ADMIN: AOL snippet of OOP (NO SPOILERS in this ADMIN)

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 60186

Pippy Elf wrote, for the Administration team:
<snip previous>
The snippet of Book Five has now been restored to AOL and 
Amazon.com.

However, there is still a legal injunction banning any publication 
of Book V before midnight BST June 21 2003.

Listmembers are reminded that transcribing or quoting any part of 
Book V on this board could be legally defined as publication. 
Therefore, all posts quoting the text of this snippet have been 
deleted by the Administration Team. Any further posts quoting parts 
of this snippet will also be deleted.

Our legal understanding is that you are allowed to discuss the 
snippet, providing you can work out how to do so without quoting 
even one word from it.
<snip rest>

Tom asks several questions:

One, are you referring to the spoiler information with text-citations 
that appeared in the Scholastic Catalogue?

Two, is it allowed to quote from citations that, as in the above 
example, Scholastic (or Bloomsbury) have provided previously?

Three, is it allowed to post the *link* to this new and exciting 
spoiler on-list?

Four, if so, could you post it? :) 

I do understand if "The HPfGU Administration Team" cannot post it for 
legal reasons. <wink, wink> But, hey, we're all individual members 
here, too, right guys? Surely there's a distinction between what a 
member posts and what the 'Admin team' posts, right guys?

<laughs nervously at dead silence> 

Right? Guys?

<echo: guys, guys, guys, guys...>

<A solitary tumbleweed rolls across the screen.>

Hello?

Enough of this! Who's got the goods? Cough 'em up! ;-)

-Tom, who at this point is simply an addict craving his fix, and who 
isn¡¦t worried in the slightest that the spoiler will ruin the story 
for him.