Never tell me the odds

[matgb]

William Hill has a set of odds for entertainment related stuff for next year. Some of them are suitably daft. This link may work (if not go to their homepage, on the left click specials/tv then entertainment) (via-sort of):

Lord Voldermort Revealed To Be The Killer Of Harry Potter : 5/1
Prince William To Have A State Wedding : 6/1
Beatles To Have A No. 1 Single : 10/1
Dumbledore To Be Brought Back To Life In Final Harry Potter Book : 10/1
Harry Potter - Ron & Hermoine To Marry : 10/1
Daniel Craig To Win Best Actor Oscar : 25/1
Lembit Opik And Cheeky Girls To Have A Number 1 : 66/1
Proof That The 1969 Lunar Landings Never Happened : 250/1
Queen To Abdicate : 10/1

Note that on the full list, the Queen to abdicate thing is at the bottom, way after the Loch Ness monster and Kate Moss silliness, but has significantly shorter odds. Also note that Harry Potter gets as many entries as Posh and Becks.

Can one of the Harry Potter experts out there confirm: I thought the whole point of the ghosts thing is that death is just another state of being? Ergo he's not going to come back to life, but is going to be a character in the book? Bet someone'll be conned into putting money down anyway, and then whinge about their own stupidity afterwards...

Also? The Sun says Tennant to leave Dr Who. The BBC denies it. Given Tennant is the biggest fanboy ever, I'll go with the Beeb version for now (via). Right, 2am. Time to go to bed. I have Torchwood DVDs to (re)watch.

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[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Lord Voldermort Revealed To Be The Killer Of Harry Potter : 5/1
Dumbledore To Be Brought Back To Life In Final Harry Potter Book : 10/1
Harry Potter - Ron & Hermoine To Marry : 10/1

Who's to say that JK Rowling hasn't got a little team of runners going round every single William Hill's in Edinburgh regarding betting on every single dénouement of what may or may not happen in Harry Potter And The Deadly Marshmallows?

On a similar note, rumour has it that Harold Wilson won thousands of pounds off Hill's in 1970 with multiple bets on which date he was going to call a General Election.

[matgb]

Isn't there some "thou shalt not bet on stuff you can influence" anti fraud thing in standard T&Cs?

I mean, I'd do that as well, but the bookies should be able to notice. I like with the death thing that the bet is on who kills him, not on if he dies. Which is nice.

[eldar.livejournal.com]

Maybe she has. The odds have come in from 5/1 to 5/2 since the post. Or is it just astute LJers getting in on the action?