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CHOI! F'n CHOI!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome and bittersweet. No more waiting , yet, nothing else to wait for

Compared to Donaldson, Rowling gets her stuff published FAST. She was still WRITING last I checked.

Hot damn!

Final Harry Potter book due out in July news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/...people_rowling
LONDON - " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the last of seven installments of the boy wizard's adventures, will be published July 21, author J.K. Rowling said Thursday.


Rowling announced the publication date on her Web site.

Bloomsbury, her British publisher, said it would publish a children's hardback edition, an adult hardback, a special gift edition and an audio book on the same day.

Scholastic Children's Books, the U.S. publisher, said it would offer a hardback edition at a suggested retail price of $34.99, a deluxe edition at $65.00 and a reinforced library edition at $39.99.

Bloomsbury noted that this year is the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first "Harry Potter" book in the phenomenally successful series.

The "Potter" books have sold 325 million copies worldwide and been translated into 64 languages, Bloomsbury said.

The last book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," sold 2,009,574 copies in Britain on the first day of its release, Bloomsbury said.

The Potter franchise is so important to the company's earnings that it announced the publication to the London Stock Exchange.

Bloomsbury shares were up 2.2 percent to $4.40 after the announcement.

I am going to preorder my copy right now!!!!

Just pre-ordered my copy!

I have to wait and make sure my mom needs me to order hers.

We always go to Potter parties! So I wait until the night of the release and pre-order there!

Oh gosh...

Last time Beorn was at camp when an HP book was released, I had it shipped to him from amazon. Wild about Potter (Beorn's at the bottom of the article)

But I refused to buy a second copy. and spent the release day and the next day at Borders reading a copy from opening to closing. I had no idea about the release parties then.

If we get the funding together this year, Beorn will be away at camp on July 21st (and on the movie release date as well). Perhaps I'll make him wait until he comes home to get the book and see the movie on the same day.

I have no problem going to the release party on my own...

sound like you guys have it going on ...
I don't haev friends that interested in HP and my wife would just look at me strange ... (stranger) ...
She likes the HP series, but won't do anything out of the box like that...
<shrug> oh well. We are now reading HBP to each other at night.

Cool, the pre-order price has already dropped to $18.89 on Amazon and B&N.

Usivius wrote:sound like you guys have it going on ...
I don't haev friends that interested in HP and my wife would just look at me strange ... (stranger) ...
She likes the HP series, but won't do anything out of the box like that...
<shrug> oh well. We are now reading HBP to each other at night.

ROWRF! You could try some Harry Potter pick-up lines on her since you are already in the sack...

1) Wanna see my Horcrux?

2) Leviosa THIS!

Leviosa THIS!

"No, it's not a wand. And, yes, I am very glad to see you..."

"Honey you are an ANIMAGUS tonight!"

You guys just better hope your wimmens don't respond with ridikulus!

maybe your wimmens will respond with accio naughty parts....

I'm happy it's coming out.

I'm sad that it's the last book No more HP, and if I'm right in my guess, then he'll die.

I don't know if I want to read it

Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:I'm happy it's coming out.

I'm sad that it's the last book No more HP, and if I'm right in my guess, then he'll die.

I don't know if I want to read it

Wadds the last Dark Tower book was sad for the same reason. What will happen...the last story...no more.... (sniff!)