[HPFGU-OTChatter] Age...and Book 5!

[Amber]

--- Neil Ward <neilward at dircon.co.uk> wrote:
> There are almost 8000 messages in the archives, dating from 17 Sept
> 1999 until just before we moved to e-Groups.  You can read those
here:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives

And:

> Apart from its size, the list has changed in some ways, but not in
> others. At the risk of giving you a week of sleepless nights, why not
> read through the messages Archives club and you'll see how different
> (or not) it is? <bg>

<grin> Well, I visited the archives and looked at the messages around
the time when GoF came out. It was so interesting to see all the
predictions and speculations about what was going to happen in it! And
the craziness when people started reading it! I don't know if
YahooGroups will be able to handle the email load once the fifth book
is released now that there are over 1600 members!

I must say that I'm *already* nervous about the fifth book coming out.
I didn't get into the HP phenomenon until after GoF came out. So, I
don't know about the book crowds/lines. I fear that the hype and press
for the fifth book is going to be bigger than for the last. 

I know I shouldn't ask this question so early, but I'm in a HP mood
right now. I've got the American versions of books 1-4 but want to get
the British version of book five. How can I do this? I looked at the
online sites of the British bookstores that are listed in the VFAQ and
they don't have any listings yet for OotP while Amazon.com has had a
listing to preorder it for ages now. Will it be impossible for me to
grab a British version of the book while being in America? How did
other American members get it (if anyone did)? Can I persuade a kind
person to pick one up for me and mail it?

I don't what's come over me but suddenly I'm all jittery over HP. (Ooo,
look, a rhyme!) The full and set-in obsession must come in stages or
something...

~Amber
(Wow, I must've wrote "fifth book" 20 times in this post...)


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"It never happened if there is no memory of it. Human memory is just a record. You can rewrite the record."
- Serial Experiments Lain

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