Ok here there be NO spoilers, just so you know. Katie already texted me asking me to tell her what happens and I will NOT be responsible for spoiling ANYTHING for anybody.
Ok ok ok so the Borders party officially started at 9:30PM and that's when we got there. I was all official and reserved with my name on the "exclusive invitation" list. They gave me a Borders light-up glowy wand thing on a necklace and a blue wristband. And a raffle ticket. But I didn't win anything.
So I dressed up in my Hermione costume. I had my hair in braids all day to make it all wavy later. And I had on a black robe with a white shirt and my Gryffindor scarf. And there were lots of people dressed up and all the staff had on robes and one of them had on a Dumbledore hat and a beard. Some people who had considered themselves too cool to dress up wanted their picture taken with me.
And I saw lots of people I knew like Mary and Emily and Mrs. Thrash. Mr. Thrash was asleep.
We listened to the Snape Debate where people stood at the microphone and argued for which side they thought Snape was on. I said Snape was good because Dumbledore knew things we didn't and trusted him, and Dumbledore's kind of like God and wouldn't be that wrong. And the whole thing at the end of the 6th book, where Dumbledore would never beg for his life but he WOULD beg Snape to kill him and not let MALFOY do it.
They had a Harry Potter spelling bee and a costume contest. Lots of people were dressed up, lots of Harrys and Trelawneys and an entire Gryffindor Quidditch team and some Bellatrixes and dementors and one Umbridge.
It was great super fun, we had to stand in line ages though because the orange wristbanded people got to go first and then the silver wristanded people and then the blue (green, purple and pink were even later). There were a MILLION people there. But we got exclusive posters free when we got our book and since we preordered we got 40% off ticketed price so it was only $18 instead of $34.99. Pretty cool.
Everyone here at work has been reading it and we're all really sad it's the last one. The inside of the front cover reads "We now present the seventh and final installment in the epic tale of Harry Potter."
The dedication says "The dedication of this book is split in seven ways:
To Neil
To Jessica
To David
To Kenzie
To Di
To Anne
And to YOU, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end."
I'm so excited! I was going to stay up all night to read since I got the night off from work but I got so sleep around 5AM that I went to sleep 'cause I wanted to enjoy it instead of being barely awake.
And so we must have a Harry Potter marathon, except is hard to find a day I don't have something in the exact middle of the day to mess it up and we get in trouble if we miss staff meetings...
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Sounds like you had great fun! I agree with you about Snape.
You name the time, and we'll have a marathon.
I'm scared to read the book....
Ah, but I take it hard when some characters die, so it'll just upset me if she starts killing off people. It might be better if I wait until I hear who dies and _then_ read it. It'd be easier on me that way.
Well, maybe I'll go ahead and read it then if you still think it's a good idea after you finish.
He's not upset enough to let me know anything. He won't tell me a thing. Says I'll have to read it for myself. He's still at it.....
At 11 last night he realized how late it was and that he was not going to finish it last night. I don't know if he'll get a chance to finish it today. He's thinking I'll be upset at one part of it, I can tell.
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