Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows comes out in a matter of weeks, which is bad news for people who like to move around without gits who think they can walk and read at the same time clattering into you, but better news for others.
That group of 'others' is mainly made up of people who work at Bloomsbury, the British publishers of the Harry Potter books. Bloomsbury today announced that advance orders for Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows are up by a staggering 17% compared to pre-orders on the previous Harry Potter book, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Although Bloomsbury didn't care to place a figure on the amount of advance orders it had received for Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, in real terms it means that you'll be able to annoy 17% more people by running into bookshops and quoting that hacker who claims that Hermione dies at the end of the book.
Oh yeah. Spoiler alert.
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