Mark Your Calendar – July 21
February 1st, 2007 by COD
7/21/2007 is the day you’ll be able to start reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. So, 7/14 or so should be the day we get the rush of right wingers warning us that we will all burn in hell for reading the book. Seeing as I’ve read the other six, it’s too late for me now. I just hope Cav has a well stocked library.
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I love the politics of Harry Potter. The nanny state that is the ministry of magic is, I think, a great education for adults and children alike, and one I hope will have good effect in the next generation.
Somewhat related story…my son was bitching yesterday about the library. He tends to check out in depth history books that never get read, especially by kids. He commented yesterday that it’s nobodies business what books he reads, and the people at the library need to stop commenting on what he is reading every time he is there.
I’m so proud
I’m just getting started on the series, so it will be a while before I get to the latest. This Christian right-winger has no problem with the books. The only problem I have is trying to get them read before they have to go back to the library. A good friend just loaned me the first 6, so I’m all set now! Of course my 8yo “I hate reading” daughter keeps stealing the Sorcerer’s Stone from my hiding place so it may still may be a while.
It’ll work like this here.
7/21 – book arrives via Amazon.com. Breck takes it to his room. We don’t see him again that day.
7/21 late night – Breck finishes book
7/22 – I get book – start reading
7/25 Breck starts hounding me for the book back as he wants to reread it.
7/28ish – I finish it.
I’m a Christian not-so-right winger and can’t wait for the next book. I recently got John Granger’s “Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?” series of essays and then reread the books to find all those details mentioned in the essays. The essay series reminded me of English Lit classes, and essays like “The significance of the color red in Alcott’s Little Women,” which in turn reminded me of one of my professors — disdained by many of her associates — who was making her major emphasis Stephen King novels (“The symbolism of light and dark in Stephen King stories”) (“I already shocked them by writing my dissertation on Jack London…in their minds it wasn’t much of a stretch to switch to Stephen King.”) Which in turn made me wonder if she will be using the HP novels for future professorial publications.
At this point, no one else in the family reads the HP novels, so I have them all to myself. When I got HBP for my birthday, my husband let me have the whole weekend to myself so I could finish the book.
It’ll work like this down here.
July 21-Book comes out
July 22-Conversations float over the cubicle walls ruining the ending.
July 23-Don’t need to read the book now. Wait for movie
1 year later-Movie comes out.
1 year and 2-3 weeks later-All the freaks that dress like the characters have seen the movie at least 3 times and stop crowding the theaters. I go to see the movie.
A friend of mine found some buttons that say: “I’m going to Hell. Ask me how!”
She didn’t get them for Harry Potter, but oh, they have so many uses.
My husband and I have always taken turns over who gets the book first. This year, it’s MY turn! I’ll have it read in 48 hours. He’ll have it read in the next 24-48. THEN we’ll give it to the poor suffering children. Or maybe, they’ll save their allowance to buy their own copy. Heh.
And Chris, I remember the stupid school librarians looking at my books (it was Asimov and Sagan at the time) and asking if my Mommy knew I was checking out such big books.
This is how it will work here:
7/13 or so – the calatoguing copy will be distributed to libraries and I’ll get our copy here, with the little note on it that says “cataloguing copy only. Do not circulate until 7/21.”
5 minutes later – the book will mysteriously fall open and turn its own pages, which, of course, will fascinate me so much that I’ll be forced to read it. I’ll take it home to show my dh who will be equally fascinated by this mystery.
At least… that’s what’s happened with the last 4 HP books.
I have mentioned just how much I hate you Audrey
What’ll happen here:
7/21: The rest of the damned world gets the freaking book
7/22-7/27: We keep our hands over our ears everywhere we go
7/28: The freaking book finally gets here from Amazon.co.uk — a necessity because we got the first two HPs from England before they were ever released here, and there was no way we were ever going to screw up the set after that, and have therefore had to do this every time since book 4
For the rest: See Chris’s schedule and add a week to each date
Very well stocked indeed, ser. And if the one in my home will not suffice every volume ever created on terra has a duplicate in the Central Library in Dis Imperial Square.
As always we are at your service . . .
Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!
Here’s how it will work at our house:
7/21 10:00 am – We go to Target and purchase the book (cuz you know they are printing a bazillion copies so you don’t really need to preorder).
7/21 10:30 am – Jessica takes the book and locks herself in her room.
7/21 7:30 pm – Jessica surface for food or the bathroom with the book 3/4 finished. Christine grabs book and starts reading. Jessica sulks off to her room.
7/22 7:30 am – Christine finishes book and hands it back to Jessica.
7/22 9:30 am – Jessica finishes book. Now I get it.
Christine and Jessica talk in hushed tones about the exciting twist at the end. I yell “Shut the hell up!” at them.
approximately 7/24 – I finish the book. Jessica takes it and starts on her second time through.
This Christian moderate already pre-ordered her copy. My kids are still a little young, so I get to read it first. Neener, neener, neener.