A hacker who goes by the name ‘Gabriel’ is telling the online community he broke into Bloomsbury’s computer system and got key plot details of the final book in the J.K. Rowling series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

He does this to make the ‘reading of the upcoming book useless and boring.’

Kyle Good, a spokesman for US distributor Scholastic Corp., would not say whether the posting was accurate, but did warn readers to be skeptical about anything on the web that claims to have inside information on the book’s plot.

“There is a whole lot of junk flying around,” she said. “Consider this one more theory.”

David Perry, a spokesman for computer security company Trend Micro, said there was a good chance Gabriel’s claim could be a hoax.

“We’ve had hypes like this on the last couple of Harry Potter books,” he said. “There is a very high level of spurious information in the hacker world.”

The last book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, wasstolen a month before release in 2005, when the two theifs were caught trying to sell it to a British newspaper.

I can’t actually find out what the spoiler was, despite looking far and wide. I think this has been removed from the forum as fast as possible, given that Bloomsbury Publishing has 12 million copies to go out in a month. Apparently two key characters are killed, including Harry Potter himself.

To read the spoilers, highlight the text below:
There has been a lot of speculation about Harry’s death, one bookmaker is certain that Harry is going to die – he has actually changed his betting from ‘will Harry die?’ to ‘who will be his killer?’ Daniel Radcliffe wants him dead too.

Personally, I don’t think Harry will be killed. It’s a children’s book, you don’t kill the hero! I also don’t think that the homosexual fan fiction will be in the final novel either. Did that start after he was nude on stage in Equus?

The new movie is out in July too, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Knowing the ending to the films hasn’t stopped people from seeing them, so Gabriel might need to try a little harder to stop people reading.