No Parties for Harry's Birthday? <sob>

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley"
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Grannybat wrote:
> 
> > > Has anyone out there heard of any special events to celebrate 
> Harry's 
> > > (and JKR's) birthday? Any rumors? Anything at all?
> > > 
> > > I can't even buy one of those nifty Aunt Marge balloons. 
> <sniffle>
> 
> Annemehr:
> 
> > How about our own chat at HPfGU? Can we arrange a special time to
> > /join HP:1 just like on Sundays? We could sort of roleplay -- eat 
> and
> > drink WW food, play party games with wands, whatever.
> > 
> > Anybody game?  Who's good at figuring out time zones?

David:
> I think I'd be up for that.  Sundays are usually a bad time for me, 
> and a Saturday would normally be a lot easier.  And I can't go to 
> Convention Alley.  Though my roleplaying abilities are negligible.
[...]
> Is SLC mountain time?  That would be 7 hours behind the UK, where I 
> am.  EDT is 5 hours behind.  HPFGU itself never sleeps, as the elves 
> who deal with the pending message queue will testify.
> 
> David

Annemehr again:
Well, obviously it has to be during Harry's birthday in the UK. Other
than that, we just need the best time to include some 'waking hours'
for most of us...

I hope we do this!

Dicentra said:
>>> I think it would be really kewl if we HP fans (or at least HPfGU fans)
figured out a particular KIND of way to celebrate July 31st every
year, whether at a convention or in a local group.

You know: bake a certain kind of cake, meet in a certain kind of
place, engage in a certain kind of activity...
[...]
Anything clever that is fairly easy to implement, rooted in canon, and
that will attract the local TV stations' attention. :D

Oh, and that will become an international trend. No biggie.<<<

Annemehr:

How about something Jo would like? Say, on July 31 every year,
everybody make a donation to your library in Harry's name? Books,
tapes, money, whatever you can, with a note saying it's for his
birthday.  If your library happens to be closed that day some year,
just do it the day before.

Okay, it's not as much fun as busting the snakes out of the zoos,
but...maybe someone else can build on the idea.

>> Annemehr
>> apparently as prone as Grannybat to seeing Harry as very real...

> How dare you imply that he's not! :D

> --Dicey Elf, who is at a loss for clever ideas

*claps hand over mouth*

Oops!

Annemehr