Pottermore

mikibell thought this was worth mentioning said Sat, Jul 30th 2016 at 10:35pm ET

Oh dear, noone warned me about PotterMania. Told kid I would take her @ midnight to get the new book. Insanity has ensued. There are huffalumps and slidy things, potions and dragon’s blood and black glasses and lightning scars. Will this ever end? Anyone else trapped in the chaos?

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meh said Sat, Jul 30th 2016 at 10:39pm ET:

i just bought it on amazon, lol

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- @meh I actually pre-ordered it months ago… But she leaves for a week of camp tomorrow. She was invited to be a CIT on Fri… So now she will have it @ camp and grandma can have the other copy.
  
  mikibell said Sat, Jul 30th 2016 at 10:54pm ET
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RiotDemon said Sat, Jul 30th 2016 at 10:59pm ET:

I guess I’ll put myself on my library’s wait list.

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jimmyd103 said Sat, Jul 30th 2016 at 11:02pm ET:

/giphy pottermania

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- @jimmyd103
  
  communist said Sat, Jul 30th 2016 at 11:17pm ET
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whiskeyish said Sat, Jul 30th 2016 at 11:52pm ET:

I was talked into going to a local bookstore launch. I’m rather pleased with the idea, though–we got ice cream, and now we’re waiting with other weird adults who like Harry Potter.

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- @whiskeyish Update: finished the book by 8 a.m. Worth the craziness, to be honest.
  
  whiskeyish said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 2:04pm ET
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- @whiskeyish
  Had she ever published anything not very good? No.
  Has she ever published anything in the HP universe that wasn’t incredibly great? Again, no.
  
  Thx for making me look forward even more intensely to reading my cipy when it arrives.
  
  f00l said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 3:18pm ET
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mikibell said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 12:00am ET:

Holy crap…we are probably 50 people in front of us…about 300 hundred in line behind us…

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mikibell said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 12:04am ET:

They yelled…“happy birthday Harry!” I said, “it is Perry the platapus’s birthday?” my daughter disowned me immediately!

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f00l said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 12:05am ET:

I was in a Borders for the midnight Deathly Hallows launch. Huge store, so packed you could barely breathe. I suspect JKR sales kept Border alive for half a decade longer than otherwise.

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jbartus said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 12:08am ET:

I was at a Harry Potter midnight release once… someone near the front of the line got their book, opened it up to the end, and screamed to the assembled masses that Snape killed Dumbledore. Never again.

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- @jbartus oh dear…guess I won’t be surprised by that ending now!
  
  mikibell said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 12:24am ET
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- @jbartus I hate people that do shit like that. They get such joy out of the misery of strangers.
  
  RiotDemon said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 9:55am ET
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- @RiotDemon I think a lot of times those people are oblivious to the the joy or pain of strangers. They are totally wrapped up in themselves and proving that they are somehow better than others because they know something first. I have at least one relative I avoid because the conversations are always one-sided and self-aggrandizing, but he doesn’t seem to have a clue as to why he has trouble making/keeping friends (or a woman).
  
  gio said Tue, Aug 2nd 2016 at 7:34am ET
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TaRDy said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 12:54pm ET:

Since I’m too lazy to internet on a Sunday, does anyone mind filling me in briefly on Pottermore?

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  Pottermore is the name of the official JK Rowling Harry Potter kid-friendly website.
  
  More to the point, the phrase points to “more Harry Potter” - in this case a new HP “book” (actually a script for a play on stage in London currently, i think) that was released in book and e-book form at midnight early this morning, the date being significant to HP fans because HP’s birthday is July 31st.
  
  Like all other Harry Potter, stuff this was immediately a best seller on the day it was announced, to the degree that it was worth it for bookstores to stay open until midnight to sell it, and to throw huge costume-friendly events for kids and families.
  
  Since i can’t imagine JKR has forgotten how to write stories, i hope and assume it’s wonderful. My copy from Amazon will no doubt show up on Monday.
  
  f00l said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 3:16pm ET
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- @f00l Now that’s kind of funny, in a self-homage, amusing kind of way. JK Rowling’s birthdate is (Drum Roll please): July 31, 1965.
  
  Shrdlu said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 3:21pm ET
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- @f00l why thank you!
  
  TaRDy said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 3:41pm ET
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- @f00l thank you…I could not have explained it at all…
  
  mikibell said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 4:11pm ET
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- @TaRDy Most of the things I posted in the top post were tongue in cheek…there are no huffalumps in HP. I was just underscoring my ignorance of all things HP.
  
  mikibell said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 4:13pm ET
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  Shhhh…
  I think Huffalumps are on the list of Ministry of Magic secrets…
  
  f00l said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 5:48pm ET
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mikibell said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 4:17pm ET:

So bratty kid say on her way to camp, to cranky mom who had less than 5 hours sleep, “why don’t you bring the book that you ordered on line to camp on Wednesday for parents’ night!” Just imaging the dagger stare she received. Slightly in her defense, for some reason, she thought the other book is paperback and would take up less room in her tent.

Then we get to camp and find out it is HP week @ camp and evil mom sent her to camp with nothing HP. Thank you Amazon Prime!

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  During previous HP book launch weeks, camps found out parents would either not reserve those weeks or else cancel bookings, as HP took near hysterical precedence over camp from a kid POV.
  
  Camps had to adjust and make those weeks “Harry Potter week” complete with late nite busrides to bookstores for all the kids, in costume if desired, to wait in line, and the the return bus trips with lights on, and lights on all night reading areas, no curfews for a time, as the kids would, if they were physically able, refuse to sleep until they finished the 600 pages books. Then crash time. No other mandatory activities until everyone finished, and lots of HP themed activities as kids took breaks or closed the books at the end. Campwise no spoiler rules. It seemed to work.
  
  Then the camps booked up solid with waiting lists for those weeks.
  
  f00l said Sun, Jul 31st 2016 at 5:56pm ET
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