everyone post any cool harry potter-related stories you might have. how you first started reading, why you like them so much, how they've changed your life, cool things that've happened, etc.
i'll start:
after prisoner of azkaban came out, j.k. rowling came touring in the u.s. she only visited small independant bookstores, i think, that had ordered her books before they were famous and everything. she came to 'the children's bookstore', which is a bookshop very near to where i live and i've been going there since i was born. it's a small store, and she sat at a tiny table in the back, and the line stretched all the way around the corner. the people who worked there dressed up and carried brooms with signs on it to keep the line. i was one of the first there, and i met j.k. rowling, and she was actually nice. i wasn't expecting her to be mean or anything, but i thought she would just kind of sign the book and then go to the next person. but she took her time, and asked me how i was, and let us ask questions and everything. definitely one of the best moments of my life.
another one was when order of the phoenix was released. i wasn't as obsessive as i am now about hp until goblet of fire, i think (when she came to the bookstore i wasn't nearly as excited as i would be now). i was at the beach with my family, and i was really angry that we weren't going to be able to go to borders or barnes and noble at midnight dressed up for the parties they were all having. but the bookstore in town opened at midnight, thank god. a lot more people than i thought would came (how many hp fans do you expect there to be at one time at a small beach?), and we got in line early. there were white christmas lights strung up all around the store, and t heyhad a television playing the first movie. it was gorgeous, and then i stayed up until five reading and finished it by the next morning.
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