Harry Potter Countdown Thread

[Tanniker Smith]

The countdown is on! We're all waiting. Let's talk about it while we're waiting.

This countdown ticks down the time to both the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film.

Countdown clocks can be found at http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/#static:countdowns

[CholeraJoe]

The midnight IMAX show of OOTP tonight is sold out but I bought a ticket online for tomorrow evening. Will post a review on Thursday! (With appropriate spoiler alerts)

[Tax-chick]

I hope you enjoy the movie. IMAX films tend to make me airsick!

Don’t worry too much about spoilers on a film of a book we’ve all read :=).

[abner]

I will be seeing the 9:00 AM showing tomorrow. CAN’T WAIT!

[andyssister]

LOL!! Good one. :)

[StayAt HomeMother]

Our college kid has tickets to the midnight show, which starts in two minutes.

[andyssister]

Ten days, people!!

I've been waiting several years to say that!!

[TightyRighty]

We’re going to the IMAX showing on Tues. - my first time in an IMAX theater. Let us know how it is!

[Dianna]

In the Goblet of Fire toward the end of the book, after Harry watched Cedric die, it talked about the horseless carriages taking them to the train. Well, if he had already seen Cedric die then he would have seen the thestrals.

Apparently, JK Rowling has said that it takes time for the death to "sink in" and that is why Harry didn't see them until the beginning of the next year.

[Tax-chick]

Apparently, JK Rowling has said that it takes time for the death to "sink in" and that is why Harry didn't see them until the beginning of the next year.

Apparently, J.K. Rowling is backfilling a continuity glitch that both she and her editors missed.

Ah, well, these things happen ... I read a mystery novel recently, and a character's name changed from Rosemary to Rosalie a couple of times!

[Tanniker Smith]

It happens. When the images of Harry's parents emerge from the wand, his father emerges before his mother. Some have tried to find a hidden meaning to that and that maybe what happened that night wasn't what everyone thought had happened that night.

In reality, JKR had made a simple mistake.

[Tax-chick]

LOL! I didn’t notice that at all!

[Tanniker Smith]

In the movie they seem to emerge at the same time after the Cedric and the caretaker. Maybe the director was hedging his bets.

[Tanniker Smith]

Well, it looks like I won't be seeing the movie for some time now.

My son asked my wife if she wants to see the movie and she does. Except today's her birthday and that's not what she wants to do on her birthday (and I have no problem with that). But she's not likely to put major importance on seeing a movie, especially in the evening when she's tired. She likes the books and she likes theater, but she doesn't see a lot of movies. It turns out (which I hadn't realized) that she hadn't seen ANY of the previous 4 movies in the theaters. I thought at least one was a family outing.

Anyway, my son and I are leaving for camp for a week this coming Sunday morning. I hope we see it before then, but I'm not counting on it now. sigh.

[Tax-chick]

I probably won’t see it until it comes out on DVD.

[retrokitten]

Ten days, people!!

ROTFLMAO!

[andyssister]

I made myself stay up until midnight just to post that!!

Frankly, I'll be glad when this is all over and I can go back to pretending to be a normal person. :)

[Tanniker Smith]

Accio July 21!

Cute tagline!

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

I saw the advertisements for the 12:01 sale at Wal-mart when I was over there earlier. A couple of my kids are going to a Harry Potter party at the library next Friday afternoon.

[Tax-chick]

I got my “Prisoner of Azkaban” tapes from the library. Looking forward to it!

[andyssister]

Thanks!

My sister saw it and asked me what it meant. For some crazy reason, she thought I was cheering on a tennis player that she hadn't heard of!

Obviously, she doesn't read the books...