Despite intense international security, the entire text of ‘‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’’ has been leaked on the Internet, four days before its official release at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

Photographs of what appears to be every page of the 784-page book were posted Tuesday on several file-sharing sites and then posted openly as photos on Internet pages. In the photos, the book is held open on a carpet with one hand. Some of the text is blurry, but most of it —including the ending and the fate of the main character — is clearly legible.

Tuesday’s events underscore the intense anticipation that has been building toward the seventh and final novel in J.K. Rowling’s huge-selling series about the boy from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Fans have been speculating for years about how it will all end: Does Harry live or die?
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