12-08-2009, 08:03 PM
dateline= Wrote:What was everyone doing the night DH was released? I didn't get to go to a midnight release.
First off, I reread the series the week prior to the release, as most people did. Then I filled the extra time with spazzing with others...mostly online friends from various HP forums, since my friends are lame and this forum didn't exist yet.
As for that night...well, if you remember, the OotP movie and the book were released around the same time. Soooo, I went to see the 8:00pm showing of OotP. (Though I barely watched the movie...do you know how hard it is to sit still for two and a half hours knowing that the 7th and final installment of my beloved Harry Potter would be coming out in only a few short hours? Yeah, it's impossible. I was spazzing. I'd randomly grab my friend's arm and go "EEEEPPPP!!! 3 hours and 21 minutes!!!!" If I had had a watch, I would have included the seconds. XD Anyway...). The theater is connected to our mall, which happpppens to contain a Books-A-Million store. So as soon as the movie was over, we headed over there. They had one of those midnight release party things going on, and everyone was dressed up. They had a costume contest (I could have entered, since I was wearing a HP shirt with the Hogwarts crest on it, but it would have been pointless. Some of those costumes were AMAYING. Someone dressed up as Trelawny, and I swear it could have been Emma Thompson herself.)
Anyway, I was at, like, the beginning of the line. It was awesomeee! They were handing out pins with the house crests and HP candies and such. Then my friends and I started talking with one of the guys that worked there (who just happened to be adorable, btw), and we somehow convinced him to give us all the delivery boxes he possibly could (yanno, the ones the books are delivered in...I have a bunch in my closet, and one on my wall ).
Then they had trivia contests and such (three people won the grand prize (including myself ), which was a complete set of hardcovers INCLUDING a free DH book. I nearly died. {blush}
Once it got close, we started counting down, and then at midnight, everyone screamed their damn heads off. Some people had poppers and such, and some threw glitter in the air.
One of the best nights of my life. << Goes to show how much I love HP. XD