HP Parties?
 

Okay, admit it. SOMEBODY here's going to be in one of those lines Friday night waiting for the stroke of midnight to buy Harry Potter #5.

...someone OTHER than me.

If anyone in the Chicago area wants to find me that night, PM me, I'll give you the location.

aaaaaaaaa.................... I'll see you when you get back. I have this thing about lines.







...... even lines I'd want to be in. ;)

Actually I'm going for the people I already plan on meeting there, and NOT for the book! I pre-ordered mine on amazon.com in April. ;)

Plus many bookstores are having in-store parties, giveaways, etc etc.

I still only enjoy crowds in my bedroom.

Must be a pretty spacious bedroom then.

I am not going at midnight, but I will go the next day to pick up the book.

Okay, just to be fair then I won't post spoilers when I'm done with it before you get yours ;)

My gf is going, which means I will be going.

OK.......now don't whack me upside the head or anything but......

I've NEVER read HP.........nor have I ever seen a single movie!

I have no clue what the books are about (cept some magic of some sort) because when the very first book came out I thought it was just for children and so I never followed the series (as I have no children) and now I fear I am too far behind to play catch up!

*covering my ears as everyone starts to yell at me for being in the dark on topical reading*

It's not too late Lixy. This way, you will have 5 to go through without waiting for them to come out one at a time. I started them after the first 4 were already released. I picked up the first 2 for some light reading for a vacation one year. When I started I never looked up until we got to the vacation city. Since then I have read them all at least twice and I am so ready for #5!

Whew! TY Scarlett! I saw that you had posted after me and I was kinda scared to come back in and see if you yelled at me for being so far behind on my reading! LOL!

*hugs*

We could even suggest waiting until all seven are out and she's all done with them, but no one knows how long that will be. She was doing 1 a year until after book 4 came out. She took time to have a hand in the first two movies (and the third is in production), got married, had a second kid with the new (younger!) husband, released two smaller books in early 2001 for charity....
But she's supposed to start on #6 this summer, after the hype for 5 starts to fade.

Re: HP Parties?
 

ME!!
I can't wait!! I preordered mine too...but I just wanta go cuz it seems fun.

Did you ever finish Desperation Lixy? TAK!

And I assume everyone heard about the stolen copies:

Thousands of Latest Harry Potter Books Stolen
Jun 17, 11:21 am ET

By F. Brinley Bruton

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of copies of the eagerly awaited new Harry Potter book were stolen from a warehouse in England over the weekend, police said on Tuesday.

The 7,680 copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth in JK Rowling's series on the boy wizard, were taken in a late-night heist on Merseyside in northern England on Sunday.

Police said they were checking a white articulated trailer truck found about 20 miles from the warehouse for forensic evidence.

They cautioned would-be readers not to touch the books, before their public release early on Saturday.

"We want to warn members of the public that if they handle the book between now and Saturday in any way other than legitimately, they may face criminal charges," a spokeswoman said.

Rowling's four books, the first of which she wrote as a penniless single mother in Edinburgh, have sold almost 200 million copies in 55 languages.

Police previously thought the haul was worth about one million pounds ($1.7 million), but later reduced that to around 130,500 pounds.

Bookmakers William Hill, meanwhile, leapt ahead and took a bet on future plot twists in the seventh and last installment in the series.

"Once we were sure that it wasn't JK Rowling trying to place the bet, we were happy to oblige," said a spokesman. "After all, we are, er, bookmakers."