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[leelastarsky]

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WTF is going on in HP fandom? So many sites are doing this ? thing and saying 'something is coming.'


And the Leaky's forums just went down! *is deeply suspicious*


Should we be excited?

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[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/MTarchives/007005.html

Apparently not o_O

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that's a red herring. So many sites are involved and the ? all link back to fellow HP sites. They're deliberately teasing us with riddles.

And the bigwigs over at the Leaky forums (before they went down) certainly didn't sound like they were upset or tearing their hair out like they would if they'd really been hacked.

[lissannej.livejournal.com]

I think you're right -- if you click on the link of the newspaper under Hedwig, you get flipped to a page that has "Something's Coming" with floating question marks... I wonder why hackers would bother, really, throwing question marks across different sites.

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

Aparently this started on Friday night (US time) and has been spreading through the various HP sites since.

Just checked the forums over at HPANA and there was some sort of riddle involved which they've worked out a time which falls due in about 20 mins. So I ain't going to bed yet! ;~P

[lissannej.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I shall stay up myself :D

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

Ok, the 20min time passed and this aparently is the timetable - (from the HPANA forums)

Posted May 16, 2005 10:37 AM ET

Okay...let me clear up what I think are the times. Seeing as how I started all this time mess.

5:00pm for Central time USA
6:00pm for Eastern time USA
4:00pm for Mountain time USA
3:00pm for Pacific time USA

11:00pm for UK
8:00am for Australia (Queensland area)

I am basing this on the time the post about the 16th hour was made which was 1:01am my time (Central USA) Which would make it 5pm

Which means, if I am correct, it should be a little under 7 and a half hours away...7 hours and 24 minutes to be exact.
Updated May 16, 2005 at 10:38 AM by Crystal_Gazer21

So maybe we won't see anything till 8am...

[lissannej.livejournal.com]

Leaky just posted to say that we need to follow Peeves's trail -- but where? Where is Peeves? ARGH!

Follow the trail of rascal Peeves and you will find the answer

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw! How the hell do we follow Peeves???? *flails*

[jennycarolyn.livejournal.com]

Maybe on JK's website is where we're meant to follow Peeves?

*head desk* I want July 16th, just so all these riddles will stop, they make my head ache.

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

I checked her site - the DND sign is still on the door and there certainly weren't any foreign ?s.

I SO need to go to bed!! *is too intregued and excited*

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

OOH! And once you're on that page, there's a hidden link under the words "something's coming" that take you to a second page, where the floating question marks occasionally turn into bubbles that say PP on them, and there's a thing that says "Where will you be?" with an image occasionally appearing under it - a blue wrapped bon-bon style lolly, I think, with a lightningbolt P on it.

THE PLOT THICKENS!

[lissannej.livejournal.com]

I'd say new HP merchandise -- Leaky says "Something's coming to your favourite store" :D

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

Aww. I hope it is not disappointing...

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

Some folks are suggesting that the 'PP' might stand for Paragraph Preview.

That would be exciting! :~)

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

:-o How mysterious! What are the other sites that have been "hacked?" What do the ??s etc. look like?