Simultaneous Worldwide Publication?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 85374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "olivierfouquet2000" 
<olivier.fouquet+harry at m...> wrote:
 
> 
> I know many HP fans who speak only French and can attest that none 
of them have 
> found out about Sirius's death, or Umbridge, or anything about 
l'Ordre du Phénix, as they call it. They all wait patiently for 
December the 5th. To the most obsessed of them, I even lent OoP in 
English and she refused to read it because she thought she could not 
really appreciate it. So I would be very surprised if she found out 
anything 
> about book 7 beforehand.
> 
> All the best, 
> 
> Olivier

Than you were really lucky. Here in Germany, it was printed in 
the "Bild", a "newspaper", which you can compare to the Sun. They got 
a few facts wrong (probably they wanted to post the spoilers as soon 
as possible). For example they said, that Voldemort would die, too, 
in a duel with Voldemort, which was obviously not quite true. 
Nonetheless, I knew a few people who read it and were spoiled after 
this, without wanting it. And they were angry.

Hickengruendler