My kids are all ready to go, from age 9 to 21, plus assorted other 18 to 20-something year olds, including two who are driving up from about 3 and 5 hours south of here. We are having a reading party all night, even for the non-HP fan, who is going in costume but will keep himself occupied during the night just to be part of it.

College girl and her friends worked for the past few months coming up with what they would wear, then executing it with fabric, paint, etc. I helped with CG’s main finishing details yesterday, then she painted it today.

So, who knows if any of the endings online, including the supposed whole book, are real or not? I liked the idea of guesstimating from the cover designs. That might work.

I’m reading the end first, but I know if I don’t like it, I will rewrite the ending in my mind, at least, and definitely in a pretend book 8, for the new pretend post-HP series, or as some other person suggested a prequel with details about HP’s father and his fellow wizards.

And what about Europe, has the book debuted there already today (tonight for them, since they are 6 hours ahead of us, or 7 or 8?) And if so, where are the spoilers?

This seemed like an apropos quote:

A man is only half himself; his friends are the other half. Joseph Newton

Karin

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