Some guy was talking last night how he wanted to know the end of HP so he could send it around in an email to the work folk the next day, with some kind of misleading headline. Why would you want to do something crappy like that?
In the WSJ article last week about the early shipments and the leaked internet version of HP&DH, Melissa Anelli (who runs The Leaky Cauldron) said, "I can't believe the intensity of some people's desire to ruin it for other people." The Washington Post reported:"People have been e-mailing us Xeroxed pages of the book all day," says Emerson Spartz, who founded the popular fan Web site Mugglenet.com. "Whoever happens to be opening the e-mail at that time takes a bullet for the team. We read it to make sure it's real, then pass the pages on to Scholastic so they can sic their [expletive] lawyers onto the offenders." Spartz says that though some forwarded messages have been artfully crafted fakes, the Xeroxed pages "had J.K. all over them." [from here] Sometimes people can really, really suck.
And yeah, it's not healthy for us to be around people or other things that encourage such negativity - and in the end, it's true, we do have the power to control what we expose ourselves to. I certainly do.
In the WSJ article last week about the early shipments and the leaked internet version of HP&DH, Melissa Anelli (who runs The
Leaky Cauldron) said, "I can't believe the intensity of some people's desire to ruin it for other people." The Washington Post reported:"People have been e-mailing us Xeroxed pages of the book all day," says Emerson Spartz, who founded the popular fan Web site Mugglenet.com. "Whoever happens to be opening the e-mail at that time takes a bullet for the team. We read it to make sure it's real, then pass the pages on to Scholastic so they can sic their [expletive] lawyers onto the offenders." Spartz says that though some forwarded messages have been artfully crafted fakes, the Xeroxed pages "had J.K. all over them." [from here]
Sometimes people can really, really suck.
And yeah, it's not healthy for us to be around people or other things that encourage such negativity - and in the end, it's true, we do have the power to control what we expose ourselves to. I certainly do.
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