never go to a midnight book release..., i was at the 'harry potter get together' Options

[iSsUeS636]

i was at the 'harry potter get together' thing from 8:30 eastern time the night of the 6th book release. put my name on the list so i would be one of the first to get my copy. anyways, time goes by. i'm sitting there reading some skate books, listening to the music in the back. finally it's 11:30. "#1-50 get on line." 2 minutes later. "#51-100 get on line." so i get on line because i'm #72. waiting for 12:00. 11:40. 11:45. 11:50. lights go out. music stops. "we are very sorry for the inconvenience but we've been told by the cops we must evacuate the building." apparently there was some kind of power outage in that town, and they had to evacuate the building. i had to go all the way to another town that had borders, where they sent EVERYONE from that store to. spent 45 minutes driving to this other town, and then we had to wait for everyone from where we were now to get their books, before we got ours. i didn't get my book until around 2:00 when i would have had it at 12:10.

it was in the paper the next day, that the borders i was at didn't have the permission to keep the store open that late. the cops that were there were shutting the store down because of this. who knows why the hell they waited until 5 minutes before, but the cops shut it down intentionally, which is why the "power outage" seemed so fake.

[sweetabandon]

Well, I don't see why people don't like the fact that there are a lot of HP fans. At least people have found something to be interested in besides drugs and sex..

Anyway, I got my book at my local bookstore and I was surprised there wasn't a line like there was when the 5th book came out. I get the 5th book really late, but I was told there was a huge ass line.

[*Kathleen*]

Well, I don't see why people don't like the fact that there are a lot of HP fans. At least people have found something to be interested in besides drugs and sex..

Anyway, I got my book at my local bookstore and I was surprised there wasn't a line like there was when the 5th book came out. I get the 5th book really late, but I was told there was a huge ass line.

Yeah, me either. Kind of wondered why people get upset over the fact that people are actually reading again.

I went to a Midnight Magic Party and everything was fine. I messed (you could say flirted) with the guy putting those wash-away tattoos on kids. He was nice, and his hands were warm. (I got six tattoos myself.) All in all, it was a lot of fun. My friend and I ran around with our wands yelling "Stupefy!" at all these random people.

Edit// 200th post.

Yeah I went to a party for it as well, but it was at some bookstore down in Southside. I can't remember the name. It was this huge three-story building that had various stations set up (i.e. potions, tattoos as you said but you're probably not going to respond to this anyways because you haven't been active in forever, door prizes, etc.) with employees dressed up as the characters. I think I got about five balloon animals. I had to wait in line amongst a pack of raving, angsty five year-olds.