I had my job orientation at Barnes & Noble yesterday, and when the manager asked for my availability, I specifically requested to work on Harry Potter night. Their pre-midnight festivities aren't too elaborate (not like the ones in Oak Park), but I still can't wait to see the kids in their outfits all getting excited over a book release!

(Of course, the fact that I'll be there means I can pick up my own book and bring it home after close and start reading it!)

Kathy, can you dress up for the event (assuming you want to)?

And, while I'm not a Harry Potter fan, I'd be tempted to go by just to see the kids in their costumes and getting so excited. (I'm almost that excited about getting Allyson's book in the not-too-distant future.)

I'm sure I could, but I don't have anything that would work, unfortunately. Maybe I can see if my SIL can loan me my niece's graduation robe, get a lightning scar temp tattoo for my forehead, mousse up the hair to get it all messy, buy a cheap broomstick and write "Firebolt" on the handle and go as Harry.

You could be one of the Hogwarts teachers. You could do that with the robe and a wand. Just occasionally say, "25 points for Gryffindor" or "You'll never pass your O.W.L.S. if you don't stop getting detention." You could add some scarves and be Prof. Trelawnly. "I predict you will buy that book. Something exciting will happen on Tuesday. I believe I see kidnapping by unicorns in your future."

If you haven't guessed, I'm in the middle of a Harry Potter reread.

Ooh, Trelawney would be a blast! I'll have to dig through my scarf drawer and see what I can cobble together. My glasses aren't huge, but they'll do in a pinch.

I've just caught up on Harry Potter (got them all out of the library one after the other but I've given in an ordered Deathly Hallows so I don't have to wait - I'm #394 on the holds list, that could take a while) and I just had to go back and read the Literary thread after HPB came out. Fun!

I have even developed my very own crackpot prophecy theory, with extra crack.

My sister and BiL pimped the His Dark Materials series to me heavily on our family vacation, so that's next up in the queue. Or right behind world War Z which I am continuing to dither about reading.

read world war z

since I am home sick I start rereading hp4 not sure how far I'll get - perfect sick reading . interesting enough to keep me occupied, butnot so much to pay attention to that my brain gets lost

I'm getting started reading GoF as well (just finished 1-3). I found out over the weekend that my book-loving 14-y.o. niece is also re-reading the books in preparation for 7/21. My brother was rolling his eyes when he told me this, and rolled them even more when I told him I was doing the very same thing.

My sister's future stepkids are in town visiting their dad and her for the next week or so, and when I told her that OotP was coming out in the theaters two days early, she was pretty excited because that meant she could take the daughter to see it (they're heading back to their mom's on the 13th, the original release date of the film). The daughter was excited, too--Kris told her while I was on the phone, and she started burbling about getting the tickets right away through Fandango.

Oh thank goodness. A couple friends of mine are letting me borrow their Book 7 to read as soon as they get it because they "can avoid the Internet better than [I] can."

I just got a notice from Amazon asking me to check that my order of HP7 has the correct shipping address. I don't recall them doing that before, do you?