Harry Potter Predictions

[Geri]

What is the point of opening a shop at midnight just to sell a book? It's a bit fucking sad and pathetic if you can't wait until 9 am.

 

[Balbi]

What is the point of opening a shop at midnight just to sell a book? It's a bit fucking sad and pathetic if you can't wait until 9 am.

It's analogue version of the midnight screenings of Transformers last night

I've been to see all the 'big' films at midnight, it's brilliant wandering home at 3 in the morning with your mates discussing either how cool/not cool said film was.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Having worked one now I'm still of the opinion that buying a book at midnight is lunacy.

Going to see a film at midnight - that's different I think because it's more of a collective experience. Everyone who was in our store last night just wanted to get to the till as fast as possible, pay for it, and get out the door and off home to read straight away. Even standing in the queue wouldn't have provided that same level of 'collective experience' because all you see is the person in front of you and the person behind, and of course with a film you are all experiencing the content together - with the book you're not.

Anyway, I can understand why so many people wanted to - and I might have been the same had I grown up with HP - but I still think they're fools

 

[frogwoman]

my friend will have been there, dressed up as a wizard with her family

i love hp, i know its quite badly written but i did grow up with it. so there.

 

[Iam]

but I still think they're fools

I'd imagine they're deeply, deeply affected by that.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I am not a fan of Harry Potter, and haven't read any of the books, so find it all bewildering. I watched loads of people on the night bus last night reading the blasted thing.

Anyway, I now know how it ends, because I went to wikipedia and looked just because I did

 

[frogwoman]

I'd imagine they're deeply, deeply affected by that.

Not really.

The dressing up as wizard stuff, the hype, its all a bit of a laugh, its a good read.

Ive never dressed up as a wizard btw.

Thats all, its not like my world has just collapsed around me.

 

[Iam]

It was supposed to be sarcastic...

 

[Geri]

I've been to see all the 'big' films at midnight, it's brilliant wandering home at 3 in the morning with your mates discussing either how cool/not cool said film was.

That's a bit different though, you don't sit in the shop reading the book and discussing it afterwards.

 

[scifisam]

The release time was set that way so that the book would start to go on sale at the same time in countries all over the world.

If I'd been out on Friday I probably would have detoured to a bookshop to get a copy - in some ways, midnight is a more convenient time to go shopping. Plus I guess some people just want to do something a bit different, make it a bit of an event in a minor way.

 

[8ball]

So has it happened yet?

I figured that it was Hermione that dies - is that right?

 

[scifisam]

So has it happened yet?

I figured that it was Hermione that dies - is that right?

I put the answer in white because this thread is about predicitions, not spoilers.

Nope. Fred, Moody, Lupin and Tonks are the most significant deaths.

Most of the 'spoilers' that people were putting about were wrong, too.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I was there when our bookshop opened at midnight last night. We were still letting people in at about 1.15, and the last person left at about 1.40. And this is paltry Stoke-on-Trent! I haven't worked a midnight opening before but apparently there were more than have been there before. It really was non-stop and a bit crazy.

Only a handful dressed up, which is a shame. Caffe Nero stayed open opposite for people to shelter from the rain (and we all got free coffee ) and the two people behind the counter there looked better in their costumes that any of the public

I'm back at 11.30 and I imagine it will be a rather frantic dinner time.

The t-shirts we have to wear aren't that bad.

We got out around 1:30 too and the is paltry Lincoln, Nebraska. We started at 8:00 and had a lot of other activites going on -- free temporary tatoos, book readings, a train they could ride, movie screenings, free popcorn, etc. We didn't have that big of lines because we gave everyone numbers as they walked in. We called numbers in groups (after midnight of course). It has the advantage of keeping everyone occupied rather than having 1000 people standing in line looking bored.