[HungarianGypsy]

Retro --

You think you seemed silly? I was crying in OOTP when Harry tried to contact Sirius through the little mirror after he was already dead. I kept picturing that last hug of his when he was in dog form. Silly me!

[littleleaguemom]

I finished at 2:30 am. Too sleepy to get weepy over D then but woke up rather shocked. I can't talk to anyone else about it because my son, in-laws and such are still reading. I liked this much more than #5. That one seemed to have 200 pages of padding. This one got right to it. Harry is so grown up now and the themes are so adult. You guys are sharp re RAB - I missed Regulus Black.

[retrokitten]

LOL! That is too funny. I always say that the good thing about FR is that you can make book on the fact that if you are crying about something, someone else in Freeperworld is crying with you. ;-)

[grellis]

I was in our backyard this afternoon when I was reading the chapter "The White Tomb." The weather here this afternoon was exactly how the weather was described in the book. I stopped reading a few times...couldn't seem to see the words.

BTW--I got the book from Barnes and Noble, the midnight party. On the way out, I was skimming through the names of the chapters. One of the salespeople said something about "DON'T READ THE NAME OF THE LAST CHAPTER! NO FAIR KNOWING THAT DUMBLEDORE DIES." I was with my son, so violence was out of the question.

I was an assistant manager at Waldenbooks for a few years and we used to read books pre-release. We NEVER would have said anything so stupid as that saleswoman. We'd have been fired the next day. I wonder if B&N has the same policy.