Hi all,
    I was looking through my site stats yet again today(after a period of 2 days)… As usual, the Blogging India stats were between 650-750 visitors daily (a bit low since I hadnt posted for a couple of days). But the BlogForPeace stats which were usually at 900-1000 daily had spiked up to 3200!!! AND I hadnt posted for a while too!

    What was going on? It took me just a second to visit my “Referrers” page, and found a Czech blog was linking to Blog For Peace. I’m not fretting. It was a PR7 blog with an Alexa of 465… Why was such a high profile blog linking to me? I decided to check it out…

    I had to work hard to drown a groan! They had done an article about a leaked Harry Potter book(weeks after I’d said that the leak was false, and that it was a fan fiction), and they had read the article on Blogging India about the “leaked” version.

    If you remember, I had posted the file on the hosting account for BlogForPeace, and so the Czechies thought that it was actually posted on BlogForPeace, ignorant of the fact that I was the author of both the blogs, and that I had posted it on my other account since it was fatter with lots more bandwidth available.

    Thus, about 2500 visitors thronged BlogForPeace to see what it was all about, and spent hours searching for “leaked Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows” on the site search… Poor dudes…

    Apparently, the Czech blog also linked to Dr. Mike’s Steak Dinner blog who also felt a slight pinch -  a rise in visitor count by about 1200. He posted a post about how “Harry Potter was controlling” his blog. Thankfully, his blog was hosted by WordPress, and thus he didn’t have to feel the bandwidth pinch…

    Such incidents make you wonder why a renown blog does such articles without proper research. Dear reader, if you are a blogger, this is a lesson to be learnt. Never do an article without proper research, or else people might start cursing you for nothing…

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Hi all,
    There have been rumours that the much awaited book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, the 7th edition of the famed Harry Potter series, by J K Rowling, has been leaked 100 days before its release. I got a copy of this “leaked” book the very first day it was said to have leaked.

    Dont get me wrong. I dont think the book has been leaked. I read through the PDF file, and it seems like absolute rubbish to me. Anyway, I’m posting(scroll down a bit) it for download for anyone who might be interested…

    DISCLAIMER : This MAY or MAY NOT be the real edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I got this from an email forward, AND the language its been written with, and the plot, does not seem to be the “real Rowling stuff”. You may download it, and read it, but in no way do I say that this PDF is the real thing. In any case, I’m not responsible for any enquiries that may result from the publishing of this matter.

    DOWNLOAD THE LEAKED COPY OF THE HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS HERE
[Adobe Acrobat Reader required]

NOTE : It has been confirmed that this is NOT the leaked version, but is a fan fiction story by MelindaLeo. I apologize for the misconception. Click here for more info.

    Cheers, and dont take my word for it

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