-Harry's World-
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So it's finally here. The 6th book in the Harry Potter Series finally made its way into our town and caused quite a fuss upon its arrival if you don't mind me saying so. John and I headed over to the Barnes & Noble bash last night to get a copy of the book during the midnight release. Overall, it would have been much easier to wait until today to purchase the book. But I wanted to see little children dressed up in Hogwarts gear and be around the excitement of painted faces and waving wands. Though the "party" wasn't much of one by the time we headed over, it was cool to see soo many people (well over a thousand) excited about reading. Little kids were making wands and talking about their favorite characters. Tons of people where dressed in House uniforms and robes. There was even an older man (40's/50's?) who was dressed in complete Dumbledore gear. John and I agreed that our favorite costumes were the Quidditch uniforms. I had a brief conversation with a lady in her early 40's who declared that she was getting much too old for this. Of course she said this as she was grabbing Harry glasses out of a box and putting a Harry sticker on her overall shorts. It made me smile. I wish John and I would have remembered to bring our camera so unfortunately I don't have any cool pictures to share. Except for this:
Not very Harry like but I still tried. As far as the events of the night, most of it was spent waiting for midnight. Earlier in the evening they had cookies and drinks and craft tables for the kids. Once midnight struck people cheered and the line (according to bracelet color and number) began to form for book purchase. While you waited for your bracelet color and number to be called, they had a reading of the book in the children's section that you could listen to. We really didn't have to wait long before our time came to get in line. That was nice.
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As I stated earlier, there wasn't much to the night. My personal opinion is that B&N could have done a little more partying. Maybe a costume contest or getting permission to show the first 3 movies. Next book I think we will skip the fanfare like we have every other time. But it is cool to say that we were there.
shawanda
4:12 PM
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