Release date announced one year ago today!

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "jennivirides" 
<jennivirides at y...> wrote:
> As The Leaky Cauldron has very kindly reminded me, last year on the 
> 15th of January, Bloomsbury and Scholastic gave us the news we had 
> been waiting for for so long: a release date for OotP.
> 
> So I was wondering, how did you hear about it? Where were you? What 
> did you do? How did you feel (apart from the obvious)?
> 
> I remember very vividly, I was having an absolutely manky day. I 
had 
> a stinking cold, and I had just had an exam that went appallingly 
> badly (rather like today...). Anyway, I got home, turned on my 
> computer and logged onto the Internet. My homepage is always set to 
> www.bbc.co.uk, and the first thing I saw was the headline 'RELEASE 
> OF POTTER 5 ANNOUNCED'.
> 
> I let out a huge squeak, quickly clicked on the link, read the 
> story, squeaked again, and promptly went to phone my father, who is 
> as big a HP fan as I am, but had been telling me for years that JK 
> would never actually write Book 5. So I had to phone him at work to 
> gloat, I'm only human. ;)
> 
> My second move was, of course, to mark the date with big red 
letters 
> on my calendar.
> 
> I then remember feeling at somewhat of a loose end, so I typed the 
> words 'Harry Potter' in Google, wondering if there might be a few 
> sites I could look at. Ah, how naive I was!
> 
> I joined HPfGU about a week later, if I remember correctly, and 
I've 
> been lurking around ever since.
> 
> So does anyone else have any memories of that momentous day to 
share?

You could have posted this in the thread for "You might be an HP 
fanatic if..." 

As in, you might be an HP fanatic if you can remember exactly what 
you were doing when they announced the release date!

I'm thinking of dates that are in the collective consciousness - 
mainly the Kennedy assassination, the tragedy of 11 September 2001.  

This seems to be a nicer recollection.  And no, sadly I can't 
remember what I was doing - but I did put it in my diary because I'm 
still carrying around my 2002 diary and I just looked.  

June