Ah, we are done with our book! And as the title says, it is safe to read this post, I couldn't in good conscience post spoilers.Friday night we stayed up to go get our book across the street. We hobbled over there at midnight and sat in the "mall-ish" place waiting for them to open up. We couldn't get it till 12:01 England time which is 1:01AM Copenhagen time. At about 12:50 they opened the gate to mall from the big hallway area we were in and it was cute to see sooo many people running towards the book store. Then they opened the bookstore a few minutes later, again people running in. I didn't realize it but most of those people didn't have a reserved copy, hence the running. We however did, so didn't have to wait in a very long time. we grabbed a book went to the counter, paid, they crossed our name off a list and we came back home. The line had gotten pretty long by the time we left. I would say we were home at 1:15 and fell right to sleep. We got the British Adult Cover of the book. (Unlike the states the British version puts out two covers an adult and a children's.) We have another British version as well, and while there are few differences, there are not many. Simple things like spelling of certain words, and British slag are used that are not found in the American Editions.
Saturday Started Harry Potter Weekend 2007. We decided to read in 2-3 hour shifts mostly. I'd read for 2-3 hours, then Michael would catch up to me, then I'd read for two hours, then Michael would catch up to me. It was nice to be reading around dinner time because I got my dinner cooked for me twice in a row! We even went to the gym in shifts. We finished about half the book on Saturday and Sunday night late late, I finished the book and Michael got up early this morning to finish it as well.
As much as we tried to take our time on it the anticipation of knowing we would finally find out any answers and predictions we had were just a few page turns away made it difficult to slow down and to put the book down.
I am thankful to Liz Wise, a girl I use to work with in the library at Texas Tech who one day in the spring of 2001 handed me a paperback book called, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". I had heard a little of the books, but never gave them much though. She insisted I at least read the first chapter. If I didn't like, it she would drop it, if I did, she would let me borrow the book. Needless to say I was hooked. I in turn did the same thing to Michael. And he also was hooked. J.K Rowling is such an incredible and amazing author. To be able to captivate children and adults of all ages alike in one magical story is a feat I'm sure she could have never imagined.
As for Book 7... Perfect.
