Official Goblet of Fire Wait Support Group - Page 9

sherbertlemons · #**121** 06-19-2003, 04:54 PM

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Originally posted by MoonStar17
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CANT WAIT!!!

I am soooo excited!!

I have a feeling that from Saturday to Sunday most of the GC
Harry Potter group will be OFFLINE

I have a feeling I wont be able to put this one down

Has anyone heard of any of the books that came out maybe popping up on Ebay or somewhere of the sort???

I cant believe the luck of the people who stumbled across books out early...lucky lucky

Ditto! I'll be offline until I finish it for sure. Unless I do what I did at GOF's release and make a vain effort to postpone finishing the books! (In which case I'll be on for all of five minutes until giving up and going back to my book!)

UGAnchora · #**122** 06-19-2003, 06:05 PM

EEEEEEEEE! I can't wait. Just over 1 day left!!

In this week alone, I have re-read Books 3 and 4; last night/today I watched "chamber of Secrets"....right now I'm watching all the special features. I'm going crazy with anticipation!!

sailorchicDG · #**123** 06-19-2003, 06:14 PM

Hey all, I work at the second most popular bookstore chain (I don't wanna name names) and I just wanted to tell everyone that my store has over 1300 copies of bk. 5 on order. I was amazed by the number when I saw it in our system. It's crazy!! I'm very excited myself! hehe!!

OUlioness01 · #**124** 06-19-2003, 07:36 PM

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Originally posted by UGAnchora
EEEEEEEEE! I can't wait. Just over 1 day left!!

In this week alone, I have re-read Books 3 and 4; last night/today I watched "chamber of Secrets"....right now I'm watching all the special features. I'm going crazy with anticipation!!

you sound like me! i think i've found every harry potter website there could possibly be too.

UGAnchora · #**125** 06-19-2003, 08:27 PM

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i think i've found every harry potter website there could possibly be too.

I've been doing that too!! harrypotter.com is fun...It 'sorts' you and everything. I'm in Gryffindor

and it gives you a wand and all sorts of fun things.

polarpi · #**126** 06-20-2003, 12:51 AM

WOO HOO!!!!

I just got the e-mail that my Harry Potter book has shipped from Barnes and Noble.....I'm dying to read it, but with the hospital stay only a little more than a week away, I've told my mom to hide it so I don't look at it before I am admitted....with Vacation Bible School next week, I think I'd be too distracted to sit down and read it with any comprehension!

MoonStar17 · #**127** 06-20-2003, 09:08 AM

24 hours or less (for those who are getting it at midnight) from now we will all have access to the new amazing Harry Potter.

I am soooo excited!!!

I have a feeling i know who dies and i am not too happy about it, im sure im gonna be left crying and waiting...

i was sitting here talking to my younger sister who is 13 and my other younger sister who is 10 and they are just as excited, calling me every day to chat about Harry Potter trivia (they are so cute!!) i dont live with them anymore but my mom had to order 2 copies just to satisfy them...
and i just want to point out that i think its GREAT that JK Rowling has come up with a book that has kids of all ages wanting to read.

I am studying to be a teacher and through all my student teaching I have seen alot of kids struggle to read, and most of that is because they haven't found anything out there that really strikes them, b/c the only way to read better is practice, and you cant practice if you hate what you are reading...
i have reccomended to a few parents to get them the 1st Harry Potter and read it with them, and soon enough they too will be scrambling for the next ones...

its good to see kids read...

The time is fast approaching!!!

aephi alum · #**128** 06-20-2003, 10:31 AM

I just got email confirmation that my copy of Order of the Phoenix was shipped!

(I got super-saver shipping from Amazon)

They're estimating delivery on 6/25, but I always get my Amazon packages before the estimated ship date, so I'm hoping for Monday.

I know what I'm doing next week...

OUlioness01 · #**129** 06-20-2003, 10:32 AM

i got my shipping confirmation! i can't wait!

decadence · #**130** 06-20-2003, 10:56 AM

Aren't you a little old to be reading this??

(and I know lots of people beyond childhood/adolescence read it, I don't get it though

)

aopirose · #**131** 06-20-2003, 11:29 AM

Absolutely not! I think that a great book is a great book. I am reading the Lewis Carroll stories to my son now. They are as wonderful to read today as they were when my mother read them to me. If Dr. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll were alive today and still writing, I would be chomping at the bit to get his latest work too.

I find Harry Potter highly entertaining and intriguing. If you have not read a Harry Potter book, I encourage you to do so. The movies were good but so much was left out. If you have and still don’t get it, well then, there is nothing that either I or anyone else can say to you. We certainly wouldn’t be condescending in that fact that you don’t “get it.”

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Originally posted by decadence
Aren't you a little old to be reading this??

(and I know lots of people beyond childhood/adolescence read it, I don't get it though )

lauralaylin · #**132** 06-20-2003, 05:23 PM

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Originally posted by decadence
Aren't you a little old to be reading this??

(and I know lots of people beyond childhood/adolescence read it, I don't get it though )

Have you read the books yourself? I think if you haven't, you should. Then you'd understand because you'd be hooked too. I didn't want to read them, but I finally did at my mother's insistance, and now I am obsessed! I've gotten lots of friends into the books too. JK Rowling has just come up with such a great universe, it's impossible not to love everything about it!

On a side note, my father in law got the book today! He had pre-ordered it from one of the URI bookstores (he's a professor), and they got it for him today! I'm so upset. I wish I still lived down there, I would have gotten a copy too. Instead, I'm going to Curious George at midnight to get my copy! At least there'll be a party and chocolate frogs!

UGAnchora · #**133** 06-20-2003, 08:54 PM

Harry Potter Book Goes on Sale in Britain
59 minutes ago

By ED JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - With a jangle of cash registers and a whoosh of witches' capes, bookstores across Britain rang up the first official sales of "Harry Potter (news - web sites) and the Order of the Phoenix" just after the stroke of midnight Saturday, bringing the boy wizard's fifth magical adventure to a legion of adoring fans.

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"I love it so much I get goosebumps," said 12-year-old Lisa Brummett of Mesa, Ariz., after hours of waiting at the WH Smith bookstore at London's King's Cross rail station to buy the thick new book, J.K. Rowling (news - web sites)'s first in three years.

"Harry Potter is the most magic thing there is," Lisa said, clutching the book to her chest and grinning from ear to ear. "Once I get out of here, I will start reading."

"It's kind of nice to escape to a place a bit more magical," said her sister, Stephanie, 16, looking forward to the 768-page British edition, the longest yet in the tales of Harry and his pals at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. (The American edition runs 870 pages, but has the same content.)

The girls' family had rescheduled their two-week tour of Europe to be in London for the launch.

Paying homage to its King's Cross location, the WH Smith store re-created the gateway to Platform 9 3/4, where Harry, Ron and Hermione catch the magical Hogwarts Express to school.

A line of 100 or so eager fans trailed from the store into the station's cavernous arrival hall and contained an equal smattering of children, parents and Potter-mad adults. Entertainers dressed in multicolored capes and magical sorting hats juggled and performed tricks for delighted youngsters, and a painter created Harry Potter scars and glasses on the children's faces.

"She has made a hero of somebody who could have become a victim," said graying Gillian Hammerton, coyly declining to disclose her age. Like Harry, she was orphaned at an early age. "It's marvelous for someone to have empathy with how a child can feel when they are not in the bosom of a family," she said.

As Harry's daring exploits against the evil Lord Voldemort burst upon the waiting world, bookstore owners appeared as excited as their customers.

"It is like a concentrated burst of Christmas," said Wayne Winstone, children's books director for Ottakar's bookshop, which had 77,000 advance orders nationwide.

The book was being launched in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand at the same time as in Britain. And a Paris branch of WH Smith held a special late-night opening with a magician performing tricks and staff dressed as wizards.

Anticipation built in the United States, where the book was to be released at 12:01 a.m. EDT Saturday.

Aspiring young wizards visiting a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Henderson, Nev., received a pair of Harry Potter glasses and were placed under the famed Sorting Hat to determine which house they belong to at Hogwarts. At a Borders in Chicago, youngsters made owl puppets and got their faces painted as they awaited the midnight hour.

Security remained high at most outlets. The 100 copies already reserved at the Westerville Library in suburban Columbus, Ohio, were being kept out of sight in the basement.

"We are afraid if we wheel them through the library when patrons are in the building we will start a frenzy," manager Annabell Burton said.

The twists and turns in the plot were guarded closely by the British publisher, Bloomsbury. Rowling insisted on preserving her surprises for readers. She did reveal that one of the central figures dies in the book, but said she has not even told her husband who the doomed character is.

Yet leaks occurred. A store in Fishers, Ind., and a New York health food store were among those that mistakenly put copies out for sale. The Daily News in New York City, which bought a copy and published a preview, is now facing a $100 million lawsuit from Rowling and her publishers.

In England, 7,680 copies of the book were stolen from a truck parked outside a warehouse late Sunday night. Earlier this month, a print worker was sentenced to 180 hours community service for attempting to sell three chapters of the book to a tabloid newspaper.

Harry is 15 in the new book, and Rowling has disclosed that he will get to be a real adolescent, with his share of anger and some confusion over girls. There is much emotional interplay in the new book, which goes well beyond the children's genre.

Early reviews praised the fifth installment. USA Today cited Rowling's "wonderful, textured writing." The Associated Press said, "It was worth the wait. And then some."

Harry was 11 in the first volume, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" — released in the United States as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Published in 1997, it was followed each year by another adventure — "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

Rowling's four Potter books have sold an estimated 192 million copies worldwide and have been published in at least 55 languages and distributed in more than 200 countries. Blockbuster movies were made of the first two books and the movie stemming from the third will be released next year.

Amazon.com had 1 million advance orders for the fifth book.

EEEEE! I can't wait!

Kristin AGD · #**134** 06-20-2003, 09:34 PM

I am going to go to Barnes&Nobles at midnight to try and get a book. If not there then Super Walmart. If not there I will keep looking. I really shouldn't get it this weekend because I have a lot to do. But I am really afraid that someone will ruin it for me if I wait. LOL.

OUlioness01 · #**135** 06-20-2003, 09:58 PM

i hope the book is waiting for me when i get home from work tomorrow! i don't know how i'm going to be able to concentrate tomorrow anyway, i'm jsut too excited! in less than 24 hour i'll be curled up in a chair reading OotP!