Aww, distressing, the scholastic website is only allowing people under 21 to enter. I turned 21 just last month. Pooh. And I'm not a UK resident, though I will be in London at that time. Guess I'll just plan to pick up my book near the museum and that way I might at least have the chance to hang out with some other really dedicated Potter-heads. Either that or it's time to get one of my under 21 friends to start entering a contest! >:D

Only catch that I am worrying about is the passports, for the kids. Oh well I'll figure that out should we by chance actually win. LOVE the ONE entry per person. I havn't checked your UK rules but the USA winners who are 18-21 can bring a guest of their choice. Under 18 it has to be the parent or legal Guardian. Now if I could just figure out when the date for age restriction is, what I mean is if a child turns 18 after the contest deadline but before the release, which age do they qualify as? Big issue because she(my daughter) may not choose to take me if it is the age at release date. As a parent is the only way I'll be going. Entered because someone has to win the "golden ticket".

I will honestly die of happiness if I'm lucky to be chosen.

Time to start bribing top Bloomsbury executives.. hahaha I've entered, I think the odds are better than the lottery at the very least ;) Would be very nice to get a copy signed, if I don't win one, I might write a nice letter to the promoters and say that I'm a photography who would very much like to photograph the event.. worth a try :p

I entered. Worth a try, I guess. It sucks the US only has 7 winners, but it's understandable since they provide airfare, spending money, and hotel for us. The UK citizens only get admittance to the event. Well, we'll see how this goes. I would burst out into tears upon meeting her, much the same as when I met Johnny Depp. She's one of the few tear-worthy people. I do plan to go to the OoTP Hollywood Premiere since I live in Hollywood, but I guess that's the second closest I'll get to a HP event if I don't win this.

What sucks though is, money isn't a problem and I'd be 500% willing to pay my own way on everything, just so I could enter with 1700 winners instead of freaking ... seven.

I HAVE TO WIN THAT!!!! the end, i just have to. i could die on the plane on the way home and be perfectly happy.

How often can you enter? I would assume it's a one shot deal...but the very vague rules don't specify...

OMG! You get to take a guest if you win? Sweet! I am so entering my sister and I know she will take me if she wins. I'm the only other Harry Potter fan she knows. Plus I'll kill her if she wins and doesn't take me. I found a way to by pass the under 21 rule! I love my sister and the fact that she is 18 right now! YES! I'm not so sad I'm 22 anymore, LOL.

oooooo im so excited! i think..... yes i am excited *screams*

I was just reading the poll on here, and looking at Scholastic's site and I keep wondering why people want everyone to be at Hogwarts so much for 7? What else is there to happen there that hasn't happened in 1-6. To me it will be good if only a fraction of the story is spent there since it seems like in 5 and 6 that (especially 6) that most creativity in regards to new stuff at the school is non-existant. Quiddich has run its course and I don't see how Harry can go searching everywhere for Horcruxes and be doing a full class schedule (I certainly couldn't manage that). This is gonna be the best book since so mucgh will probably be away from Hogwarts (although it is an awesome place and fun to read about) I bet JKR spent so many pages in 5 explaining the away from Hogwarts magical world since she plans on making it a major storyline in 7. Being at Hogwarts for the whole book, would just slow down the pace.

I've always wanted to go to England!!!! But, I'm going to New York this weekend. My mom says I'm going to meet somebody I've always wanted to meet, and my mom gave me one hint: Blonde. Jo is blonde. MAYBE I'LL MEET JKR!!!! I'll aske her to sign my arm with sharpie, then I'll never wash my arm again!!!!!!

Wow it just hit me that this is actually happening in like two months... HOLY CRUD!!!!!!! Okay. I'm good now. Too bad I have the worst luck EVER... But I couldn't go cause I have a massive soccer tournament.. but yeah. AHHHH I CAN'T WAIT !

well either way iam sooooo excited for the book to come out :]] and i have it ordered for midnight!!!!! GUYS GUYS only..........58 days till HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS COMES OUT!!!!! AHHH im about to die. i neeed that book. ITS going to be an amazing morning??? lol.

well, i entered. all my hopes and dreams are resting in a little envelope in a hot metal box a few blocks from here.

Man!!! T.T Why can't I live in London?! So unfair...

Ten years?! Has it really been that long since the series started? -Thinks for a minute- Yea I guess it has, cuz I remember reading the third book when I was in fifth grade. Wow.

i discovered this on jkrs website a good 9 hours ago but couldnt wait around to be first post as i had work :( oh well. maybe i should enter... thats only a bus ride away from my home town.

It would be so nice to win something for once. I have the luck of never winning anything. Ever since I started reading the books in 1999, It has been my dream to actually go to an event like this and see JK Rowling. I once won a ticket to a book signing back in 2001 but unfortuately I couldnt go and had to give my ticket away. I enetered but I know that I have pratically no chance of winning. It would be so nice to get an email on the 11th June saying you won a ticket though, especially during the depressing A Level exam month that I have to endure. Sigh!

ooh i am so entering! my friends always tell me im lucky :) we'll see if i really am. i'm glad that im not too old for this.

dude this is awesome!!!!! i'm gonna enter and if by chance i win i'll deal with the flying to another continent part later! *runs to get dad's signature*

Cant enter :(. Does anyone think that there might be a contest for like "english readers around the world"? *sights*, well, good luck british & americans...

MILAN THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! campioni!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aww..geez...i cant go. too bad..=( maybe, i can get one from a friend that MIGHT be going. =) i love her books sooo much. the fantastic beasts is cool too lol. its fun to learn about animals from the wizarding world! ^^

that's really cool! lol even though i won't enter. my summer is too busy around the time the 7th book comes out. i'm not even sure if i can get the book on the day it comes out! hopefully i will, though.... :-/

I HOPE MY PARENTS WILL LET ME!!!! I must ask them NOW!!!!

ahhhhhh. I live in Australia. So upsetting. Good luck to everyone else though :]

Thats Great! Im kinda sad tho that i cant be there.....I want them to put it in USA not in London! Thats what im sad about, but good luck to all of you people getting your book signed, Say Hello to Jo for me! :)

To bad, I live in the united states, plus I have already ordered a book. But still the chance to meet JKR would be so cool! Good Luck to every body who is entering!

OMG! that's so cool!! i wanna go!!

Wow, this is great, they'd pay for your plane ticket and everything. It's like a dream! Even though I have no chance whatsoever of winning, I'm still entering because you can't win if you don't try!

wish i could go!! :( :( that'd be awethum!

Ok i have entered, i really hope i get tickets !!!! Although i doubt i will, im gonan go to london anyway even if i dont, there will be some harry potter launch party somewhere

Oh no... I'm 23... time to cry now :-(

one canadian? do they not relize there is alot of us? only one. jeez.

This is great! What about Australians though?

Well... Good Luck everybody!!!!! (:

OMGOMG!!! Ok, I live in a little town, 30 minutes train ride away from London. It costs me a fiver then I can go wherever I want in Londond for a day, peak. Travel = absolutely no problem. Never before have I been more grateful to my parents for choosing to settle in the town that we live in, despite how crumbly it is around the edges and concretey in the middle. I have a gang, comprising of Me, my sister, and two of my friends, we were going to a midnight release in our town centre. I'm going to enter this tomorrow, then we're going to cross our fingers and hope and pray like we've never prayed before. The 18th is the day before my last GCSE, if I get tickets I will, literally, be jumping for joy and do rubbish. If I don't I'll be depressed and do rubbish. It's weird, I'm getting an almost, good feeling about it. The UK had a fairly big population, but in comparison to other places, it's not that big. Then if you think about how many are Harry Potter fans obsessed enough to come to mugglenet, or a similar site, and find out about this. None of my crew would have known if I hadn't told them, I am the obsessive one out of us. I don't know what I'd say to her, I'd either go really quiet, or I'd ramble on and make an idiot of myself. Well, I don't think I need to worry about that yet. My chances might be considerably better than for all of the millions of canadian fans, but in the contect, they're still quie small. But this is just making me soo incredibly excited about the 7th book! I can't wait now, I have butterflies already! More butterflies than I felt before my Englosh Lit exam yesterday, oh dear... I'm just so incredibly, amazingly excited. Positive thinking, I really really really want a ticket. I'm sounding like a petualnt child! Squeee!

I just wrote a letter to Scholastic about the age limit!!!!!

Well I think the whole situation is unfair. This should definitely be more open to people all around the world! I've sent my complaints to Scholastic and Bloomsbury though I doubt it will do any good. I hope others will do the same.

First of all, to the people complaining about the 21 and thing, such as DragonPrincess, I understand your pain, but you just admited yourself that you were 13 when you started reading the books and as the years gone by you have continued to be a Harry Potter fan as the books have continued to be written. I was in Elementry school, as I reemember when I started reading the books, I understood them, and finished them, and for you to say that just means you don't know too many people. Many kids have grabbed the Harry Potter books off the selves, paid for them, and read them. The last and only Harry Potter party I went to only contained teenagers. Can you tell that the majority of people on here aren't complaining about not going? What does that tell you? The owner of this website started it when he was twelve. Did you know that? What does that tell you? Most of the fans out there are teenagers, not little kids, but people under the age of 18 are still considered "children" in America until they turn 18. So, technically, these are children's books, and I may just not know a lot of people, but most of the people are know who read the books are teenagers, not adults, and very few adults read the book, and when I talk about adults I talk about people in their 30s and 40s. Also, techinically, Scholastic, is a children's book company and I've seen other things they have written and they are children's books. I feel bad for the other countries that are not getting regonized in this, even though I am an American and under the age of 21. I'm not going to enter though, because I don't have a lot to say to J. K. Rowling or a lot to ask her and I just want to read the book if that is okay with everyone.

I really hope i get a ticket. I find this really funny, some people will be traveling from all over the world but I live 1min from the Natural History Museum. I can see it from my bedroom window. LOL

WHAT!!! I cannot enter the Scholastics' sweepstakes because I'm over 21 years of age? Would someone please tell me this is not true??? OFFICIAL RULES #3: Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the United States who are UNDER 21. Crying my heart out!!!!

I still find it disappointing that so many aren't able to enter. Jo why is it mostly only the British can enter! It's been my dream as well but I have to suck it up because I'm 26 years old. Why can't this be open to everyone? Why isn't it open to more people around the world? This is the last book every and perhaps the last book signing she'll ever do. I wouldn't feel so bad if I at least had a chance to win. It's been my dream to go to a book signing. I'm crying I'm so disappointed! :( :(

To Shmookness: It is ok to me if you just want to read the book and if you don't have to say anything to Jo... that is your choice. However, if I had the money to just pack my stuff and go to London believe me I WOULD! So let me dream and complain about not having a chance to enter to win. Some of us do wish to meet in person THE PERSON that has brought literacy and literature back in fashion for the younger generation.

Wow...Micah strikes again...seriously, does JK listen to every podcast or something? I wish I could meet her. Shes amazing.

kool. stupid canadian fan. bluk...

What about the french fans, huh? I've read every book in english, bought them all from Bloomsbury, and this is the thanks I get? I mean, what are the odds of her actually coming to France, and giving the french a reading? about none to a gazillion against... think of us, darn it! darn you Bloomsbury! But I still looove Jo. This is publishers stupidity right there. UK and Ireland... Pffew... Why don't I live there, you lucky b*st*rds! Only kidding, but I still am pissed off!

That's absolutely fabulous! I am going to enter, but doubt that I'll get in. Good luck to everybody though. If any of you win, let us know how it is!! :D

That stinks!!! I'm from the US and under 21, but I'll be in Edinburgh. I thought that was where she would be releasing the book : ( Oh well. I'm entering the contest, but the odds of winning are not great. I dunno who I'd take either, my family has it's own plans, and my friends are away. I guess I'd donate it to mugglenet or leaky so that they would have a contest for a fan who deserves it.