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sapote ([personal profile] sapote) wrote2007-07-21 06:47 pm

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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?

[identity profile] chibimuse.livejournal.com 2007-07-22 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] sapote3.livejournal.com 2007-07-22 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
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.