“Two men were arrested after shots were fired in a terrifying gunfire incident after a Sun reporter went to meet two men selling a stolen copy of the long-awaited new Harry Potter novel,” reports Claire Cozens in a Guardian story. She writes that “Veteran reporter John Askill was chased by two armed men after he tried to snatch the book without handing over any money in a classic sting operation.” The report does not name the suspects, nor does it say how copies were obtained, but it does note that: “40 guards backed by CCTV cameras have been brought in to scan production lines at a secret Potter plant in old East Germany. Staff are scrutinised on the way in and out of the printing works, with mobile phones and recording devices also banned to prevent the contents of the book being read out or photographed. The book is also said to have been produced in separate chunks to stop workers leaking the plot before its official release.”