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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 On the minus side of that, some formal programming will be a bit out-of-date, but a few caveats before or after the presentation will be useful.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 On the minus side of that, some formal programming will be a bit out-of-date, but a few caveats before or after the presentation will be useful.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.
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*sings* Pros and Cons are bustin' out all oooo-oooo-ver!
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I kinda had to read the first one anyway, because it came out when I was the store manager of a bookstore. And I had to be really familiar with the books in the holiday catalogue. And I have to say, she does a really good job with the first three (possibly four) books - age appropriate fiction 9-13y-o, fairly original, interesting world (even though she keeps changing the rules, and doesn't like the genre of books she is writing, so she tends to re-invent the wheel that other fantasy authors who know their genre and *like it* have done world creation earlier and better). Then the books get darker, and become more for teens and adults.
And then after book two or three, y'know, when my best friend read them, she got involved in online fandom - which got me involved in online fandom (and writing fanfic to actually, y'know, *share*)... which then branched out (for me, anyway), to other fandoms (and even more fanfic)... so yeah, blame it all on Harry Potter.
When book 6 was released, my best friend and I ran a midnight release party at a bookstore in Cambridge. It was fun in a kind of wacky way. We had word puzzles and HP games set up, and the store had food, and we dressed up. It was kind of a riot, really. There were three release parties within a few blocks at various bookstores, and nearly everyone on the street around one AM was carrying the sixth book.
Chiming in: All over the meadow and the hill!
Um... Ewwwww
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