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Post by jode* on May 22, 2007 8:35:17 GMT
I always used to get it from Ottakar's, as I used to work there and was allowed sneak in at 10pm and read the first chapter on the pretence that I'd "take photos of the launch".
However, Ottakar's is no more and I will be queuing outside Waterstone's. In fact by July I will be in Bournemouth so anyone else queueing outside Waterstone's Bournemouth let me know.
I'd always be worried that I wouldn't get it until the next day with Amazon.
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Post by Rad on May 22, 2007 9:01:00 GMT
My friend preordered it for my birthday from Waterstones in town. I think I might go at midnight. Parking is free at night and town on a Saturday daytime is just horrible.
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Post by Becky on May 22, 2007 9:42:05 GMT
Waterstones seems the obvious choice but I'm not sure I want to be waiting in town when there'll be loads of people around on nights out. On that basis I might go to Tescos. It won't be as exciting I'm sure, but on the plus side I can pick up something to eat while I'm there.
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Post by laine on May 29, 2007 21:51:12 GMT
Do Waterstones post it out or do you have to pick it up? I might get it from Tescos, on the account my mum works there and she gets a discount.
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Post by Tacye Marley on May 30, 2007 13:32:03 GMT
Mine *should* be getting delivered to my door.
Ah, the luxury of the modern age.
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Post by xenomaniac on Jun 5, 2007 17:15:09 GMT
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Post by timydamonkey on Jun 10, 2007 12:29:30 GMT
If the sweepstake is still on, I vote for Ron and Draco dying.
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Post by Smudge on Jun 11, 2007 10:26:51 GMT
Ideally I'd like Ginny to die. Really horribly and painfully. Perhaps Voldemort can rape her first.Oh my God, I TOTALLY agree! I have been thinking for ages that in the real world, Voldemort would have raped someone by now. He definitely looks like a rapist.
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Post by longsnakemoan on Jun 18, 2007 16:06:07 GMT
I would love for Dudley Do Right Harry and Ginger Spice Ginny to snuff it. Really I would. Hagrid sits on them.
Voldemort is the crappest villain ever. Dick Dastradly inspires more fear in people than he does. 'Hello Harry, you have no wand and are tied to a tombstone but I won't kill you now when I have the chance, no I'll give you back your wand and we can duel.' He is the Dr Evil of book villains, you half expect Oz from Buffy to wander in and enage in a game of 'Zip It and 'Shhh' with him.
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Post by jode* on Jun 21, 2007 8:14:08 GMT
Oh god, a month to go.
I am incredibly excited.
*Squeeeeeeeeee!*
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Post by Rad on Jun 21, 2007 8:23:49 GMT
I think we need to allow non-spoiler captioned discussion from midnight on THE DAY. And then anyone who enters here after that does so at their own peril.
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Post by jode* on Jun 21, 2007 9:17:54 GMT
I don't even go near the internet, television or even the streets until the book is finished.
People are so mean. I remember for OOTP (when I didn't queue up at midnight), BBC Breakfast had a kid on who had read the book since midnight and was doing a report on it!
And then for HBP, luckily I had finished and went into town in the afternoon and some kids were shouting "Dumbledore's dead!" all the way down the road.
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Post by longsnakemoan on Jun 21, 2007 18:44:52 GMT
List of people I want to die
Harry Ginny Hagrid Tonks (possible the most pointless character in literature)
You know they all could die apart from Snape, Lucius and Macnair.
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Post by laine on Jun 21, 2007 19:56:47 GMT
Harry, Ginny, Hagrid, Tonks, Lupin would all be on my list of people to die.
Snape, Fawkes, Pigwidgeon and Luna can survive.
Is it just me or did anyone else not really care when Sirius died? This could just be my biased Snape loving talking, but the guy was just a stuck up bully, you know if he was at your school you'd hate him.
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Post by longsnakemoan on Jun 22, 2007 14:03:53 GMT
I laughed when Sirius died. I found it hilarious because he was killed by a curtain which is the most pathetic death ever.
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Post by timydamonkey on Jun 22, 2007 21:54:55 GMT
Sirius was the one person I was convinced wouldn't die at the time. I was sitting there thinking, she only introduced him two books ago, and he hardly had any screentime in book 3 anyway. Be a bit pointless if he dies, won't it?
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jun 22, 2007 23:18:15 GMT
JK made such a fuss about "someone dying" and how "awful" it was going to be before Order of the Phoenix came out. And when it turned out to be Sirius, I thought, so fucking what. He turned up at the end of Azkaban; he spends a lot of Goblet in a fireplace; and he spends most of Phoenix bitching because people aren't cleaning his house right and he doesn't get out much. I was far more concerned about Neville than that whinging tart.
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Post by longsnakemoan on Jun 27, 2007 15:53:41 GMT
I hope that Lupin dies in this one. I really do because then there would be distraught 14 year olds the country over. Oh I would chortle.
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Post by mcflooze on Jun 28, 2007 10:54:24 GMT
Harry, Ginny, Hagrid, Tonks, Lupin would all be on my list of people to die. Snape, Fawkes, Pigwidgeon and Luna can survive. Is it just me or did anyone else not really care when Sirius died? This could just be my biased Snape loving talking, but the guy was just a stuck up bully, you know if he was at your school you'd hate him. xx Oh no, I was gutted - I quite fancy Sirius (although not the Gary Oldman incarnation of the films) and must admit to crying a bit when he died. Although I must agree that getting killed by a curtain is somewhat less than manly.
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Post by laine on Jul 2, 2007 11:51:55 GMT
I pre-ordered my book today from Tesco online and the reciept says "Estimated Delivery Date Saturday 21st". Estimated better mean it will be there 9am on the dot, packaged and delievered at your door or else Tesco will have a one woman Marth Jones style war against them.
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Post by timydamonkey on Jul 2, 2007 13:04:37 GMT
Harry, Ginny, Hagrid, Tonks, Lupin would all be on my list of people to die. Snape, Fawkes, Pigwidgeon and Luna can survive. Is it just me or did anyone else not really care when Sirius died? This could just be my biased Snape loving talking, but the guy was just a stuck up bully, you know if he was at your school you'd hate him. xx Oh no, I was gutted - I quite fancy Sirius (although not the Gary Oldman incarnation of the films) and must admit to crying a bit when he died. Although I must agree that getting killed by a curtain is somewhat less than manly. Don't tell me I'm the only one who read about Sirius' death and thought, "How the hell is that supposed to kill him? It's a bloody veil, hardly the most terrifying thing ever!"
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Post by Becky on Jul 3, 2007 20:35:52 GMT
I pre-ordered my book today from Tesco online and the reciept says "Estimated Delivery Date Saturday 21st". Estimated better mean it will be there 9am on the dot, packaged and delievered at your door or else Tesco will have a one woman Marth Jones style war against them. xx I'm going to go up to Tescos for midnight and get it. I don't think they've had in store pre-ordering so that should be fine. I still have to cancel my amazon order.
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Post by longsnakemoan on Jul 4, 2007 17:16:25 GMT
Oh no, I was gutted - I quite fancy Sirius (although not the Gary Oldman incarnation of the films) and must admit to crying a bit when he died. Although I must agree that getting killed by a curtain is somewhat less than manly. Don't tell me I'm the only one who read about Sirius' death and thought, "How the hell is that supposed to kill him? It's a bloody veil, hardly the most terrifying thing ever!" The most terrifying death in Harry Potter would be the last thing you ever saw was Hagrid's fat arse looming down on you.
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Post by Rad on Jul 7, 2007 19:45:07 GMT
JK Rowling has buggered up the sweepstake a bit by saying she never actually said she was killing two characters: she was killing TWO MORE THAN PLANNED and she's been misquoted.
So there may be a whole bunch of sweepy winners as it turns out there will be multiple deaths after all...
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 8, 2007 12:41:52 GMT
I've just watched the Jonny Ross interview. It's really good actually, and JK looks FIT. The scar joke has made me laugh far too much. I'm so excited. These books are genius, the world and mythology is all so complete and fun.
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