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Everyone is a-buzz with the news that the seventh book is coming out July 21. What will I be doing? I will be stranded at a hotel in Chicago, far from home and likely not going to any release parties (unless they are next door to the hotel... liklihood is *not at all*). When, when, when will I have a chance to buy/steal/read the book? Probably not 'til I am on my way home on July 28 (unless the hotel gift shop has it)... and then I am travelling to Prophecy that next week...
Damn it.
We shall not say how much the marketing folk screwed this up, releasing the film and the last book in the same month (they *should* release the seventh book on September 1 (also a Saturday, btw) - for the christmas season, remembering how the first christmas season of HP (Philosopher's Stone was also released in September in the US ('98)) we couldn't even give them away at the bookstore (it was in the holiday catalogue, and no matter how much I told people it was going to be the "next big thing" people didn't believe me!)- it has such fond memories, and would be such lovely full-circleness). Argh.
On the plus side, we do get it before Prophecy, so there will be the extra *buzz* with new canon, etc. On the minus side of that, some formal programming will be a bit out-of-date, but a few caveats before or after the presentation will be useful.
Pros and cons all over the place. Although I've been in happy AU land since Book 5 (dies? No one dies in Harry's fifth year, I don't know what you're talking about. Department of Mysteries? Never happend. La la la -I'm not listening to you!), so I am just looking forward to not anticipating it anymore.
Damn it.
We shall not say how much the marketing folk screwed this up, releasing the film and the last book in the same month (they *should* release the seventh book on September 1 (also a Saturday, btw) - for the christmas season, remembering how the first christmas season of HP (Philosopher's Stone was also released in September in the US ('98)) we couldn't even give them away at the bookstore (it was in the holiday catalogue, and no matter how much I told people it was going to be the "next big thing" people didn't believe me!)- it has such fond memories, and would be such lovely full-circleness). Argh.
On the plus side, we do get it before Prophecy, so there will be the extra *buzz* with new canon, etc. On the minus side of that, some formal programming will be a bit out-of-date, but a few caveats before or after the presentation will be useful.
Pros and cons all over the place. Although I've been in happy AU land since Book 5 (dies? No one dies in Harry's fifth year, I don't know what you're talking about. Department of Mysteries? Never happend. La la la -I'm not listening to you!), so I am just looking forward to not anticipating it anymore.