It’s Total Potter-mania!
Tomorrow evening is The Big Night that every 12 year old in the country (and some of us 40 year olds, too) has been waiting for – the premiere of Harry Potter 6: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The book goes on sale at the stroke of midnight tomorrow night, and the "Rhymes with Darnes and Soble" store I work at (along with most of the other stores around the country) will be hosting a huge kick-off celebration/ sort-of party/excuse to sell a lot of HP books.
What does this mean to you, as the eagerly awaiting fan? Well, the party starts at 9:00, with games (with cheap prizes to win), food (to buy), books (also to buy), lines (to stand in), and hopefully not a million cranky little kids who really needed a nap but didn’t get one. So get in line, be patient, and hang in there, because the time is almost there. And if your 6 year old does end up staying up all night reading it, well then don't blame me for their little bloodshot eyes. Come get the sleepy little tike a Grande double mocha, and he'll be fine.
With the fun starting at 9:00, but the books not going on sale until midnight, my biggest fear is that the kiddies and their parents are going to get mighty bored waiting around for three hours for the books to go on sale. I mean, we can only entertain you for so long. After a half hour of story time, trivia, and paint your own magic wand, what do you do then? The answer had better not be “let’s trash Rhymes with Jarnes and Poble.” That’s all I’m saying.
I worked last night, and had a woman call and ask about the kickoff. Here’s what she said: “My kids are 11. Can I just drop them off and come back for them when it’s done?” Uh – no. We’re expecting upwards of 750 people to show up, and there’s a good chance that the fire department is going to limit the number of people who can come inside at any one time. So we’re not babysitting anyone’s kids at 1:00 AM. If you abandon your kids, it won’t be Hogwarts they’ll be going to; it’ll be C.P.S.
I’m looking forward to the evening – it should hopefully only be a figurative riot, and not a literal one. We’re dressing in costumes (well, those of us that aren’t too cowardly), and it’ll be fun to interact with the masses. As long as they behave themselves, that is. Act up, and it's off to Snape's dungeon for you. That, or a nasty session of "timeout" in the history book section. "No Harry Potter for you!"
But so far, so good. I was pretty certain someone would try to beg a copy of the book off me last night, but nobody did. Of course, it wouldn’t do any good to ask for one – they’d kill us and hang our heads on a pole outside the Rhymes with Warnes and Doble entrance if we even dared look at the boxes of books in the back room. Technically, they don’t exist until midnight Friday. All’s fair in love and Potter, I suppose.
I’m scheduled to work tomorrow night from 8:30 - ?. I suspect that the question mark will end up being 2:30 AM or so, by the time we clean up the messes from hundreds of little wizards and witches and their sloppy Muggle parents. Then we may have to go find a pitcher of Butterbeer or something to wash away the last remnants of the evening.
I’ll write up the full details on the evening this weekend. Hopefully everything will go smoothly and nobody (especially me) will end up in Azkaban.
What does this mean to you, as the eagerly awaiting fan? Well, the party starts at 9:00, with games (with cheap prizes to win), food (to buy), books (also to buy), lines (to stand in), and hopefully not a million cranky little kids who really needed a nap but didn’t get one. So get in line, be patient, and hang in there, because the time is almost there. And if your 6 year old does end up staying up all night reading it, well then don't blame me for their little bloodshot eyes. Come get the sleepy little tike a Grande double mocha, and he'll be fine.
With the fun starting at 9:00, but the books not going on sale until midnight, my biggest fear is that the kiddies and their parents are going to get mighty bored waiting around for three hours for the books to go on sale. I mean, we can only entertain you for so long. After a half hour of story time, trivia, and paint your own magic wand, what do you do then? The answer had better not be “let’s trash Rhymes with Jarnes and Poble.” That’s all I’m saying.
I worked last night, and had a woman call and ask about the kickoff. Here’s what she said: “My kids are 11. Can I just drop them off and come back for them when it’s done?” Uh – no. We’re expecting upwards of 750 people to show up, and there’s a good chance that the fire department is going to limit the number of people who can come inside at any one time. So we’re not babysitting anyone’s kids at 1:00 AM. If you abandon your kids, it won’t be Hogwarts they’ll be going to; it’ll be C.P.S.
I’m looking forward to the evening – it should hopefully only be a figurative riot, and not a literal one. We’re dressing in costumes (well, those of us that aren’t too cowardly), and it’ll be fun to interact with the masses. As long as they behave themselves, that is. Act up, and it's off to Snape's dungeon for you. That, or a nasty session of "timeout" in the history book section. "No Harry Potter for you!"
But so far, so good. I was pretty certain someone would try to beg a copy of the book off me last night, but nobody did. Of course, it wouldn’t do any good to ask for one – they’d kill us and hang our heads on a pole outside the Rhymes with Warnes and Doble entrance if we even dared look at the boxes of books in the back room. Technically, they don’t exist until midnight Friday. All’s fair in love and Potter, I suppose.
I’m scheduled to work tomorrow night from 8:30 - ?. I suspect that the question mark will end up being 2:30 AM or so, by the time we clean up the messes from hundreds of little wizards and witches and their sloppy Muggle parents. Then we may have to go find a pitcher of Butterbeer or something to wash away the last remnants of the evening.
I’ll write up the full details on the evening this weekend. Hopefully everything will go smoothly and nobody (especially me) will end up in Azkaban.
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