INVESTIGATORS BEGINNING TO SUSPECT CLAUDINE GAY’S NOVEL ‘LARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S ROCK’ MAY HAVE BEEN PLAGIARIZED

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Harvard President Claudine Gay is facing new plagiarism allegations, following accusations earlier this week that she had plagiarized portions of her 1997 Ph.D. dissertation and three other published works. Investigators now suspect Gay’s novel Larry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Rock may have also been plagiarized.

“To the layperson’s eye, Larry Potter may just seem like an original book about a boy with a scar on his cheek who is whisked away to Dogwarts School for Warlocks,” said lead investigator Pam Smithers, “But subtle clues suggest she may have taken some ideas from another, yet-to-be-disclosed author.”

In response to allegations of plagiarism, President Gay issued the following statement, “The beloved characters Larry Potter, Donald Measley, and Hermanette Goonger came from my own, brilliant, black, and gay mind. Additionally, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

At publishing time, investigators had stumbled upon a new discovery during a routine search of Gay’s home: a copy of the Bible having the cover inscribed with “by Claudine Gay.”