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?

Comments

[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.)