Ok. Ok. So it's been almost 2 weeks. I guess I can stop sulking around.

Just FYI, if you haven't read Deathly Hallows yet, you may not want to read on.

Of course everybody loves the golden trio. Who doesn't love Ron, Hermione and Harry? Everyone was afraid that one of them would die. And it would've been devastating.

But while I was contemplating a Ron/Hermione/Harry death, the possibility of the death of someone else depressed me even more.

"What if one of the twins die? I don't know what I'd do if one of the twins die...."

And omg Fred. Fred, Fred, Fred. And poor George. Omg. So devastated.

I don't think non-Harry Potter fans understand that these characters are very much real to us.

And Fred really is dead.

And omg. When Snape died? It nearly killed me when the last thing he wanted to do was look at Harry's eyes. I don't think I loved Snape more than I did at that very moment.

(Although, to be honest, I didn't have much love for him to start with. I tolerated him, not much love though.)

*sigh*

Hannah's still moping around feeling sad about Fred and George.

So if I suddenly start crying, you'll know why.

Was surfing the web and came across this article :

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/menlovesex/52666/whats-your-mans-fighting-style

And I can honestly say I've been out with guys who fit into at least 3 of those categories.

I think I by far perfer the "surfer type."

Ok, I'm still an emotional mess so I can't talk a whole bunch. But I wanted to post this excerpt from this article from the New York Times that I was reading:

Pilyoung Yoo, 41, won a raffle for the first place in line. "It's so amazing,” she said. After snagging their copy, her son Ted Yoo, 9, opened it to page 705. He wanted to find out how it ends.

ok....say WHAT?

You do NOT just do that. True Harry Potter fans do NOT EVER...EVER...EVER...do that....EVERRRR

*sigh*. The world disappoints me.

P.S. ...So at the book release parties there were these HUGE mechanical satellite UFO thingys floating above the bookstores? And those things had WORDS on them....giving away important info from the book...SPOILING the book.

Do you people really have nothing better to do?

All the people in line though, were all really devoted to Harry Potter.

(Um. I mean, we were standing in line in the middle of the night. C'mon now.)

So nobody looked up once we figured out what it was.

But to those people who were trying to ruin it for us, I extend a very huge ______ you.

a prize to whoever can correctly fill in the blank?

The Last Harry

I'm getting ready for my hot date tonight.

What date is that?

Today's the day. Finally.

The day the LAST Harry Potter book is released.

I remember the first time I read Harry Potter.

I was in 7th grade, and in SSR/Advocacy class and noticed Mike Cox reading Harry Potter (who I have never heard of before). Then looking around I noticed about half the class reading the same book.

That weekend I went to Costco and bought Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

I went back the next day to buy Chamber of Secrets and Prizoner of Azkaban, and finished all three books by the end of that weekend.

It's been 7 years since then. I grew up along with Harry. Our teenage years were spent together. He turned 14, when I turned 14. When I had a bad day, I read Harry to cheer myself up a bit.

And today the LAST book is released?

Of course I'm excited. I mean, for the last 7 years I've been known to tell people, "You know...if I were to die today, I think I'd be just a little pissed that I'd be dying without knowing what happens to Harry."

*shrug* I'm a Harry Potter Geek through and through.

But at the same time I feel really emotional. I feel as if I'm getting ready to say goodbye to a really good friend.

Harry Potter characters are very much real to me. I almost feel as if I'll see Dumbledore and Sirius when we finally go through the veil. haha.

But all my beloved characters I'm saying bye to...not just Harry. Neville...Ron...Fred and George... 

I just don't know if I'm ready to that yet.

I mean, yeah, there will still be the movies. But the movies were never as good at the books.

So at the book release today....there's a very high chance that I'll cry when I get my book.

And if I don't cry? I'll be really emotional at least.

Even though the Harry Potter books end tonight, to comfort myself, I'd like to think that Harry Potter is in fact a real person living somewhere out in the wizarding world.

Random Fact: Considering the time that Sorcerer's Stone takes place, by today (2007) Harry would in real-time be in his 30's. (By book 7 he'll only be 17)

So. I'd like to think that a mid-30's Harry is living in peace with Ginny and Hermione and Ron after succesfully having defeated Voldemort.

So to all the Harry Potter fans out there who will be as heart-broken as I am over the fact that there will be no more Harry Potter books....

Keep your eyes open for a mid-30's man with messy black hair, piercing green eyes and lighting-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead.

As Mad-Eye Moody would say (or to be more accurate, Bary Crouch Jr. disguised as Moody) :

"CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!"

and happy reading.

P.S. Nobody's allowed to call/talk/visit/bother/or-anything-else-really-annoying-to-me tonight and all of tomorrow. It's my last day with a new Harry Potter book. Leave me alone.

See you all at the midnight party!

Only three more days and I'm all a-flutter.

So many things to get ready....

The first time I was looking forward to something all summer.