Calling all adults with too much spare time on their hands! Don't you just hate it when you've dropped the kids off at day camp, set the VCR to record your daytime soaps, and rushed down to the street to the local Salem, Oregon library (to check out the final gripping installment of a children's book series) only to discover, to your complete and absolute horror, that it's missing pages 371 to 402?

Well, that's exactly what happened to "a major Harry Potter fan," Oregonian Barbara Klein. Fortunately, the publishing company (Scholastic) was quick to offer up its sincerest (and heartfelt) apologies.

"Printing and distributing 12 million copies of a book is a Herculean task," sniffed Scholastic. "And it is not surprising that some books would have printing errors."

Geez, Scholastic, if you were gonna get all snarky and self-righteous about it, you could have at least said something more clever, like, "Sorry, those pages are for non-muggle eyes only" or "Oops, Harry must have accidentally sat on pages 371-402 with his invisibility cloak!"

Guess we can think of someone who would have been assigned to "Slytherin House" by the ubiquitous Sorting Hat.