It’s here

The last Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows“, I mean. My daughter’s been hidden away since this morning reading it …about 2/3 through now she says. My turn comes when she’s finished.

It was on sale here at 9.01 this morning. My daughter was a little peeved that we didn’t get to the book store right on time … I mean, I think we were there by 9.05. As soon as we walked into the mall, every second person seemed to have a copy. First person I saw with one was a police woman, with 2 colleagues, in uniform, leaving the store …obviously snuck out of work to grab her copy. We missed the big queues for the book (knowing the book store owner helps), but walked past a decent lineup of people, lots of them in costume, waiting their turn. Coffee shops must have done good trade this morning - saw plenty of people sitting down reading their new book in them. And I noticed the odd person sneaking a look at the ending …naughty of them.

My kids have both seen the latest movie 3 times …so Harry Potter mania is alive and well here.

My daughter’s initial thoughts …its good, but its going to be hard to make a good movie out of it.

And in other Potter news, a young guy here in Canberra had to be fished out of Lake Burley Griffin after having jumped in after he dropped his pre-order receipt into the water.

Update (02/08/2007): I finished reading Deathly Hallows last night. I enjoyed it …. got to say its the best HP book since Prisoner of Azkaban.