Totally unrelated to this thread but...

The thing I'm most looking forward to seeing in the next movie is how they portray the Dementors. Probably can't be anything more scary than I've thought of in my own mind, but you never know! http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/evild.gif

I've become completely addicted to Harry Potter since I got the set over Memorial Day weekend. I'm now waiting on pins and needles for the new book. Ony 10 more days!

I'm so excited! My boyfriend said he'd get me the new book for our six month anniversary . . . :D I am such a dork. One of my friends and I have already decided to have a "Harry Potter reading contest" -- the first one finished with book #5 wins.

So what does everyone think about the big AOL spoiler? I read it and wish that I didn't. But what I don't get is if it's not sanctioned by Scholastic, why is it still on Amazon?

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Rowan Atkinson, is Mr. Bean!
He would be ALL WRONG. Voldemort would be good if Vincent Price played...too bad that he is deceased.
I hope they don't cast him...it would be a travesty!

BTW: here's the "Canadian" cover of Harry #5:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/15...5.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

and here is the cover to the "Adult" Version (no, it's not a "racier" version of Harry Potter....LOL)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/15...5.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

i pre-ordered it back in January from Amazon and mine is coming on the 21st too!

I couldn't even wait long enough to sit around all day for Amazon to deliver! I pre-ordered mine at the local Borders and will be in line with the rest of the horde to get my copy at midnight.

Now I just have to make sure that greeklawboy doesn't try to wrestle it out of my hot little hands. Order your own copy! ;) :p

AHHH! Harry Potter fans! I have my own predictions about the book...I have to wonder if Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle will be returning to Hogwarts...hmm. Oh, well...it's back to Statistics homework. :(

LOL...by the way...I totally thought the "adult version" was going to be a "racy" Harry when I first heard about it!

You don't have to travel that that far. The books sold in Canada *ARE* the British version. (Scout's Honour!)

You can order it from Canada through:
www.chapters.ca or
www.amazon.ca (the ".ca" part means that that's the Canadian Amazon site).

A friend of mine who works in a book store in England explained it to me that the adult covers were sort of designed so that adults could read Harry Potter in "public" without being embarrassed that they were reading a "kids' book", know what I mean? They actually have adult covers for ALL of the HP books, in addition to the "kids covers". I personally prefer the "kids covers" as they are more colourful, etc.

My boyfriend is an unloader at walmart (one of the guys that takes all the stuff off the trucks and pulls it to the floor for the stockers to put on the shelves). He knows what a freak I am about Harry Potter and he told me the second they got them in the store. I have been begging him for two weeks to steal a copy for me! They are just sitting there in the back where he is at all the time. I can't handle it! They aren't in boxes or anything they are already set up in their display thingy and everything. Just the thought of it makes me want to go back there grab one and read it in a corner to myself (so that technically it wont be stealing;) )

I'd be just as tempted to do the same thing! Hopefully my book will come the 21st, or at the latest the 24th...I can't wait to read it...I can't even speculate about what might happen during this year! :cool:

I don't really get the point of that. I mean, anybody who sees the name or title on the cover is going to know what they're reading anyway, regardless of whether the cover features a dramatic-looking silver phoenix or a cartoon kid on a broom. And everybody knows that so many adults read Harry Potter to begin with that I have no idea why they'd be embarassed about it.

I like the kids' covers better too. :)

It's all about Marketing! Why sell just one copy of the book to a family when you can sell TWO? One to the kid, one to the parents...now I don't actually know anyone who would buy 2 copies for one household, but I think it's along the lines of what they do with TV Guide sometimes (they have 4 covers for one week, of say, Star Trek characters, and they'll say "COLLECT ALL 4!" and why? Cuz they want our money! $$$$ KA CHING!

Fun news on the book:

I'm getting mine on June 14.

Anyone who's read my incessant nerdy ramblings knows that I review books for AOL BookReporter. I got a note from my editor about two weeks ago approving me to review OotP, and originally, her assistant told me that I'd have the book by June 18. About three days ago, he emailed me and said, "Scholastic is overnighting you a copy by courier on Saturday the 14th." That's the good news.

The bad news: I can't breathe a word about the book to anyone, or loan out my copy, or publish any thoughts on the book or any part of my review until midnight on the 21. If I do otherwise, I could be sued by Scholastic and J.K. Rowling. Scary stuff. Scholastic has an embargo out on the book. Libraries have to catalog them behind locked doors and keep the books in locked cupboards until they're ready to circulate. (Libraries have to receive their books early so there's time to cover, barcode, and catalog them before the pub date).

tinydancer: Voldemort is not going to be played by anyone in Prisoner of Azkaban, because he's not in that book. Did you mean Goblet of Fire?

I'm so excited for you....jealous, too ;) but excited nonetheless. Enjoy reading it for yourself, and the rest of us will be picturing you reading it this weekend...:)