Release date announced one year ago today!

[Caius Marcius]

--- 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)?
> 
> > 
> So does anyone else have any memories of that momentous day to 
share?

Arriving at work, turned on my computer and (as is my wont) scanned a 
few of my favorite sites as I savored my morning cup of coffee. I saw 
the news on the Leaky Cauldron site. I let out a silent yelp of joy 
(I worked with bunch of Muggles). I had earlier predicted to my wife 
that the book would come out sometime between June 14-28, because we 
had planned an overseas vacation on those dates (so I had to wait 
until June 29 to read OOP). Of course  I immediately began thinking 
of a filk to commemorate the event. 

Several other mavens also came out with great filks on the 
announcement, most especially Mariner's It's a Book! They are all 
collected here:

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/places/waiting2.htm

  - CMC