Harry Potter at midnight?

banquo

Anyone queueing up for HP at midnight saturday week?

Quant a moi, i'll be at Easons in O' Connell street [dublin] from about 9pm along with whoever I can drag along / trick into coming.

*girlish giggle*

Anyone? Yes? No?

cajun_tiger

nope i've got mine paid for and it will be held for me!!

bigmouth

No way! You cannot be serious! I thought I was a fan.

banquo

My, that was a fast reply.

qz

Ah I'll queue for the 7th.

*Angel*

No.

dudara

Booked and paid for, and I'll collect at a more appropriate hour

banquo

Aah, no life in any of ye.

Tar.Aldarion

maybe ill get a friend to buy it if i get it.....how much yee fanatics pay for it

monkeyfudge

It should be pretty fun. People will be going in costume to my local midnight opening.

The radio station I work with is going to do a live broadcast from it as well.

Tar.Aldarion

there had better be somebody in a starfleet uniform or it's not worth it's salt!

*Page*

I'm paying €16 but my bf is got his for €9 dont ask how cause he wont tell me!!

dudara

The Hughes bookshop in St. Stephens Green have a really cool competition where the winner will be dressed up as Harry Potter, and then will get a spin on a specially comissioned Luas decked out as the Hogwarts Express

banquo

I liked it for the last book when Waterstones in nassau street changed its name to ''Flourish and Blotts'' and a bank in town changed its name to ''Gringotts''.

such things are cool.

tails2

how old are you people. actually, which nut house did you escape from... Qing up at midnight to get a kids book.... and they say we should be careful of terrorists. you are whats wrong in society....

god damn

monkeyfudge

tails2 wrote:

how old are you people. actually, which nut house did you escape from... Qing up at midnight to get a kids book.... and they say we should be careful of terrorists. you are whats wrong in society....

god damn

Yep. People with a passion for literature are what's wrong with society...

theCzar

dudara wrote:

The Hughes bookshop in St. Stephens Green have a really cool competition where the winner will be dressed up as Harry Potter, and then will get a spin on a specially comissioned Luas decked out as the Hogwarts Express

the winner, jesus, what does the runner up get? tarred and feathered?

dudara

they get dressed up as the Quaffle and get beaten by the bludgers.

God, that's a scary amount of HP knowledge for someone who really isn't a huge fan.

*Angel*

*Page* wrote:

I'm paying €16 but my bf is got his for €9 dont ask how cause he wont tell me!!

Huh I payed €20 for mine.

Dagnir Glaurung

theCzar wrote:

the winner, jesus, what does the runner up get? tarred and feathered?

The winner gets TWO spins on the Luas dressed as Harry Potter.

qz

Dagnir Glaurung wrote:

The winner gets TWO spins on the Luas dressed as Harry Potter.

Actually laughed out loud!

Easily_Irritated

I hate that specy lil fecker.

Anyone who actually queues for tha deserves a slap!!!

*Page*

banquo wrote:

I liked it for the last book when Waterstones in nassau street changed its name to ''Flourish and Blotts'' and a bank in town changed its name to ''Gringotts''.

such things are cool.

did this really happen??

banquo

Yeah, for the last 2 books. It was just nice to see a place making the effort when they didn't have to.. I mean, they're going to sell thousands of copies anyway but it's nice to see them having a bit of fun with it.

theCzar

i just hope some 40 year old wins.

banquo

Heh. Her ex-husband or something.

Scarinae

No, I'm boring and have reserved mine, however I might queue up for the seventh book. I decided it would be rude to queue up for this one after what happened last time

Kenshi

What happened?

Scarinae

I can't be bothered retyping the story, I'm going to go look for my other post on it

Scarinae

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2911934&postcount=191

That's what happened last time

oden91

How long will it be?

theCzar

Fishie wrote:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2911934&postcount=191

That's what happened last time

haha

thing is, there was no fear of there not being enough books, some places hyped it better, and sold out but i remember bringing my sister to Reads, it was about 2pm, and the place was full of copies, you could actually buy a 3-pack!

So the only reason to queue is for the sake of queuing, a practice i detest.

banquo

Ok new plan: having spent all my money on booze I've revised the part about 'queueing up to buy a copy' to 'lurking outside until after midnight to steals some kids copy'. Or else just borrowing another person's copy.

Gone West

The bookstores here (san fran) had pictures of their last midnight party thing.
There was mostly adults there. One guy had dressed up as Robbie Coltraines character in the Film. He was about 7' tall and 3' wide. (Harrard? is is?) He was holding a pink umberella(reckon thats in the book somewhere). And had a massive fake beard, etc.
There was also an adult women who brought along a black cat and dressed in hat and capes. They were mostly all holding wands and crap.
madness, I tells ya.

passive

So... is it tonight or tomorrow night? i'm confused...

Scarinae

It's tonight. They can't start selling it until 12.01am on Saturday, which obviously is tonight, so everyone is queueing up this evening

passive

I see.. anyone know good places to go for this? I was told Eason's go all out for it.

Now... to convince some friends to join me.

Trojan

Personally I won't be buying the book, although I might borrow and read it.

I think the publishers actions have been a disgrace - denying people's right to read a book they've bought and threatening people with legal action if they do so.

I won't be buying another page by JKR.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1691805,00.html

herobear

Trojan wrote:

I think the publishers actions have been a disgrace - denying people's right to read a book they've bought and threatening people with legal action if they do so.

they're doing their best to protect the books plot so as not to ruin the surprise for hardcore fans who've waited years for this book to come out. They're not doing anything to people who have already bought the book early, other than requesting it back on the promise they'll receive it back on the saturday with a few other gifts(several people have refused and are reading it anyway).
the publishers have only been harsh against websites and other medias, because so many people invest faith in these and they get ALOT of traffic(especially AICN) so even if these sites post up fake spoilers(unknowningly or otherwise), alot of people automatically take it as fact.
ive read so many conflicting spoilers on this new book its frightening, and although i agree with the publishers intentions, i cant agree that they've been doing a very good job of it either.

for something that ive been looking forward to for 2 years already, ive given even bothering to care about what happens in this book right now, im just going to start reading it tomorrow hopefully with an open mind

Trojan

herobear wrote:

they're doing their best to protect the books plot so as not to ruin the surprise for hardcore fans who've waited years for this book to come out.

This is a laudable goal, however...

herobear wrote:

They're not doing anything to people who have already bought the book early, other than requesting it back on the promise they'll receive it back on the saturday with a few other gifts

Yes, they are. They are forcing them not to read something they've bought in the bookshop, with threat of legal action if they do not comply.

herobear wrote:

(several people have refused and are reading it anyway).

And they're breaking the law (even though they legally purchased the book) as a result of the publishers heavy handed injunctions.

Why didn't they just request that people not publish details, or make publishing the details illegal? Why did they make reading a legally purchased book illegal?

The precedent this sets is astonishing, it has the potential to help usher in an Orwellian 1984 era (and we have enough of that already with America's DMCA and Patriot Act, the UK and now Ireland's ID programmes - but that's a topic for another thread). Denying someone the right to read something they've bought is just plain wrong.

punka

When I went into work this morning (I work in a bookshop) there were already 4 teenage girls queuing, at 9am! When I left at 6 there were still only about 10-15 people queuing outside the shop. Managed to get out of working the midnight opening (did that last time - never again) but I'm going to be in at 9am tomorrow morning, and I have a feeling that's going to be pretty damn hectic too...

Scarinae

Trojan wrote:

Why didn't they just request that people not publish details, or make publishing the details illegal? Why did they make reading a legally purchased book illegal?

Yeah, that is a bit ridiculous, but I'd say the people who haven't returned their copies will probably read it anyway. What are the publishers gonna do, post secret agents outside their houses to spy on them?

monkeyfudge

Well I'm just back from the midnight opening.

I didn't bother with the local one that the radio station I work with was covering.

Instead I took my nephew into town to Nassau street as I thought it would be the best place for a bit of atmosphere as there are 4 bookshops all very close to each other. Reeds, Easons, Waterstones and Hogis Figus. We speant about 2 hours going around the lot of them getting all the free gifts... lots of free books and sweets and drinks. Waterstones had a band playing out on the street and a balloon magician but I think Easons did the best job and at €12 they had the best price.

At Easons they had a really good Hagrid and an excellent Malfoy walking about. And when entering the shop you were assigned to a particular house and the whole interior of the shop was all kitted out nicely. Again lots of free drinks and sweets... and coffee and tea too. There was a great countdown at midnight and the atmosphere was amazing... it felt like new years eve except I wasn't drunk.

I don't like the Harry Potter books myself, and my nephew isn't a huge fan.. but it was still alot of good fun.

D-Generate

Anyone know the various prices at which the book is selling at in shops?

Easons is €12 or so he says
Smyths is €12.99
Waterstones is ?
Reads is ?
Virgin is ?
HMV is ?

Mimikyu

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D-Generate

Tesco are also 10 i think.

monkeyfudge

Reads was actually €16.99... but they gave free goody bag and a voucher for Reads printing bureau worth €5... wow...

Easons' may have been €12.99... I forget what Hagrid said to me...

Gone West

spotted a spellimng mistake on page 10.

banquo

FuzzyLogic wrote:

spellimng

ironic.

what's the mistake?

Rew

D-Generate wrote:

Tesco are also 10 i think.

Tesco are €12.99

banquo

Hodges Figgis is 17:99 AND you get a very nice free bag. You also get a free copy of some book called 'Lionboy'.

'Lionboy' didn't look so promising; the bins in Dawson street were stuffed up with copies of it.