# Half Blood Prince excitement thread - no spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197 "2005-07-12T16:05:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/21 "2005-07-12T23:32:38Z")
I’m a member of a book-centered forum with a permanent Harry Potter thread. I’m going to unsubscribe from it until I get my copy. I’m kind of bummed right now, since I had an opportunity to get a free copy of HBP and missed the window by ten minutes. I’m telling myself that my lack of greed will pay off somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/22 "2005-07-13T03:16:44Z")
:: bounce, squeal :: So excited. I’m about 1/3 of the way through re-reading OotP, so I should be finished by Friday (when I’m _totally_ cutting myself off from the Net – I’ve already started avoiding fansites because it’s so hard to resist taking a peek at the alleged spoilers). ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/23 "2005-07-13T06:14:52Z")
I’ve been waiting for Saturday since they announced the book’s release date. I’m hoping the [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) delivery guy gets here as early as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/24 "2005-07-13T09:44:58Z")
Hold everything. The new Pope is against Harry Potter. > [@](#): > > “It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly,” wrote Cardinal Ratzinger. [http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html](http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html) ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/25 "2005-07-13T12:26:48Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > Hold everything. The new Pope is against Harry Potter. > > [http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html](http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html) Oh, then nevermind. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/26 "2005-07-13T12:54:09Z")
I pre-ordered from Amazon. How do they deliver? To the door? To the post office? Anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/27 "2005-07-13T12:55:49Z")
Actually, nevermind. We have PO boxes in my town and that’s the only address Amazon has. So, I’ll go stare at the postmaster on Saturday morning. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/28 "2005-07-13T13:26:33Z")
Okay… Not only will it be around the 22nd before my copy arrives, but I just found out that we have _two_ weddings to shoot on the 23rd. So I won’t be able to start reading until at least the 24th. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/29 "2005-07-13T13:35:12Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Am I the only one who enjoys HP buy waits for the paperback? > > Brian I would wait if I wasn’t a sucker for spoilers. Somehow, I’m not bothered by movies spoilers (usually), but I’d hate for HP to be spoiled for me. I just can’t help it, so I have to buy the book immedietly if I don’t want to spoil it for myself. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/30 "2005-07-13T13:39:16Z")
I’m more excited then an adult should be at the prospect of a new children’s book being released. 😃 I’m reading Order of the Phoenix again, to keep me entertained until Saturday. I hope it arrives when it’s supposed to. A parcel that was supposed to be delivered yesterday didn’t arrive until today because ‘Royal Mail’ were on strike. They better not try that shit on Saturday of they’ll be hell to pay! ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/31 "2005-07-13T15:13:40Z")
We actually had a long thread arguing about the Pope Benedict thing over on FictionAlley. Apparently (as well as anybody can figure it out, anyway,) he came out against HP when he was Cardinal Ratzinger. Pope John Paul II liked the books, though. 🙂 To be honest, yes, the way the cardinal (at the time) talked about the books does bother me, because it is too reminiscent of the old Catholic Index of Forbidden Books, and a number of similar things that weren’t good ideas. On FA this spiraled into a long discussion, and things that happened in the fourteenth century (like the Great Schism and the Bablylonian Captivity) were dragged in. But here, I’ll leave these burning issues for elsewhere. 😉 The day after tomorrow, I’ll be at Davis-Kidd books!!! A question for everyone: Is anybody else afraid that if somebody finds out the plot and reveals it, they’ll flip out completely and do something nuts?? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/32 "2005-07-13T15:25:55Z")
Hey, there’s another FA regular on the SDMB? Do you go by **Anise** there as well? I’m **After the Rain** , BTW. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/33 "2005-07-13T16:02:35Z")
> [@Anise](#): > > A question for everyone: Is anybody else afraid that if somebody finds out the plot and reveals it, they’ll flip out completely and do something nuts?? Ayup. I’ll be a scary berserker. What’s FictionAlley? ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/34 "2005-07-13T17:55:22Z")
2 days and 10 hours here! ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/35 "2005-07-13T17:57:37Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Ayup. I’ll be a scary berserker. > > What’s FictionAlley? [FictionAlley.org](http://FictionAlley.org) - it’s a fan fiction site, or collection of sites I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/36 "2005-07-13T18:00:56Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s FictionAlley? [FictionAlley](http://www.fictionalley.org/) is one of the larger (and, often, loonier) Harry Potter fansites. It’s oriented toward fanfiction readers and writers, but there’s also plenty of book discussion on the [message boards](http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/). ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/37 "2005-07-14T03:33:39Z")
2 days and 25 minutes! I repeat 2 days 25 minutes and counting. Damn I want this book now. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/38 "2005-07-14T13:31:28Z")
So what are the release times for y’all in the States? In NZ it’s being released at 11.01 am, which is midnight Brittish Summer Time, or so I’m told. Australia is doing the same thing across their zones - we’ll be reading it all at the same time, but I get to sleep in as well. Is it just being released at midnight local time across the States? ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/39 "2005-07-14T13:38:26Z")
> [@manx](#): > > So what are the release times for y’all in the States? In NZ it’s being released at 11.01 am, which is midnight Brittish Summer Time, or so I’m told. Australia is doing the same thing across their zones - we’ll be reading it all at the same time, but I get to sleep in as well. > > Is it just being released at midnight local time across the States? That’s cool! As far as I know release time is midnight here, I think they’re afraid of riots 😉 OOh oooh it’s Thursday, my book MIGHT come today depending on how the order went. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197/40 "2005-07-14T13:50:13Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > OOh oooh it’s Thursday, my book MIGHT come today depending on how the order went. That would be SO COOL! And I would be SO JEALOUS! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-blood-prince-excitement-thread-no-spoilers/312197.md?page=3)