Friday night

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David" <dfrankiswork at n...> 
wrote:
> On the London list we have been discussing the possibility of a get-
> together on the night of Friday 20th.  I have decided not to 
> participate, partly for a variety of practical reasons to do with 
> transport and the need not to be too tired on Saturday.
> 
> But even without these practical constraints, I don't think I'd want 
> to do it.  Basically, I want to go into a bookshop, get the book, 
> take it home and then read it when I can.  I think I have a marginal 
> preference for doing that in the daytime, but if I went at midnight 
> I'd still ignore all the other customers in the shop and hope they'd 
> ignore me.
> 
> After I've read the book I'll discuss online and offline, of course.
> 
> Does that make me hopelessly anti-social?  I mean, there's all this 
> hoopla with muari (or is it mauri) which loads of people want to do, 
> and I wondered if I was abnormal here.  Or are there others like me?
> 
> David

Annemehr:
I don't think it makes you anti-social, but I still think you could do 
both if you wanted to (and could afford to stay up late).

I don't know what the people in London are planning, but I assume it 
must be much the same everywhere that has a midnight release time.  I 
live in the US and am taking my kids and meeting friends of ours at a 
local Borders.  We will arrive sometime *before* midnight and enjoy 
the people and activities until 12:00, at which time everyone will 
line up to get their copies -- but then the store will close and 
everyone will go home and read!  So yes, we will be reading OoP as 
soon as we can, just as you would like to do.

Actually, I might not get to read it right away since it is sort of 
traditional that my oldest daughter reads them first (we bought 
her PS/SS for her ninth birthday in 1999).  But I figure she has to 
fall asleep sometime, and I am much better at staying up late than she 
is!

This raises a fear of mine, that I will accidentally hear about what 
happens at the end of the SEVENTH book before I get a chance to read 
it -- so I am already planning to buy two copies as soon as it's 
realeased: one for my daughter and one for me!  Of course, I am still 
worried that the one of us who finishes first will inadvertently show 
on her face whether the ending was happy or sad...

Annemehr
shuddering to think about the pressures for someone to leak the ending 
of book 7 between the time Bloomsbury gets it and the publishing date