Sunday, March 16, 2008

July 20, 2007. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book release. New York, NY

8:00am. People are already lined up and waiting to get into Barnes and Noble when the store opens at 10am to get their bracelets so they can gets their books at midnight.














10:00am. Barnes and Noble finally opens and people are excited to get their bracelets!





10:15am. Finally in to get our golden bracelets. Now we just have to wait till midnight to get our books.



3:00pm. Harry Potter Place at Scholastic.




















The famous book that captured our hearts -- signed by JK Rowling; under glass with high security.



















5:00pm. Finally made it to Barnes and Noble.




















7:00-10:00. Waiting around to go see Jim Dale.








Picked him up in the line for the Apothecary. I still have to the owl that I swiped from The Leaky Cauldron. Wonder if he still has the skull.










This group came from all over the country to be here in NY for the book release

























Luna Rocks!!





Everyone joins in to sing the Hogwarts School Song.






10:30pm. Jim Dale doing a reading of his favorite Harry Potter passages. He was enchanting.





11:45pm. Starting to line up to purchase our books, and the countdown to midnight begins!













12:15 am. Calm has taken over in the subway after a long day of Harry Potter madness