Tragically, I’ll be leaving my London vacation two days before. I was hoping to read it on the flight back. 
It was on the news tonight.
LilMiss sighed “Mo-om, will we HAVE to sleep in the mall that night?”
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woooo. I can’t wait. I think Amazon is offering it for 50% off, but I don’t think I will want to wait for the shipping, I will just pick it up at the store that weekend.
So, do you guys think this is planned? The one year there isn’t a Harry Potter Movie there is a Harry Potter book?
I don’t mind. I can’t wait to read the book, I bet it will be better than the last.
Why can’t you buy it in while you are in London and read the official UK version? That’s the version Hermione will be reading, you know.
pat
I hate not adding much of anything original, but this covers my reaction exactly. Well maybe:
[Mr. Burns]
Huzzah!
[/Mr. Burns]
God. The last book needed a thoroughly good scything down by editors. This one will need a combine harvester.
Still, it will make for a couple of extra hours of escapism, even if not such enjoyable and frustration-free escapism as with the first three books.
the huge delay is supposedly because of the editors. It was probably 5000 pages long in rough draft form
It is definitely real, Amazon are already selling it!
Because Shoshana will have left London 2 days before it came out.
Ah. Thanks. I misread, I was thinking she was leaving for the London vacation 2 days before.
pat
Last time, Amazon took pre-orders, and FedExed them the day before the release!!!, so the book arrived on doorsteps on the day of the release. It was great. I hope they offer the same service again - I’ll definitely use it.
But I will pivk up a copy that says “Philosopher’s” rather than “Sorcerer’s” while I’m there!
Incidentally, I read in the local paper’s version of this article that hours after the announcement, it went to the top of Amazon.com’s best-seller list, based just on preorders. Wow.
Mugglenet has noted a horrible, though purely speculative, possibility about that last quoted passage: “Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. ‘It is time,’ he said ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.’”
Now, what if those are the last words of the book!
Well, that would be horrible, pf course, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I can’t see Rowling not ending a book with the return trip aboard the Hogwarts Express.
Still, I think I’ll check out the last page first, all the same.
Dumbledore: I am your father!!
Mad Eye Mooney: No, I am your father!
Lupin: No, I am your father!
Dobby: I am your father!
Lucious Malfoy: I am your father!
Hagrid: I am your father
Snape: I am your father!
Draco Malfoy: I am your father!
Colin Creevey :I am your father!!
Neville Longbottom: No, I am your father!
Hermione: I am your father!
Harry: What is this, Jerry Springer?
and here I am, in SWEDEN! ;.; Oh, I guess Amazon can deliver it to me within 24 hours… Gotta check that. If not, I’ll just use my friends as bouncers.
So what? I have to get the book, even if the shipping will cost more than the book itself.
Same here Lezaza, Amazon UK is great at delivering to SE tho. We are buying two copies so we can read them at the same time, we will then give away the hardcopies to friends and buy the paper-back as a keeper when it comes out 
Actually Tars, I think that shoud have gone here.
Why is Dumbledore lowering his hands? Not a typical posture for the start of an intimate conversation.
–he’s just cast some kind of spell
–he’s just defended against a spell
–he’s just pointed at something
–he’s just finished directing the Hogwart’s alma mater
–he’s just caught a snitch
–he’s gesturing to Harry to sit down, as he suggests in his dialogue later on?
You’re going to have to pace yourself on the detail dissection! You’ve only got 2 sentences to last you the next five months!