alleged spoiler is far to lame to be anything JKR could have written. I have no idea if the hacker may got the deaths right or if he was totally off base, but even if he’s right but I don’t believe they happen as described. (I was going to post the last few words, which in my opinion are not spoilers, to show how lame they are. However, they do show something about the general results of the plot. I think it’s something that should be obvious to all readers, but some people’s definition of ‘spoiler’ is much stricter than mine, so I will leave it out – it was actually fairly difficcult even to write this note with no hint of spoilage at all.)
Supposedly the motivation for the spoiler was ” to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring,” because the Pope said (in his pre-Papal days) that “Harry Potter brings the youth of today to neo-paganism”. Well, for that to work a fake spoiler would do as well as a real one. Funny, though; to find a real spoiler the hacker would have had to read Book 7. To create a fake one, the hacker would need to read much more of the series to become familiar with the characters and plot devices. Apparently Harry Potter only corrupts other people?