HBP down under (moved from main list)

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "storm" <miss_megan at b...> wrote:
> Gleebooks is doing a deal with thier own train etc just like they did 
last time .. They are starting at 5am which I think means that's when 
you get the book.
> 
> Emma <ehawkes at i...>:
> I don't know about the next one but I know the last one came out
> simultaneously across the world. So we in Oz got it slightly ahead
> of those in the UK etc as we are a few hours ahead.
> 
> 
> Laura  <laura_clapham2002 at y...>:
> Hi - not sure whether this is appropriate to be posted but i'll give
> it a go anyway. The books are released simultaneously meaning we all 
get them at the same time (not a few hours earlier or later) which is 
9.01am in Sydney. 

Tonks:
I live in the U.S. and am just curious. You guys don't get it at 
midnight like all the rest of us? I am in the Eastern time zone and we 
have line parties and the bookstores open at midnight just for the 
Harry Potter book. They never do this any other time. Just for the 
release of the HP books. One small town near here deck out the whole 
town to look like Hogwarts and there are witches and wizards swooping 
around everwhere. We dress up and drive over there just for the fun. 
All the stores are converted into one of the stores in Diagon Alley. 
the bank isn't open, but it looks like Gringotts.

Tonks_op