[HPforGrownups] Re: We have a release date

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 164482

Geoff:
> > It's also on BBC Ceefax news as well.
> >
> > So, since it isn't 07/07/07, it rather torpedoes one of the
> > favourites of the "Sevens"
> > conspiracy theorists...
> >
> > Doug:
> > 21 is of course made up of three sevens.

Geoff:
Maybe but the fact it's 21/07/07 is merely because its a Saturday.
Don't tell me JKR worked this out umpteen years ago....

> chezcreations:
> Well as the one that posted the release date of 070707, I feel hurt....I
wasn't a theorist,
my girlfriend works for a bookstore in the US and that is the date that they
had been
given! Which apparently went unquestioned because she had said something
about the
number 7 being special or something to her....No theory fact! Obviously they
told stores
that so that they geared up and interestingly enough you are not only right
about 3 x 7
=21 if you look at it that way but here is another 7 creeping in.....the
expected release day
was the 7th....now the 21st...exactly 14 days after the expected!
Coincidence? I don't
know!?

Geoff:
I'm rather amused because the "sevens" theorists are reminding
me of Fudge and the "Daily Prophet" refusing to accept Voldemort's
return and branding Dumbledore and Harry as lunatics in OOTP. :-))

If there's another 7 creeping in why not have 14/07/07 or 28/07/07
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Jeremiah

I never believe anyone or anything until I read it on JKR's site. Period.
End of story.

Too many people enjoy coming up with witty and clever number games and then
spout them out as fact (no, I'm not pointing any fingers or
passive-aggressively nameing names).

So, 21 is divisible by 3. I don't get the significance if the date if
7/21/07. Sure, it's the 7th book. Wouldn't it be lovely to have had a 7/7/7
release date... and that's probably something far too trite for JKR.

I would have loved a release date on Harry's birthday. That would have been
July 31st. I could have waited 10 days. In fact, I can still wait 10 days.
If Harry dies in the final book (which I think is the case... JKR, please
prove me wrong. Please!!!) Then it will be a sad birthday, indeed. However,
if he lives... dunno. I'll probably go to ComiCon and have a great time.

Now, as far as Barnew and Noble having a release date, I used to work for
them. they'll take a release date from word of mouth and not a publisher
just so they have something to tell their bratty customers. You know the
ones. They're the ones who stand around and say, "What do you mean there
isn't a date! That's rediculous. How can someone be publishing the most
anticipated book EVER and you can't even get a friggin' release date."

So, I neve trust anything I hear until it comes from JKR's site and I can
read it myself... be it from her site or Mugglenet or Leaky Cauldron and
always... ALWAYS... with screen captures. (Ever notice that those sites do a
lot fo them?)

Oh, and to rub it in for the "7" theorists... Do you think she'll cave in
and do an 8th book to be released 8/8/08? Or would it be 8/8/88 for the
never-finished-manuscript-that-was-just-discovered-in-her-basement?

(Sorry for the crankyness...)


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