Gothamist: It's Potter Time

Adam

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:16:30 -0500

Ooh! Romance spoiler, for the fluff lovers! Ginny dumps Dean Thomas Ginny dates Harry Ron dates Lavender Brown Tonks has a thing for Lupin Oh, and... Draco is hired to assassinate Dumbledore Aragog Dies Snape is the DADA teacher Harry gets into N. E. W. T. potions class Percy comes home for christmas Pansy Parkinson is expelled when she is caught having sex in the Common Room with an unnamed 7th year Harry gives Ron a steroid-like potion Fred and George sell psychodelic mushrooms, excuse me- potions that give you a waking daydream for hours Voldomort can't die because his soul was split into seven pieces

S.D.

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:51:59 -0500

So, did anyone get good pictures of the madness? I like the Harry Potter series, but not so much that I'd get on a long line... Hope it's more satisfying than the last one.

Kevin Walsh

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:19:25 -0500

"After J.K. Rowling signed the first copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in her office in Edinburgh, Scotland, a Scholastic executive traveled with the book — under tight security — to Southampton, England, where it was placed in a 5’ by 7’ steamer trunk, which was then locked and loaded by crane onto the Queen Mary 2 for its journey to America" When the Forgotten NY book comes out next year, I'll probably get a shopping cart and trundle a few copies around to several libraries and bookstores in town. www.forgotten-ny.com

brian sodol

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:44:22 -0500

i love this book and can't wait to read it. i am a muggle if i was a harry potter character. that mean's i'm a half blood like hermione is.

JC

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:47:41 -0500

That's not cool Spoiler. Even if it's not true....that's just mean! I admit it, a little biased here...harry potter fan and scholastic employee. I love all this craziness. But come on, don't be mean.

dookie

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:44:37 -0500

Severus Snape is the half blood prince. Bill Weasley marries Fleur Delacour and his face is mutilated.

Spoiler

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:50:23 -0500

Snape kills Dumbledore, you heard it here first.

Scott

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:43:43 -0500

She's signing owls? I gotta see that!

Jen

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:12:02 -0500

Good point - the SoHo Scholastic store will be insane. I should run out now and take pictures.

jay

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:05:03 -0500

Didn't they do some sort of media event like this for the Bible? From the Scholastic site: "After J.K. Rowling signed the first copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in her office in Edinburgh, Scotland, a Scholastic executive traveled with the book — under tight security — to Southampton, England, where it was placed in a 5’ by 7’ steamer trunk, which was then locked and loaded by crane onto the Queen Mary 2 for its journey to America. When the ship docked in New York City harbor, the steamer trunk was unloaded and transferred by the ship’s porters to a Dunbar Armored truck and taken to a secure and undisclosed location. It will remain there until Friday, July 15 at 9:30 a.m., when Dunbar will deliver the trunk to Scholastic headquarters for a press event. There, the trunk will be unlocked and the book will be presented to the grand prize-winner of Scholastic’s nation-wide public library sweepstakes at 12:01 a.m ET on Saturday, July 16." It's true, Mercer between Prince and Spring has been turned into a backlot, with every imaginable TV crew on hand for this event. Can't wait for Fox5 to spend a goodly portion of their 10 o'clock on this.