No Parties for Harry's Birthday? <sob>

[grannybat84112]

Grannybat wrote:
> > > > Has anyone out there heard of any special events to celebrate 
> > > > Harry's (and JKR's) birthday? Any rumors? Anything at all?
> > > 
Annemehr:
> > > How about our own chat at HPfGU? 
> > > We could sort of roleplay -- eat and drink WW food, play party 
> > > games with wands, whatever.
> > 
David:
> > Is SLC mountain time?  That would be 7 hours behind the UK, 
> > HPFGU itself never sleeps, as the elves 
> > who deal with the pending message queue will testify.
> 
Annemehr again:
> Well, obviously it has to be during Harry's birthday in the UK. 
> ...we just need the best time to include some 'waking hours'
> for most of us...

This might work if a couple of the SLC locals bring laptops to our 
meet. Otherwise a lot of us won't have 'net access outside our own 
homes (or offices). Since the whole point of a meet-up is to meet.


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

Oh, I like this. Everybody come together in pointy hats at the 
library for birthday cake, donations, and gift-wrapped socks.

Now where did I leave my list of media contacts.... ;)

Granny