You Couldn’t Wait One More Month?

The Harry Potter craze is apparently causing a rise in one of the more traditional ‘black arts’: stealing. Author J.K. Rowling has been fighting court battles worldwide to stop unauthorized installments in the series from being published, and now it appears that someone is attempting to get their hands on the latest ‘legit’ Potter adventure a bit early. “Two copies of the forthcoming novel by JK Rowling were found in a field earlier this week – a quarter of a mile from where they were being printed. Two 16-year-old boys, an 18-year-old man, and a 44-year-old man, were arrested in connection with the theft of the books from a printworks, and on suspicion of obtaining property by deception.”