Way OTP.....

[counsel]

Mary GrandPre, who a resident of Minneapolis (I know someone who knows her), designed the poster for this year's Minnesota State Fair. I know this is only related to HP by the thinnest of threads, but the poster is pretty cool

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[nymphgalatea]

This is utterly evil, I know, but if he's bald/black-haired why not dress him up as a teeny-tiny Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle? I think it would be cute! Because babies normally have that imperious "Obey me, woman, or I shall torture you by keeping you up all night" thing going on anyway.

Or you know, you could go with the sane option of dressing him up as Harry.

And I'm curious about the horror stories too. I do remember a fight breaking out between two twelve year old girls in my local library over the sole copy of GoF they had ordered, which required me and three senior librarians to break up, but I do love a good horror story from someone else.

[counsel]

I do remember a fight breaking out between two twelve year old girls in my local library over the sole copy of GoF they had ordered,

Wow. Just wow. Like I said above, it was not too bad. The worst thing was the insane-o system they established to pass out the books. They wanted to "reward" those people who had been there all day or came early, so they were using this ticket system and I was the gate keeper of the tickets. Which meant I got to tell people to sit down and shut up and wait their damn turn. The adults were the only ones being asses about it. The kids were awesome. The big problem was how the handing out of the books was handling - it was all screwy and stupid. I was the hard-ass because I was not an actual employee so if I pissed someone off, the customer would like an idiot complaining about someone NOT on the payroll.

He is sort of bald with really fine, thin brown/reddish/dark hair. I should wrap him in a funky blanket and call him Lord Voldy pre-GoF.

[nymphgalatea]

Oh go on then! Dress him up as Voldemort. It'd be funny!

The system sounds pretty bad, though I'm not surprised it was the adults behaving badly.

I'm having nothing to do with midnight parties or the like. I'm staying well away from bookshops until at least the 20th of July actually (huzzah for Amazon!). I'm still scarred by the memory of those little girls duking it out in the library. It was vicious. There was hairpulling and everything. I'm not going to risk becoming involved in a mass riot in the centre of Glasgow at midnight.

Mind you, if you beleive the rports in the UK newspapers this week there's already been pitched gunfights over stolen copies, so things couldn't really get much worse...

[counsel]

I actually had fun at the party until the handing out mess. It was pretty special seeing all those kids so excited for a book. It made my little inner geeky reader all weepy.

[gillieweed]

Yeah I say Babymort.

And Mr. Counsel can be Karkaroff.