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21 Jul 07 11:41 am Filed in: Just sayin' is all
Yet Another Blog About Harry Potter Day.

K is a big Harry Potter fan, so naturally she'd pre-purchased the latest book months ago, and of course today is the day it's released. So we head to the big smoke (we don't have a local bookstore here) to one of the bookstores, it's about 8:45am (Australia's east coast release time is 9:01am.) Already there's a queue of others all the way around the inside of the shop.

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Lineup
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The shop staff are all in costume and getting into it too, yelling out time calls, walking up and down the queue with lollies for little and big kids alike.

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This is before a small army (okay, about 7) get behind the counter, box-cutters at the ready.


Countdown from 10 secs, it's time. Lots of hooting and clapping, and the army swings into action, unboxing and bagging both editions of the book. About 10 mins later we're out of there with a copy in hand. By this time the queue is all the way out to the mall and then some - and this is just a regional shopping centre, mind you.

Get out of dodge, do shopping for tonight's Iron Chef (Seared rib fillet with green peppercorn sauce - the new griddle's first shakedown!) and return home. Cook up a quick eggs benedict and we're sated.

K is, of course, now in the library reading. I don't expect she'll surface for a while. Happy