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pillywickle (pillywickle) wrote,
@ 2008-06-11 12:41:00

Reading the prequel (if you haven't read it yet, click 'Read our authors stories' then JKR) reminds me how much I'm going to miss reading any new Harry Potter stuff. Not much new information in that story, but it was new. Guess I haven't completely outgrown HP just yet.

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	chthonian 2008-06-11 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	The first thing I saw when I got back to my parents' house this year after uni ended and I came home was the mailbox. And I burst into woeful wailing at my dad. "DAAAAAAD. You know what I'm going to miss FOREVER?" "What?" "Getting new Harry Potter books in the mail. NEVER AGAIN, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT D: D: D:" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pillywickle 2008-07-15 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	So sorry that I haven't replied to this already. Only just noticed the comment, and was all 'reply!'. Getting HP in the mail would be so awesome. I used to pick each one up from the bookstore, but getting it in the mailbox would be like some sort of special present the postman left. :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

chthonian
2008-07-16 04:59 am UTC (link)

(No prob! :D)

I will not even lie; the mailbox thing was my favourite way of receiving the book. I did the 'standing in line; midnight release party' thing at a bookstore for GOF, didn't buy OOTP until a couple months after release (I had waned in interest D:) -- but both HBP and DH were preordered and arrived in the mail, around 10-11AM on the day it came out!

Which is fairly impressive, considering I live in Norway. The first time, I was waiting anxiously in the house, until I saw the post van drive past, and the thunk of something entering the mailbox -- started hyperventilating, thinking, "Okay, no, don't get your hopes up, the Norwegian postal service might not get it to me until Monday or Tuesday, it's probably just the neighbour's mail, don't get your hopes up--!"

But it was the book, it TOTALLY WAS. Second time, I overslept and my dad woke me up saying, "Guess what just arrived?" and he handed me the book in bed. SO HAPPY.

/today's unnecessary dosage of nostalgia

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pillywickle
2008-07-16 02:40 pm UTC (link)

I remember I had to wait a whole day of school to read GOF, and my mum brought it when she picked me up, and I then read it intensely on the drive home. Since OOTP, I've done the midnight release thing, where the lines got longer each year and I had some sort of silly elite, snobby feelings about having to wait longer in the lines because the book was more popular than it had been the year before, and I should have got some priority XD For DH though, in some sort of weird fluke, there were two lines and we joined the shorter one and I walked out with the book five minutes later. It felt symbolic at the time - the last book and I barely had to wait to start it.

:( I want to become part of another crazy fandom, so I can look forward to new stuff, but I'm still clinging to HP. I love that it's not just stopped because there's no more books. But I do wish JKR wouldn't divulge any more information in interviews, because it doesn't feel as canon or real as the books. It's silly to think, but it feels like the more she says, the more she's spoiling things. It finished with Harry going up to bed, for me, and that suits me fine.

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