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katsie

harry potter and the half blood prince

Jul 15, 2009 03:38

Just got back from the midnight showing and it was gorgeous. Very dark, the darkest movie so far, as was the book.

( Thoroughly SPOILERY first thoughts/impressions at 3 am after just seeing HP6... )

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annuscka July 15 2009, 11:12:08 UTC

Lalalala I didn't read anything after the cut - seeing it tomorrow! - but for DH 1 & 2? November 2010 and July 15th 2011!

katsie July 15 2009, 11:14:38 UTC

I'll believe when I've got tickets in hand. We were supposed to get this one last November after all!

Have fun tomorrow, it's excellent!

annuscka July 15 2009, 11:25:49 UTC

True... I have to admit to actually being happy about the two year wait - it doesn't end *that* soon after all :D

Eeep! Sigh, to think that when OotP came out, DH was a week later...

katsie July 15 2009, 17:07:41 UTC

Those were the days, eh? *sigh*

And no one else will ever experience Harry Potter like we did. Waiting for the books and movies, getting together and speculating and celebrating as a group, not knowing how it was all going to end and who was going to live or die.

annuscka July 15 2009, 17:10:01 UTC

Sigh, yes. And it is pretty cool to have experienced it - if only HBP and DH for me, wasn't really along for the earlier. But really - it hit me a few days ago, while browsing my DH, bought on July 21st 2007 - the fact that it's a first edition. That's pretty obvious of course, but in ten years that might start to be a cool rarity! ;) (just one of the fifty billion in the first ed, but hey!)

katsie July 15 2009, 17:40:13 UTC

We were talking about that in line last night, wondering how long it would be until our hardcovers were collector's items. *g*

I was lucky enough to have discovered Harry Potter just after PoA came out here (almost exactly ten years ago now!) and it still blows my mind a bit that I actually have first edition hardcovers of all seven books. I knew that I did for GoF on, I got all those at the midnight release parties, but to think that I was able to pick up first editions of the first three months after there releases in December of 1999. Couldn't do that after that point here, HP took off in the months following and first editions were pretty much confined to the midnight releases from GoF forward - everyone else got a second edition at best.

annuscka July 15 2009, 17:47:22 UTC

Probably not very long!

That's so cool - I checked mine just now and of the English ones (i.e the ones that'll be worth the most ;) - I have HBP and DH in hardcover first ed; OotP and CoS seem to be second and PoA third. GoF I don't even own in hardcover in English yet...
We never had release parties here - because IT WAS AGAINST THE LAW. WTF, seriously. That is such a useful law.

katsie July 15 2009, 20:12:01 UTC

Against the law? What, is it a curfew issue? That's odd. I loved the midnight release parties, I'm going to miss them terribly. There is nothing like the Harry Potter fandom in Party Mode. :)

annuscka July 15 2009, 20:31:29 UTC

I think it is a union issue - they won't clear the staff working at midnight, and we generally have absurdly strict laws about shops being open or closed. The main bookshop here even tried to get to have a midnight release out on the street, IIRC - because apparently you can have a "market" at midnight - but that wasn't cleared either. And no, this isn't the USSR... =D I would really have loved to go to a midnight thing though ( or a 6 am one - they got to open at 6 am at the earliest and they had the openings then, but I never lived in an area with a shop, so that didn't help much either.)

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