Waiting for Harry

[prillalar]

Four more sleeps! I think the hardest part of the wait will be on Friday when I plan to go offline and stay offline, including email, until I've got my book and read it through.

My plan is to get up on Saturday, pre-6 AM, then go into the store with my bookstore worker SO and get my copy. Then, it's coffee before noon, Guinness after noon, and reading, reading, reading until I'm done.

I'm not going to anything that necessitates a costume, but if I were, and I could easily get any HP costume, I would dress up as Neville's grandmother. Green dress, red handbag, fox-fur (faux) scarf, and tall hat with a stuffed vulture on top. That would be properly imposing and witchy.

What's your schedule? And your costume, real or imagined?

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[zortified.livejournal.com]

I have no schedule, because I don't know when the post office will deliver my book. I ordered it from across the sea, so that I have a real version and not an "edited for US morons who can't understand british english" version.

But when it arrives, I anticipate much nothing-else-happening. :-)

[prillalar]

Here in Canada, we get the correct version, so no worries there. :)

I've never understood why they edit the books like that. I think they're really underestimating their readers.

[evilprettykitty.livejournal.com]

Actually, they don't edit them anymore. They first one had major changes, and the second and third some minor stuff, but 4 and 5 are the same where ever they are printed in English. Even in 2 and 3 you have to look very hard to find any differences.

[zortified.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, if they want to do simultaneous release they can't muck about re-editing.

Next time, I can order locally! (Of course, next time my goal is to be fluent enough in spanish that I read it in spanish first, before in english.)

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Grrr arrgh Friday night :).

It wasn't until *after* I'd canceled my Amazon preorder that I'd learned that American Express knows all about Flatbush and the need to sign for deliveries themselves on Saturdays in that neighborhood, and by that time, I'd reserved my copy at a brick and mortar Barnes and Noble.

It doesn't matter for me. I'll avoid spoilers until I can pick it up Sunday or Monday after work, and probably spend that night devouring it. I mean. I'm a grownup.

I'm mildly annoyed that there are a *lot* of kids where I live who adore Harry Potter but because they *had* to have all the parties on Friday night, are not able to go, and somehow, going to one on Saturday night if there were a bookstore that would do so would be anticlimatic. On the other hand, they're all used to that anyway.

[semielliptical]

I love the idea of dressing up as Neville's grandmother! Maybe you'll do it some other time?

My plans are sadly very well thought-out: Housecleaning Friday night, both as distraction and so I have a more pleasant atmosphere for reading. Maybe I'll also make some fun snacks for Saturday.

Hit the bookstore around 9am, unless I can convince my husband to go for me. I hate crowds and lines, and I'm not looking forward to driving home with the big distracting book sitting beside me.

Reading all day Saturday, with a short break to deliver a copy of the book to my sister. I would prefer to spread the reading out over two days, but I have some committments on Sunday, so I'll see if I can get it done on Saturday without rushing. My main reading goal is to be alone when I'm reading the last few chapters - I really hate interruptions at the end of a book.

My imaginary costume - Winky the house-elf. Big red clown nose, dirty clothes, and a (butter)beer in hand!

[prillalar]

Hee! I love your Winky costume! And I'm sure that would be easier to put together than a hat with a vulture on it. *g*

[neeteeus.livejournal.com]

My mom and I are going to the one major bookstore in our town (Chapters made their way into Thunder Bay a few years ago, and killed all the competition...sigh) with scars on our foreheads, and we're going to participate in all the 'kid activities' they've got set up.

When she bought her coffee last week they asked her if she knew any kids who'd want to be part of the games. So she called me and made sure I could drive in. Yay!

Wild About Harry

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

My roommates whatssnoo, esorlehcar and I have all ordered the book to arrive on Saturday. We will wait on the front porch, watching for the FedEx truck, and then we will unplug the phones and turn off the computers and order pizza and read. Until we're done.

Wooo hooo!

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

I'll be buying the book at 12:01 at a store *miles* from my house (because we live in the one county on the east coast that still has archaic blue laws which forbid most stores to conduct business on Sundays or after 11:00 p.m. at night).

Then? Reading all night and posting cryptic little cut-tagged comments for the rest of the weekend. Or like, you know, sleeping. *g*

[silveraspen]

vivien529 and I are going to the presale party/celebration at the great local indie bookstore in town, there to purchase copies at midnight and then home to read read read.

She's dressing as a Hogwarts professor; I am going as Narcissa Malfoy. :)

[prillalar]

Yay more costumes! What does your Narcissa outfit look like?

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[silveraspen]

Let's see. Long black dress to act as a sort of shift, dark green overdress with gold ribbon trim, black hooded cloak with green stones and black velvet-ish material as trim. I have green suede boots that I might use, as well. I plan to wear a platinum blond wig (and hide my really dark hair under it) and carry a silver mirror as accessory.

So what if it's overkill? It should be a lot of fun anyway, and there's even a costume contest, so why not? ;)

[ari-o.livejournal.com]

I plan to have bourbon and catfish po'boys at my favorite southern joint (which is funny consdidering I live in Boston) and then off for Midnight opening of bookstore. I shall hand out fliers for Nimbus and get my book and go home and sleep. Because I am getting up early to go on vacation. I will read OotP on the beach in Rhode Island and push my boy into the frigid ocean and lauh at him.

Then I'll feed him lobsters and drink rum and read some more.

I plan to savor this reading.

[xrejected.livejournal.com]

I think I'm gunna try and dress up, cuz there's this contest at the mall of america... but I can't find anything good anywhere! I don't want to buy one of those fake plastic wands, so I've been surfing the web and the cheapest wooden one is £14.95 and I don't know how much that is in american money. And I cant find any good robes, I was gunna wear a hogwarts one, but I want to be more creative and wear a different one (like neville's grandma haha) Any suggestions? Like where to look and stuff?

[prillalar]

Since my costume is only imaginary, I don't really have any good ideas on wands and robes and stuff.

Hmm, if you know anyone with a lathe, I bet a wand would be really easy to turn.