I have yet to look over my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, but I'm not so sure I would return it if pages turned up missing.

Apparently, Harry Potter fans have found pages missing.  Some have exchanged their copies and others have decided to keep their incomplete publications as a piece of history.

Officials at Scholastic said that with such a massive printing — 8.3 million copies of the final installment of J.K. Rowling's fantasy series sold in the first 24 hours — a handful of problems was probably unavoidable.

"Printing and distributing 12 million copies of a book is a Herculean task, and it is not surprising that some books would have printing errors," Scholastic spokeswoman Sara Sinek said in a statement.

She said that as of Tuesday, the company had only heard of "a few hundred" instances of books with missing pages.

Sinek said Scholastic is happy to replace any book with a defect and advised customers to take defective books back to the place where they were purchased.