Friday night, we went over to Maya and Miranda's to pick up our copies of HBP at the Borders across the street. After retrieving our numbers for a place in line earlier in the evening, we were somewhat disappointed by the lack of fanfare at midnight. I got through two-thirds of the book that evening before my head finally hit the couch around 5am.
I had to wake up a few hours later to go butts tubing on the Potomac in the Harpers Ferry area. We managed to successfully avoid the potential for thunderstorms, and generally had a very relaxing time. I got sunburned on my feet for the first time in my life and looked like an idiot when my tub flipped over due to a small whitewater wave (happens to the best of us). I continued to read HBP on the way to and back of butts tubing, which made me a bit of an anti-socialite.
We raced back from Harpers Ferry since I had a soccer game to play in and Nick had to pick up Amy and Washington-National, but my game was canceled (the storms finally hit) and her flight was delayed, so all the hustle and the bustle was for naught. My game being canceled allowed me to finish up Harry Potter by 6pm, only 18 hours after I got my hands on it. (Trust me, there will be a [long] post on my thoughts in a couple days after most people are done with it.)
Sunday night I went to the Capital Steps with Chicklet who were performing at the national Hadassah convention (which is why Chicklet is in town). We're also going to the play "Take Me Out" this evening, which has received rave reviews. My opinion will be up here shortly.
You know how to use spoiler space, right? Do NOT put the ending up here! I want to take my time with HBP, thankyouverymuch.
P.S. HBP is Voldemort, isn' he? JK said she wanted to use this title for the second book, which was all about Riddle, so it makes sense.
1) Finish up: and hurry! (And any spoilers will be "below the fold.")
2) Uh...not quite (I think JK already said it wasn't YKW). I do know one surefire way to figure out who the HBP is though...