MIDNIGHT BOOK RELEASE STORIES!

[Ghost]

sIf any of you want to share your stories about getting the book at the midnight release, post here, i'd love to read.

So yesterday, at around 10 I left my house with my brother and my dad. We went to Barnes and Nobles and there was ABSOLUTELY NO PARKING! So my dad dropped me and my brother off so he could find parking. So we go to the font of the store and ask these police people where to go. They directed us to this line for people who pre-ordered, like us. So we starting walking to get to the end of the line and it just kept going and going and had no fucking end!! Past B&N and all the way AROUND Circuit City! so were like whatever and get in the line. then this lady walks by saying "i hope everyone has their gold bands!" and im like "wtf??" so apparently we needed these bands to show that we pre-ordered the book. and we didnt want to lose our place in line. i would have gone, but i had no idea where to go. my brother knew where it was, but i didnt want to be left alone to be raped by these weird guys standing behind us. so we called my dad and he got the band for us.

then we just waited and waited. it was like 10:30 by then. and it was super weird because all these kids were dressed, and some adults too. these were like people with scars and wands and it was really creepy. but fun, though. the girl in front of us had a SPEW badge.

then after a while this lady is like, "get your picture with harry potter for free!!" and i looked and there was like this
4 ft kid(who was a girl, btw) and she was holding this fake hedwig owl thing and a light up wand. and the weirdest hair job and eyeliner scars. so i was like, ok, what the hell and me and my brother took a pic with him. it came out really bad though because i was in the middle of fixing my hair and the bitch took the pic anyway. she even put it in this cute paper thing that said, "HARRY POTTER MIDNIGHT MAGIC PARTY! 3440 PAGES READ, ONLY 784 TO GO!"

so we kept waiting and from time to time there were these drunk guys passing in their cars like, "Harry Potter fans have small weiners!!" and "Harry potter fans are losers!!!" which more funny than offending, really. it was really hot too. and i was wearing jeans and this full sleeve stripped green shirt.

then at 12: 05 or something these kids come out of the store and start cheering and their parents were taking pix of them buying the "first"book and stuff, lol. and this total idiot was running around with the book and was like, "Ohh, who wants it??" and i swear to god someone must
have like punched him and stole the book. A lot of kids were doing that. i flicked him off and kids weredriving by in their cars and everything. it was really funny because one person was all "Whoohooo" and BAM! speedbump!

so fiinally at like 1 i get to go in and buy and of coure the line snakes all throughout the store. its prolly a way for them to get us to look at other books while waiting. so i get my book and leave. lol. it was fucking magical.once we get out my brother snatches it from me and is reading the chapters and stuff. its so funny when you walk out and every one else in the line is like giving you the dirtiest looks.

so i got home at like 1:30am and i was really tired but i drank some coke and stayed up until 3 or something reading. its REALLY good. sad that its the last book. Yeah. it was definitley an experience.

Hope you all got your hands on a copy!

[Hogwarts]

My story is we headed out 9:30 PM, got in a fight with my idiot father halfway down the driveway, stormed from the car back into the house bellowing to my bitch mother about buying me the book first thing in the morning - which she did. =D But sad to have missed the last midnight selling, seeing as I did party with the more nerdy fanatics for the last twooo. x)

[Pixie]

I went with my sister and some friends to the local Borders... we got there at about 9, and there were so many people that it was basically standing room only. We kipped up in the comic book section and read Calvin and Hobbes. We ran into these guys that I went to grade school with, which was kind of wierd. I used to be best friends with one of them until I changed schools, and it was really awkward because the last time I heard about him was when I learned that his mother committed suicide. His idiot friend kept texting a friend of his in Germany, who already had the book and was telling him what happens, and was like, "OOOOhh, who wants to know who dies??! I know!!" and it was like, "God, fuck off, no one want to talk to you.." so it took ages and the line was so long that we didn't end up getting the book until 2 in the morning. It really was not that enjoyable. Then I was so busy that week that I didn't get a chance to read it until Wednesday.