Archive for Friday, May 27, 2005
He dies? What are the odds?
An Internet betting site temporarily suspended activity on its Harry Potter page this week amid worries that there had been a leak from someone who had read “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and knew which prominent character would be killed, BBC News reported. The supposedly doomed: Professor Dumbledore, headmaster at Hogwarts.
The Blue Square site (bluesq.com) subsequently reopened betting after J.K. Rowling’s publisher suggested that fans take rumors “with a pinch of salt,” the BBC said. Still, the site now lists the odds of Professor Dumbledore dying in the book, which is due out in July, at 1/5, meaning that if a person bet $5 and were right, he’d win $1. By contrast, he could bet $1 on professors McGonagall or Snape and win $7 if proven correct.
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