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Apparently dad is up to page 580-something, so soon the book shall be in my hands!

Well, it was in my hands at 9:01 (I was second in the short queue at the local bookshop, where the staff had AWESOME costumes, and the one person ahead of me was wearing a jacket with hand-drawn Rassilon symbols and Vote Saxon - so we chatted about Dr Who for the ten-fifteen minutes I was waiting).

But dad's a faster reader than me, and he'll more-than-me want to be free for the rugby match at 5:30 (c'mon the Wallabies!), so he got it first. I'm just finishing my lunch, and I'm like 90% packed for tomorrow.

If I don't post before then, see y'all next Saturday! iibnf, if you make plans to see the Simpsons movie next weekend, count me in.

Oooh, I think he's done.

HP Book 7

According to melpemone, it's traditional to note this.

Started: 1:25pm
Finished: 4:59pm

I'm hoping that I didn't accidentally skip 100 pages in there, that's a bit fast, took me about 5 hours to read OOTP I think. Can't remember with HBP, but I bought it at Chicago airport and I think I finished it just before arriving in LA. (I don't recall reading it at LAX, but I was coming down very sick and can't remember calling my family from there, so who knows.)

I can't believe it's over. I started reading the HP books in 1999 or 2000, when Prisoner of Azkaban was out in hardback. I've never been hugely involved in the fandom (though I was on hpslash when it was the only hp slash mailing list *boggles*), but I've loved the books, and all other crap aside, the HP fandom has been huge and creative and special.

( SPOILERS FOR DEATHLY HALLOWS )

And don't burn the intarwebs down while I'm gone, okay?