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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Ooh, I'm torn. Neither Harry nor Draco has brown eyes and Scooter's sort of bald enough to go either way on the hair thing (though he tends a bit more toward Harry-color), so you could either give him a scar or put him in little Slytherin robes with a toy snake. Or you could put him in Slytherin robes with a toy snake and call him BabyBlaiseZabini. My vote's for Draco, though, just because probably three-quarters of the kids there will be sporting Harry scars.
Mr. Counsel, I don't know. If Scooter's Draco then maybe he could buy a wig and a pimp cane and be Lucius. Dumbledore would probably be better, though.
He is pretty bald, but the hair is coming in kind of quick now. And it is all crazy, like. I was sort of thinking of maybe BabyCrabbe or BabyGoyle just for shits and giggles. Too bad the book did not come out last year - he could have been infantile Voldy.
I think Mr. Counsel should be someone like Mundingus Fletcher and dress all crazy like the clueless wizards at the Quidditch World Cup.
At the last release party, there was a three or four year old boy dressed like Draco. He looked like Tom Felton's wee little brother. He even was sort of sneering.
It really was not too horrid until it was time for the selling and handing out of the books. I was just taking pictures of the kids with "Hagrid" which was fun. And trying to sneak into the back to read the books. Then people stop being polite and started being pushy and rude and generally asshats. Well, at least the parents were. It did not help that the woman in charge was a total moron.
Ahh, so there are young children there? Mostly kids and parents? I always assumed because it was so late at night it would be mostly adult HP fans, the ones that are cool or maybe in fandom. Pushy parents are the stuff nightmares are made of. I'm glad Amazon will be delivering my copy to my house!
It was mostly kids - these parties are one reason the books are released in the summer. That was the most amazing part of whole experience - that so many kids were so excited about a BOOK. There were kids who had been saving their allowance since the release date was announced. Older kids who had volunteered to take naps so they could stay up. I talked to some parents whose kids had worked harder on their reading skills over the previous school year so they could read the new book themselves. The good parents were pretty amusing - some had read the book and clearly others had not, but were there to have fun with their kids. Most were resigned to their children staying up to read. The kids who got their books first would just sit down anywhere they could in the store and read. It was pretty special.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Re: (ignore me please. it's the sane option)nymphgalateaJune 7 2005, 20:09:07 UTC
Actually I know you used to be able to get dragon costumes for babies out of several shops in the UK. They were like green pyjama suits with pointy tails and tie-on hats with the dragon head on them. They were amazingly cute. Not sure if you could get them in the US of A though.
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Mr. Counsel, I don't know. If Scooter's Draco then maybe he could buy a wig and a pimp cane and be Lucius. Dumbledore would probably be better, though.
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I think Mr. Counsel should be someone like Mundingus Fletcher and dress all crazy like the clueless wizards at the Quidditch World Cup.
At the last release party, there was a three or four year old boy dressed like Draco. He looked like Tom Felton's wee little brother. He even was sort of sneering.
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Oh, do share horror stories. I'm curious about how scary it was.
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It was mostly kids - these parties are one reason the books are released in the summer. That was the most amazing part of whole experience - that so many kids were so excited about a BOOK. There were kids who had been saving their allowance since the release date was announced. Older kids who had volunteered to take naps so they could stay up. I talked to some parents whose kids had worked harder on their reading skills over the previous school year so they could read the new book themselves. The good parents were pretty amusing - some had read the book and clearly others had not, but were there to have fun with their kids. Most were resigned to their children staying up to read. The kids who got their books first would just sit down anywhere they could in the store and read. It was pretty special.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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