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[sapote]

Book opening! HP party!

First, it should be recorded that 1) We were at the bookstore until 1 a.m. 2) I was the only girl in my group not in a Hogwarts uniform, though they did let me hold the stuffed owl 3) There were multiple points at which people in the line were threatening to spoiler me and I blurted "You spoil me, I #@$!ing kill you" and then realized I had just cursed at a children's book event. Oops.

There was an incredibly convincing Moody, eye and all, and a Snape and an Umbridge and a passel of small children in wizard hats and taped glasses who made me curse my lack of foresight, because dammit, if I had reproduced five years ago I would have had a literate child by now. And I would have stuffed that poor child into a Harry Potter costume and made them go to the book store at midnight, because I would have found it ungodly cute.

Second, it should be recorded that we - me and the soon-to-be-only roommate and her friends - read the first 222 pages of Harry Potter aloud, in a treehouse, while eating cupcakes and potato chips. It took about seven hours, and it was brilliant.


By the way, apparently I really am moving tomorrow, so I'm predicting that I'll be offline a fair amount. This will provide a good opportunity for the Potter to settle in my system?

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[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

We got out at around 1 too, immediately started reading and continued until 3 in the morning. Then we slept until 9:45 and read from then on. I finished at 5:45-ish. I agree, it was brilliant... the shock of being done still hasn't worn off.

I kindly told a drunken man in the chapters that if he tried to spoil me I would punch him in the face. Hey, he threatened my spoiler bubble!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

We are now on page 360 or so - I'm glad we're doing a lot of it aloud, because there were points when I was reading alone and went HOLY CRAP I can't handle this and had to stop and wait for the group.

This is the potterdammerrung

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

So there were ten of us. This is important to note because my friend MB made a Hogwarts replica out of cake and gingerbread. (Seriously. So awesome) And it was so big that we had to try and force it on random strangers. It was too much cake for ten people. I can't even talk about the book right now, except to say that I think that Joss Whedon would be the perfect director for the film version. Think about it.

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[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Aw MB, the internet thinks you're awesome. Do you have pictures? Is someone going to post them where we can see them?

We had cauldron cakes and cockroach clusters and pumpkin pasties and "meat pies", though the meat pies were not very British as they were soysage wrapped in phyllo dough.

When I am done I will speculate but (page 370) I am still busy clutching my head and going OMG.

I will also note that my rm, who I am liking a lot today, called the Harry Potter reading to order by tapping her wand on the floor of the treehouse and saying, aloud, OMGWTFBBQHP.

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[phnelt.livejournal.com]

There are pictures and I WILL get them posted somewhere. That sounds like awesome food items (especially the meat pies. I mean, I like them (probably more than I should since they are cardiac arrest wrapped in delicious pastry) but the phyllo and soysage sound great).

I will refrain about talking about the book until you are done, but man, it's the last one. I'm kind of broken on that alone.

Re: This is the potterdammerrung

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

(this is how the world ends. this is how the world ends. this is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with billions of fangirls whimpering)

I am now all the way to the chapter entitled Deathly Hallows. ARGH BOOK I LOVEHATE YOU.

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[phnelt.livejournal.com]

This is kind of hilarious, because it's the internet equivalent of the page check system I was doing with all of my friends. Someone would gasp, and then we'd look at them quizzically and then they'd say, pg. 54, or whatever, and then there would be wordless commiseration (because of course not everyone is there). Deathly Hallows Chapter ftw of unbelievable proportions.