So I was a very naughty girl today and looked up the rogue reveiws of the 7th book. I know, I know, I shouldn't have...but I'm also one of these people who like to look at the last pages of a book before I buy it to see if I'll enjoy the ending--after all the point of a trip isn't just the destination, its the route it took to get there!
So I checked out the Boston Sun....they had a video interveiw with their reveiwer but no actual review. Then I went to the New York TImes....
They said just enough to make wonder where the Times' head was at...true they didn't give away the ending, true some of what they said we already knew was coming (such as when JK said we hadn't heard the last about the Chamber of Secrets)....but they revealed enough of other info about who lives/who dies that it makes you wonder what their true motivation was.
Mega-Papers, such as the Times, have been used to publishers bending over backwards to get them early copies of books for review....all except the HP series....so the question was when the Times heard the boo-boo made by the book warehouse (which I think needs some investigating to see who was on that mailing list--can we say "Payola") how quickly did they jump on the phones to track down a copy?
The Boston Sun fully admits that a relative of a reporter received one of the early copies on Tuesday morning (when he "just happened" to be home from work) and immediately called the reporter saying he had the book. The Sun "worked it out" so that they could get the book for a review and had it in their hot-little-hands by 3pm that afternoon.
Now, if YOU had gotten the book early....wouldn't YOU have read it first BEFORE calling a newspaper to get it? I highly doubt that one would give it up first and then read it later....unless they had multiple copies, but the story didn't say anything about that bit.
I'm telling you....Scholastic really needs to press this matter....it just sticks like yesterday's hippogriff fodder! Here's my theory...and its just a theory (like I would have any proof):
Someone paid the warehouse enough money to where it "accidentally" shipped the books before the movie release (I could have my weeks wrong here) but close enough to the publishing date so that it could be seen as a plausable misunderstanding. So a small number of books from an obscure bookseller went out....the very bookseller who just happened to have been used by some distant/obscure relative of a reporter at a newspaper....who just happened to have the day off when the accidentally shipped book was going to arrive....who just happened to have had the reports phone number near his phone....who worked at a newspaper who just happened to have a reporter sitting there waiting for something to fall into their lap....who just happened to be free enough to run all the way out to this person's house and get it within a few hours of hearing about the aforementioned book (okay that one's sketchy, afterall last minute stories is normal for newspapers)....but who also just happens to be able to negotiate a deal, read the book and get it all into the presses before the next days paper.
Does this seem plausible to you??? I could see a few of the latter stuff happening but the stuff at the beginning with the warehouse? No that took inpecible timing! its just too much of a coincidence to be true in my mind.
Now if you will excuse me....I need to report to Professor Snape....I feel a need for some private detention Oh My!
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