Today marks five years since Order of the Phoenix was released around the world. Do you remember the headlines? OOTP became the fastest selling book ever. Amazon made history with their book deliveries. And who could forget all of those misprinted copies!
What other memories do you have from the Order of the Phoenix release? Sound off in the comments!
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06-21-2008
at 1:28 PM
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:29:54
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:33:46
Who can forget? OotP was the first HP book I got on the release day. And after crying so much for Sirius, I discovered mugglenet. Great memories of that summer! :o)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:34:44
Wow! That means its been 5 years since I started reading Harry Potter! (I was a late bloomer). Its been an awesome 5 years!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:36:13
I started reading it on my flight to Chicago for my year as a foreign exchange student in the US.... My... thats so many years ago....
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:36:54
my friend has one of only 50 "super" special editions printed of ootp :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:39:47
its been five years............ My gosh its scary how much times past. im listening to it right now. anyone elses audio tapes/cds wearing out? lol but WOW... thats scary. after 5 it was the first time i felt like it would really all end sometime... there were only 6 and 7 left.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:40:14
What were the misprinted copies? And, Padfoot_Squarepants, same with me! Its been around 5 or 6 years since I started reading Harry Potter!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:44:09
I was travelling from Alabama to Pennsylvania the week after the release and my mom made me wait to read it until the trip so that I had something to do. I read on the airplane, in the airports, and when I got to Pennsylvania. My cousins are potter-freaks from Hudson, Ohio where they had a HUGE release party. They all had read it by the next day after the release, so I had to finish very quickly before they ruined it for me. :-) When I finished it we all sat around talking about it for the rest of our visit.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:44:46
I remember my punk cousin-in-law ruining the ending for me. We were at a Cheesecake Factory. Not even the dolce de leche cheesecake could console me.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:46:28
Id kill if someone ruined the endings. The only one that was ruined for me was the 6th one.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:55:12
haha, i remember here in boise, some crazy guy somehow got ahold of a bunch of copies and mailed them out to people like a few days before it was released! my friend was one that got one. He was nice enough to write jk rowling about it and pay for the book and everything. He even didnt read it until everyone else got it at the midnight release.
as for me, my mom made me wait until Christmas to read it!! it was torcher! but i found it and i read the "snapes worst memory" chapter while my mom was grocery shopping. i felt guilty afterwards, so i didnt read anymore. hahaha. yay.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:57:38
Ah, fond memories. It was my first midnight release, and my first new first edition. And I still dont have books 1-4.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:59:11
YAY!!!!!!! how could u 4get it?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? ! i cried so much when sirius died........ :(
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 13:59:58
Wow, it doesnt feel like 5 years! It was my first midnight release, also =]. I went with my dad, lol. I got it at midnight, and I was so excited because I got special permission to stay up late to read it! And what do I do? Fall asleep in the car on the way home. Hey, I was only 10! =P
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:02:25
Order of the Pheonix was the first midnight release I went to, and it was the weekend before my finals. I was so excited the whole time, I read it straight through the night and finished it the following afternoon, Im pretty sure I spent at least an hour sobbing uncontrollably when Sirius died. Its odd but I really like the fifth book a lot more now than I did when it was first realeased, I think its because I appreciate Harrys adolescent agnst more now that Im a bit removed from that phase in my own life. I cant believe it was five years ago...(as a slight side note, the excitement and various rereadings had no ill effects on my final grades).
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:03:26
Awesome. party! And in exactly a month its a year after Deathly Hallows release. Great Times . Great Times.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:05:12
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:06:34
Cant believe its been 5 years!!! I made my dad go out at eight in the morning the day after to get it off my cousin who had got it for me at midnight the night before, me being 8 I wasnt allowed go to that night. It was the longest book I had ever read!!! Its no.3 on my fav books ever 1.Half blood prince 2.Deathly hallows 3.Order of the phoenix. Such good memories!!!!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:14:26
Oh man, I still cant believe its been so long since I picked up Sorcerers Stone at Sams. But when Order of the Phoenix came out, I wanted to go to the midnight release with my best friend and fellow HP fan. But for some reason, her sister wasnt able to pick me up, and because of my moms work, I couldnt go with them. The next day, she called me, telling me all kinds of stuff, without spoilers of course (she was a real friend. xD), and asking if she could spend the night, so I could borrow the book. But my mom said no. I started bawling, I was so upset. I went back to the phone to tell my friend she couldnt come over, when my mom called me back into her room. I was still mad at her, until she pulled out OOTP from behind her back, telling me that her co-worker went to the midnight release to get the book for me. Man, I freaked out, to say the least. Now, anytime Im mad at my mom, I remember that.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:18:31
My first midnight release party going-to. lol. We went to the party after midnight and I wanted to get the book so bad. But we hadnt reserved a copy and the line was long and my dad said wed get it tomorrow. I was very, very, very sad that night. lol. We did get it the next day, fortunately. One of the best days of my life. We had just moved to that location, which was Watertown, New York. We got it at Borders in the mall in Watertown.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:19:59
Five years already... wow. OoTP was the first English book I ever read, because I coulnt wait for it to get translated into my ownn language. I knew barely any English bck then, but I spent the entire night reading it, with a dictionary next to me and lots and lots of coffee nearby. The result: a very tired reader, who had jumped from Elementary to Intermediate literally overnight. OoTP is officially the book that taught me English, and Im glad it did.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:22:57
so by the time i started to read the harry potter series book 1-4 were already out...so when book 5 was released it was my first experience with a midnight book release....i had a lot of fun and i remember staying up till the wee hours of the morning trying to get to the end of the book, but was unsuccessful in doing so. I cant believe that was already 5 years ago....it was also my senior year of High School.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:24:07
Yay! I enjoyed reading it so much. Reading the whole DoM in the middle of the night was just fitting. While I usually remember the part when I opened a new HP book, as I read this post I suddenly realised that Ive forgetten the feeling I had when I opened this particular one. It could be that I got sucked into it too fast to take notice of it. I loved it immidietly. The 21 of June was also the first day of the summer holiday that year and the feelings were so good! It is until today one of my favourite 7 books in the whole world!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:24:59
I remember. I had the end ruined for me. I was told Ron, my favorite character at the time, died. LOL
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:27:18
I had to wait 3 weeks to read it because I had to order it off Amazon, and it takes so long to arrive here. I remember being told Hagrid died in this book, which had me so upset, and was so relieved when I realized that didnt happen. It was also the first Harry Potter book I read in english, since Id read the first 4 in spanish. It took me a long time to finish it, but it was worth it!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:27:51
omg i remember when that book came out. that was the summer that i had read the first four in one week for the first time. i was soo excited for the 5th one and it was the 1st one i bought the day it came out. of course i cried for like the whole night when my favorite character died but other than that its one of the best books in the world.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:28:28
I remember I preordered it, so I had to wait until it came in the mail. I was in the store looking longingly at it, but I couldnt buy since I knew it was waiting for me at home... Once I got there, I read non-stop. Then, the next school day, I had yet to finish (I was 11... it took a while) one of my friends ruined the ending for me, and when I yelled at him, I ruined it for my entire class. I finished it the next week.
I cant believe its been 5 years...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:31:25
My god, I cant believe that its been five years. So much has happened. I remember that day it came out, I was so ecstatic. I had already been a huge fan of hte books for two years then, but I was still a person that always borrowed from the library. The week after the release was torture for me. The book obviously, was on hold for me for a long while. Then one day when I was about to go out with my dad, I see the book on the bottom stairs. I just stood sooo shock. I was afraid to touch it, thinking that it wasnt meant for me (i dont know what I was thinking). So making sure no one was around. I opened, smelled it(yes, and it smelled good!), and read the table of contents and all over the covers without actually readin the book. The an hour later, my dad says, the book is a friend of his, and that im allowed to borrow it. I was soooo happy I screamed to my sister (a HP fan too). But yeah. I remember I read like over a hundred pages that day. I was a slow reader at the time. I finished it five days. The best five days ever! I still cry everytime I read Beyond the Veil and The Lost Prophecy. And Ive read the 5th book five times. lol. The highlight of my summer that year of 03.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:36:00
Holy crap, that was already 5 years ago??? Whoaaaa...well my memory of the fifth was being so excited when reading about Harrys first kiss. I had already been excited to read the longest book of the series, and when I was at my sisters softball game, reading, and on the verge of squealing after reading the kiss.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:38:16
I bought OotP at a B&N, but my mum confiscated it saying that I needed to finish my summer school course before I could read it. (I read bits and pieces when she wasnt home. :) She finished it and told me that she thought Sirius had a "Spock syndrome" (any trekie fans out there?) Gosh, has it been five years?!? I was in middle School. Now Im in College. yesh. Harry Potter really has grown up with me.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:38:17
OMG i remember how much i was anticipating this book so i got a reserved card little thing at hastings for like 5 dollars and i lost it...then my mom got the book and i read to the chapter In a Hogs Head and i thought the book was boring so i put it down for a few years...i went through two hp obsessions my first was when i was ten and after the fifth book got boring i stopped then i started again when the fifth movie came out lol and i have no idea how i thought the book was boring!! geeze!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:38:47
My son who is 11 days older than Dan turned me onto the books around book three, so book 4 and five where my faves. I remember we stayed up till midnight to get the book at a "Potter Party"....then went home and read all night....I even called in sick to work the next day...thats how much I loved the book....I still read them over and over way into the night sometimes....Thank you so much JKR....you rock..ps son if you can read this you make me crazy proud serving our country....
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:40:15
Wow, does time fly.... I remember counting it down to the second. That was the first midnight release I attended because before that I never had to wait for a book. I was ten years old. The Borders cafe was serving "butterbeer," and the description sounded supremely gross, but I tried it anyway and found it to be very tasty. Somewhere around eleven, I got a nasty headache and sat in a corner :(. I planned to stay up all night with the book, but I decided to make sure I was taking in all the details instead, so I only read the first chapter. Unfortunately, the ending was spoiled for me at summer camp, despite my desperate demands to people to stop talking about it whenever I was near. I was furious with myself for not reading it faster.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:42:23
SaraLiz, I live near Hudson and I went to the huge release party that night... I remember the place was completely mobbed with people dressed like the characters, and the line at the bookstore was insane. Me and my friend stuck around for a bit before we decided to go to Wal-Mart at midnight instead of waiting in that gigantic line in Hudson. Got our books right at midnight and didnt stop reading until 4 in the morning. Good times with OOTP.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:42:33
Wow... Five years. You know whats weird? I actually woke up this morning and I noticed the date on my iHome was 6/21 and I immediately thought, "Hmm... didnt a Harry Potter book get released on this date a few years ago?" and then I got sad thinking how were never going to get another Harry Potter story. The first time reading Order of the Phoenix, it was my least favorite due to the fact that Sirius died, and I actually took that death really hard. The first time I read it through, I thought it was a really depressing book, but now after re-reading it and seeing its movie, its not my least favorite (I think my least favorite is Chamber of Secrets). Aww... I miss reading new HP books and not knowing what will happen!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:42:33
I cant believe its been that much already. I remember my aunt from London had promised to buy it for me (as she had done up to that point for the previous ones too) and give it to me as a birthday present when she came over to Malta for her holiday in August!! The weeks before she came over were agonising. I remember once I walked into a bookshop and saw a copy of OotP and I couldnt resist not reading some snippets. I nearly began screaming out aloud in the bookshop when I read the bit about the dementors attacking Harry and Dudley.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:45:26
OMG five years! thats gone quite fast! i remember my mu had to get it for me really early because i needed it before i had to perform in a show in our town, and i always almost missed coming on stage because i was so absorbed in the story lol :D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:48:37
As a side note, thank you to mugglemedics son for his service. It goes unnoticed how much you guys do and Id like to thank you for it :) As for OOTP I think for most of us it was the first hard cover book we read. I was a late bloomer (I refused to read the books and was forced to see the movie) and I remember counting down the days and then when I woke up I flew downstairs and told my mom we had to go to the store. My mom had gotten up early and gotten that book so that it was ready when I woke up. I hugged my mom and hauled myself up in my room for about 24 hours. I only left for a total of like 3 hours because I was forced to eat and shower and my mom said I had to spend some time outside, yeah I sorta snuck the book out with me and read at the park. Like many of you, it was the book that made me realize that the series was going to end, and I may not like how it ends. Sirius death hit me hard, but not as hard as Dumbledores. My friends thought I was crazy because I didnt do anything with them until I had read it twice; well, my friends still think Im crazy. I cant believe its been 5 years already...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 14:51:23
Wow, Im re-reading the series and finished GoF/started on OotP around midnight last night, unbeknownst to this monumental occasion.
Coincidence? I think not.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:02:29
Mmm, I remember I read the Sirius part on my way back home from my grandmothers houe.
I started crying silently in the back seat the rest of the way home as I struggled through car sickness to finish the book.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:07:58
I first started reading the Harry Potter series when I was 9. Harry Potter really was the reason I learned to love reading. I had been waiting for OOTP to come out for about a year, and when it did I was sooo excited. We went to the store early in the morning and picked it up. ( We had mine pre-bought, and for good reason the store was packed.) I was only 10 and I finished it in a day. I remember staying up all night to finish it, and when Sirius died I started bawling and my Mom had to come in and ask what was wrong. I still think of OOTP as my favorite Harry potter book. I cant belive its been 5 years.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:18:19
I remember running around the house with it after it came in the mail. Then I read it and I was surprisingly not too upset that Sirius died. I loved him and all but I just felt like I didnt get the chance to get to know him as much as, say, Dumbledore. Then I cried because I didnt know what I was going to do waiting for the next one.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:20:12
i remember my dad reading it to me. he does an *AWESOME* impression of Dobby and kreacher! those were the best time of my life! i had to reread it of course because i was like 10 then and now i appreciate it a lot More!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:20:36
Wow, I cant believe its been five years! I remember that prior to the release, our local newspaper has a OotP bookmark you could cut out, and I cut it out and used it! I still have it!
And I still cant believe its been HALF A DECADE! :D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:21:16
I started to get really into Harry Potter because of my sisiter. I remember her buying OOTP while on vacation at my aunts house. My aunt and my sister really dont get along well, but my sister whined until my mom told my aunt to make sure she gets the book the day it comes out. My aunts family didnt really understand the whole thing of getting it the day it comes out and not eating or sleeping until you finish the entire book...but that summer I started reading Harry Potter and OOTP opened my mind to a magical world. Till today its my favorite book!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:31:21
omg so long ago...I was only 8 when it came out, and my awesome cousin (who was i think 17 at the time) called me and said he was going to a book party for harry potter. I thought it was the coolest thing. I didnt even know what it was called! I was amazed that my cousin had all this knowledge, and i reserved it at the library (i was 3rd). I finished it on my grandmothers bed while visiting. I was crying when Sirius died, and my family couldnt understand why I was so sad. Then I remembered that there were still 2 books left...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:33:11
I sat in the big chair in my living room, staring out the window, waiting for the ups man to bring me my book for hours. My parents went out to the grocery store and bought another copy for my sister to read, but when it was noon, and I still didnt have my book, they let me read that one. My dad went to look on the website, and they said that the book had been delivered two hours ago. One problem, it was at my old house - they never changed the address! So my dad went to get it, and I settled down to read. About two hours and 300 pages later, my friend rang the doorbell for me to come over. Against my wishes, my parents made me go outside. Ive never forgiven them! But I still love that book!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:40:31
I pre-order the book from the library. I didnt buy any of the books until last year. its the funniest book that I read. Yes, I know Harry was angry a lot, and Sirius died, but it was sooo funny reading about Harry razzing on Dudley. And The Weasley twins-- the mayhem they created just before they left! And how they left! The saddest part for me, was after Sirius died. When Harry was in Dumbledores office and he couldnt stand it any more, the pain was unbearable to him. And Dumbledore wouldnt let him out of the office and Harry startedd throwing things. I wish all of that was in the movie.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:46:18
i was on a girl scout trip at the beach when it came out *lol* i had to wait a whole day after it came out to get my hands on it. gosh that was so long ago, i was 13 then. this was the first book that our family had to buy multiple copies of b/c we were all too anxious to wait for eachother to finish reading. my mom and my sister had gone to the bookstore to buy it the morning it came out, but they were sold out and so my sister broke down crying right in the store, lol. they drove to walmart and got it there.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:48:24
f-FIVE WHOLE YEARS?!?!?! I was nine going on ten....omigod...I was young...omigod. holy. split. banana peels. Wow. I got it early in the morning the day it was released. I remember it took me seven and a half hours to finish it, even with my mom trying to get me to do chores around the house. Wow...what memories...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:49:46
wow!!! 5 years hahaha i was in mexico and i had to call every bookstore to find this book!!!!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:50:48
awww. talk about nostalgia. :(
this was my first ever midnight book release and i was 13. i sat on my grandparents computer for hours playing the scholastic trivia game before we went up around 8 or 9.
then i won the stores trivia contest (youngest person with a perfect score) and won the Ultimate Unofficial Guide.
i stayed up all night reading and eating the chocolate they gave us "to keep away the dementors".
it was my first all nighter.
wow. this is making me rather sad. lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:52:56
Wow this really brings a sense of nostalgia. OOTP was the first book that Id been old enough to stay up for to go to the preview party at the book store (although I had to wait for our mail in copy to come in from Amazon the next morning- i wasnt old enough to stay up until midnight yet!). I remember agonizing in front of the mail box with GOF waiting for the mail man. I also remember crying like a baby (which I guess I sort of was at the time) when Sirius died.
I cant believe its all over! Its been a good ten years of reading HP.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:53:34
I remember I was in Tucson during the release. The problem was that I got sick the night before the book came out. Im not kidding, my dad was holding back my hair, like, kind of sick. The next morning, I made myself get up and go to that bookstore to get my copy. I had to skip the festivities altogether too. But when we got back to out hotel room, my parents made me take a nap before I could read my book!!! So after I took my nap (*mumble mumble grrrrrr*) I got up, only I couldnt walk, so I practically dragged myself around the hotel room looking for where they had hid OotP (my parents had left the room, see). I couldnt find it, so I dragged myself along the floor down the hallway to the balcony, where they were reading, and asked where it was. My stepmom told me, and then I crawled back to the room, found it, then began reading... oh, what I would do for Harry Potter!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:54:16
five years...I can;t get over that. half a decade. I wasnt even in middle school yet...omigod....I was so young....wow...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 15:58:16
i was leaving for camp the next day. my parents werent gunna let me take it, but finally they caved. and of course, someone ruined sirius death for me. i was SO mad
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:00:56
I never went on the internet, and I didnt have any close friends. I never went to a camp, or any other social event. The books have never been spoiled for me. In fact, I never discovered Mugglenet until after HBP. This made me mad since I always wanted to know if I wouldve been a H/Hr shipper or a R/Hr shipper.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:03:34
Five years? My God, I can still remember the day it came out! I was at a cousins birthday party, and she got the book for her birthday the day it came out. My parents wouldnt buy it for me until we got back home (my cousin lives a long way from us), and even then I had to wait until the Tuesday after it was released ... Anyway, I had to resort to reading my cousins copy before shed even looked at it! What? I was desperate! :D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:14:40
Wow, I cant believe its been five years, I was like ten! That would be horrible if the ending was ruined for those people. I only had the sixth one ruined for me.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:15:16
Gosh, I was nine then, and it was the first harry potter book that I ever read. I had thought about reading them before. My friend got an extra copy and I bought the extra copy from her. I read the first chapter, stopped and went back to read the rest. HOOKED!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:16:58
Five years? wow... I remember that my grandparents were planning on sending me the book but it still hadnt come like two weeks after the release (they live across the country) and everyone at my summer camp had read it. They were ALL talking about who died and I can remember telling all these people to stop talking about the book since I hadnt read it yet.
but wow.... I really cant believe its been five years since OOTP
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:23:29
oh my it was that a fast five years. I still remeber going to the bookstore and buying the boook. wow im shocked. and i remeber reading it wow it was soo good. it still is. i wonder if all this welll be happen when it is at its ten years?? i hope soo
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:24:22
jeez....i was 11 when it came out....haha its the longest book and i read it the fastest out of all the books. to this day, its still probably my favorite! :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:28:18
did i say 11? i meant 12.....summer is causing even the simplest math to leave me...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:37:13
I just bought the book one year later .. I wasnt into harry that time ; however, I have already read the first four books
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:40:32
The first book - or thing - EVER (and apart from HBP and DH) and for ever delivered at midnight from the german post !! Amazing! I started reading immediatly!! At midnight, a nice postofficer handed me the book - she had to deliver twelve in that night, only in our small town - amazing things happen when it comes to Harry Potter!!
Remember those lucky days, with two books ahead, the painful waiting, but also the nice theory-sharing and plotguessings - I miss it. Definetly!! (sorry for my bad english!)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:41:53
woow! 5 years! i cant believe it. i remember the day i got my OotP book. my dad had reserved it for me thru the internet. and i was soo excited to go and pick it up with him. but i ended up being sick the day it came out!!! :( so he went and got it for me. i was disappointed i didnt get to go with him but i was soo excited to have it in my hands! and i got a Hagrid bookmark!! ah..memories...wish we had another release date to anticipate...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:45:20
wow. its been five years seen OotP? darn. time really does fly. gosh i remember the anticipation of OotP. looking back, i think thats when i became obsessed with harry potter. not the crazy obsessed i am right now. but pretty darn obsessed. i remember collecting newspaper clippings whenever harry potter was mentioned. i even remember reading about the misprinted/fake copies. lol. i remember watching the news on the release day and wishing i was at the release parties. and i remember calling a newspaper to be told that who dies in the fifth book. lol. yeah. i spoiled myself on purpose. god knows why. i remember looking through the fliers for which stores were selling the book and begging my dad to take me to buy it. and he wouldnt. grrrr. but little did i know that he went to go get the book the Saturday of the release. which was nice, but he didnt give it to me until the next weekend. lol. and then reading the book. darn. thats a whole other story in itself. lol. but those were good times. good times.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:48:25
Im actually reading Order again and I have forgotten how much I love it!! So great! JK is amazing.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:49:35
OOTPs birthday was one of the first things I thought about this morning, cuz harry potter is so important the dates stick with me :) Cant believe it was so long ago. I was thinking 3 years or so, but wow, 5...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:50:33
Wow. Five years ago I was ten going on eleven. It was my first midnight release party and it was a really great time. I remember being dumbfounded that Sirius died and I remember it took a LONG time to read that book. It was like half my body weight back then.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:52:19
wow you guys i feel left out. i dont remember any headlines because i was 10 at the time. i hadnt started reading HP until about 2 years ago! but this has been the only time ive felt left out because im hardcore now. i remember thinking OOTP was the greatest yet. i read all 6 books inside 1 week! the only thing that was spoiled for me was the ending of the 6th one. but im over it now.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 16:54:52
Who could forget that day? I remember going to the book release part at Barnes & Noble, staying up and reading Vampire Kisses untill I could grab my book and hightail it OUT OF THERE! (It was boring, I was tired, and I wanted to get up early to start reading.) I went to bed as soon as I got home (The concept of reading with a flashlight under the covers to escape my parents wrth didnt occur to me.), and woke up around 4:30 AM. I picked it up, started reading, and cried at the end of less than two hours. Then I re-read it over eight times during the day, still not getting over it. I decided that it was my favorite book, and it has been since then. Oh, man. Im going to make myself all sad! =( I cant believe that was only five years ago, and now its all over.
~Cheers, Ginny
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:04:37
I remember shopping at costco a little while before it came out, and I saw a poster board by the door advertising it...I flipped out...then I paused...is the book gonna be blue? weird...all the other books have color...this book is just shades of blue! I remember thinking how weird that was, then thinking, "oh, whatever, who cares? its frikin HARRY POTTER!" by the time the book came out, I was over it, and just enjoyed reading the book...it took me 4 days, and I hardly slept or ate! I was shocked when sirius died, but I loved the descriptions of messed up magic at the O.W.L.s... when whats-her-name turned her farret into a flock of flamingos? and ron turned a dinner plate into a large mushroom with no idea how it happened! ha! loved it!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:08:18
Whooh!!!! Was it really that long ago? And I remember it perfectly! : ) Yaaay for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! : )
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:08:28
FIVE YEARS? Golly gee.... Thats a lot. It has also been 11 months after HP & DH came out. :) ♥
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:24:52
Wow, I remember this one really well, surprisingly.
We were in San Diego on vacation. I remember being disappointed because that meant we got it later than the East Coast. My dad and brother went to a Wal-Mart and bought 2 copies so we wouldnt fight over them.
I remember the Wal-Mart too, actually...
Wow...good memories
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:25:22
haha there were misprinted ones? omg i never heard about that! thats funny.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:25:30
it was the first book i got when it came out
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:36:19
WOAH. i cant believe its been five years. i was nine! but i was still capable of spending an entire night reading an 870 page book :) w-o-w. oh my godric i think this was also the year i discovered mugglenet! heehee GAHH i remember crying over sirius and cursing at umbridge through the pages of an inanimate object. haha this was the book we had to wait three bloody years, wasnt it? holy hufflepuff! :D ootp remains my #3 favorite :) [dh at 1 and hbp at 2... 4-poa, 5-gof, 6-cos, 7-ss.] not that anyone cares about that. psfhh. happy release day, ootp!! :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:39:02
Well, i wasnt present when the book was released, seeing that i wasnt a fan of HP just then, but OoTP was the book that turned me into a hard-core fan, because it made me cry about a fictional character..what never happened to me before..I hate people that dont like Ootp just because Harry was moody or angsty. It was just a phase people, and part of the growing up process of harry..OotP will remain one of my favorite books in the series!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:44:12
I remember sneaking into my cousins room in the middle of the night (I was 7 and visiting them in Minnesota) to read the book. I stayed up all night reading for 9 hours straight. I remember having to cover my face with a pillow so i didnt wake everyone up when I was crying over Sirius. That book was freaking awesome after that terrible terrible wait. Theres only so much you can do with he wand-order mistake... I miss those days though. All the speculation and madness.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 17:56:51
man....it was my first midnight release too, and also the reason why i found mugglenet! after i was done reading it i just needed more harry in my life
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 18:07:28
are you serious? 5 years! wow and todays 5 months until HBP comes out in theatres!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 18:38:21
OMG i remember this day. I was 11 years old and i got to stay off school cos i had a hospital appointment but i wasnt feeling well and was sick in the hospital car park lol (yh gross i know) and then me and my mum went into town and bought it. it seems less than five years ago
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 18:46:58
Wow, five years. It really doesnt seem that long ago. I still have this cool sticker stuck in the middle of the window in my bedroom from the midnight release party at Barnes and Nobel... looks pretty good for having been there five years :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 18:53:03
Wow. Its been little more then five years since Ive started reading, and its been five years since OOTP. The sad part is, I ended up buying the book like three days after it came out. Ah, well, one store didnt mind me sitting there for most of the store hours to read the book.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 18:53:56
I honestly cant remember how I got the book. That makes me sad. Im sure I got it opening day, but I didnt go to a release party ... hm. I remember for all the other books. : (
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 18:54:52
its been five years for me too!! it feels like 2 days i remember going to wal-mart and i found the order of the phoenix book so i read the 4th one then the 5th one then teh 3rd one then the 6th one then the 2nd one then the 1st one and then i read them all over in the proper order 5 times and then i read deathly hallows X)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 19:00:13
i was seven years old when i read goblet of fire and since i was seven iv been known as the harry potter nerd ow im known as the harryu potter and twilight ned and im PROUD OF IT in one year ill be going to high school and then illhave my memorys of my old school especially with teh harry potter thing
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 19:01:25
good times...the memories nvr fade
RIP sirius
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 19:03:41
Oh wow, five years already? Crazy! Anyway, sad to say I dont have any memories--I absolutely refused to read the books back then (my brother had me convinced that they sucked!)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 19:07:40
5 YEARS ALREADY
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!
IT FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY!!!!
gr8est memories EVER
in the plane going from New York to London when it was released!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 19:10:11
First HP book, I attended a release for!!! Really? has it really been that long ago...It was the summer before high school for me...now Im in college...wow!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 19:50:46
Wow, I was only 13 at the time, about to turn 14 lol I remember that was the first Harry Potter midnight release that I went to. I went to Borders and I dressed up and everything, my mom even made me a wand to carry around
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 19:51:36
It was my first Midnight release EVER. I went with the girls who even today are my closest friend. Our inside joke from that night was standing under the balcony chanting "10...10...10" to one of my friends mom (who was on the balcony) because it was 10 oclock and we wanted to head out to our nearby Borders.
I had to work the next day so i couldnt read it straight through but i read it at every break that day and when i came home i shut myself in the room to read.
It was the book that cemented my love for Snape
Its one of my top three faves!
I remember being at Borders and feeling everyones excitement! it was incredibly catching...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 19:53:50
I remember getting the 5th book, but I wasnt as active in the fandom then, and I didnt even know about this website. I got it the night after it came out and read it without a party. Hahaha.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:01:15
5 whole years! Wow that really passed by fast! I was clutching the book, engrossed with it. Trying to tune out my sisters mocking.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:14:05
Wow, five years. OotP was special for me because it was the first HP book I read by myself (my mom read the first four to me). It got me into big, chunky books, and changed the way I looked at reading in general. Now, Im going into my Sophmore year of high school, and I credit OotP for my ability to remain undaunted by the course reading I have to do.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:14:29
It sure doesnt feel like 5 years at all!
I remember going to a little bookstore at around 7:00am in the morning, two hours before it came out here in Australia. There werent many people there in comparison to how many there are in America, but I still felt a sense of belonging with the nerds in that bookstore.
They had a few competitions before the actual release. The questions were easy, like "What is Harry Potters best friend?" the first person answered Ron, and then the "wizard" said, "whos the other best friend of Harry Potters? She has brown hair..." and I put up my hand, just like Hermione did in Philosophers stone, and he picked me! And I said "Hermione!!!" and he gave me the option of picking two presents, one was twice the size of the other. But for some reason I chose the smaller present, and it was "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Thme"
And then it was release time, and when I got my hands on the book, I almost cried, even though I was only nine years old. It was the first Harry Potter book Id lined up for.
That was a memorable day. I even got to keep one of the boxes!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:23:29
Wow! I really cant believe its been that long!
The night it was released was very memorable for me. It was my second midnight release party, but I had to wake up at 7 the next morning for a Girl Scout info session, so I wasnt allowed to read it that night. However, I brought it with me and read it during the breaks. Everyone else there was so jealous that I already had the book. Even the adults were walking up to me and asking me about it whenever they could. It was amazing!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:32:28
Wow! 5 years already? Its been so long! I was so young then! I remember that summer vividly because I was on vacation and my sibling kept stealing the book and reading it when it was my turn! It took me forever to finish!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:33:42
oh when i bought it at the midnight release i was sooo excited to get it then i had to wait for my sister, a fellow hp freak, to read it. grrr. it was killing me!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:33:50
I was in the hospital and had just given birth to my first child. He turned 5 today and has known how to recognize the words Harry Potter from very early on.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:38:52
I remember completely forgetting that it was coming out (I wasnt big into the fandom like I am now) and I just happened to go to the mall within hours of it opening and grabbed one of the last two copies remaining from the book store.
I finished it later that night.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:40:06
my second midnight release party. (although my mom made me leave at ten at the party for GoF because I was too young) i still have the pictures!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 20:41:38
Well lets see... First off this is weird because today (without ever realizing it was the 5 year anniversary) I went out and finally bought the OotP Movie.
Memories
Wow I cant believe its been five years. Anyway, I didnt go to a release party, but I did reserve a book at Wal-Mart (and I got a free popcorn for doing so :P) I went to wal-mart at 8am and grabbed my copy and got in line. I gave them my reservation ticket (which also acted as a coupon) and they didnt even know what to do with it. The cashier ended up calling the manager, but whatever. I got home and started reading. I remember my aunt, who I hadnt seen in like 5 months, came over to visit and swim in our pool, but I stayed in my room. My Dad got upset with me and made me come outside. So I set on the deck reading while everyone else swam. Then my little cousin splashed me and the book got wet, and I got mad. Then I finished it, then I cried.
This was the first book that I actually had to wait to be released I started reading the series in 2000 (or maybe late 99) and wow It seemed like it would never come out. I may be wrong but was the wait between GoF and OotP the longest?
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 21:00:17
whoa. i was 10!! holy crap. i remember i really really REALLY wanted to go to the midnight party but my mom wouldnt let me for some reason i cant remember. so i picked up in the morning at borders 5 years ago...i think i might still even have the receipt!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 21:02:05
Wow I cant believe that ! I do remember going to Chapters for the midnight release party. It was my favorite book release because it just so happen to have been my birthday. So having a Harry Potter book come out on my birthday was such an honor. I turn twenty on June 21st , wow and now Im twenty five ouch!!! Thats crazy.
But great memories from that wonderful day!!
Cheers !!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 21:12:34
I was 12 when OotP came out, and it is one of my first vivid HP memories. I remember going to the book premiere [my first for any of the HP books] and being utterly amazed at the size of the fandom. I had never known there to be some many people who loved Harry Potter! :D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 21:15:17
I was eleven, and just got the brand new OotP. I went into my bedroom, sat on my bed, and opened the first crisp page. Everything was silent. Then my mum started the vacuum cleaner. I cried. Hahaha... I was so young! =) I cannot believe its been five whole years!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 21:20:09
Wait... I was ten! Whoops!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 21:41:55
Okay... lol reading everyone elses memories has reminded me of when I actually read the book. I sat in my family room on this big chair reading. I actually remember reading the part where theyre at Gimmauld Place and Mrs. Weasley sees her family dead as bogarts, and of course I didnt know at the time that they were bogarts and totally freaked out! lol and the first night I had the book my friends had a tent set up in their backyard and invited my brother and I to go... omg I actually brought the book WITH ME to the sleepover! My friends were all doing something and I was sitting in the corner of the tent reading.. hahaha looking back I really dont think I shouldve done that, but I just had to read!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 22:06:23
Omigod...I just legit got teary. Lets see...5 years ago I was completely obsessed with Harry Potter, obviously. I had become officially obsessed around Goblet of Fires release...yes, just before the long wait!! And I remember I had my poor father go to Borders that night and get me the book so I could read it all night long..and as soon as he woke me up to give it to me I screamed "Thank you!!!!!" and collapsed into bed :P
And then I proceeded to read it over the next day.
Wow...5 years...that is way to scarey ...I was in middle school and now Im a senior in high school...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 22:18:22
Wow five years? I was only nine when it came out! I remember it so well because it was my best friends birthday and it was both of our first midnight releases. That was such an amazing night, it makes me sad that there wont be any more books to stand in line for.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 22:41:22
If its anyone who should feel like a late bloomer its me. My first time reading a whole HP book was back in 05, and it happened to be the Order of the Phoenix. It was only because I had just saw the Goblet of Fire and then my mum shooked me by buying the fifth HP book for me for Christmas. I had read the first HP book back in 01 I was 8 years old... but I wasnt a very good reader I had only read as far as the first chapter. And then few months latter I saw the commercial for the first HP film, and Ive been a fan ever sents.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 22:44:32
Awww! I remember it well! I was but a wee 12 yr old at the time, but me and my best friend went to the midnight party, and we were all dressed up. We had gotten there at, like, 5 p.m. and then when midnight FINALLY came, we bought the book and then jumped in her moms car to drive home and stay up all night reading it. As we were driving out of the parknig lot, we rolled open the sun roof and stood up with tears streaming down our wee faces crying, " Weve got the fifth book!!!" Then, a passing jogger looked over and just started laughing. "what?" we said.
"Youve got the wrong one!"
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 22:54:03
Order of the Phoenix was the first book I read on the release date. I had read and re-read the previous four, anxiously waiting for the fifth. I still remember clutching it in my hands, already well into the first chapter by the time my mom started the car to go home. I laughed at Tonks, sobbed for Sirius, growled at Umbridge, cheered for Fred and George. The fifth is still my favorite of the seven (I think), and Ive read it the most. Now is as good a time as any to start it again. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 23:04:23
O BIG WIP!!! MOW IF YOU WERE TAKING ABOUT BOOK ONE, THAT WOULD RECIEVE MY ATTENTION MORE THAN BOOK FIVE ANY DAY OR TIME!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 23:05:49
I remember that I always read with my mum, and my dad had came into the room to hear it, and he fell asleep, Mum and I laught that he was making the sound affects for the dementors!;)
I also chose to have the nickname Padfoot, in honor of Sirius, I did not cry when I read Siriuss death, but I was shocked.
Oh, yeah, thats when I found a nickname for my least favorite teacher, Professor Umbridge.
Has it realy been five years, since I first learned of Harry Potter? (it was right after the Order came out that I started to read and really watching Harry Potter.)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 23:18:46
well i remember getting it early from toys r us, and then me and my uncle riding back in a bus, and i read the first 2 chapters in the bus before shutting myself in my room and reading the whole thing in a day. wow ha!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 23:21:07
I have only been to two midnight releases, The Half Blood Prince, and Deathly Hallows, and in with Deathly Hallows, I went in costume an dthis boy bout 6 years of age, walked straight up at me, looked at my forehead ( I did not draw a lightning bolt), but still looked at my and said like Ron in the first movie "Youre Harry Potter!" I tried SO hard to keep my face straight! Oh and speaking of Deathly Hallows, I THINK I might have found where they MIGHT split the movie, I looked on a site that had all cast members for HBP and on Dans and others it had the DHpt.1 and 2 already on there as post-production, but on Wormtails it only had part one, prehaps that gives us a slight hint?
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 23:22:34
This book, in hardcover edition, was the very last gift my grandmother Cathy, who was like a mother to me, gave to me before she died. She wasnt even able to give it to me herself, because I had just left Michigan to visit my dad in Missouri. She died 3 days after I left, and this book was one of the very last things she did before she passed away. She was the only one who has ever really supported me in each and every one of my endeavors. That she bought the book for me was her final show of support and belief in me.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 23:32:54
wow 5 years!? I remember I left for Florida the day it came out and so I had to wait for my sister to read it and then mail it to me before I got a chance to. But I got it like 3 days before my 11th birthday so it was a nice present and it was the first book that came out once I had started reading harry potter and it was the first book I ever read by myself. I remember my grandparents got really mad at me because before I got it I kept begging them to buy me a copy whenever I saw it in a store and then once I got it in the mail I refused to put it down until I was finished, and it took me quite a few days because I had never read a book anywhere near that long.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-21 23:38:17
Really, really slow news week...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 00:01:56
gosh it doesnt seem like five years. I remember I had come home from college to go to a release party here. I stayed up all night and read until I literally dropped. I didnt answer my phone, watch tv or leave the house. I finished it before it was time to go back to my apartment. When I returned home my friend that was staying with me for the summer was crying. When I asked what was wrong she said that shed been driving home from work, having just picked up her copy (not even having a chance to open it yet) and a local radio DJ offered sold out concert tickets to the first person to call in and give out the ending. They aired it before she had a chance to change the station.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 00:03:18
I was getting into Harry Potter after GoF came out, so this was the first one I bought the day it came out :), I remember like 3 days after when I was reading it still I was on an airplane for South Carolina, because I was moving there...and that summer I read it like 6 times, once in 1 day :) sheesh...five years...i was 10. hahaha. going into 5th grade....WOW, so long ago. good times, good times.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 00:13:52
Who could forget Order of the Phoenix? All those memories... Ive read it thousands of times, so the cover is only held on by a few strings.... I miss the anticipation and excitement of a new Harry Potter book! Maybe one day, well be in line again, waiting for a new Harry Potter book!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 00:15:11
Ah yes...Order of the Phoenix. I remember the huge fanon build-up and how people were ecstatic about knowing the title of the book before it came out. Must have been 100 identically-titled fanfics out there...I skipped all of them and contented myself with Hermione/Snape. I also have very clear memories of the night of the release. I didnt know at the time that you had to preorder the book to be guaranteed a copy; for some reason I missed the memo. (In retrospect I see I couldve just gone to a WalMart or even a supermarket, but my friends of the day didnt know that.) I was at a friends sleepover birthday party and I spent an hour crying as her mom got on the phone and called every bookstore she could think of. She finally located a few copies at a Waldens Bookstore in the local mall. Feels rather ridiculous now, but there you are! After wed all picked up our copies the next morning (before breakfast -- I got mine at 7:10 a.m.), we sat around the kitchen table chewing and gasping as we read about Harry being attacked by dementors. It was such a different beginning from the other books; I could hardly believe it was real. Took me two days to finish it, owing to my father borrowing it repeatedly. By the time the seventh book came out, we knew enough to each buy a separate copy. : )
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 00:26:04
I was 13 when it came out. I cant remember when I got OOTP. Im pretty sure I got it the day it came out, but I dont know. I got it from Meijers I think. I just finished listening to OOTP on cd two days ago. Im going back and listening to all the books on cd. GOF was the first HP book Ive ever read. Its the one that made me fall in love with the series. I had listened to parts of books one and two before, but I didnt really get into them at first. I also had seen the movies. The first midnight release Id gone to was HBP. I was waiting in line at Meijers and a cute boy came up to me and gave me his/a copy so I didnt have to wait to long to read the amazing 6th book.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 00:30:00
I remember being in line at Wal-mart....I was too young to go by myself so my mom came with me. The line wound through the entire building, and there were only 500 copies. My mom went searching through the line ahead of us to see if we knew anyone. Luckily we did, so we had them buy 2 copies, and they sold one to us. While she was gone, two guys came running around in their football uniforms and with lightning bolts on their foreheads screaming "Potter! Potter! Im Harry Potter!" And it scared the crap out of me.
It was the first time I had ever read an entire book in less than 2 days. I was so proud of myself.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 01:00:20
oooh - OotP was the first book I got on the release day. I was just doing an internship in a small hotel in Scotland and my boss gave me the day off to pick up the book in Inverness :D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 01:13:42
I was working on the day of the release and picked my copy up from Waterstones just after 8am so I had time to read for a while before starting work at 9am. My husband also bought a copy, (we got one with the Childrens cover and one with the Adult cover and continued this tradition all the way to DH when we went to a midnight opening!) Back to OOTP; it was a really sunny day and a lady was sitting on a bench outside the shop already deeply into the book, I couldnt wait and rushed into the library where I work and got straight down to reading. I can still remember the total shock of Dementors appearing in Little Whinging, then when Petunia revealed that she knew what Dementors were I was so stunned I had to read it twice to be sure I hadnt got it wrong! I read in all my breaks and then in the evening the band in which my husband plays drums had a gig, while they were setting up I sat and read then afterwards I stood outside reading by our car while Hubby got the drum kit stowed away. Read as much as possible at home before bed. The following day it was incredibly hot and I sat at home with a fan trained on me to try to keep cool and read for ages. I finished the book on the monday morning before having to start work at 1pm. Of course no one else had finished it so I couldnt discuss the book with anyone for days!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 01:18:58
Wow! Five Years? It is hard to believe it has been that long. Look how far the series has come! A conclusion. I remember that we were moving back to the states from Germany (Dad was in the Army) when the book came out. My mother picked up a copy at the PX in Heidelberg, and at the same time my grandparents took me and my sisters to wal-mart that day and got it for us. The worst part was that we had the book, but we had to wait for my mother, who was reading the books to us so nobody could hog the book and everyone was on a level playing field. My mother and I still read out loud to each other the books, and we are on 5 now. We just take them in rotation. We are on the 4th go around since 7 came out.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 01:22:15
Lol, now THIS is what I call scraping for news stories.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 01:42:14
wow andrews really getting into asking us to comment today isnt he. Hes done it on twilightsource as well.
five years since OotP! Seriously? Wow Im in shock. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 12 and just started high school and my mum refused to drive me to the shopping centre at 6 to line up. So I got up at 4 and caught the bus and walked about 10km. My mum was so angry but she picked me up so I was happy.
I stayed up till 3 in the morning until I finished and I had the worst headache so I sat in my backyard, in the dead of the night, reading to try and stay awake. Thats where I was when I read about Sirius and became hysterical.
thats my most prominent memory. Sitting in my backyard, at 3.30, sobbing hysterically.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 01:45:59
5 years ....it doesnt seem to be that long but it was my first book that i got on the release date not to mention i was in the first 5 customers that got the book ^^ good times ..sad that i wont go through the same excitement anymore for HP....
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 02:03:49
Ah yes, I remember as if it was yesterday. I was 13 years old, and I was bouncing off the walls June 20th waiting until we could get to the bookstore for the midnight party. Once we got there, I bounced off the walls until midnight.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 02:04:12
I have some many good memories related to OOTP : at the time I was 15 and I didnt speak or understand English(I am French) as well as I do today but I couldnt wait to find out what happened in the book so I ordered it on Amazon.com and gave it a try!I spent the whole morning waiting for the magical parcel containing the book!My postman got really scared when I jumped at him and started shouting " THANK YOU,THANK YOU!" (Since then, I sort of try to avoid him!)
Anyway,Harry Potter was the best English teacher ever, I can really say that it taught me English better than any other teacher.I didnt read Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows in French after that, just in English...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 02:18:10
i remember the day i got the 5th book it was a christmas morning {we have a tradition of gettting up at 12 and opening are presents} i knew i was going to get it and after we got done opening presents everyone went back to bed i stayed up reading it took me an hour and a half to read it now days it takes me like a week so i can savor it
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 02:36:25
Wow, thats... thats crazy. My Harry Potter story is a wierd one, I used to turn down the books again and again as my Grandma would buy the first few and try to get me to read them, finally I actaully did then I begged mum to take me downtown asap to get OOTP when it came out and I didnt even end up reading it because my lazy 11 year old self thought it was too big. But once again Potter got the better of me and Im glad I picked it back up almost 3 years later when I couldnt sleep one night. The rest is history. But with this book I discovered fanfiction and mugglenet and basically- the fandom. Three cheers for Order of the Phoenix!!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 03:22:24
of course i remember! i was 9 at the time. we just moved out our house and we were waiting for our new house to be finished so in the meantime we lived with my gran and we went on a holiday with my other gran and my grampa and when we got back i was so excited to get my book and then i did! my sisters got them too but my sister who is a year younger only ever reads like 10 pages before she gets fed up [i know shes crazy] she prefers asking me questions about it and listening to mugglecast with me instead of finding out things for herself hahaha. it took me a few weeks to read it because i could never read a book in a day like i did with DH but i suppose it lasted longer! ahhh it was so long ago i want to go back in time and get that feeling of a brand new book again because i miss it! =[ =]
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 03:24:34
FIVE YEARS!!!!. i love the fifth book.i like the l;ost prophecy, the hogs head, O.W.L, out of the fire, fight or flight, department of mysteries...oh god i think im going to write all the chapters. everything was good about that book. i love harry potter.i like all the seven books. harry has been in my life for such a long time.i especially like beyond the veil and the only one he ever feared chapter. i cried for a long time when sirius died.long live harry potter
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 04:24:35
my family dosent even like harry potter {except me} but my bro and dad wil watch the movies then ask like a million questions about it instead of reading the books lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 05:05:45
Five years??? I was...what...twelve then??? And that was the second time I finished a HP book in one day!!!! I remember bragging about it in the hotel I was staying at!!!!!!! The last page I finished at the pool - all the english tourists wanted to know the end!!! I remember being really mad at cho!!!! Harrys first kiss, Sirius dying...the memories!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 05:06:04
Same here jkrowling_bob. None of my family understands why I get excited over a new Mugglecast or rave on about trailers etc. BUT I do have an sneaky suspicion that my sister really likes it all as she watches the movies and asks questions and then I say "read the books." But she wont.
OOTP is definatley my favourite book out of the series.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 05:16:42
God! Ill never forget that day! I could hardly sleep all night in anticipation and then when I parted the curtains of my room in the morning I saw it was raining cats and dogs.I swear Ive never seen it rain so hard in Calcutta ever before or after that day. My mom had promised me earlier that she would accompany me to the nearest bookstore (which wasnt very near by the way) to get the book...but she understandably refused to go out in that weather on the morning of the 21st. I cried so hard that she finally gave in and we almost had to swim though the flooded by-lanes of Calcutta to reach the bookstore. Ill never forget the look of utter bewilderment in the shopkeepers eyes when he saw us enter...he wasnt expecting any customers that day!!! i remember we took the subway while returning and i had finished reading the first three chapters by the time we got home.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 05:58:40
WOW, unusually much and LONG posts:). OotP is one of my favs..I couldnt read English then yet, so I read the Dutch edition. It came out on november 23 2003..But I didnt get it really fast..I think..I cant really remember properly..I was 9 then:) I wasnt obsessed yet, but it was already my fav. series:). I remember I we had to read in school every day and I was reading OotP, and another girl was reading it too. She spoiled Siriusdeath for me! (she looked at the end and saw it and told it too everyone..well she more like yelled it). I couldnt believe it then. I just didnt want too..Is that 5 years ago already? Thats kindoff long..I think the time has come to reread it again:) But WHAT are we going to do when its one year after the release of DH? Throw a giant online HP party? That would be fun!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 06:09:08
I remember it very well. My husband had been deployed to Iraq, and it was very lonely here. I remember talking to him on the phone about how excited I was to be getting the new book. He just laughed. He teases me constantly about how big of a Harry Potter fan I am. I went to a Potter Party, and to see all of those books on those palettes, well I was so happy. For one little moment in my life at that point, it was happiness. No stress about the war, (ironically thats when the war starts in the book), just plain happiness. Of course, I worried about my husband and our soldiers, but one book was able to relieve some of my worries. I went home right away and read until he called me the next night. Isnt is a wonder what the joy of reading can do?
MUGGLEMEDIC I am also proud of your son for serving this great country. He will be in my prayers. To JK Rowling, thank you for giving me a little peace in such a challenging time. On a good note, my husband is home safe and I have turned him into a Harry Potter fan!!!! Who knew!!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 06:44:38
Amazing. Its really been 5 years?! Well, I WAS only 8 when it came out... and it was my first ever book release! Of course, I wasnt allowed to go for the midnight release... but I got it first thing in the morning... Id already pre-ordered it. I collected it from Suntec City, a huge shopping mall in the city where I live. There was this HUGE counter by the entrance of the mall (well, one of the many entrances) and the counter was covered in OotP books and draped with Hogwarts banners! there was the Hogwarts crest and the four houses logos and everything and hangings on the ceiling and all! It was great. I remember getting it and then going for breakfast after with my head stuck right into the gigantic, heavy novel (which I doubt any 8 year old would have dared pick p in my school except for me and a bunch of my friends) I remember savouring the entire first chapter and my mum scolding me for reading at the table. Then I cant really remember what happened next except that I finished it in about two days...or within the first week. Its kind of vague cause I was really young at the time.. But I remember calling up all my friends and talking about it... and it was the subject of all our conversations in school... and I remember feeling REALLY sad when Sirius died.. I actually starting tearing up and I just sat numbly on my bed and refused to talk to anyone... I also remember going to a Chinese restaurant later that night and seeing this 20 something year-old woman reading it whilst waiting and sitting on the bench and I sat next to her and opened it and she just stared at me.. Woah now everythings flooding right back... Amazing times. My HP years will probably the best years of my life. Now Im feeling extremely sad, guilty and remorseful that I never attended a midnight release party. But Im extremely grateful for living in the Potter Period... were all so lucky to experience Harry Potter. Oh, gosh now Im listening to "End of an Era" by Oliver Byd and the R...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 06:52:54
(Continuing) Oh, gosh now Im listening to "End of an Era" by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls and getting all teary-eyed. I love Harry Potter so much. Jo is just... amazing. I owe the best years and moments of my life to her... This is just so sad... yet beautiful... and happy... and amazing... Wow.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 06:57:30
I got the book 2 years ago and Ive read it quite a few times.The book is good,but Sirius shouldnt have died!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:02:59
holy crap 5 years???? im old! it feels like it was just last year that it came out...wow. i was only ten years old. WOW.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:38:09
I just read all the posts, and want to add something..I think I got the book really late..I didnt have internet back then..I couldnt understand English..I wasnt really a big fan. The ending was spoiled and I am surprised how many people were spoiled Siriusdead too..
I cant remember crying over him. I just didnt accept his death, he has just always been there for me. I got really obsessed around DH..DH was the first book I could read in English and didnd have to wait for the Dutch translation, that made me so happy:P. It was the first book that really made me cry, as far as I can remember. With internet and knowing English and the near release of DH, that made me really obsessed:D. Now when its cold or I feel sad suddenly, I always think "Dementors"and want to eat some chocolate:) I LOVE OotP..I know with Sirius dead and everything its kindoff dark, but Sirius is in it much, and the DA! And Luna
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:40:28
Wow, I cant believe its been 5 years already and yet it seems so long ago. That day it was a sunny saturday (here in NZ) and I was going to the mall. Listening to the radio on my way to the mall I hear even the cool hip hop RnB DJs going mad about this book that I thought was just about a kid waving a wand.. so why is it such a big deal that even cool people are going crazy over it on the radio... hmmm.... then I walk into the mall.. HP posters everywhere of a phoenix with fire below him.. hmmm... i love phoenixes (i thought). Then I walk into whitcoulls where they had three tall pyramids of that same book! When i looked at them I felt there was an aura around them, I felt drawn to the book. The pyramids looked so cool. And well... the only books Ive ever read were the short novels I had to read for school, and other than that it was just gossip magazines... So what I thought was, well I wonder whats the big deal? and also.. THIS IS THE BIGGEST BOOK IVE EVER SEEN IN MY LFE what a challenge it would be to finish it! So I bought one... and before that Ive only seen the first two movies (and loved them) and after I finished reading OotP I remembered I DID read the philosophers stone.. but back then I only read it because it was about wizardry and upon finishing the philosophers stone (when i was 12) I thought.. wow that book was cool... too bad theres only one book, we never found out about the scar or why that giant go kicked out of school... (I was 12 as I say and being kicked out at twelve was more horrifying to me than harrys scar). After reading OotP (finished it in one week more that I ever dreamed of) I closed the book and didnt think YEAH I FNISHED A HUGE BOOK!! I thought.. WOW I am hooked! I must know more about who Sirius Black is and I must know EVERYTHING! I went on the net typed harry potter into google and clicked on mugglenet.com .. today 5 years ago, I became a hp fan.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:45:24
Wow, 5 years already?! Lets see...I was 20 and it was my first HP book that I bought for myself. My friends were way into Harry and had been bugging me for months to read the series, so I borrowed their copies and got hooked. Since the Borders in my area didnt have a midnight party for it (I guess the book was just catching on), my boyfriend at the time and I showed up at 8am to get our reserved copies. I still have the sticker it came with! Then we went back to his house and spent the entire day at his dining room table with our friend Kat...all of us reading our copies of the book. His mother couldnt stand the weirdness of seeing an 18, 20, and 25-year-old reading a "kids book" so intently, so she left us for the day. It took us that weekend to finish and I was devastated when it revealed who died. OotP began my HP obsession for sure and Ive been an addict ever since. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:45:28
Ow, and I totally forgot to say that my copy of OotP (well, my Dutch one anyway) Is the most battered..I dont want anyone else to touch it, because Im afraid they will make it worse:P. I think its the book with the most pages I had read back then. (Now its probably LotR, but you cant really **** that as one book, it are reaaly more..). The fact that you have to wait 3 minutes to post another post is annoying me..Im typing this in the..er I dont know what it;s called in English..a text document now..I just refreshed the page, and I copied everything in it..3 minutes fly when you are typing about OotP:)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:45:49
Wow, 5 years already?! Lets see...I was 20 and it was my first HP book that I bought for myself. My friends were way into Harry and had been bugging me for months to read the series, so I borrowed their copies and got hooked. Since the Borders in my area didnt have a midnight party for it (I guess the book was just catching on), my boyfriend at the time and I showed up at 8am to get our reserved copies. I still have the sticker it came with! Then we went back to his house and spent the entire day at his dining room table with our friend Kat...all of us reading our copies of the book. His mother couldnt stand the weirdness of seeing an 18, 20, and 25-year-old reading a "kids book" so intently, so she left us for the day. It took us that weekend to finish and I was devastated when it revealed who died. OotP began my HP obsession for sure and Ive been an addict ever since. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:46:14
Wow, 5 years already?! Lets see...I was 20 and it was my first HP book that I bought for myself. My friends were way into Harry and had been bugging me for months to read the series, so I borrowed their copies and got hooked. Since the Borders in my area didnt have a midnight party for it (I guess the book was just catching on), my boyfriend at the time and I showed up at 8am to get our reserved copies. I still have the sticker it came with! Then we went back to his house and spent the entire day at his dining room table with our friend Kat...all of us reading our copies of the book. His mother couldnt stand the weirdness of seeing an 18, 20, and 25-year-old reading a "kids book" so intently, so she left us for the day. It took us that weekend to finish and I was devastated when it revealed who died. OotP began my HP obsession for sure and Ive been an addict ever since. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:46:19
Wow, 5 years already?! Lets see...I was 20 and it was my first HP book that I bought for myself. My friends were way into Harry and had been bugging me for months to read the series, so I borrowed their copies and got hooked. Since the Borders in my area didnt have a midnight party for it (I guess the book was just catching on), my boyfriend at the time and I showed up at 8am to get our reserved copies. I still have the sticker it came with! Then we went back to his house and spent the entire day at his dining room table with our friend Kat...all of us reading our copies of the book. His mother couldnt stand the weirdness of seeing an 18, 20, and 25-year-old reading a "kids book" so intently, so she left us for the day. It took us that weekend to finish and I was devastated when it revealed who died. OotP began my HP obsession for sure and Ive been an addict ever since. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 07:46:29
Ow, and I totally forgot to say that my copy of OotP (well, my Dutch one anyway) Is the most battered..I dont want anyone else to touch it, because Im afraid they will make it worse:P. I think its the book with the most pages I had read back then. (Now its probably LotR, but you cant really **** that as one book, it are reaaly more..). The fact that you have to wait 3 minutes to post another post is annoying me..Im typing this in the..er I dont know what it;s called in English..a text document now..I just refreshed the page, and I copied everything in it..3 minutes fly when you are typing about OotP:)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 08:45:02
I can remember. I was working in a supermarket called Sainsbury. I was put in charge of beng store greeter, meaning I was at the entrance, holding onto flyers which had money off vouchers for everything in the store, including
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 08:51:40
I remember that I got it after the rest of my cousins and aunts and uncles read it and they all told me they thought it was the worst of the harry potter books. they told me the entire "middle" section was stupid and boring. then I read it and was amazed cause I though it was great.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 09:36:43
I cant believe its been five whole years, it literally flew!!! I remember it was the first book I got at a midnight opening and I had it read in 2 days, I was delighted as it was so long!!! I can remember the long wait for it, i poured over the other four books, I suspected that Mrs Figg was indeed Arabella Figg, part of the old crowd, and I was intruiged by Dumbledores "gleam of triumph"! I can remember bawling my eyes out when Sirius died and thinking Bellatrix better get her come uppance! (Thanx Mrs Weasley!) I hated Umbridge with a passion (still do) and I can remeber feeling so let down and annoyed at Dumbledores apparent coldness towards Harry and the great distance he kept between them during the year! And of course I was shocked by the prophecy..... when i finished it in a whirwind of emotions, I promptly started it again!!!!! What a book! What a series! Thanks J.K. Rowling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 09:42:20
Ha. Nah. See i had pre-ordered that book so i was expecting UPS to ring my doorbell sometime in the afternoon with it. It never came. It was like 7 at night and i was like panicking. So my dad went to get the mail from the mailbox. It was in there. It had BEEN there since 8:30 in the morning and i had no idea. I was beyond pissed off. I blew the whole day away. Wow. 5 years ago. Thats hard to believe. I was 11. Geesh the time flies.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 09:46:11
I remember it very well. I got it the morning it came out (at 8am-ish, not midnight) but I had plans with my grandma all day so I couldnt start it. I finally started it about 6 at night and instead of sleeping, stayed up until I finished it 13 hours later :) I tried to put it down and go to sleep once around midnight but found I couldnt stop thinking about it, so I just got back up and finished reading it lol.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 10:19:33
Ah, OotP. I remember getting in trouble with my third grade teacher for reading it during class (while she was talking). Hard to believe its been 5 whole years.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 10:24:00
It was my second midnight party!What a blast!! OOTP is the second best Potter novel after Deathly Hallows!!! I have great memories of the night
OOTP came out:)!!!! I love OOTP!!!!! Go Potter!!!!!! Potter Rules:)!!!!!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 10:31:56
I remember the night the book came out (for the midnight release) my mom worked untill midnight at a Safeway right next to a Mcnally and Robinson Book Seller, and I went with my dad to pick her up. I went into the Safeway at about 5 to 12 and we waited untill 12 oclock and i bought the book there lol. I ha put the book in a paper bag as not to get jumped by all the people standing in line that I had to cross in order to get back to my parents car, lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 10:32:39
BTW, all go to PORTRAITMAGAZINE.COM and vote for Bonnie Wright or Emma Watson!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 10:33:12
wow 5 whole years!!! It wasnt really that intersting for me though, because i started the 5th book about 2 years ago. Its my second best favorite of the whole series next to the 7th book. I remember though, when the 5th book came out, in school me and my friend liked to play harry potter at recess. We decided to act out the 5th book even though i hadnt read it, and she basically told me everything! I still hate her for that.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 10:40:44
I hadnt read the fourth yet when it came out.... and I dont have any memories of reading it either. I listened to all the books on book on tape, it was like a tradition. I usually remember places Ive been by Harry Potter books I was listening to, but not this book. I just remember thinking it was really depressing. Oh I remember hating the Harry and Cho scenes. lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 10:48:14
lol WOW! feels like yeasterday. OOTP is the fattest book i have ever read...memories...i threw a fit because my mom didnt buy it for me the day it came out...and my dad thinks books are a waste of time..so i had to wait like a week to get it..lots of begging...and then someone knocked over a glass of water onto my hard cover and ruined the dust cover! which is why i have a soft cover version that i use for re reading it now because im traumatized and i dont want that happening again. ootp, in my opinion was the best of the hp books although sirius, my favorite marauder and second favorite character died...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 10:56:49
...before dh came out..there was so many more people on mugglenet and commenting...there would be like 3-4 hundred comments on a post but now like nobody is ever on...i feel the hyp dying..and it saddens me!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 11:01:47
Wow, five years?
I remember when it came out I was sooo excited. My mum bought it for me as a early BDAY gift.
When I got home I was suppose to be studying for my french exam but I was in the bedroom reading OOTP instead. Every time I heard my mum coming id throw the book under the pillow and "study" as soon as shed leave id start to read again :)
Thankfully I passed grade 9 french with a 70%.
But I think OOTP was the first time I read a book of that size in a day and a half.
When Sirius died I was in shock; dont think I ever cried that hard for any other characters death. Although, I cried pretty hard for Remus, Tonks, and Fred.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 11:07:52
Wow. Five glorious years.
I went to a small bookstore with my dad and we got all dressed up. There were some newscasters there that interviewed the three of us and filmed us getting the book and stuff. It was pretty awesome.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 11:18:06
wow was it really five years ago? That was my first midnight party...I went with my dad and we drank butterbeer and watched the magicians and stuff who were preforming at powells...I remeber walking in and there were carts and carts of fat blue books. I almost fainted I was so happy! I grabbed the first one and we went home...I fell asleep usiing the book as a pillow. Wee child that I was I only got through half the book that day and then I had to leave for summer camp. They onlly let me read for one hour a day...I hated that summer camp! I have fond memories of readnig far into the night with a flashlight under my sleeping bag and nearly suffocating...ahh good times!!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 11:21:06
Haha, I remember getting the book on the release day, coming home...and finding out my grandmother had bought me one while she was out, and so had my cousin.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 11:22:42
of course i remember! it was my favourite book til 7 and i remember i was so excited when the name of the book was revealed in the papers
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 11:43:41
The day ootp came out all the stores were packed, and some had lines out the door. Even though the wait was long, when i got my hands on the book i was even more excited. OOTP was the only harry potter book that came out on my birthday which made ot worth the wait.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 11:45:59
Wow...i REALLY wish i was into HP back then....dang!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 12:25:13
its been five years?
I cant believe how fast the years have passed!!!
wow
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 12:26:58
OMG. I am sort of drawing a blank to what I did for the celebration of the 5 book in the most beloved series of all times coming out. I turned 8 that August, and my mom had read me the first three books, and then she got a new job and stopped reading them to me, and by then my teachers had set me at a seventh grade reading level, I went to an sort of an advance school, so I rented the fourth book from the library and read GOF by myself. OHHHHHH! I remember I had to retrace my steps! I was not permitted to go to the midnight release, and the next day we had to wake up early to travel to a Seattle Mariners baseball game. So my mom bought me the book and I read the whole way there, at the game, back and up until about dinner time when I finally finished. That was the hardest book I had ever read until I was 10 years old. But I still reread it at least twice a year. I am serious.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 12:36:39
Whats the shortest amount of time anyone has taken to read a Harry Potter book? Just curious. Mine was 6 hours reading Deathly Hallows.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 12:39:08
Hard to believe its been five years already!!! I was ten years old, just finished fourth grade, and it was my first Harry Potter book release. I had gotten into the series (thanks to a birthday present and my dads urging) when I was in third grade, after GoF was released and before the SS movie came out. I went to the Borders near my house for the OotP midnight release, probably around eleven oclock, with my mom. I didnt go to the party because.... I dont really know why! I guess I was young.... I know that I was already a frequent visitor on MuggleNet, because I remember the countdown, but I wasnt into online communities and stuff yet. Anyway, my mom and I got the number and we were like second in line! I remember looking back and seeing this huge queue stretched out behind me... and I thought how jealous everyone would be of me for being second in line! We all cheered when midnight came and they cut open the boxes... I know I grinned broadly as they handed me the book and my mom paid, and I hugged it to my chest all the way home. I refrained from starting to read it because I had heard (via MuggleNet, of course!) that the first chapter involved dementors, and those had always freaked me out (when I first read PoA, I slept with the covers over my head so that the dementors wouldnt suck out my soul at night lol). I started the next morning (actually, later that same morning, I guess), and swallowed the whole thing in two days. It remains, even now, my favorite book, and I will always recall the excitement leading up to my first release! Great times..... thanks for being with me, MuggleNet, every step of the way!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 12:43:17
oh those were the days. my and a few of my friends had been at the beach that weekend, and the poor mom who was driving us had to listen to us go on about how excited we were to read ootp for 3 1/2 hours on the way home.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 12:44:41
I went to my first Release Party for this book....and it took me forever to read it (about a month, but please excuse me I was 9). In July, everyone kept asking me who died...It was quite funny actually.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 12:52:24
I have two excellent memories of this.
One is seeing the "preview/teaser" where Dumbledore says, "Im going to tell you everything."
The second is finding the paperback at Borders for about $15 and buying it.
While on a trip with people who think Harry Potter is evil. XD
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 12:56:56
yess...I remember the day, to be exact the night 3am when I read the part when Sirius got killed, I cried so much:(! It is my favourite hp book!!!! I m Fan from first book...my god I m that old, five yrs....please write more Jo:)
kisses from Croatia....
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 13:11:29
ahh, dontchya just love reminiscing? lol can you believe it was five years ago?? an in a month DH will be out a year?? my my time does fly! lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 13:11:44
I didnt discover Harry Potter until a little before that book came out. I wish I could have started them earlier, like with the release of Sorcerers Stone, but I was pretty young and oblivious to the fact that there was awesome literature out there that I was missing out on. Order of the Phoenix was an amazing book by the way.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 13:18:21
haha, anybody else notice its also the same day of the week, Saturday?
I was on a camping trip and we had to drive for a while before finding a bookstore,but I still got my copy at midnight! It was my first midnight release event, and I was 10, so it was really exciting. But I only got to read a few pages that night, since my parents didnt want me wasting all the flashlight batteries reading in the middle of the night. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 13:18:24
yeah, i remember watching my bro and sis with jealousy... i had to wait for them to finish b4 i could read... i waited all night lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 13:30:20
AHHH I remember that night perfectly because June 21 also happens to be my birthday. Ive got to say, it was one of my best birthday gifts ever :)
Part of my birthday party involved going to the midnight release. I felt like such a nerd, in a good way of course!
I was really tired when I finally got the book, but I still read like 5 chapters right away. My family and I also started our drive to our annual family vacation spot that day. We drove from Michigan to Florida in 2 days. Not the best way to spend the rest of my birthday, but I did most of my HP 5 reading on that car trip, so it wasnt as bad :) That book did not leave my sight. But I was really frustrated when it got dark out because I couldnt read anymore. I remember I was on "Snapes Worst Memory" when it became impossible to even see the words anymore. It was such a cliffhanger!
I finished reading it in a hotel in Orlando. The rest of my family was in the pool, and I was like alone in the hotel room bawling because of Sirius.
Good times.
But this five-years thing is making me feel old :/
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 13:34:35
5 years... The summer before my 9th grade year. I remember how long we waited for this one. I think this was the one that got a lot of attention on the news and everything sort of kicked off from there. This was the first HP book I pre-ordered and I remember waiting all morning, think I was going to get it by Fed-Ex or something and then finally going down to check my mail books and sure enough, there it was. I flip to the ending and found out Sirius died before I had even gotten 5 chapters in to it. I don
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 13:36:53
My favorite one.
Listening to All American Rejects and thinking of how sexy Harry is when hes furious.
The good ol days...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 14:09:12
I was actually quite annoyed by all the hype.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 14:46:18
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 15:17:13
It was my fourteenth birthday. Having a Harry Potter book come out on your birthday ranks pretty high on the list of awesome birthday events, & my cousin & I were lucky to share in that - Order of the Phoenix on mine, Deathly Hallows on hers. Needless to say, the book was my gift & I tore right into it, reading a little bit at night stopping only to sleep & then not being able to wait & reading fiendishly when I woke up in the morning. I had it finished within days, & at one point even tried to keep reading while I was on the phone!
Its strange to think that then, I was just starting high school & now Ive finished my first year of college. Five years? Seriously? Wow.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 15:35:19
OotP was my first midnight party! After playing all the games at Barnes and Noble, my mom and I fell asleep in a giant armchair. Also the first book I finished in one night. It feels like yesterday, though, not five whole years....
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 17:28:20
Its so sad that its been 5 years! Wow. I was only about 11 or so, so I didnt go to the midnight release, but I wish I could have! I missed the 6th and 7th, too, though through no fault of my own! Well, I guess theres always the encyclopedia! :D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 17:38:31
OotP remains my favourite book. Eccept its really hard reading it when trying to relax during exams... cause of the O.W.Ls!! But still I love Rons divination practical :-)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 17:44:25
Wow. Book Five was the point I started really looking up Harry Potter stuff and searching around for the right fansite (Mugglenet won :P). But I wasnt as big as I am now. Book 6 was the point where I went insane for Harry.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 18:10:26
it seems like yesterday and i have read that book every year since then i thinks its the best book besides DH. cant wait for movie 6.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 18:10:54
Chommy- Me too! I started to read HP around the 5th book release, I was around 10. And I also really started getting into it in between the 5th book and the 6th.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 18:15:48
valsul07- I read it every year too! But, it my favorite. I didnt care for DH that much. And, as much as I cant wait for the 6th movie, Im very nervous for it. The movies have been going completly downhill. The first three movies are easily the best. While, for me, the books are opposite. The fourth, fifth, and sixth books are my favorite. I dont care much for book one or two.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 18:48:26
I was 12. It was my first midnight release party. I had no idea of all the fun activities that went on at the Barnes N Noble that I had gone to. As I looked around I discovered that there would soon be a costume contest. I was not dressed up at all except for my jean Hedwig jacket (still have it =] ). I decided to get in line for the costume contest anyways and figure out what I was going to do while I waited in line. Inspiration struck! I rolled up one of my pants legs, put my flip flops on the opposite feet, turned my jacket inside out and miss-buttoned it and wore my free plastic harry potter glasses upside down. When it was my turn to get up and state who I was I said "Im a wizard who is trying to dress as a muggle."
I got 2nd place. =) You know those black and gold Order of the Phoenix caps? I got one. They also interviewed me for a local newspaper. It was an awesome day.
I was on a long car ride in Indiana and when I had read that Sirius had died (A friend ruined it for me by accident) I just stopped read, closed the book and put it down. I didnt read it for 2 weeks I was so upset.
Ohh, good times.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 19:15:14
I got one of the last copies of OOTP at my colleges bookstore and ran back to my dorm to read it. I had loads of time to read, amazingly enough, since i was taking only a few summer classes. It was one of the first times when I felt really concerned and worried about a fictional book character (Harry), when it was over... After all that had happened during that book - how were things ever going to be the same for him and how could he really face another summer at the Durselys?, I remember wondering... It was kinda silly but I guess it cemented my love for the series... lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 19:16:10
I was 10 at the time of this! OOTP was the first book that I read on the day of release, good times. :)
Oh btw, the network premiere for OOTP is on in 10 minutes
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 19:18:48
Wow. 5 YEARS. I was up in New England when the book came out and I made my parents do a 2-stop almost nonstop drive to get back to Maryland so I could get the book where I lived. Its a great story Ill never forget, especially the wearing-my-pajamas part to get the special deal. Also, I left at 10 in the morning and got home at 11 PM!. There was an hour to spare. Ill never forget.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 19:42:25
wow... five years.... i was 12. i remember staying up waaaaaaaaaaay too late to read it and falling asleep in the middle of the battle scene and having really freaky nightmares.... wow.... and now its all over! *sigh* dont think ill ever come out of mourning for the end of potter...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 19:42:28
I remember-- my copy got lost in the mail-- it didn;t come for two months, and my mum wouldnt let uws get another one- and the libraries were on waiting lists four months long.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 19:45:39
Wow.. five years. I just read them Last summer, and i finished them in a week. there were nights that i was awake till two or three in the morning, and when my mom would get up in the middle of the night, she was a bit pissed off that i was still reading them. sadly, she never got the chance to read them as she died of cancer two months ago.
yeah.. i read all of them about two or three times that summer, and then a day after the release of the deathly hallows, i went to target to buy it and i got it for 18 dollars. before i did that, my mom gave me a talk about money and budget, because she wanted to make sure that i wanted to waste my money on this. i told her that it was worth wasting money on.
i was halfway through when my brother came in the house, saw i was reading it, and then spoiled the ending. it was payback because i spoiled half blood prince. i couldnt help it!!! i had to tell someone! we are the only people in my family of eight who read them. i have to convince my dad to read them.
i once asked my brother if he had ever read harry potter, and he said he doesnt waste his time on rubbish like that. and then he found out that his girlfriend was reading them, so then he started reading them! haha.. its still a funny story to tell her..
well, it has been an amazing year with harry, and i cant wait till the next movies come out!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 20:20:08
Wow, 5 years since i started reading Harry Potter. I remember that i was going to the fifth grade when it came out. It seams like it has been longer. I remember having to wait till my birthday to get it. That year i got all of the Harry Potter books that were out at that time. I was done reading them in a couple of weeks (I was busy). The fifth one was my favorite at the time.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 21:08:25
Ahhh..... I remember when I first saw the cover... I wasnt really a fan then, but about a year later, I took OotP to summer camp and my best friend told me Sirius died..:(. Aw well, I felt slightly revenged when she asked my who died in HBP!! It feels like yesterday when I attempted to pick up my cousins copy lol.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 21:11:44
This was the first book that was released after I started reading the books. I remember I was in that "I wont spend any money" years so I requested it at the library and had to wait three whole months before my name came up -- even though I had added my name to the list back in January. The fifth is my favorite of the books. ... Well, maybe the 7th is my favorite now? Im not sure. Anyway, Harry Potter has been my adolescents and its amazing that its really been five years since this book came out.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 21:20:36
I remember I was sick as a dog from food poisoning, and yet dragged my keister to Chapters Saturday morning, stopping for water and soda crackers and a crossword puzzle book to keep me entertained while I waited in line for several hours to get my copy, only to get there and find exactly two people ahead of me in line. Color me with a great big surprise marker. I then dragged my sorry keister back home, parked myself on the futon and didnt move except to go to the bathroom.
It was awesome.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 21:38:53
i remember finding out that the US bookss paper was made by the paper corporation that my dad worked for
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 21:58:24
Man, its been that long? 5 years! I was 9! Ill never forget. OOtP was the first Harry Potter book I owned. It was at my school Book fair and I wanted it so bad, but it was so expensive! I was so sad that I couldnt get it, and I didnt want to have to wait to read it out of the library (Because it would have been checked out for weeks!) Secretly, my mother had gone and bought it for me. She wrote "To Cassy, love Mom and Dad" on the blank page before the title page. I love my copy (I lost the cover for it though, but thats a long and terrible story) I cried when Sirius died, and I HATED Umbridge for making Harry write with that quill! (my hand starts to hurt when I think about it) The twins were great, Harry was angry (I was as annoyed as he through most of the book) I was also so mad at Dumbledore and.....ahh I loved the 5th book! Im so glad my aunt Bobby owned 1-4 the day my mom went to clean her house. I stumbled upon them wandering around and thats when my obsession began! :D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 22:27:20
Holy thestrals! Five whole years!! WOW!
Memories...Well, that was the first release party I went to. I dressed up in a cloak I made with a wand and everything. I got my book at midnight. I was the only one there. I was at a Wal-Mart. And the place was empty. I didnt get passed the first chapter that night because I spent the night at my aunts house, but after that it took me 8 days to read it through the first time through. Its my favorite book. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-22 22:36:49
i guess my most vivid memory of harry potter 5 would be crying and crying and crying when sirius died. i actually took every harry potter-related thing i owned, shut them in my closet, and said i was never going to look at them again, i was so upset. obviously that didnt last.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 00:07:48
I actually remember dressing up as Hermione, I did the hair and everything.. Fully equiped with my flimsy, plastic lightup wand. The line was incredible, right out of the shopping mall and around the corner. I felt quite silly, though. As nobody else dressed up. I guess im the most hardcore Harry Potter fan in Australia. I can feel the anger roaring from all of the Australian muggleneters reading this. Eep.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 02:08:37
More memories coming back!:) I remember my father got an English cpy and read i in the May-holiday..I couldnt understand English then and I just kept asking him questions, but he wouldnt answer (now I think thats good..my mother kept asking me questions about DH (first HP book I read in English first:P)and of course I dont answer them.) I didnt even know the word Spoiler back then..I kept wondering what Order of the Phoenix could mean when I found out that was going to be the title..I didnt guess right, of course:P..I think its one f the things I remember most vividly of my life as a 9 year old..I didnt think I wuld remember so much..But all go to portraitmagazine.net and vote for Bonnie Wright or Emma Watson! And continue all the many posts:D. I want the HBP trailer!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 04:09:07
Haha AmandaB, if you think dressing up as Hermione was hardcore, my friend (Aussie here) CUT her hair! Just for a dress up day in year five I think it was. So she had it cut short and dyed black so it was like Harrys. It lasted for ages, ahh the photos I have are classic.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 05:08:10
Woah, modern_marauder. Your friend is nuts. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 05:13:54
(Bit late, but oh well.)
I was either eleven or twelve. I was sitting in a park in Sheffield - where we went to see my grandparents - and my mum was reading it. I really wanted to read it, but she said only after her, so she read me the first two chapters, which only made me want to read it more. We went out and brought another copy for me soon after.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 05:20:11
XD modern_maurader, your friend is WICKED:P
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 07:08:01
Has it been this long? I do remember the day as if it were yesterday. Back then, my 14 (gosh, still 14! Im turning 20 soon >.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 07:26:36
Harry was first introduced to me by my 7th grade English teacher. She used to read to use everyday after lunch and form the first time she started reading SS to use I was hooked! She also read COS and POA to use before the year ended. Our whole class was so into to we played this game where we were all sorted into the 4 houses (I was in Hufflepuff..lol) and we followed clues and answered trivia to gain points for our houses. Back then I remember Harry being on the front page of some big news paper so the books must have just came out so I guess I can say Ive been with Harry since the beginning. Its been an amazing adventure!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 07:40:01
OotP marked my first official "Frothing at the Mouth waiting for the next Harry Potter book!" time. I had received the boxset of 1-4 the xmas after GoF was released. I read them through in record time... and then the wait came. That dreaded wait! UGH! BUT, that day Amazon promised it was going to arrive I sat outside in my driveway in a lawn chair, waiting for the mailman. I waited so long, I fell asleep. Apparently he snuck by when I was sleeping, because when I awoke, cursing myself, I ran to the mailbox and saw the white book packaging from amazon and SCREAMED YES!!!! I proceded to run up the drive, tearing open the package, threw it into the bin on my way into the house with my new favorite hardcover in the world. My husband couldnt reach me for 2 days while I read:)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 07:45:21
It was the first book i bought on the day of release since i had read the first four in one go. Well what happened was in the summer of 2003, i would keep pestering my parents fro four hours daily to force them to book ootp for me, but they didnt really respond at all very much, because they wanted to try and curb my obsessive reading habits. I used to whine so much that our domestic help offered my parents her salary to get me the book if that was the problem!!! :)
Then , on my birthday on May 18th, my father handed me a slip of paper, and WHOA! it was the bill proclaiming beutifully and proudly that the book had indeed been booked already for me! what a wonderful birthday it was!
after spending around a month madly speculating theories with friends, the day 23rd june arrived. Unfortunately, due to some of my parents commitments i couldnt be driven to the bookshop across town till late evening, until which i sat watching the news, where they kept showing people reading ootp. I was highly intrigued by continuous shots of the first page, screaming, " Dudley Demented"...
When I finally reached the bookshop, it was only to be welcomed by a sign on the elevator saying: "Due to a fire in the premises, the Crossword Bookstore is closed. It is requested that customers collect their Harry Potter books from any of the other Crossword outlets in the city". Oh My God!! How much more would my patience be tested??? Then, i forced by slightly irritated Father to drive to another Crossword outlet quite a distance away, and then rushed iinto the bookshop, silently handed over my booking slip, the salesman handed me the bag. My world went mute and i collapsed right there, on the floor of the shop, cross-legged, and read through "Dudley Demented". after reaching home, i just barricaded myself into my room, and without any dinner, sat down to read and didnt get up till 8 am the next morning, till it was finished. 5 cheers to Book 5!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 07:45:35
It was the first book i bought on the day of release since i had read the first four in one go. Well what happened was in the summer of 2003, i would keep pestering my parents fro four hours daily to force them to book ootp for me, but they didnt really respond at all very much, because they wanted to try and curb my obsessive reading habits. I used to whine so much that our domestic help offered my parents her salary to get me the book if that was the problem!!! :)
Then , on my birthday on May 18th, my father handed me a slip of paper, and WHOA! it was the bill proclaiming beutifully and proudly that the book had indeed been booked already for me! what a wonderful birthday it was!
after spending around a month madly speculating theories with friends, the day 23rd june arrived. Unfortunately, due to some of my parents commitments i couldnt be driven to the bookshop across town till late evening, until which i sat watching the news, where they kept showing people reading ootp. I was highly intrigued by continuous shots of the first page, screaming, " Dudley Demented"...
When I finally reached the bookshop, it was only to be welcomed by a sign on the elevator saying: "Due to a fire in the premises, the Crossword Bookstore is closed. It is requested that customers collect their Harry Potter books from any of the other Crossword outlets in the city". Oh My God!! How much more would my patience be tested??? Then, i forced by slightly irritated Father to drive to another Crossword outlet quite a distance away, and then rushed iinto the bookshop, silently handed over my booking slip, the salesman handed me the bag. My world went mute and i collapsed right there, on the floor of the shop, cross-legged, and read through "Dudley Demented". after reaching home, i just barricaded myself into my room, and without any dinner, sat down to read and didnt get up till 8 am the next morning, till it was finished. 5 cheers to Book 5!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 08:09:57
five years?
i used to hate ootp, it was my least fav book, but now i love it. it is my second fav, after deathly hallows. i cant believe its been five years. GO JKR!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 09:32:11
How to forget when I had to burn my eyes out in front of the computer reading the translation in Spanish because I couldnt affoard to buy the original one. How I screamed and bawled my eyes out for Sirius and how my hopeful self claimed it had to be -a very good- fan fiction because Sirius couldnt be dead. And how Id go to the libraries, look for a copy without plastic cover and check separete pages to see if it was true and I wouldnt dare read the Siriuss death part...
Ahhh, those years...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 09:43:15
I am a bookseller and Ootp I sold it in my house. A friend came to pick her copy and while I went to get change she opened the book at random and read the part of the dead of Sirius. When I was back she told me, Friend you are now a widow (for Ive been in love with him since PoA). Still when I got to that part I crossed my fingers that she had read something that just looked like he was dead, but no, my dear Sirius was no longer alive snif, snif.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 10:23:45
OMG ii love the 5th book especially Sirius death!!!!!!! grrrrrr.... im in love with HP! its amazing! ii remember my friend kept bugging to read the series and ii finally got to the 5th one and ii finished. then ii was sad... and ii couldnt wait for the 6th or the 7th and kept bugging my dad to just freaking buy the books for me!!!! XD ii love HP especially the 5th even though the 5th movie was like the worst thing EVER. not really, not like the 3rd movie but im rambling so bye?
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 10:33:18
I remember it coming out and the UPS guy delivered it to the wrong house. I was so frustrated lol. I ended up buying it at a super market by noon and finished reading it at like 6 am the following morning haha.
Side note: that was when posting comments on mugglenet wasnt like a chore >_< no i dont want any of your special offers >_
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 11:14:49
I started reading Harry Potter in 1998, when I was seven/eightish. But until OotP, I was a sensible, wait-for-the-paperback-to -come-out girl. I thought Id do the same for OotP, but after a week of having to block my ears everytime someone brought it up, I was desperate. I moaned so much that my mum bought it for me when I was at school, the thursday after the release. I had so far managed to avoid any spoilers (apart from knowing that SOMEONE was going to die). But twenty minutes before the end of the last lesson, TWENTY FIVE MINUTES BEFORE I HAD THE BOOK IN MY HANDS, someone in my ICT class shouted "I know who dies, its Sirius Black!" I nearly burst into tears, lol...
But the book was fantastic, and I still cried out of shock when Sirius died. I read it in a day and half...sigh, the madness and wonder of newly released HP books...
H
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 11:20:14
Book 5 came out on my wedding day. I wasnt there when the book was delivered to my folks house, but my parents brought it to me the day after our wedding. We had a six-hour drive to our honeymoon destination, and I read the book the whole way. My mom always likes to accuse me of neglecting my husband on our honeymoon, but I DID NOT! Two people are not going to talk constantly for 7 days, everyone needs down time, so why not use it reading?
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 11:52:37
This FALL will make it 9 YEARS ive read Harry Potter, i started in the Fall of 1999 when i was 10. Man, time flies!!! I read OOTP late, i didnt read it until like October 2003, but EVERYONE spoiled it for me Especially Sirius Blacks Death...GRRR!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 12:00:03
I had become a fan of the HP Universe after GoF was released, and had spoken of Harry and Friends so often that I was not alone when OotP came out; I had at least 5 other people join me that evening 5 years ago. That particular Borders Books sucked, but... it was great to get together with other Potterheads and discuss the previous books, upcoming movies, and what the future for Harry held. No other series has brought all walks of life--in all ages, shapes, and colors--so close that strangers can just start a dialogue if one sees another with a Harry Potter book. OotP taught me that! I will always be grateful....
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 12:00:45
I Read OOTP in 10 DAYS, at the age of 14, it wasnt my favorite HP book, at the time i still thought GOF was better, but it changed my whole world VIEW on Harry POtter, it was more adult. But movie-wise OOTP was WAYY better than GOF. lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 12:26:54
I remember that day! I was nine years old, about to turn ten. my grandmother had given me the money to by thye book for my birthday and i was eagerly awaiting the release. i had started reading the books three years earlier right after i had learned how to read. i was to young to go to the mid-night release, but my mother took me up to target the minute the store opened at seven in the morning to get a copy. yes... the memories...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 13:31:28
YAAAYY! Ootp was the first book i got on release day! I remember the 3 year wait after the fourth one came out! I nearly killed myself :(
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 13:52:13
Id just become an HP fan about four months before the release of OotP. So I bought and read SS, CS, PoA, and GoF, the paper back versions, before the release of OotP. I dragged my husband and 4 year old daughter to Barns and Nobel at midnight to buy the book. It was a fun thing to be a part of. My favorite film and book of the series still remains to be PoA, though I love the entire HP universe. Though Im kind of mad at WB right now for not releasing the teaser trailer for HBP already. Not only that but the few leaked photos of HBP, well WB steps in and has the sites who carried them to remove them...WTF!!! I mean I know there are like maybe 5% of the fans out there who complain and rant about seeing too much too soon but what about the rest of us who want as much as we can get without complaint. Come on WB your gonna listen to a bunch of cry babies who complain about anything and everything ruin it for the rest of us. Listen to the majority not the minority. Apparently the trailer is not attached to Get Smart as previously thought so dont go see it if you were only going to see it for HP trailer. I think thats WBs plan hoping that HP fans will go and see as many of their Lame no good films in hopes of seeing the HP trailer. Well news to you WB most HP fans are well read and pretty much high on the smart meter so dont try to BS us. If they keep it up I propose for all of us to unite and refuse to see any of their stupid films until the trailer is released and then only watch it on video on the internet and refrain from seeing there stupid films just to see the trailer on big screen. Even though I would like to see Get Smart. Im just gonna hold off on seeing any WB films for a while.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 14:08:58
We should all writecomplain mail to WB and send it:P
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 15:28:59
oh my... FIVE YEARS!!!! thats quite a looot
i remember the release as if it were yesterday... ootp was the first book ENTIRELY IN ENGLISH that my dad ever bought me. Im from Argentina, and believe me, being 13 and reading a so-many-pages! book was such an experience!...
i owe ootp my love for english and my A in the first certificate... happy fifth birthday!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 15:49:39
What is everyones favorite HP book? Mine is OoTP!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 18:22:32
OMG!!! five years!!! wow, i remember going to the midnight release. that was so fun... mmm, hot apple cider at midnight in a little bookstore... there werent really that many people there (comparing to say, the deathly hallows midnight release i went to) but seemed like forever in line till we got the book...
i havent commented forever...im feeling so unharry potterish... please, someone drown me in spells and hogwarts and good old dragons...lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 19:30:23
Wow, I cant believe I was only 10 and didnt really pay attention to release dates. How things have changed in the last 5 years... :-)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 21:36:09
ha. i remeember that, i was in the hospitial, waking up from a diabetic coma. my parents got it for me. wow five years, i was ten! its strill my facotire book. i think its the turning point in harrys life.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-23 23:26:09
When OotP was released I was not yet a Potter fan. In July of that year we went camping and I decided to buy Sorcerors Stone to read on the beach, and to finally see what all the hype was about. I was instantly hooked, and began on the other books as soon as we got home.....read books 2-5 in one week....and then realized it would be over a year before the next book would come out! So....naturally I turned to the internet and discovered The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet and The Harry Potter Lexicon with its wonderful forum for discussion. Thats definately been my favorite thing about HP: the opportunity to read/discuss/speculate/te ase & joke and discuss some more all the intriguing clues and events in the books as we waited impatiently for the next book.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-24 00:11:24
Book 5 was my first midnight release, too. My husband was at work so I took my then 3-year-old to Dennys to eat (and to keep him awake) while we waited for the clock to strike 12. The reason I remember it so clearly is because he ordered smiley face pancakes and really burned his little hand on the scorching hot syrup! He still remembers it, too. Later, we met some of our family at Wal-Mart just before 12 (its a small town--only 1 bookstore and it was closed). I already knew that it would be Sirius who died before we even got through the check-out line because I read ahead. I hate suspense! Excdpt for the hot syrup, it was a great night. Now my son is 8 and has read the first 5 books. Hes working on reading HBP (Im requiring him to finish the book before seeing the movie) and if he does, Im going to let him come to the midnight movie release with me. To us, Harry isnt just a fictional character--hes part of the family!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-24 07:53:04
Wow, long time ago! It was my first book release, but my boyfriend (now husband) and I were leaving for our first trip to Disney World, so I couldnt go. Being the sweet guy he was, he bought me a copy at the airport so that I didnt have to wait until we got back a week later.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-24 11:40:54
professorlongbottom , this is my FAVORITE HP BOOKS from greatest to least. My fav is DH, followed by HBP, GOF, OOTP, POA, SS, COS.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-24 11:40:54
professorlongbottom , this is my FAVORITE HP BOOKS from greatest to least. My fav is DH, followed by HBP, GOF, OOTP, POA, SS, COS.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-24 13:11:26
I havent been able to get on here until today :/ but I remember that when this book came out, my sister and I only ordered one copy of it. BAD IDEA. Well being the Harry Potter fanatics that we are, we fought over who got to read it first. She won since she is older but she read it in less than one day and I then I FINALLY got it. Ahhh...the memories!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-24 13:34:30
FIVE YEARS! wow! well, I didnt get to see it relaesed at midnight (sniffle) but I got a huge suprise the next day when a package came from Amazon. Guess what it was? Thats right, a cook book. Only joking, it was OotP!!! So I sat down and read it and didnt do anything else for the entire day. My mum now hates both me and Harry Potter cause thats what always happens;)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-24 19:27:53
I cant believe its been five years already! I LOVE this book (which you can probably tell from my username); its my favourite and Ill always remember the day it came out. By the way, for many of you, June 21st is the day you found out Sirius died, so I just wanted to say how much I miss his character. Youll live on in my heart forever Sirius!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-24 21:43:33
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was the the first book in which I got to go to the release. I was 12 at the time and my uncle, aunt, and sister all came along. While waiting in line we ordered a pizza and they delivered it. after we got home I didnt go to sleep but read all through the night.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-25 09:24:49
wow i still remember that day. i was looking for my summer reading books for the 6th grade & i took notice that one of the harry potter books was on the list, i cant remember which one, but anywho i saw that the fifth book was out so i bought that books & the first 4 that came in a box together & my harry potter obsession saga began. after reading the sorceres stone the rest was history (:
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-25 14:10:16
5 Years?!?! Holy cow! I remember it was the summer before I started high school, and I visited my brother in New Hampshire with my dad, and we were in the airport to go home (Florida) and we were sitting across from a store that had a rack with the book. And I was really annoyed because I had to read a stupid book for summer reading, and I hated it! And I couldnt read the 5th HP book and because my mom had pre-ordered my book and it was waiting for me at home! And to top it off, my dad was messing with me walking up to the rack and picking up the book and looking through it. lol. Then, when I finally got home, in the air port, my older sister was picking us up, and she was talking to my dad about the book and saying someone died and discribed when he came into the story, and how he becomes and important character later on... like I wouldnt fingure it out!!! Oy vey! lol
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-25 14:40:26
Wow five years! I remember this day clearly -- it was my 13th birthday!!! And I got the best birthday present ever -- OotP delivered straight to my front door, first thing in the morning!!! Sadly, no midnight release for me, but it was my first time getting an HP book on the release date. I remember the following week was the last week of school and it was so hot (no air conditioning at school). I remember sitting next to the windows and reading, while about half my class was reading it at the same time.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-25 17:43:45
holy snap! 5 WHOLE YEARS!!!! i was 9!!!!! omg its amazing how time flys!!
just for the heck of it, do any of u remember before the deathly hollows was released, about the time all those fake books of it were posted on the net. Well ne ways does ne body remember when in of the comment chats where it got soo long it was like 1000 and more comments? hah wish i could be there agian, i used to stay up all night chatting with u ppl! if u were there do u remember the guy that started the CHEESECAKE thing??
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-25 18:32:19
i had only began reading the books a few months before on a family vaction to Galveston. My Sister got to choice which tape we were Borrowing from the Library. She chose book 2 not knowing it was at the time. We listened and we all began to love the books then by the time the 5th came out i had finished all 4 previous books and was waiting at B Daltons at 5am to get the book.
I took it to camp the next day and All week me and 5 other girls spent every chance we could reading. Emma finished first and she keep giving me hints and i guessed the ending and it ticked me off. But to this day my Favorite is book 5.
you know it seems kinda wierd to think it has been five years... i am not that old.... maybe i am getting there :P
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-28 15:50:07
Wow! 5 years? I remember going to Barnes & Noble that day with my mom because she had to get something else there. I was not yet a Harry Potter fan (I too was a late bloomer) and I was amazed at the amount of people there. The store was just PACKED! You couldnt even move at all, and the employees there were about to call in police to help maintain order in the store! I was about 11 years old then. Actually, now that I recall it, I DID own the first three books. I had purchased them at a Sams Club when I was in 3rd grade but never even started them. God bless 2005! After this very day 5 years ago, I picked up HP #1!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-28 22:50:04
well,
i suppose that 5 years ago from then was around when i became truly interested in harry potter..
because the movies didnt manage to do it..
and the very first chapter of the very first book bored me enough to put it back on the shelf.
so i walked into the hair salon and i heard the announcement of its soon to be realease on the radio,
and for some reason i was like
"wow, i guess it must be important.. i think ill try reading the series
again."
and i did,
and an obsession was born :D
that was the first release i ever really thought about.. and i guess i was about ten.
but if i hadnt been there to hear about it on the radio..
where would i be?
i might have a life..
but what fun is that?
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-29 13:40:53
wow five years... i was 8 years old. i think that was the year i started reading harry potter....something that changed my life forever... i was going to england and i got the 1st book from the library. i said, do you think i should get the second one too? my mom said no, and i read the first one on the plane, and every night on vaction, and i finished it so i had nothing to read for the ride back!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2008-06-30 22:22:44
OotP was the first book I got on the release date. I remember being at my lakehouse in the middle of cornfields, and we drove to this small town fifteen minutes away and went to a Wal-Mart and they had copies out on a table. It was mid-morning - even though we were at a lake, I wanted to read all day! My mom made me go to bed...so I finished it the next day. Hey, it was the longest! It was my favorite until Deathly Hallows came along.
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