It's official! We own Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! Man, I so wanted to start reading it. Unfortunately we are still on book 5. I really need to know who dies! At Matt's insistence I am resisting all urges. We'll likely find out what happens anyway, in the next few weeks, unless of course, we all go live in a hole.
All three of us have been looking forward to this for months now. Colin wanted to dress up in his Harry Potter costume from Halloween and I was going to don my fantastic Professor McGonagall get up. Matt came up with the creative idea of dressing up as a muggle. We also had planned to go with our good friends who were dressing up as well to the Barnes and Noble, where we've had our beloved copy reserved since April. What we hadn't planned for was the fact that we weren't even going to be in town the day it came out, rather we were going to be in Wenatchee for my father's wedding.
Blimey! I hadn't put the two dates together until the week before. Colin was truly disappointed that he wasn't going to party at midnight with his friend Alec, but I did call a bookstore at the mall where we'd be and the clerk told me there would be plenty of copies for us to buy. Whew! My bum was saved! We would just have to pack our costumers and take them to go.
The night finally came, and at 10:30 pm we all got dolled up. Matt's muggle outfit was simply amazing. When we got to the Waldenbooks, they asked us if we had a reservation and I told them no because I had called the store last week and the clerk told me that I wouldn't need a reservation. The snippy little teeny-bopper proceeded to tell me that they only have enough copies for the people who reserved one. Oh, bloody hell, you mean we got dressed up in these ridiculous outfits for nothing? The kid told us to check either Hastings or Wal-Mart. OK, fine!
We drive to Hastings on the other side of town and once we got there, we see a massive gathering of fellow book seekers. As we got into the store, another smart-ass punk teenager asks me if I've reserved a copy. Are you for real? Is there no extra copy of Harry Potter 7 in this flippin' town?! Just about as I am about to tell this clown to sod off, Matt tells me there is a line at the other end of the store for people who do not have a reservation. And, to think that we can't even start reading the book right away because we are still on bloody book 5. Why am I here?
We enter the store at the other entrance to see that the cafe' register has a sign that says "Unreserved". This looks like a good place to be, not to mention that Colin and I feel a bit more comfortable here since there is a few more characters in costume, inlcuding a supurb Dumbledore. The two ladies in line next to us took a picture with me and Colin as though we were really Harry and Minerva. That made me smile, thus putting me into a better mood that I had been in earlier.
We stood in line to get drinks at the cafe' and not five minutes later saw two employees bring in a cart full of books hot off of the press, park the cart right next to the cafe' register and announce that these were the unreserved copies. Holy cow! A nano-second had passed before all of us realized that we are now officially second in line to buy a copy of the book and at 12:02 the book was ours. All those poor saps who had reserved a copy were still waiting in the line to purchase their copies. What a wonderful turn of events. We were back home and ready for bed by 12:30! I guess all is well that ends well. And, Harry I sure hope you don't get it in the end!
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